@Penny: There is something called the Westermarck Effect that you may want to look up. It's a psychological...thing (a form of imprinting, actually) that happens when two people are raised together from a young age that prevents them from ever feeling sexual attraction towards one another. There's a critical period…

@Ginmar Rienne: I've followed your comments about your military experiences on here for a bit now, so allow me to just say thank you for being a bitch. Seriously. Someone has to do it. My mom's an OR nurse at Walter Reed, and she's dealt with patients who wake up from anesthesia really violently because of PTSD (I…

@onestrawplz: The problem (generally speaking, not necessarily with the Gosselins) is that some people go through with fertility procedures with the knowledge that multiples are (relatively) common, but with a strict pro-life stance that necessarily interferes with the health of all the kids in the event that 6…

@ubetterwork: Even after she got the fertility treatments, she could have done the safest thing and reduced the number of embryos she was carrying so that she wasn't putting the health of all of them in danger. Attempting to carry 6 pregnancies to term is impossible—they will be premature, it's just a matter of how…

@DaniFae: I agree with you for the most part. I don't like it either. I'm really uncomfortable with the way bodies are judged, and especially with the way fat bodies are judged as not only unattractive, but as medically pathological. I think there is a lot of evidence to indicate that these surgeries can be incredibly…

@Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I find this such a hard thing to judge her for. It makes me mad too (and I love your comments here, by the way) but it's true, to an extent, that beauty and looks are important. To her, it seems, they became too important. In any case, I can't judge someone for feeling totally…

@The Queen of No is a Riot Poof: She got one of those? The article above states she only got gastric bypass, and the skin on her stomach that she is pulling at indicates that she has not had a tummy tuck. Did she get one?

@bluebears: WTF? Do you say this about all people with obvious mental health issues about their bodies? Ugh, what is with the comments today about this woman?

@nex0s: What plastic surgery did she get? Am I missing something? Several commenters have referred to her "plastic surgery," but I cannot figure out what they're talking about? what procedure are you referring to? I thought the whole crux of her problem was that she has excess skin because she cannot (or will not) get…

@HeddaOhlund: Are you saying that bariatric surgery is plastic surgery?

@LaComtesse: Are you saying that bariatric surgery is plastic surgery?

Oh dear. I went to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival this weekend (because clearly I am a crazy old lady far before my time) and I think I actually bought enough yarn to make this. At least I knit, not crochet. Crocheters are a little loopy.

@mysterygirl: Oh good, I didn't realize that she goes to therapy at the end. That makes me feel much better. Hooray for MTV showing people making good life choices!

@MissAmy: If you're interested in the medical issues surrounding gastric bypass surgery, including those that you mentioned, there's an interesting series of blog posts you may want to check out at junkfoodscience.blogspot.com. Here is a decent summary one: [junkfoodscience.blogspot.com] The whole series on bariatric…

@Trulymadlyme: Yeah, I'm wondering if she wouldn't benefit more from counseling than from surgery/smaller clothing/etc. I'm certainly not a mental health professional, but I notice a lot of things in that video that look uncomfortably close to BDD. I hope she can get some help; no one should be that miserable and…

@purpleshoes: WTF. I never said anything of the sort. Reread my comment, please. I never even implied, much less claimed, that men are "heartless monkey beasts." I simply stated that hormonal drugs can be dangerous, and since the women's version of hormonal contraceptives have 1) been around longer and 2) are in high…

I don't think men will deal with the side effects UNLESS they are very, very slight. Hormones can be tricky—think of birth control pills you may have taken. The side effects can be miserable. Especially when birth control pills first came on the market, women had to deal with incredible risk to their health: strokes,…

I used to get Botox injections for migraines, and I would only let one neurologist inject me. When he retired, I stopped the Botox—I didn't even trust another doctor to get that close to my face with poison lest I end up with a droopy forehead or something. Are people really dumb enough to want to do this themselves?!…

@LaFemme: Oh honestly, I kind of agree with you. This girl is in a beauty pageant! I don't doubt that she may very well have had any number of cosmetic procedures (lord knows her teeth didn't grown in that white) to make her look like a beauty queen. I just think that, per Jezebel's rules about body-snarking, it's…

@LaFemme: WOAH, commenters do get unstarred here. Crazy. But I guess the point is that we don't know if she even has implants, much less the reasons she may have gotten them. (Like, for all we know, even if they are implants, they could be totally reconstructive.) In any case, it's pretty mean to make comments like…