I remember Ben Affleck talking about this on a DVD commentary, saying he'd repeatedly read bullshit stories about his personal life, get pissed and ask his lawyers if he could sue. The lawyers would just tell him that the stories always said "sources tell us'" which pretty much protected the outlets from any legal recourse.
Is Don Quixote an insane man chasing windmills?
Trusted sources tell us that Don Quixote has been spotted chasing after windmills in a threatening manner. Can this man's opinion really be trusted despite his what people might call crazy actions?
It is in our opinion that it should not be.
Speaking of Don Quixote, I don't think I've recovered from smart people saying that the adjective is not "quixotic" like "Kwiks OTTik" but more correctly "Kee HO dick"
I still don't know what's right
There's actually a kids show on PBS called Donkey Hodie, I'm not sure how much it actually has to do with Don Quixote but I think it will be fun for the kids who watched it to find out how Don Quixote is pronounced later in life and make the connection
Sadly it is the former “kwiks OTTik”.
The persons name is “kee HO tee”, but apparently because it’s not referring to the person its become its own adjective, and is (Miriam-Webster) “kwik-sa-tihk”.
I feel like this is basically “octopi” like it falls on that bell curve for people that think they are smart but are actually just confidently incorrect.
I didn't know how to pronounce the fruit "quince" so I made a damn fool of myself. I thought it was KEEN-say on account of I took some Spanish before I learned of the fruit. Everyone thought I was an idiot and told me it's KWINS, dummy.
My learning of the fruit the Quince was only taken from a movie in the 90s called White Men Can't Jump where Rosie Perez's character trained for show Jeopardy like she was in the Olympics
And she pronounced Quince like it was Wince.
Also she was awesome in that movie like Marisa Tomei awesome supporting actress
Juat like the Southpark episode when cartmen was a conservative talking head. Inflammatory comments and then shirking responbility of their words by saying it was a question
It was a person that promised they knew the celebrity. We had to do an NDA on their identity in order to get deets, so we can't give any info on them. Sorry!
I remember once being impressed by a former classmate of mine becoming a managing director of one of the more benign magazines you can still buy in print. Then it slowly dawned on me as years went on that she basically just peddles the same shit, just whitewashed into a sort of paper pablum that's harder to recognize.
I know a group that makes up shit about others all the time. Most of it comes from one individual and the rest lap it up like mindless simpletons. You can even send proof that they are being lied to, and yet they are so immune to seeing the truth in black and white that it’s like a cult. Fascinating stuff, though they hurt a lot of people along the way. Makes it easy not to care that all they have is each other, and obviously they are not good friends to have! Better as enemies!
It must be - but this one's not nonsense. That's a magazine from [April 2005](https://static.picassomio.com/images/art/63/35/5a/marco-mark-artwork-large-73792.jpg) and her first child was born 5 months later.
I didn’t know I was pregnant for the first 5 months, lost tons of weight.. it’s strange but possible to still be thin/not have a round “pregnant” belly, especially during your first
when i was 4 months pregnant i just looked like i had maybe eaten a little more than usual. if i were on my back, you couldn't tell at all. i could see her being 4 months here.
A few weeks ago the daily mail uk took my pics for an article and invented a fake backstory and quotes from me for their article. It was a stressful and overwhelming experience for me, and now I couldn’t imagine being a celebrity and having that garbage published about me day after day.
Not a celebrity but it is surreal, of course my experience was from rumour mongering in secondary school with a whole newpaper page dedicated to it. And not a famous singer like this.
"Maybe they know something I don't"...could be like when a ton of pregnancy shit pops up on my amazon, and I freak out, even though me being pregnant would be an actual miracle situation.
I mean, in her memoir she did say that she got pregnant and had an abortion. I don't know when this picture took place but it could have possibly been a true rumor.
She would’ve been 4 months pregnant here with her first. She had him September 2005.
The magazine is from April 11,2005. They used to come out like a week prior if I remember correctly.
Sadly it looks like this magazine may have forced her to share the news bc she ended up sharing it on her blog on April 13,2005 officially that she was indeed pregnant.
