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The Today Show had a follow-up story today on Patricia Krentcil (video is above), the 44 year-old New Jersey mom who is being investigated for child endangerment after allegedly letting her five year-old use a tanning salon. Krentcil plead not guilty in court on Wednesday to the charges. She claimed that her daughter just accompanies her to the tanning salon and that she would never let the girl into a tanning bed. She’s free on bond until a follow up court appearance scheduled for June 4.
The original story first came out a couple of days ago, and the angle about the potential child neglect (which was essentially a non-story since the kid was never in the tanning bed according to Krentcil and the salon owner), was quickly surpassed by speculation about this lady’s face. She’s so brown she looks like an overdone turkey, and her voice is as raspy as a 70 year-old smoker. Well Krentcil has a message to all her haters, one that was significantly lubricated by the fifth of Smirnoff she apparently downed. Here’s what she said to a paparazzo asking her about the attention to this story. (This is in the video above. TMZ has a longer video with more slurring words of wisdom from this lady)
“There’s somebody out there my whole life that doesn’t like me because they’re jealous, they’re fat and they’re ugly.”
They’re also much more sober than she is that’s for sure.
After airing that priceless clip, the Today Show then went into a whole segment about how it’s dangerous to tan and you can get addicted to it. Many of you mentioned in our earlier story that you knew people who are or were “tanorexic,” which is a real thing. We’re looking at it.
A dermatologist interviewed on The Today Show said the obvious about people who get addicted to tanning. “Their skin begins to look prematurely aged. They look dark, they look leathery… they have lots of wrinkles. They look much older than their age.
The longterm skin cancer risk from UV radiation is not reversible.”
According to the Today Show, Krentcil’s membership in her local tanning salon has been revoked. You know she’ll just go to the place down the street.
Here’s an earlier follow-up video in which they show Krentcil in court. She uses bronzing gel too, right? It’s like she switched out the shoe polish for a more orange tone. Check out the lady giving her the side eye at :40.
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Perhaps the new tanning salon she hits might also have a dentist and a psychiatrist on staff…. ? Good Lord. That she calls anyone else jealous and ugly is a good study in denial.
+1
Skinny white(non-tanned) bitch here. And oddly, I don’t like her. WTH???
Got to say this: That’s the tallest oompa loompa I’ve ever seen!
That’s what the doctor on our local news said this morning!
I can’t believe this lady is now everywhere, she’s like this month’s Samantha Brick. My 11-year-old son was giggling over the local news this morning, saying it looked like she smeared Hershey’s syrup on her face.
Our local news angle is that she once lived in some suburb around here, so they were talking to her old neighbors. I turned it off before hearing what they had to say…not a good image with breakfast!
+1
Lordy *shocked speechless*
Amen!! I love what you said! Couldn’t have said it any better!
Who is Miss Tangerine here? i don’t think i know her..
She’s the most recent member of the Horrible Mothers Club. Hey, that should totally be a reality show. First season should have Kris Jenner and Dina Lohan.
Oh yeah, I’m brown with envy. I heard she is the toast of the town.
LOL! Toast of the town that’s been coated in cinnamon.
And, for special occasions, Hershey’s syrup.
The Cryptkeeper looks like Wiley Coyote after the dynamite stick exploded.
I have no way of telling you how funny that is. I’ll be chuckling the rest of the day. You are a gift to this site.
You too, Rita!
I don’t care who you are…..that’s FUNNY! “Brown with envy” – classic!
Haaaa! This made me lol, Brin 🙂 That being said, I know I’m in the minority but I still feel bad for her. She very clearly has a lot of problems. I know a lot of peeps said they find her face revolting but it just makes me sad.
hahaha, I think the uv rays have fried her brain..why is she orange?!?
Hee hee!
She is quite the brown noser!
Although, you gotta admit ~ That pink bow in her hair is just lovely…..☻
My friend has a pink & brown leather diaper bag for her newborn. Looks just like this woman, bow and all.
I think it’s one of the trend color combos. 😀
😆 You win the prize today!
I don’t know why I am so fascinated with this woman’s primate mouth. I just can’t stop trying to figure it out.
