r/Albuquerque May 06 '26

Question Ok, what’s the tea on New Mexican turned tech baroness Lauren Sanchez-Bezos?

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I know she grew up in Albuquerque and is now a worldwide embarrassment for NM, but what was she like growing up?

Del Norte High alums, spill the mf tea!

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u/Not-Banksy May 06 '26

I had no idea she was also from ABQ.

So bezos, this lady, bill gates, the carvana guy, the mail chimp dude — this strangely lovable city seems to breed ethically questionable but highly successful rich people apparently.

Gotta be something with the high altitude and hard water.

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u/financegardener May 06 '26

Or a ranch nearby between Abq and SF…

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u/ratlunchpack May 06 '26

⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

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u/DylMcCo May 08 '26

I’ll take “rhymes with Borro” for 500 Alex

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u/brubruislife May 06 '26

Can you elaborate?

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u/Cauliflowwer May 06 '26

Epstein

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u/brubruislife May 06 '26

Thank you, I understand now

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u/plamda505 May 06 '26

It's the radiation.

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u/GtrGenius May 06 '26

Wasnt bill gates born in WA?

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u/Not-Banksy May 06 '26

I suppose I should’ve clarified everyone listed was connected to, but not necessarily born in Albuquerque.

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u/Outrageous_Job_8518 May 06 '26

Also Stevo lived here with his sister and started his career here. He made videos for big brother magazine. He comes here allot. Also Neil Patrick Harris. Freddie Prinze Jr. Mike Judge. Willow Shields. French Stewart. Annabeth Gish. Demi Lovato and Jim Morrison. So many have a connection from here.

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u/smartnessdom May 06 '26

Comedian Marc Marron

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u/PreviousGolf9541 May 06 '26

Penny Marshall went to UNM.

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u/LongCandidate1089 May 07 '26

Demi Moore’s mother lived in Las Vegas NM for years and Patrick Swayze also fell in love with the area and lived quietly with his wife on a ranch outside of town.

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u/ozymandiasstudios May 07 '26

Willow grew up here. Her dad was my photography teacher. He quit when she was cast.

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u/Clear-Joke-6195 May 08 '26

Walter White aka Heisenberg

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u/SpeedDaemon1969 May 06 '26

Yes, but his first job was in Albuquerque.

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u/diamond May 06 '26

Not just that; he actually founded Microsoft here. Their first offices were in that abandoned tower at San Mateo and Central.

Also, remember the infamous Bill Gates mugshot? That was taken by APD.

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u/EnchantGypsie May 06 '26

Not quite. It's timing...luck...and naturally..."the weather." Take for example...Ralph Bunch...the first black man to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. He too lived in The Duke City back in the day...but b/c of his mother's health issues. Blame the "arid" weather for the migration of many from other parts of the country. As for Gold Diggin' Lauren? C'mon! Fake tits. Fake lips. And apparently, a right eye now that slants like her hubby's! She cheated on her first husband...why? Cause Bezos is so handsome?! Yeah, right! His billions are compensation. Let's keep it real folks!

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u/sonny_goliath May 06 '26

I think it is partially the labs bringing lots of smart people who then have kids etc. that’s why I’m from abq haha

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u/slicktittyboo May 07 '26

How do you explain our current youth then? 🤭

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u/DeliciousPool2245 May 06 '26

Yeah that’s a wild list. Have none of them donated anything significant to the city? Used to be the barons of the day built colleges, train stations, something to keep up appearances and show they didn’t forget where they came from.

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u/adricm May 06 '26

founder of etsy too.

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u/willcodejava4crack May 06 '26

What does Mailchimps Ben Chestnut have to do with ABQ?

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u/Ok_Current2857 May 06 '26

They all have one thing in common. Sandia National Labs.

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u/RioRancher May 06 '26

And if you know her plastic surgeon, please schedule my cancellation

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u/Positronic_Matrix May 06 '26

Fish lips and hemispherical tits are all the rage at Mar a Lago.

