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Lisa Marie Presley has always bore more than a passing resemblance to her father, Elvis Presley. But the older she gets, the more striking the resemblance becomes. She may have inherited only a fraction of his talent, but she definitely got dad's smoldering eyes and snarly lip. And yes, an obviously healthy appetite. Lisa Marie's appearance has changed drastically since August, when she released her 'duet' with dad singing his 1969 hit song In The Ghetto. The king of rock and roll was also the king of the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich. And that diet, along with his many other excesses, took a toll on his health. I just hope Lisa Marie isn't heading down that same road. But even though she's heavy and compared unfavorably with her own mother, I prefer an overweight natural look to a thin plastic one any day.
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12-08-2007 @ 12:22PM
Joy said...I think she's just beautiful.
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12-08-2007 @ 4:01PM
Anji said...Oh holy hell, they're calling that "bloated" and that she's "piled on the pounds"? I must be an elephant then. *rolls eyes*
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12-08-2007 @ 4:27PM
S. Kelly said...Umm... weight speculations aside, I would be more worried about her MENTAL state.
Judging by these pictures (I don't know her, personally, so I can't really judge), I would be worried about Lisa Marie doing more than eating too much... If she's not stoned out of her gourd in the pictures, I'll eat my shoe!
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12-08-2007 @ 7:54PM
Eva said...Goodness, I think it's a little mean to criticize her weight.
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12-09-2007 @ 12:08PM
Joy said...You know, people are way to judgmental for me. This woman is looking down, looks like she's just out shopping and "she's on drugs AND fat"???? Good thing nobody see's me when I go out to burn my garbage. They'd probably say I’m an elephant AND I'm on heroin.
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12-09-2007 @ 12:31PM
S. Kelly said...Well Joy, perhaps you are just naive.
I am not trying to be judgmental -- I even state that since I don't know her, I can't be sure about my assertions.
But given what we DO know -- that Lisa Marie has always been troubled (c'mon, she married Michael Jackson for goodness sake!), drugs are a HUGE problem in her family, drugs are a HUGE problem in her business & culture, and the FACT THAT HER EYES ARE DEAD GIVEAWAYS that she is stoned out of her gourd -- I think it's pretty reasonable to make these speculations.
PERHAPS, if someone had speculated these things about her father, and intervened in time, he might still be alive today.
Pretending everything is "just fine" when it isn't, doesn't do anyone any favors.
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12-09-2007 @ 1:39PM
Joy said...I would way prefer to be naive than mean. I just went and looked at all those pics in the link and her eyes have always looked like that. Even as a child, she has that look to them. She may be on drugs, who knows? Not us. This is gossip and speculation and I would way prefer to look at the world through my rose colored glasses than to make judgmental comments about people I only see on the covers of rag magazines and pictures taken completely out of context.
12-09-2007 @ 5:38PM
S. Kelly said...Joy,
I truly did not mean to be "mean."
But having had drug addicts in my own family -- and having had other family members "make excuses" for their appearance and chaotic behavior for years on end -- I think this is more than just speculation.
I think Lisa Marie has GORGEOUS eyes! They are absolutely stunning and they always have been. But these newest pictures show a different look in her eyes that is NOT pretty. It is the glazed-over, dark-circled eyes of a drug addict. They do NOT look the same as her eyes in earlier pictures. (I can see the old pictures, too, by the way...)
Could I be wrong?
Absolutely.
But I think you are missing the point of the article and this blogger's intentions... Elvis DIED from a combination of his
escalating weight and drug use. The fact that Lisa Marie is prone to the same emotional highs and lows as her father (bi-polar disorder) and the fact that her life is nothing less than chaotic, it is completely legitimate to be concerned for her welfare.
You seem to think that by defending her, blindly, that you are somehow more loyal to her or more caring about her. But I happen to care very much what happens to her and I think those close to her need to pay attention to the sudden changes in her appearance.
In that context, I do not think this article is simply gossip, but a genuine concern for where Lisa Marie may be headed.
That's all I was trying to say.
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12-09-2007 @ 7:40PM
Jan Bay said...Not that it has anything to do with this topic, but isn't Lisa active in the Church of Scientology?
As for dark moods, Lisa Marie has had one marital disappointment after another. That might make a lady feel none too skippy. Plus, losing a parent at a young age like she did is devastating. Dealing with these situationas has to be worse with celebrities because of the way everything is blasted across the news over and over and over for YEARS after the actual fact. One would have to skip watching tv and reading newspapers to allow any kind of scab to form over the wound.
Just a thought, but Elvis' mother who died at young age had really dark circles around her eyes in pictures that I've seen taken of her not too long before she died.
All that being said, I hope that she's ok.
Jan from http://www.unique-baby-gear-ideas.com/
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12-09-2007 @ 9:50PM
Nancy Toby said...This is quite humorous listening to people who claim they have definitive knowledge on the precise cause of Elvis's death thirty years ago, when the medical examiners don't even agree on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_presley
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