In other news, her little ginger haired girl, the subject of the charges, is about the cutest kid I’ve ever seen!
That was the Universe’s ultimate revenge on the Cinnamon Toast Lady: a Ginger Kid who can’t tan worth a chit!!!!
She is also giving off weird, uncomfortable Al Jolson vibes.
Or like HW has her made up as a Native American from a Western in the 50’s.
Why couldn’t it be me??? Sorry, trying to keep my jealousy in check.
That is funny! I don’t think she tans her kids, I love this. Too funny.
Plus 1
please tell me she’s just method-acting for “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”
My favorite part of the video is when she walks away from the camera, stops on the sidewalk, and pulls her beltless pants up from falling off her butt, then proceeds on into the tanning salon. Doesn’t even try to conceal the indelicacy. She seems high as a kite on pills/booze.
“There’s somebody out there my whole life that doesn’t like me because they’re jealous, they’re fat and they’re ugly.”
Wowsa. So now we know what commentors look like who say this to other commentors who don’t like the same people they do. 😀
Any time an adult uses the term “you’re just jealous” I think that they must be emotionally stunted at about the age of 14. Sorry to say but she looks like she should be the children’s grandmother, not their mother. She looks awful like she’s been rode hard and put away wet. It is time for this mom to grow up and think first and foremost about her children. What a goofus.
She looks horrid but I highly doubt anyone’s been riding her for a long long time.
Seriously who wants to look like poo? And wrinkly poo at that?
LOL that’s what I was thinking too. She looks like a bowel movement.
Mr Hanky might find her attractive…..
Hahaha ^^ this.
I was thinking a bronzed turd 💩
I thought she had to be the little girl’s granny at first too. She’s 45, but looks at least 20 years older.
She’s more orange than John Boehner! (Who’s my rep).
About where do you live? He’s my rep too!
At first I was feeling bad for her, as she is obviously addicted, I didn’t believe she let her child use the tanning booth, and people were saying mean comments about her appearance, much like grammar school bullies. But then she opened her mouth and spewed the same childish name calling, so this is a wash in my book.
I felt the same way. I felt bad for her. (I don’t think her daughter tanned. If she went that route then at 5 she would already look like leather.) I keep thinking about a phrase my Grandma always said, “Better let someone think you are a fool than open your mouth and prove it!”
Love that sun-kissed beach girl affect. @@
Whenever I hear about this woman, I think about how I need a new handbag.
Wonder if she is related to Wendy Dickey…
She has to be! They both spew the same crap, and sail together on the river of Denial.
Over-tanning really does age you! Here they are, saying this woman is FORTY-FOUR, when clearly, given the “they’re jealous, they’re fat and they’re ugly” line, she is no older that TWENTY-FOUR.
(My apologies to all the mature 24 year olds out there.)
Or 14 maybe 🙂
Well, that was my first thought. But she does have a 5 year old child.
I am shocked she is only in her 40s.
When I first saw the report on my local news I had the sound down. At first I thought it was a news report about a grandmother getting sunburned by a malfuntioning tanning bed. Then I turned the sound up only to find out it was about a 44yrs and not a sweet 65yr old grandmom.
Everyone should also know that this woman has had more than one brush with the law. Suprise, suprise:
Northjersey.com : News
1999, was arrested and charged with credit card theft, forgery and theft for allegedly writing bad checks. sentenced to five years probation.
March 2001- failed to present herself for a probation hearing and a bench warrant was issued for her arrest
You are telling me that this women is ONE year older than I am. Spitting coffee everywhere!
Nooooooo!
And here I am Murading and Philosophying myself to get rid of a few darker patches from sun damage. If this isn’t an ad for keeping your face out of the sun, I don’t know what is.
Sorry, as a lifelong SoCal outdoors girl I still get lots of sun and love the beach, but I keep my face well protected. And I am still paying for my early sun worship, though it’s almost gone with just 10 days of retinol pad usage.
My Aunt is a tanorexic, never getting lighter than very dark brown, we are Italian and naturally get brown, but she is dark. And looks old. Anyway, when my brother was little he was scared of her and would never go up to hug her-he called her the “Brown Lady”. I think she lays out everyday.