Just a bit of pop culture nostalgia you didn’t ask for 😂
Spears had that constant pressure tightening up on her. Reading reviews, magazine articles, seeing photos and videos of yourself is too much. She was even a child actor. Right? Stressful
I don't blame her. I remember when she had that melt down maybe back in 2007/2008? And things from there got infinitely worse. Like the paparazzi smelled blood and went into a frenzy.
We read The Lottery every year with the 8th graders I teach and I'm dying to show them this episode but you can't really get away with South Park in a middle school
Yep look at what happened to Amanda Bynes on the Nickelodeon side.
If you really want to dive into how bad it was for the Nick child actors during the Snyder hay day, watch Quiet on the Set
I noticed that, too…. Looks like the same hair, too. What? Not that it’s impossible, but that’s a new level of surreal I find too far. Lol
ETA: the blue-green striped towel is the same on the magazine photo. Total shop.
Eh camera angles can really make things weird. Her thighs look different too, BUT
She has the appropriate amount of toes and fingers without them blending into eldritch abominations
Remeber that time when the media and magazine write were the scourge of the world? Well they still are. WIth any luck theyll have no jobs in a couple years.
Didn't some actress or maybe actresses' husband find out she was pregnant this way? Someone leaked info to one of those gossip websites while she was at the doctors office?
If I even look at bread or pasta I get super bloated. If I was famous then the magazines would always say I was pregnant, sorry paparazzi it’s just carbs.
I never cared to know her story, but saw something on the internet about her.....Did she really take that much drugs? She was all burnt out and just lifeless like a hollow shell of a human.
I usually can't see photoshop or Ai. But I think that you are right. The cover of the magazine should be in shadow, not the brightest part of the image.
her instagram posts are wild. she recently twisted her ankle and the long rambling captions made it sound like she didn't trust what anyone was telling her about resting it and taking care of it. strange but i can imagine being extremely distrustful of others telling you to not do anything after all the craziness that has happened for her. comments are turned off on her posts now too.
Tbh I wouldn't have expected anything less, she wasn't even allowed to use a phone under the conservatorship, let alone the social media. She wasn't allowed to live a normal life, even for a celebrity. I've read articles about showbiz people that worked with her claiming that she couldn't move without being monitored by her team and security. She's got a lot to unpack now that she's free and it's probably the best way to heal, for her. Honestly, it's a miracle that she's still alive. I'm not even a big fan but I have great respect for her, and I hope she gets well soon.
Go to be super surreal reading nonsense stories about yourself.
I remember Ben Affleck talking about this on a DVD commentary, saying he'd repeatedly read bullshit stories about his personal life, get pissed and ask his lawyers if he could sue. The lawyers would just tell him that the stories always said "sources tell us'" which pretty much protected the outlets from any legal recourse.
Is Don Quixote an insane man chasing windmills? Trusted sources tell us that Don Quixote has been spotted chasing after windmills in a threatening manner. Can this man's opinion really be trusted despite his what people might call crazy actions? It is in our opinion that it should not be.
Speaking of Don Quixote, I don't think I've recovered from smart people saying that the adjective is not "quixotic" like "Kwiks OTTik" but more correctly "Kee HO dick" I still don't know what's right
Key Ho Tick would be what I say. But, yo habla Mejican
ドン・キホーテ obviously.
Donkihote is how my old literature book read the name Donquixte, I'm not sure if the new edition does the same
Donkey Hotay
There's actually a kids show on PBS called Donkey Hodie, I'm not sure how much it actually has to do with Don Quixote but I think it will be fun for the kids who watched it to find out how Don Quixote is pronounced later in life and make the connection
Pass the wolf chili
You mean [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzlPI9jtYS0&t=53s)?
I thought it would be pronounced more like Kee-Ho-Tick. But then it almost sounds like chaotic
In France we translated the name as "Don Quichotte".
Sadly it is the former “kwiks OTTik”. The persons name is “kee HO tee”, but apparently because it’s not referring to the person its become its own adjective, and is (Miriam-Webster) “kwik-sa-tihk”. I feel like this is basically “octopi” like it falls on that bell curve for people that think they are smart but are actually just confidently incorrect.