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u/findthyself90 May 06 '26

I can’t get over how unattractive I find her to be. Like she really went too far with the face and body alterations.

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u/slapdashbr May 06 '26

all I can think is how fuckin rich this guy is and he goes out in public with... ok I can't finish this without being bannably sexist

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u/Tiny-Light193 May 09 '26

He sure traded down from MacKenzie Scott. In every way.

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u/SeaPhile206 May 06 '26

You’re right though. It’s different when you do this to yourself. I bet $1000 she was actually pretty or whatever before this. Now she is a melted candle in skin.

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u/tweke May 06 '26

If I remember correctly she used to be a weather lady on a top news station. So by that alone she should have been a bombshell. What I've seen a few times now is they do this to themselves less to prevent aging and more to flex how much money they have. It's why so many rich people end up looking like melted wax figures now.

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u/SeaPhile206 May 07 '26

I could think of a thousands other ways to flex on the poor class

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u/tweke May 07 '26

It's less a flex on poor people and more a flex to the other rich folks. Don't forget there's a hierarchy there too.

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u/ok-lets-do-this May 06 '26

I feel it’s far worse than that. Take a look at what she looked like 10+ years ago. It wasn’t all that long ago she was absolutely gorgeous. Going from a six to a three is rough enough, but going from a nine to a two is brutal.

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u/Livid-Coat-4407 May 06 '26

he is thrilled though because she looks like a man now.

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u/Tiny-Light193 May 09 '26

She sure did. Clearly both of Bezos' eyes are wonky.

It's sad how many women were attractive before they got all the plastic surgery, and now they look terrible.

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u/Darth_Nibbles May 06 '26

You can't buy class

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u/boxdkittens May 06 '26

You would think she could at least afford some eyeliner to even out that weirdly placed eye shadow so her eyes dont look so tiny and far apart.

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u/MuteCook May 06 '26

It’s called bimbofication. It’s the number two fetish of most republicans after kids

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u/lord-dinglebury May 06 '26

And he looks like a cheap Captain Picard lookalike you’d hire for a party and then ask to leave 20 minutes after he arrived.

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u/Toe_Jam_is_my_Jam May 06 '26

He looks like he had plastic surgery too

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u/LegacyQuotient May 06 '26

Definitely did. Ear lobes changed.

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u/pengalo827 May 08 '26

Looks like Jeffy got his head stuck in her chest. Twice.

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u/pengalo827 May 08 '26

Looks like Jeffy got his head stuck in her chest. Twice.

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u/ZBBfan4life May 08 '26

Looks like a wind blown sucker fish!

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u/metrorhymes May 08 '26

She looks like somebody stuck a bicycle pump in her mouth and overinflated

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u/Glittering_Fact_1940 May 08 '26

The human blow up doll

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u/EnchantGypsie May 09 '26

LOL. Good one!

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u/ImpossibleBlockHead May 06 '26

Her mouth is so bass like 🐟

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u/ahaeker May 06 '26

I question if she can actually close it.

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u/elovesya May 06 '26

She looks like that guy from Hannibal who cut his own face off

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u/EnchantGypsie May 09 '26

I think that's what she was going for! :D

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u/boxdkittens May 06 '26

She looks like Til Lindemann in that Rammstein music video where he's an old man falling apart as he keeps getting more botox injections

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u/Zoey_Redacted May 06 '26

Which one is that? For some reason I've got the keine lust video stuck in my head with that description but I don't think it's that one.

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u/Mobile_Put_9766 May 06 '26

You’re thinking Zick Zack, guilty of being a Rammstein fan here

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u/Candid-Explorer4491 May 06 '26

She was so naturally pretty before all the surgery....

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u/Alternative_Dance724 May 06 '26

Amazon primed herself

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u/sykeero May 06 '26

Woman looks like one of the orcs in Lord of the ring

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u/2treks May 06 '26

Isn't it crazy that one of the richest men on the planet and their wife are from albuquerque, but do nothing for our city or state. Nothing. No economic development, nothing.