Retinol pad usage? Do tell us your secret!
I did a ton of research and found out the Clinique was crap, and sales and reviews pushed me to two sets. Philosophy miracle worker pads (retinol) and their dark spot corrector. At Sephora as a special dual month’s worth. I will be buying again. After about ten days, skin is clear, spots fading, lines leaving, pores smaller. Amazing stuff. I use the AM pads as well.
Then I got the murad age spot and skin brightening serum. Amazing and both gentle. Been using all products, no flakes, no breakouts, but my skin is looking years younger. Can’t wait to use it for three months.
After sun and two kids I had some melisma and sun spots. The pads are big enough forme to do my backs of hands, neck and décolleté as well.
You need to use sunscreen without fail though on face or it will just come back. I got mine at sephora, but ulta carries it too. I used to use olay regeneriste, but this is remarkable. The lines on my forehead are smaller, the one I hated near my lip? Already gone. Miracle worker indeed!
Don’t mean to push a product but if you are 35 or over, incredible!
That’s a high-maintenance broad right there. The news team found her going to the hair salon and did anyone else check her nails?
btw, i’ll get slammed as an ageist here, but i seriously get odd vibes from her hair ribbon and the way it looks on her.
it’s like… she’s not all there.
i mean, i keep trying to tell myself, maybe she’s in a hurry and that hair ribbon is the only one available at the time. but. i don’t know. maybe it’s just me.
No, that was the 1st thing that caught my eye. (I thing I’m numb to her freaky face after being bombarded w/so many pictures of it over the past few days.) I saw the hair bow & thought: “That looks like the bows I’m starting to weed out of my 7 y/o’s supply because she says they’re too babyish…”
That was the first thing I noticed too. All I could think was, what grown woman would go out wearing a ribbon in her hair that’s obviously meant for a little girl? This woman has serious problems.
I had a ribbon just like that in my hair recently. My little girl gave me one of hers and told me, “Put in hair, Mommy”. And then she said “Pretty!”. But I doubt anyone said that to her!
@Fabgrl LOL!!!!!!!
Bless her heart… what ever is going on with the color on her face… is not from a tanning bed.
She is painting her self with the same product pro-weight lifters/body builders use. They literally paint the brown on with a sponge roller.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136797/Russian-bodybuilders-shun-expensive-treatments-obliging-comrade–paint-roller.html
Perhaps she mixes her own, with Chee-to dust and shoe polish added to the mix?
Omg, I just can’t imagine the thought process that led her to think this would be a good idea that would enhance her beauty.
I would like to recommend that there are no more posts about her….. ever. Fuel on a f***d up fire.
And PETA doesn’t flour bomb this woman for wearing too much leather? That skin!!
On her Daily To-Do List:
Go tan. CHECK!
Go to court. CHECK!
Go tan. CHECK!
Get Oompa Loompa Halloween costume…oh, wait…CHECK, CHECK!
Continue making spectacle of herself on TV. CHECK!
Go tan. CHECK!
you forgot the mandatory pepto bismol-pink lipstick all these tanorexics use. What’s up with that anyway? Why do they all have to wear the same hideous lipstick? Going for maximum color clash?
For those of us who watch RHOBH – that is exactly what Adrienne Maloof does. It’s that same excessive tan and frosted pale pink lipstick combo.
It just screams…. white trash? (yet somehow those two words together seem like an otherworldly, aspirational, un-achieveable ideal in their case).
I hope Adrienne is seeing this – it’s your ghost of Christmas’ future, hon 😉
After losing someone from my family of skin cancer whereas he was not the “tanning type”, I think this irresponsible woman is out of interest…
I am fat, ugly and white so I’m a jealous loser. I just can’t stop staring at her. She looks like she is 60 years old. And really, if you’re going to be on the news, put some lipstick on. The white lips are making the orange look oranger.
Her appearance is very frightful and disturbing. She gives me the Courtney S. vibe as in are they truly real?
Woah! I think you are on to something there. This woman looks a good twenty years older than her age, and so does Courtney S. Are they getting the same treatments?
Has she looked in a mirror lately
Golden Rule #1 of the internet:
Someone’s not sharing your opinion ?