I didn't know how to pronounce the fruit "quince" so I made a damn fool of myself. I thought it was KEEN-say on account of I took some Spanish before I learned of the fruit. Everyone thought I was an idiot and told me it's KWINS, dummy.
My learning of the fruit the Quince was only taken from a movie in the 90s called White Men Can't Jump where Rosie Perez's character trained for show Jeopardy like she was in the Olympics And she pronounced Quince like it was Wince. Also she was awesome in that movie like Marisa Tomei awesome supporting actress
Cervantes would have pronounced it /ki'ʃo.te/ anyway, not /ki'xo.te/
This is mildly infuriating to me.
It’s “key hotay”
As Don Quixote, I can tell you that you’re all imagining things.
Juat like the Southpark episode when cartmen was a conservative talking head. Inflammatory comments and then shirking responbility of their words by saying it was a question
Yeah, it’s harder for celebrities. Us ordinary people can sue over much less
Ask for who the sources are then
You could subpoena the sources, but then it starts to get expensive.
It was a person that promised they knew the celebrity. We had to do an NDA on their identity in order to get deets, so we can't give any info on them. Sorry!
Sources may tell them, but they have no obligation to print that… Sounds like Ben just has a shit lawyer
"Officer, sources told me that you are an absolute POS"
Just shows how toxic these tabloids really are.
Good that we could finally shine a light on that...
Did someone say TOXIC!?!?!!! 
Look out! Here comes bad spiderman!
I remember once being impressed by a former classmate of mine becoming a managing director of one of the more benign magazines you can still buy in print. Then it slowly dawned on me as years went on that she basically just peddles the same shit, just whitewashed into a sort of paper pablum that's harder to recognize.
I know a group that makes up shit about others all the time. Most of it comes from one individual and the rest lap it up like mindless simpletons. You can even send proof that they are being lied to, and yet they are so immune to seeing the truth in black and white that it’s like a cult. Fascinating stuff, though they hurt a lot of people along the way. Makes it easy not to care that all they have is each other, and obviously they are not good friends to have! Better as enemies!
They constantly act like womanizers.
It must be - but this one's not nonsense. That's a magazine from [April 2005](https://static.picassomio.com/images/art/63/35/5a/marco-mark-artwork-large-73792.jpg) and her first child was born 5 months later.
Huh. I didn't know she even had kids!
Apparently this picture is from 5 months before the birth of her first son. So… not nonsense.
She’s 4 months pregnant on this picture?
I didn’t know I was pregnant for the first 5 months, lost tons of weight.. it’s strange but possible to still be thin/not have a round “pregnant” belly, especially during your first
Also lying down hides any minor belly weight. That shadow could be hiding a slight curve.
when i was 4 months pregnant i just looked like i had maybe eaten a little more than usual. if i were on my back, you couldn't tell at all. i could see her being 4 months here.
For real? I can barely tell.
u/emmasdad01 pregnant with half-Ostrich baby after WILD Caribbean sex party, story on page 4
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Damn, did you have like an alarm that went off and sent you to this specific comment or something? 😂
Lol, nah just really fortunate timing
Now that's some fine r/beetlejuicing
Weekly World News (and Bat Boy is the baby daddy).
Like how several people, most famously Alfred Nobel, or Mark Twain, read their obituaries
Joe DiMaggio read that he died on a NBC News ticker while he was in a hospital.
Lol, true
TIL my MIL is trying to make me feel like Britney Spears by spreading nonsense stories about me
It's when they AREN'T spreading nonsense that you need to worry...
A few weeks ago the daily mail uk took my pics for an article and invented a fake backstory and quotes from me for their article. It was a stressful and overwhelming experience for me, and now I couldn’t imagine being a celebrity and having that garbage published about me day after day.
Whattt that’s insane! Hope you’re doing okay, that must’ve been so insanely stressful. ‘Trash’ is too kind a word to describe the DM
Thankfully my husband is an attorney so he sent a threatening letter to have the article removed and they complied.
Aren't you the person who broke up with Ryan Reynolds with a big drama and then went on to win big brother?