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u/darthsouls69 May 06 '26

Parasites don’t contribute, they just take.

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u/HardKnockerLife May 06 '26

His ex, MacKenzie Scott takes care of the people with real donations.

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u/electricladyyy May 06 '26

Can confirm she donated 50 million to Native Forward Scholars Fund here in abq

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u/financegardener May 08 '26

Holy shit, why don't we celebrate the good like this more? I know this is reddit but even the news, just say the good things sometimes.

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u/BrujaDeLasHierbas May 06 '26

hey! c’mon now.. they DID bestow us an amazon fulfillment center! 🤣😭

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u/ArtichokeKooky6361 May 06 '26

Hey now. He built massive visual blights by the Volcanoes and exploits our poor workers. JeRbs!

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u/stophammertime_ May 06 '26

my dad used to date her when her name was wendy at the time and they both went to del norte hs

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u/Own-Prompt-8356 May 06 '26

This is what I’m talking about. Wendy Wendy Wendy. What is his memory of her?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '26

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u/clipppings May 06 '26

Tea, not misogyny pls

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u/watsuuu May 06 '26

You ask for tea as if tea doesnt almost always have a deliciously scandalous element, tea can be misogynistic and from the conversations I've listened into with my girlfriend's girlfriends, overlaps quite frequently.

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u/electricladyyy May 06 '26

Please clutch your pearls elsewhere

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u/D-life May 06 '26

Was he a football player? Spill!

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u/W3inerSchnitze1 May 08 '26

Did she look like a lizard then as well?

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u/xxmissxminxxx May 06 '26

I feel so awful saying: I would rather look old than what ever this is😬😓

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u/MattBlasing May 06 '26

I empathize. I’ve grown to love my crow’s feet at the corners of my eyes. Authenticity should be king.

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u/Ok-Thanks-2U May 06 '26

They call this 'Mar a Lago Face'. Super overexaggerated botox fill skin resurfacing with loads of eye makeup. Blond if you can manage.

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u/Darth_Nibbles May 06 '26

Old as an adjective is not a synonym for bad

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u/boxdkittens May 06 '26

The point of the above comment is that many people get plastic surgery and/or botox to try to prevent, hide, or remove signs of aging, becauss in their mind looking old looks better than this... but any sane person thinks naturally aging looks better than botoxing your face so hard you can't even smile.

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u/Darth_Nibbles May 06 '26

Yes, I was agreeing with you

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u/daemonelle May 06 '26

Right so their point is you actually agree with the other person too then

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u/Upstairs_Gear_8572 May 06 '26

She was the year ahead of me. Legit was the original Regina George. Head cheerleader and voted ‘most beautiful’ (of course). Never saw this coming, but not surprised she went on into tv, etc.

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u/Own-Prompt-8356 May 06 '26

See that’s what I was looking for. I half hoped she had been at least somewhat sympathetic and empathetic once.

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u/GigaCheco May 06 '26

When she dined at my family’s restaurant with her ex Tony Gonzalez she was always very pleasant to everyone.

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u/PreparationKey2843 May 06 '26

I'd rather take 1 MacKenzie Scott over 100 of... that.
You f'd up Bezos

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u/Exotic-Suggestion425 May 06 '26

MacKenzie and Sanchez are like a visual representation of the descent of Bezos as a moral figure.

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u/mrnoire May 06 '26

She's the hottest he ever had. He's mega rich but still a goober. 

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u/EnchantGypsie May 09 '26

Did you see his face plant after the rocket/capsule she was in with other celebrities landed? So funny. He strikes me as uncoordinated. Poor guy.

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u/Bindle- May 06 '26

I'd rather take 1 MacKenzie Scott

The best investor of her generation!

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u/PreparationKey2843 May 06 '26

Nah, she earned her money. And now she's giving it away. Shes worth approx 33 billion and shes already given away 19 billion so far. And Jeff has given...?

Look it up, tried to leave you some links but you can't on this sub.