They’re jealous, fat and ugly.
Wow, that stuff even works outside the computer ? Everyday holds a surprise.
Posted bond? WTF! Oh Hollywood Tans probably put up the bucks so they can have her as their new cover girl!
Aw, but that little pink bow makes her so purdy!
Oh yea, well you are orange, look like the bottom of an old shoe and your hair cut sucks!!!!
Sorry didn’t notice the baby’s pink bow in you hair, I take it all back.
She’s right. I am jealous. I’ve always wanted to look like a radioactive, rotting pumpkin.
This woman is two chocolate chips short of a cookie. Who pays for a session in the tanning booth when it’s so sunny outside that your daughter gets a sunburn?!
The photo of her from the last article (where she has the really brown face) looks like the dumpster monster from Mulholland Drive.
It’s cool, I can always lose the weight and I happen to be absolutely adorable. Enjoy your melanoma, bitch.
Awwwwwwwwww……
Bwahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahhahahha
This poor woman. This is such a non-story, and here is Jimmy Kimmel getting his entire audience to laugh at her. Clearly she has issues. This is going to make them a thousand times worse. Celebrities are fair game because they WANT attention and actively seek it, but this lady was (more than likely) wrongly accused of something, and now a nation of people are mocking her looks. Ouch.
Thank you. Yes, she clearly has some real issues of judgement and self-perception. But she’s not a celebrity and didn’t ask the whole world to love her looks. Have some compassion folks.
She looks like some sort of warped dinosaur baby.
Oh? LOL Best post of the day, on any site 🙂
Her face upsets my stomach so hard.
Ah, the old Samantha Brick defense. Maybe the two of them will form a beauty brigade.
now i’m genuinely curious, if her skin color is really due to the tanning bed, and not some industrial-grade bronzer, will it gradually pale back to normal? (whatever normal is for her, and judging by her daughter, “normal” should be quite fair indeed).
(you know like how people of any color gets “paler” during the winter months)
or is there a point of no return, where the skin can’t regenerate/go pale anymore?
My Aunt can’t get back to a normal color. She doesn’t use beds, and even during the worst months of ocean fog she still stays brown now all year. She’s done a lot of treatments but they don’t work, nothing matches. It’s very sad.
I love brown skin, not baked skin.
She’s obviously delusional.
She looks like a Christmas Turkey that burned in the oven. What is with the white lips…OMG.
Watch out Kate Gosselin…this is you in five (5) years.
she’s 44? legit would have guessed mid-50s
hey I take issue with that. I am 55 and my skin looks nothing like that. My 73 year old sister looks nothing like that. Just because you are over 50 doesn’t mean you look like a fresh t**d ready to flush. :}
I never said ALL 50 year olds look like that, just saying you can tell all that time in the sun has aged her.
Hahahaha. Between her 2 pictures with the bow, there is an add for self-bronzer that is the EXACT shade of this lady. I guess people really do buy that crap, though I don’t know anyone that uses any of it. She looks char-broiled burned to a crisp. And what is that line on her lips in the mugshot? Did she tattoo lip liner or did she burn them?
I was wondering about that too. Looks like she’s lined only her lower lip, but with black eyeliner instead of the usual light pink. Both look revolting.
I am hoping this unwanted attention has her fix up a bit and take a long hard look at her habits and adjust them. Her kids are really cute and all kids deserve a mother who is “all there”, and not on whatever she’s on, hanging out in tanning beds every other day. Melanoma is very deadly and there is only 1 treatment, and it’s not chemo – it’s REMOVAL of the offending lesions/masses.
I think this woman has a few screws loose. Also, there was just on the news a warning about people who are constantly in the need to have a tan. It was about a young woman in her 20s who was obsessed with having the perfect tan. She used tanning beds and tanned outside. She died of skin cancer.
finally, someone to make the cast of Jersey Shore look normal
The setting on her tanning both is “Leather bound 700yo book”
She looks like a piece of cured rawhide.
Can you imagine the condition of her internal organs? Fried liver and kidneys for sure.
She’s the ugly one.
Ugly and ridiculous.