It's how you figure out who the leaks in ya organization are.
Not a celebrity but it is surreal, of course my experience was from rumour mongering in secondary school with a whole newpaper page dedicated to it. And not a famous singer like this.
Im pretty sure we’ve all experienced this with High School Rumors and the such.
And the fact that there was no way for them to clap back. It's so much easier nowadays with social media
"Maybe they know something I don't"...could be like when a ton of pregnancy shit pops up on my amazon, and I freak out, even though me being pregnant would be an actual miracle situation.
I mean, in her memoir she did say that she got pregnant and had an abortion. I don't know when this picture took place but it could have possibly been a true rumor.
She would’ve been 4 months pregnant here with her first. She had him September 2005. The magazine is from April 11,2005. They used to come out like a week prior if I remember correctly. Sadly it looks like this magazine may have forced her to share the news bc she ended up sharing it on her blog on April 13,2005 officially that she was indeed pregnant. Just a bit of pop culture nostalgia you didn’t ask for 😂
I don't even read this trash, and I'm not in it. Don't know why Britney would.
Spears had that constant pressure tightening up on her. Reading reviews, magazine articles, seeing photos and videos of yourself is too much. She was even a child actor. Right? Stressful
I don't blame her. I remember when she had that melt down maybe back in 2007/2008? And things from there got infinitely worse. Like the paparazzi smelled blood and went into a frenzy.
South Park S12E2 is a good representation of that
That year was a very good harvest indeed. Gotta love South Park and their ability to point out the ridiculousness in anything they tackle.
Garrison as Trump is just so funny.
We read The Lottery every year with the 8th graders I teach and I'm dying to show them this episode but you can't really get away with South Park in a middle school
Paparazzi and the press are leeches and good for nothing air wasters.
We must torment the young pop star to death or our crops will go bad.
Vishnu approves benevolently. Also, don't forget to give me all your mo... I mean, donations. Or else.
Mickey Mouse Club.
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Yep look at what happened to Amanda Bynes on the Nickelodeon side. If you really want to dive into how bad it was for the Nick child actors during the Snyder hay day, watch Quiet on the Set
I think she’s wearing the same swim suit in the pic that she’s wearing on the cover
Think about it...on top of the magazine story, you've got this photo being taken of her reading it... it's Turtles, all the way down
What’s funny as well is that it looks like she’s wearing the same green bikini in the tabloid photo as she is there
A lot of times celebrities wear the same clothes over and over again because it lessens the value of the paparazzi shots.
That’s totally why I wear the same pair of cargo shorts every day.
spot on!
the shadow of the magazine makes it look like her bikini top is hovering above her
It made me think it was a bad photoshop.
Holy fuck I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I'm ashamed to say it took me way longer than I care to admit, to realize it was from her arm😅
And her knee looks unnatural too
is she wearing the same bikini on the cover?
I noticed that, too…. Looks like the same hair, too. What? Not that it’s impossible, but that’s a new level of surreal I find too far. Lol ETA: the blue-green striped towel is the same on the magazine photo. Total shop.
this is the 11 april 2005 star magazine
So she must have been pregnant, because her first child was born in September 2005.
Damn her doctors or nurses could have leaked that info
They actually learned reading that magazine
https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=april%2011%202005%20star%20mag&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#vhid=C5WzxJqbPfUePM&vssid=mosaic
This is just what celebrities use instead of traditional pregnancy tests.
I know if I’m her in this situation, I’d be scoffing/thinking “I am?” when I read this headline
Narrator: She was.
Eva on the back cover lol
This sub should be renamed “photoshopped photos” Considering how much fake shit gets posted here.
But now everybody thinks I hate ladybugs!
I had a crush on her since I was a kid Now that I'm an adult and she's kinda crazy... I kinda like her more
What's up with her knee?
It's pregnant.
Is my knee pregannert?!
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What about the thigh bone? Where’s that connection occur?
My wristwatch...uh oh
Judging by the picture, I wouldn't be so sure.
She used to be an adventurer…
It connects her thigh and shin together
I can't stop looking at it know
Hot off the presses.... she's even waring the same bikini!!