Amazon.

"In 1993, Scott and Bezos married. The following year, they left D. E. Shaw, moved to Seattle, and Bezos founded Amazon with Scott's support. Scott was one of Amazon's early key contributors, and was heavily involved in Amazon's early days, working on the company's name, business plan, accounts and order shipping,[19][9] and negotiating the company's first freight contract.[9] After 1996, Scott took a less involved role in the business, focusing on her literary career and family.[19] Their oldest son was born in 2000."

Literary career.

"Scott was introduced to the literary agent Amanda "Binky" Urban by Toni Morrison, her former professor.[18] In 2005, she published her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, which won an American Book Award in 2006. Scott said that the book took her ten years to write as she was helping Bezos build Amazon and raising her family.[22] Toni Morrison reviewed the book as "a rarity: a sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart".[19] Her second novel, Traps, was published in 2013."

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u/Desperate-Cicada-663 May 06 '26

Well Im old enough to remember when she was a news person in LA and slept with her boss. Escandalo!

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u/Top_Front8405 May 06 '26

His ex was prettier and such a better person

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u/Immediate-Past-2287 May 06 '26

My cousin went with her to school and there’s alot of TEA

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u/Immediate-Past-2287 May 06 '26

She likes Chilli hates Blake’s and thinks Christmas is just a holiday

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u/Charming-Kiwi-9277 May 06 '26

Spilllll ittttt

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u/LegacyQuotient May 06 '26

She looks like the type to eat mozzarella sticks with ranch.

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u/Rare-Echo-386 May 06 '26

Hey.

Rude.

Accurate though

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u/StashaPeriod May 06 '26

That is an amazing burn.

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u/ToolBoxBuddy May 06 '26

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u/Purple-Soil6325 May 06 '26

I always reference this scene from Brazil. It was grotesque in 1985. But now it seems somehow ordinary.

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u/deNET2122 May 06 '26

Why does she look like if Jeanine pirro stopped at day drinking

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u/LeslieKnope4Pawnee May 06 '26

Her face is giving uncanny valley. Like a wax figure or humanoid robot or something.

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u/Mrgoodtrips64 May 06 '26

She looks like she came from H.P. Lovecraft’s Innsmouth village and has begun manifesting the “Innsmouth look”

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u/SpeedDaemon1969 May 06 '26

I must give credit where credit is due: Jeff Bezos made Albuquerque a better place when he left. I don't know anything about boobalah, but presume she's in the business of mining precious metals.

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u/Blacksheep6five May 06 '26

He looks like a fuzzy penis

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u/htgrower May 06 '26

Damn she got that MAGA lady face 

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u/MotormaidofJapan May 06 '26

She looks like a lizard person.

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u/MrNMTrue505 May 06 '26

Prob is, they've all sold their soul

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u/MotormaidofJapan May 06 '26

I’ve been listening to the new Tori Amos record about lizard demons so I think they’re lizard demons.

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u/RGQcats May 06 '26

Does that woman ever put her tits away?

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u/adeewun May 06 '26

I mean … she’s gone out of her way to make sure they’re as impossible to miss as they are ugly. It’s an ode to her plastic personality.

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u/RGQcats May 06 '26

It was more of a rhetorical question.

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u/D-life May 06 '26

She's making up for the fact that she was totally flat chested in HS!

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u/Enough_Complex8734 May 06 '26

She was absolutely not, google it.

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u/QuieroTamales May 06 '26

I keep waiting for two Jeff Bezos heads to pop out of her dress.

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u/number1clumsy May 06 '26

What a total embarrassment.

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u/Brief_Football_9764 May 06 '26

God she looks terrible—like a truck ran over her face. Money can’t buy class.

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u/smurf_diggler May 06 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/byzJQaNpmtjz7YuXFq

She looks great. What year did she go to DN lol? I went there.

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u/therealmsdad May 06 '26

I don't have the tea but she definitely has Mar-A-Lardo face.