IMO, I think that she is unbelievably stupid to even try to respond to the criticism, especially since the loudest critics have more access to the mic than she does. And I think it’s stupid that she tans herself that much.
That being said, I hate that she is being targeted mainly because of how bizarre she looks. Just looking at her little one, I don’t think she allowed her into the tanning booth. While I admire the school for looking into the hows and whys of the little girl’s sunburn, I just wish that this zeal would’ve manifested itself in the cases involving that little kid running down the shoulder of the interstate (while Mom occupied herself with Facebook). Or when that cancer patient, Zahra Baker came up missing and was eventually found stuffed in a mattress in a landfill. Or course, the relatives decided to become vocal about Zahra’s abuse by her stepmother only after the media showed up.
I guess my point is that child welfare and the investigations should be consistent. Yes, I understand that jurisdictions vary, but I hate how the media is coloring (no pun intended) some investigations while other children have to wind up dead before anyone lifts a finger.
So true. How about that lady from Long Island (I think) who drove the wrong way on the freeway and killed herself and a bunch of kids? Granted she can’t respond to any criticism but your point is well taken. People out there are doing criminally negligent things every day and are not facing the level of scorn this lady is.
Although it seems like a witch hunt, because of a bad tan and she seems like pieces of the puzzle are missing, authorities may not be giving the press full disclosure of why they are investigating her. There maybe more behind the little girl having a sun burn, then just poor judgement by this woman.
Yes, I’m jealous. It’s been my fondest wish to look like an orange-skinned Gollum.
People still use tanning salons these days? It is so bad for your skin and you age faster than you are supposed to. Awful!
Wow. This woman is like an Amy Sedaris character.
I know I’ve always been green with envy everytime I see burnt toast, how ’bout you?
She has the skin of my 70 year old grandma
Geez first it was Samantha Brick with the “jealous haters” line now this? What is with women? These 2 are extreme cases but this happens in real life, and more frequently than you think. I’ve worked retail for 5 years now and see it all the time. how do you even have that attitude after your teens?
I’m not in retail but I’ve head that line coming out of women in their 40s too. I wonder if it’s a failure to develop emotionally after high school, massive insecurity issues or something that’s become ingrained in our culture.
I don’t see anything odd here besides a grown woman wearing a satin bow clip in her hair. Other than that, perfectly normal.
Mr. Hankey called…he wants his wife back.
She’s like a turd on legs.
God, she looks really bad.
I have never laughed so hard in my life as reading through these comments. I think I’m crying. Brown lady’s a whack job, but you guys are priceless!
Ditto!
My hubby is asleep next to me, and I unwittingly woke him up 5 times already, in the last 20 min. I’m trying to keep quiet, so I’m crying from exertion, but the bed is shaking more and more with each coming comment.
And now my dog is looking at me funny, too…
Oh, crap! Having an attack of shits and giggles in total silence is HAAAARD!
Being selfish and delusional makes you famous. What a demented world we live in. Someone stuff that burnt Turkey, and throw her in the Easy Bake Oven.
Thankfully, it only makes you famous for a hot minute. Remember Samantha Brick? No? Exactly. She is the last person who used the “you are all just jealous of me” defence. Well, her and 15 year-old girls everywhere.
That little bow just pulls the whole look together.
I know I’m feeling really jealous about that high fashion accessory right now and so is everyone else in the world. I KNOW you all are SOOOO JEALOUS!!!
Yeah. I’m in a jealous rage here… because I’ve always wanted to look like a CARROT.
the bow and the frosted pink lipstick take it to a whole other level of crazy-fug.
She looks like she’s been deep fried in year old bacon drippings. Aside from her physical appearance she clearly has many more loose screws than just an addiction to tanning and it’s right that the authorities are looking into her capability of being a good mother. Dear God what is it about New Jersey???
Perhaps she could resurrect the “California Raisins” act from the late 1980s?
she reminds me of Ruth Madoff…without the crispy face…
She looks like a carmel colored Pekingese…
Oh,and also happy to be goin’ for a ride in the car
I think this lady has mental problems and she is probably a drinker too.
Regular or extra crispy….sorry I had to say it.
For a minute, I thought Jennifer Aniston got another haircut.