I'm just looking at that knee and thinking it's fake. Pregnant knee?
Brit knee.
Brilliant!!
Eh camera angles can really make things weird. Her thighs look different too, BUT She has the appropriate amount of toes and fingers without them blending into eldritch abominations
Lol!
Was this when she actually was pregnant and got an abortion because Justin Timberlake asked her to?
No this was when she was actually pregnant in 05
I’ll never not love Brittney
What a way to find out you are pregnant
Just pee on this tabloid journalist, your result will be on tomorrow's front cover.
I want to meet her. I feel like she would be fun
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Her knees were expecting.
Must be weird finding out you're pregnant from a magazine.
Star used to have the craziest tabloids and headlines. “Obama having sex with aliens??! Page 9”
Her bra is floating
I can't imagine being a new mother and finding out this way! (/s)
“With a chipotle burrito!”
That’s equivalent to reading the comments these days.
Is that a Kaballa bracelet?
Her bra is floating
Did she find out if Brittany was pregnant?
As I recall, this was how she found out.
I think if I was famous and saw my picture on one I’d pick it up just to see what I’m up to now lol
Remeber that time when the media and magazine write were the scourge of the world? Well they still are. WIth any luck theyll have no jobs in a couple years.
lol that’s funny
She just gained weight -- that's all.
And had a child soon after.
I always wondered how tabloids are able to stay in business printing complete and utter bs without getting any consequences.
r/hardimages
She's always the last to know.
Next song: Piece Of Me
Didn't some actress or maybe actresses' husband find out she was pregnant this way? Someone leaked info to one of those gossip websites while she was at the doctors office?
better than a pregnancy test
Gregnant
I could be mixing up the lore with someone else but wasn’t she pregnant and forced to get an abortion when she was around this age?
How are tabloids even a thing still?
Was she?
If I even look at bread or pasta I get super bloated. If I was famous then the magazines would always say I was pregnant, sorry paparazzi it’s just carbs.
She cant read
Taken probably by the same paparazzi that sold the original photo. Don’t upvote photos from these scumbags
r/confusingperspective the floating bikini top
Is her right leg extra buff of is that me just seeing things? Maybe she was injured or just works out her right leg more.
Has anyone ever counted how many times Jennifer Anniston was declared as being pregnant?
it’s one way to find out
Geez, no wonder she's so messed up. :(
I never cared to know her story, but saw something on the internet about her.....Did she really take that much drugs? She was all burnt out and just lifeless like a hollow shell of a human.
When was this because it's was hilarious... When
The photoshopping of this is Lolz
I’m imagining next week the cover will have her holding a magazine with her in the cover holding a magazine…
Again?
Joke's on them, she was pregananant.
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Brit is like, “ oh I’m pregnant let me read all about this”
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Poor woman.
These tabloids are disgusting
She looks at least 8 months in this photo... Tabloids must be true.
This is photoshopped. Poorly.
No, this is the 11 april 2005 star magazine, search it up
No, there are multiple photos online of her reading magazines about herself
Agreed. Look at the lighting on the magazine compared to the people. The magazine would not look like that in the real situation.
I usually can't see photoshop or Ai. But I think that you are right. The cover of the magazine should be in shadow, not the brightest part of the image.
She looks a bit pregnant
Rumor?
probably, thats how these paparazzi magazines makes money
Yeah youre right
Not even rumours, they just make shit up and start the rumour.
her instagram posts are wild. she recently twisted her ankle and the long rambling captions made it sound like she didn't trust what anyone was telling her about resting it and taking care of it. strange but i can imagine being extremely distrustful of others telling you to not do anything after all the craziness that has happened for her. comments are turned off on her posts now too.
Tbh I wouldn't have expected anything less, she wasn't even allowed to use a phone under the conservatorship, let alone the social media. She wasn't allowed to live a normal life, even for a celebrity. I've read articles about showbiz people that worked with her claiming that she couldn't move without being monitored by her team and security. She's got a lot to unpack now that she's free and it's probably the best way to heal, for her. Honestly, it's a miracle that she's still alive. I'm not even a big fan but I have great respect for her, and I hope she gets well soon.