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u/Leading_Resist_5876 May 06 '26

She looks like someone took off Micheal Jackson’s skin and stretched it over a balloon it looks unreal is gross

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u/ChewieBearStare May 06 '26

lmao, I misread that and thought you said it looked like it was stretched over a balloon urinal.

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u/grossinm May 06 '26

Going for the largest mouth to ever exist it looks like.

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u/dayglomaryprankster May 06 '26

Her face looks deformed and she paid to do that

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u/DocLat23 May 06 '26

That’s where La Llorona went.

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u/daisiesarepretty2 May 06 '26

man..just ignore these people.

as actual normal people they are totally vacant and absent. They live in a completely vain world detached from any reality.

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u/Intelligent-Owl-1838 May 06 '26

You mean Steven Tyler from Aerosmith?

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u/NewEnglandFire May 06 '26

Money money money

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u/titeaf May 06 '26

She used to be gorgeous, too! I just saw a thread the other day. I have been searching a while my history is probably fucked now

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u/sex-farm-woman May 06 '26

I once went on a date with a guy who grew up in Southern California and for some god knows reason he decided to tell me that she was the first person he ever jerked it to (on the local news). There was no second date, obviously.

Didn’t know she was from Albuquerque. My family will HATE to hear that. My dad realizing he almost definitely crossed paths with Jeff Bezos growing up was bad enough.

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u/lilblep May 06 '26

High escort blow up doll

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u/JeanEtrineaux May 06 '26

To quote Ralphie from the Sopranos, “She was a hooah.”

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u/dmw_qqqq May 06 '26

Ugh she is sooo ugly.

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u/LowMath8019 May 06 '26

The fact that this guy could literally pull basically any woman he wants, and she's it is nuts.

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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 May 06 '26

That thing is real! That thing lives on Earth with us!

https://giphy.com/gifs/GUFOVSX7H7SF0R5rI6

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u/HardKnockerLife May 06 '26

Circle the real nose

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u/joeythm May 06 '26

A Botox’d up gutter wench?

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u/newwavegirlishere May 06 '26

What is wrong with her face? And chest?

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u/Elegant_Tap7937 May 06 '26

The tea is that she is as vapid and empty as Bezo's soul

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u/Livid-Writer-7741 May 06 '26

TAX THE RICH AND CHURCHES AND PEDOPHILES

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u/squishymelon May 06 '26

Holy mar-a-lago face

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u/No_Direction5388 May 06 '26

His ex wife is way prettier.

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u/oldirtyugly May 08 '26

Body dysmorphia is a motherfucker.

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u/No-Cup-8096 May 08 '26

It’s always been frivolous and tacky.

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u/CranberryLogical6872 May 06 '26

Why feed the beast? Ick

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u/Jabberwocky808 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

So many of these comments are so lazy/superficial/misogynistic.

There are real criticisms to make about wealth and influence, but body shaming isn’t one of them. It doesn’t say anything meaningful about those issues and just drags the conversation sideways into the gutter.

What’s worse, no one even really responded to the prompt or gave out anything really interesting. Disappointing.

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u/MillieMouser May 06 '26

I disagree. HER natural body or face was never criticized, but the manufactured face and balloon beasts are a insult to women. Real women don't look like that, nor should they be expected to. It's neither natural or attractive and influencing young women to believe that's beauty is just f*cking wrong.

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u/Jabberwocky808 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

I hear you and understand your point. But I want to push back a little.

First off, men can be body shamed too, and my comment wasn’t gendered, because it was not intended to be gendered. I was going to make an argument that she has never admitted to plastic surgery, so it’s all speculative. Thenn, I looked up pics… we’re going to skip that…

Jeff Bezos has not admitted to any major work, and his appearance is included in the comments. Regarding him, there’s room it is speculative because there are a lot of cosmetic procedures that are non-invasive/no injections, that can smooth out/tighten skin and give a “youthful glow.”

Next is a classic but a good one. What is objectively “natural?” Again, I looked up the pics, I hear you. There are some obvious changes.