This nasty little raisin seriously needs to meet Samantha Brick.
I can forgive anything except the pink lipstick. Girl, needs a intervention pronto.
GEEZ, my little girl just saw a picture of this women’s face on this page and asked, “What is wrong with that ladies face?” I said, She just made the new Wizard of Oz movie and plays one of the munchkins.What else could I say!
So Oompa Loompas and Orangutans are cross breeding? (Sorry to all the Oompa Loompas I’ve offended) I just want to throw a banana at her and run the other direction. LOL.
What did poor, intelligent orangutans ever do to you?
Mentally ill. Sad for her child.
Mentally ill. Sad for her.
Um, before she calls someone else ugly, maybe she should check the mirror.
I feel sorry for her children. Obviously, both of the parents are short on common sense and in denial there’s a problem.
Ugly? Says the woman who looks like she moisturises with marmite.
I’m especially jealous of her poise.
I don’t want to say too much else, because I think her parents might be brother and sister, and she’s more than a few apples short of a barrel.
Craving pumpkin pie now.
You’d eat that?!!!
You’d eat that?!!! Yuck!
I feel really bad for her. She clearly has BDD and has become the laughing stock of the country.
I’d rather be jealous, fat and ugly than look like that!
Oh man, there are just so many different ways a human can be mentally ill….
I wonder if she’s related to Leatherface.
her teeth look like the teeth of someone who has smoked crack/ meth. That was my first impression.
She has Samantha Brick syndrome.
Just wanted to say to all you other commenters: Thank you! A solid 20 minutes of laughter just reading all your awesome comments. I’ve even burned off dinner, so now I’ll lose some weight and won’t be as jealous of Carrot Lady!
When my 2 year old niece saw a picture of this woman, she said “monkey” and started giggling. lol
I really like her. looking at her makes me feel really pretty and young and normal. more pictures please!
OMG! She looks like an orange, toothless piece of trash! She really ought to look in the mirror – those exact works describe her! I hope the little girl fully recovers and finds a good adoptive family. This freak can’t even take care of herself, much less the poor child.
how old is she anyway? she looks 70+
So THAT’S what happened to Dr. Sara from Planet of the Apes!!
These comments are hilarious. My 74 yr old grandma has better skin than her. I don’t get why people do this to themselves. If u wanna be tanned just get a spray tan. Much safer.
She looks exactly like the lead female in Planet of the Apes. The old one, with Charlton Heston.
This woman looks way older than 44! I’m 44 and I just cannot believe we’re the same age! What does she set the tanning gage at? French Fries? I’d take fat any day over that face and that skin.
She looks older than my mom, who’s almost 60!
She looks older than my mother, who’s almost 60!
WHITE TRASH! Rusted.
Of COURSE I’m jealous.. She gets to live at the chocolate factory!
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo,
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you.
Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-dee,
If you are wise you’ll listen to me.
Your face looks like a thanksgiving turkey.
Oompa Loomapa, do-ba-dee-doo
You’re delusional if you think I’m jealous of you!
Shit, that’s awesome!LOL
Good one!
Just as bartenders are held accountable for serving drunks, so too should tanning salons for allowing a young child to be tanned along with her mother. Which is not intended to absolve the mother from accountability but clearly she is insane.
That said, I just bought Photoshop Elements 10 and would love to experiment with a photo of her body. Nude would strike me blind so she will need to be covered up.
does she own a MIRROR ! good god ,she looks like a pumpkin! who would be jealous of that!
I once saw a pic of her in which she was darker than Obama! If she went back to school, she could hit up the United Negro College Fund for money!
I once saw a pic of her in which she was darker than Obama! If she went back to school, she could hit up the United N egro College Fund for money!
Obviously this 40ish overbaked halfwit WOMAN with a pink bow in her hair needs meds….quick!
Another nutjob who rejects actual reality and creates their own where they are gorgeous and wonderful. Total freakshow.
Am I the only one who thinks her husband is off his rocker, too?
Yeah, we’re all jealous of Leatherface. I laughed my ass off when I read the post about her looking like Zira. This woman has no brains, they got cooked in the tanning bed.