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DOOL Discussion Group
OK, take a look at this story and the video...
One question...WHY??!
Obviously, any child shouldn't be exposed to a tanning booth, or even excessive sunlight. But I find the bigger problem is that she seems/sounds pretty drunk in all the interviews I've seen, and she obviously has a tanning addiction. Possibly some sort of dysmorphic disorder? I hope the child doesn't follow her into that.
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Blanket response...well, Leatherface went on the offensive against the media today.
NUTLEY — The New Jersey woman accused of taking her young daughter into a tanning booth has been getting heated ridicule from New York City tabloids and websites. But she is returning the fire and lashing out at her critics, calling them "jealous, fat and ugly" in a interview with TMZ.com.
Patricia Krentcil, 44, of Nutley was questioned by TMZ yesterday as she was heading to a hair salon in her hometown. In the interview, which was videotaped and posted on the celebrity gossip website today, Krentcil insists she did not harm her daughter, claims she is a great mother, then blasted her critics.
"I'm innocent and it's proven... I would never — never — put my daughter in a tanning booth. We go out shopping. That's what we do," she told TMZ. "Any mother that makes an accusation about me is not a mother, because I'm a great mother and I would never do that to my child."
When the TMZ reporter asked her if she feels she's a target of a witchhunt, Krentcil replied: "Yes. Yes. There's somebody out there on my whole life that doesn't like me because they're jealous, they're fat and they're ugly."
Heard In the background on the video, it appears someone yells out some words of support: "You go, girl!"
With her deep bronze complexion, Krentcil quickly became an easy target for late-night comedians on television Wednesday night. Then this morning, she had her ultra-tan face splashed across the front pages of New York City tabloids — with unflattering headlines poking fun at her tanning addiction.
"ROASTED NUT," screamed the large headline on the cover of the New York Daily News. "Even Snooki thinks tanorexic Jersey mom is crazy!"
"TOAST OF THE TOWN" mocked the New York Post on its front page this morning, calling Patricia Krentcil, 44, of Nutley a "half-baked mom."
On "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last night, the comic-host didn't waste any time jumping into the fray surrounding the controversial mom.
"Is she tanning or did she fall down the chimney?" Kimmel asked the audience during his monologue last night on ABC-TV. "She looks like Wile E. Coyote after the dynamite stick blows up. ... She's so tan it's actually racist."
On April 24, police charged Krentcil with child endangerment after her daughter told a school official, "I go tanning with mommy." Krentcil, in a court appearance Wednesday, maintained the burns were from the sun and that she would never allow her daughter, now 6, to go inside the booth.
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I think it's good that it was investigated and I hope the charges will be dropped. That Mom looks 20 years older than she really is. Scary. Going on Amazon to buy SPF 50 now.
Hopefully, they will dismiss the case. Wouldn't an employee know if the mom and daughter both got into the tanning bed? How long was the mother in there.
Also, there is not enough room in the tanning bed for 2 to lay in it. The mom would have to get her tan, then quickly put the eye protectors on the child and get her in the bed really fast. There is not enough time on the timer. (each person is allowed so much time, depending on tan they get)
I can not see a child laying in the tanning bed, it is big, noisy and scary! Even when I went a few times, I got very nervous with the tanning bed lid having to be shut.
I rather do the tanning spray.
HOW OFTEN does that mother go into the tanning salon?
Shouldn't there be a difference between a regular sunburn and a burn from a tanning booth? Seems like they'd be able to tell the difference, wouldn't you think?
I've never been inside a tanning salon so I don't know how the rooms and booths are set up-can rays from a booth reach a person in one of the private rooms? Are there private rooms where the booths are? I'm trying to understand how it could have happened as they are suggesting.
I agree with the mom about one thing: The child has probably been traumatized. But I'm not sure it's due to the arrest. I think having a mom that looks like a toasted marshmellow is probably what did it.
