Tara Reid - remember her? She was the "It" girl of the moment, parlaying her virginal teen American Pie role into a spot in one of the best movies ever - The Big Lebowski. And then the fall - dating Carson Daily, the insane amount of partying and the bout of bad plastic surgery. When's the last time you saw Tara in a movie? Exactly. How would you bounce back? Well, if you're Tara you put yourself on the cover of Playboy for the holidays. I'm sure Hollywood will be calling. Details courtesy of Softpedia, via Celebitchy: The actress is to grace the pages of Playboy magazine come
December 18, in what is meant to be a testimony that she solved every little
thing that was wrong with her body. The spread is not meant to be regarded as a
"in your face" type of thing, but rather as a silent statement from Tara that
she realized she had done wrong in the past and took the necessary action to
fix everything.
In the recent interview, Miss Reid also speaks about her
movie career, which is again seeing progress. She has two films, a comedy and a
drama, out in theaters soon, so it only felt like the next logical step for her
was to show people that she had also fixed her body, so that people would stop
insisting on the matter. As fans must know, Tara was the victim of much abuse
and criticism in the media for ruining her body with plastic surgery, her breasts
and abdomen in particular.
Speaking of which, Tara compares the experience to having an
arm broken. "It wasn't a good surgery, it happens sometimes. I got it fixed and
now I'm OK, and I want people to know that I'm OK. I've been OK now for the
last five or six years but people only show old pictures which is so unfair and
that's part of the reason why I did the Playboy shoot - to show the world this
is me and this is what I look like," Reid says in the interview.
"I'm in my 30s now and I feel I'm at the best age in my life
- mentally, physically and spiritually - and I'm proud of it," the actress goes
on to explain. The spread should be illustrative of that and of the new stage
in her life.]
I'm a bit conflicted. One on hand, if a man had partied as hard as she had he wouldn't be taking the same kind of heat. On the other hand, I feel like we've heard this "whoops, I'm sorry" thing from her before and nothing has changed but the size of her tits. I think Reid might be out of step with the times. Perhaps she should team up with Lindsay Lohan for the straight to DVD bin - at least she'd be getting a paycheck!
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