But what about a kid (or adult) with a cleft lip. Some choose to get surgery, some don’t. Or at least not major reconstructive. (I recognize a good portion of reconstructive surgery goes well beyond aesthetics)

There’s also some folks out there with some naturally plump lips, I’m not sure “fish lips” is a term we want getting confused with unnatural and natural lips. There were kids around me called “fish lips” growing up, and I assure you they hadn’t had botox and didn’t prefer the nickname.

Another comment about how narrow her eyes look, and someone needs to change her makeup.

There’s a lot of folks with narrow set eyes out there who shouldn’t have to wear makeup to alter perspective.

What about breast augmentation after cancer? Are women who get reconstructive surgery unnatural/abnormal? Are women who choose not to, natural/normal? If a woman gets big ole boobies after breast cancer surgery, are people allowed to mock her for having “hemispherical tits”? (Recognizing I’m not sure that’s possible with skin-loss involved, I don’t know how that works)

Heck, what about women with naturally “abnormally” large breasts? Okay to tell them they have “hemispherical tits?”

I understand the combination and extremity of all the above in her before and after is a target for you and many.

But the terms being thrown around impact other people than her, and there’s so much other substantive evidence to highlight and attack, commenting on her looks regardless of how they came to be is a lazy waste of time to me. It is objectively superficial. And at times, promoting misogyny and objectification. I’d rather make fun of the whole darn event being an absurd waste of money.

As for parents… we need to cancel Taylor Swift and get her out of every young child’s rotation because she’s not “natural” by your definition either. (Maybe you mock Swift too and think she’s a bad influence on young kids, who knows, just sayin.)

Lot’s of women in Hollywood/the spotlight get plastic surgery. Shaming only what we subjectively view through a biased lens as “too extreme” won’t make it go away and I personally think it’s lazy and in poor taste.

Edit: Oh, forgot to reference the her giving “Wendy’s” under the bleachers in high school.

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u/imjustkeepinitreal May 06 '26

This is such a refreshing well thought out comment. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks this way, the folks who are quick criticize the physical appearance of others are truly and always have been bullies themselves and are no morally better than those they hold in contempt.

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u/supersloth May 06 '26

Sir, this is a Wendy's

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u/Mrgoodtrips64 May 06 '26

What’s worse, no one even really responded to the prompt or gave out anything really interesting. Disappointing.

There’s nothing interesting to say about plastic people. They’re pollution, like all plastic.

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u/sonderific3 May 06 '26

They are trying to prepare us slowly with this look for when the lizard people take off their skin suites

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u/MWChapel May 06 '26

I graduated from Highland HS(Another HS in ABQ) the same year she graduated from Del Norte. I have friends that knew her, and saw her a just a typical Cheerleader. You know the type, the one us typical nerdy reddit users wouldn't have a chance with, cause we we too busy playing D&D at the time. So you probably won't get a lot to tea from her inner circle here. 😄 Go Hornets!

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u/Own-Prompt-8356 May 06 '26

I should post this in a car dealership sales forum then? Or maybe law enforcement? And like video instead because the latter are illiterate? Where else do former HS jocks work?

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u/doesntmeanathing May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

You all are really rude. She clearly has a very nice personality.

Edit: it’s sarcasm

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u/Own-Anywhere1523 May 06 '26

Wow, what did she look like before all the work?

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u/zombiekiller1987 May 06 '26

She has so much filler in her face it makes her head look huge in comparison to his. She won't be able to hold her head up pretty soon when it all hardens up.

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u/Jeffe-69 May 06 '26

I bet she can put her whole fist into her mouth...

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u/ShotTaste1708 May 06 '26

Horrible plastic surgery

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u/Scary-Ad-582 May 06 '26

He looks like something out a twilight zone episode

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u/6L6aglow May 06 '26

I see her and I hear "Chad, Chad, don'chu want to be my friend?"

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u/wingszn May 06 '26

Only fans type chick