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With all the unmitigated snark directed at the women of Hollywood over the past few years regarding collagen lip injections, you would think that BY NOW, most of 'em would wise up enough to realize that it's not a good look on ANYBODY, regardless of age or circumstance.

Even without all the snark, you would think common sense would dictate that the procedure makes one look like ass. Then again, I guess there's never been a whole lot of common sense in the entertainment industry.

I realize that youthful good looks are highly prized in Hollywood, but I would say, "ladies, either age gracefully, or get out of the business", no matter how unfortunate and unfair that sounds. Besides, collagened lips don't actually make one look youthful.

Reality is a thin-lipped bitch.

Is it just me, or is Brittany Murphy starting to look awfully similar to Carol Channing??

Hey, be nice to the pregnant ladies. Believe me, it's no picnic to watch yourself blow up like a whale in the ass, thighs, arms, and chin, and then have it all highlighted once you have the baby and don't have the big belly to deflect attention away from the rest of your body. Famous women must enjoy their time pregnant since it's the only time they're allowed to eat like a normal person. And I find it funny that Jennifer Lopez only managed to look like a real pregnant woman by being pregnant with twins.

Lip injections are so weird! That is one phenomenon I don't understand at all.

It warms the heart, Slim, to learn of your high standards.

Christ, "Clarissa Devours It All" is more like it.

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Aaaaannnd Question: Is Bai Ling the father?

All right...Damn, Melissa Joan Hart is huge! She's going to be hating life in a few months.

Why do all these pregnant women think heels are a good idea? You're already round, and your feet will be swollen to twice their size by the end of the day if you wear flats... it seems like the kind of torture to put a hormonal woman over the edge.

If I were famous and incubating a something, I would wear sneakers to every event I had to go to in the third trimester. Maybe even sweats.

But vaguely, MJH ate Bai Ling's little brother. Her 25-year-old, 235-pound little brother.

For serious man, I agree that women shouldn't be mocked for gaining weight when they're pregnant (duh), but if MJH isn't careful she's going to scrape the upper Sierra right off of North America. (That's a glacier joke, people! How many of those do you get every day?)

I have no problem with pregnant women, hell my wife was that 4 times over and believe me, she was still attractive as hell, her hormones helped a bit too! Sometimes I (and I'm sure a few others)like to poke fun and ridicule everyone else. I guarantee that were I married to MJH, I would have a hard time keeping my hands off of her. Besides I ain't the greatest in shape either (well round is a shape, right?), so let me have and eat my hypocritical cake, alright?

socalled, only once in an ice age I imagine.

Re MJH: I'm less concerned about her weight and more intruiged by the shape of that "baby bump". The baby looks like it's lying sideways in a position that cannot be healthy for delivery purposes. Baby bumps are usually vaguely ovoid but that looks like the world's largest fanny pack. It cannot be comfortable.

Aaaaannnd Question: Is Bai Ling the father?

No.

Bai Ling's the main course.

Well, they certainly used the worst picture of Melissa Joan Hart they could find from that night. She's definately very pregnant, and you tend to show more with your second pregnancy.

She looked cuter in the pictures at http://www.dailystab.com/very-pregnant-melissa-joan-hart-supporting-her-hubby/

It's not witty or clever to pick on pregnant women. It's just being an asshole.

Collagen lips and Tom Cruise however, AMEN.

Wow. Picking on pregnant women for gaining too much. Sorry, that's low as shit. As for "average" weight gains, looking great/terrible, whatever, let's all remember that the goal is a healthy baby and sound parenting.

As for the men commenting on how terrible these women look, I sentence you to nine-months of weight gain, swollen ankles, and sleepless nights followed immediately by pushing a watermelon out of your asshole.

Normally I'd agree with you TK, I enjoy the relentless mockery of everything that Pajiba promises, and Lord knows I don't buy into the whole "treating pregnant women with kid gloves as if they're infirm or something when the majority of them have chosen to get knocked up and honestly I don't expect special treatment because of things I've willingly inflicted on myself so I don't see why they should get it either" mentality (also: who doesn't appreciate a good glacier joke?)

But something about these comments just left a nasty taste in my mouth. I can't explain why, specifically but it runs something like this: I have massive issues with the whole "body image" debate and a culture of comments like these (not the specific comments, mind you) just encourages unhealthy behaviours in women who are either carrying children or who have just given birth (and are therefore in a physiologically and psychologically weakened state) in order to conform back to society's ideal. It piles on even more pressure and promotes disordered eating.

Poking fun at people is all well and good but it makes me flinch to see comments on a place such as Pajiba, where I consider the average poster to be smarter than most of the people out there, that are reminiscent of those ideas that fuel what is, in my opinion, a massive social problem.

This isn't a knee jerk reaction to a violation of the sanctity of a woman's right to bear children (or some other such bollocks) or an attempt at political correctness (because, well - this is me talking) just an attempt at explaining my slightly kill-joyish response upon reading the thread.

In summary: mocking someone's bad clothing choices = cool
Mocking a pregnant woman for natural weight gain = not cool

Right, back to the regularly scheduled bitching: seriously, why the hell does anyone still think that collagen is a good idea?

You make a good point TK, and I can see how my mockery of cosmetic surgery might come off as hypocritical but as far as I'm concerned it all comes down to personal choice. They've chosen to have their lips pumped full of synthetic material and paid for the privilege. I view it exactly the same way that I view having my tattoos: I went through a long, unnecessary, purely cosmetic and painful procedure with no health benefits whatsoever to have something done to myself that about 80% of the world thinks is ugly, insane and/or utterly tacky. Do I mind them commenting on it in a negative light - hell no, I was aware of this going in. Different people have different views on what looks good and that's how I see plastic surgery. I personally think it looks awful, but obviously these people don't (hence the going out in public and not suing whoever did it to them) so in my mind that gives me free license to remark on it.

Whether that's right or wrong it's the line that I draw in my head and it's one that I generally stick to.

I'm not fond of making fun of people who are simply overweight either and I've argued against the use of fat suits as a comedic device in movies etc. but I usually don't speak out about it or stay out of the discussion. I'm not trying to impose my views on anyone, or saying that you should refrain from being your hilarious self and holding forth on whatever topic comes to mind but you made some points about the outrage seeming arbitrary so I thought I'd step in and attempt to explain, as someone who found the comments a little distasteful but hadn't yet voiced her opinion, what the thought process behind it was.

I'm not trying to censor you, or even suggest that it should be a possibility, I agree absolutely that people should be able to say whatever they like in the kingdom of the interwebs (although you've got to admit - you know people are going to object to some subjects), I was just trying to explain the way my mind works (on one of the rare occasions it isn't atrophying from lack of use)

Sniff....this is why I love Pajiba....you guys....I love you guys....group hug!

As for the men commenting on how terrible these women look, I sentence you to nine-months of weight gain, swollen ankles, and sleepless nights followed immediately by pushing a watermelon out of your asshole.

That pretty much sums it up for me in the nine months since I turned 40.

Fascinating! Is that what happens when you turn 40, you push a watermelon out of your ass? I guess labor and delivery will have prepared me for another real life application after all.

The writers' strike is almost over? Any chance we can vote on which ones should stay on strike?