By Smaktakula
The world fell in love with singer Kellie Pickler when she shaved her head to highlight breast cancer awareness.
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See? Bald Can Be Beautiful.
And we don’t disagree. Given the vapid, superficial nature of the entertainment industry, Pickler’s statement is indeed brave. And for those who have lost a loved one to cancer, the singer is a reminder of that person’s courageous struggle.
So who doesn’t love Kellie Pickler?
This chick:
“Die, Bitch! Die!”
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Promethean Times 
What are Sinead O’Connors thoughts on it?
Gah – hit post too soon. Don’t know anything about Kellie Pickler, but go her!
I really don’t know anything about her either, other than she was on American Idol, a show which even if I watched (which I DO NOT) I wouldn’t admit to watching (see previous parenthetical notation). I’m not even sure what kind of music she does except that I’m pretty sure I don’t like it. But I like her. What she did makes my heart smile. I once donated my own glorious golden mane to Locks of Love and raised a small amount of cash from friends and business associates which I then matched. I don’t pretend that my tiny ‘sacrifice’ (I look damn good with or without hair) even approaches that of a female, and a female PERFORMER at that, but it at least made me feel like we were kindred spirits, you know?
WOW-wee. That Brittany girl looks way cray-cray. Who the gorgeous blonde lady at the very end? I think I know. :). Be well, Smak, my friend.
You’re probably right, Brigitte. Thanks for reading and commenting.
If I knew I could look that gorgeous bald, I’d shave my head immediately (Pickler bald, not Spears bald). But I need big hair to disguise my tiny head.
I’m with you. I’d shave my head in a heartbeat if I had the face that could pull off going bald. Instead I’d look like an aging Charlie Brown cross-bred with a cancer patient.
Ha ha! Not pretty.
You really have a knack for descriptive phrases.
It’s one way I can make use of my Masters in Spelling followed with a Doctorate in Typos.
First of all, I’m sure that’s not true. Secondly, it’s impossible–Charlie Brown was born without genitals. The Schultz family kept it pretty quiet, but you can’t keep something like that on the downlow forever.
Did this news come out when CB had nothing to take out at the urinal?
I, too, suffer the ignominy of a shave-unfriendly oddly shaped head. No cute little dome for me. I intend to hide my oddities as long as possible under my thankfully thick mane đŸ™‚
You just think you’d look bad, ’cause you don’t know. I have a delightfully shaped head, beautiful with or without my gorgeous golden locks. When I was just 21 my hairline made an alarming jump, and I shaved my head to to test it out. I needn’t have worried, however. Shortly thereafter I made a foolish pact to hold on to my hair (I’m not kidding; I’ll write about it some day), which I have to this day.
Yes, well, whether or not I can pull off bald will remain a mystery as I don’t foresee it happening. Not if I can help it, anyway.
I didn’t give up my hair for a good cause. It left on its own.
Well, getting older–and thus, presumably wiser–is a worthy enough cause. Thanks, SBI!
Okay, I do love Britney Spears — yeah, I said it! — But you picked the perfect caption for that crazy woman picture she has going on there.
Okay, I do love Britney Spears — yeah, I said it!
Actually, (and this is gonna sound like a snide or passive-aggressive comment; I swear to you it is not) there’s something utterly charming about an otherwise intelligent person who proudly champions his or her affection for an artist whom it isn’t even cool to like ironically. A few years before I got married, I was dating a very nice young woman. College educated, studying for her CPA (which she eventually obtained), smart, witty, traveled & cultured, but she had a MAD crush on a then-illegal Justin Timberlake in N’Sync (whose CDs–she had two or three, as I recall–seemed a tad out of place incongruous among Blues Traveler, Phish & the Dead). I teased the hell out of her about it (not least about the legality; I called her ‘the Predator’), but I thought it was cute.
Props to Kellie Pickler—she works the bald pretty well. Sinead worked it best, though.
Mr. Weebles is mostly bald—how come nobody gives guys credit for working that look year-round? Unfair.
how come nobody gives guys credit for working that look year-round? Unfair.
I know it seems like that. But think about it this way. Were we to recognize the follicular regressives, we would likely incentivise the condition, leading to more bald heads. While that in itself is not a bad thing, the results could be catastrophic. A dramatic increase in the number of shiny skulls reflecting the sun’s light directly back into the atmosphere would no doubt exacerbate the effects of climate change to catastrophic levels heretofore undreamed by the wackiest environmentalist.
Tell Mr. Weebles to stay strong, and to remember that with great power comes great responsibility. It is no exaggeration to say he holds in his hands … or scalp or whatever, the means to end all life on earth as we know it.
I once made a comment in gym class how bald women are always crazy. Guess who was behind me? The only bald girl in school. She had no cancer, she was just being ironic.
I can’t wait until Kellie Pickler proves she’d bald everywhere.
Or stubbly, Ă la photo! đŸ™‚
A landing strip never hurt anybody. Well, I cut my lip once. I’m lying. But it could happen.
I can’t wait until Kellie Pickler proves she’d bald everywhere.
I’d take a gander at those photos.
Smak,
I’d go bald if I could look like either Nick Nolte or Gary Busey. But that’s just me.
Le Clown
You have a perfectly lovely (if froggy) smile right now–why would you want to fuck it up by having horse teeth?
Seriously, how AWESOME of a friend is Kellie Pickler?
I would totally go bald for charity or something like this. Why not? I would look TERRIBLE without hair (people already have a hard time determining if I’m a woman) but a little self-sacrifice is good for the human spirit.
Nice post, Smak! Beautiful lady at the end of the post!
Thanks so much, Chica Blanca–I really appreciate it! She was, wasn’t she?
Seriously – “movie star” looks.
But Britney was “Wibble wobble, mad” bald, thus negating any attractiveness. Kellie is, as they used to say where I grew up, “a looker”.
That does make a difference. Love the terms, by the way.
I was on the last full day of a trip to Ireland the day Britney had her meltdown. We were all super-beat and just lounging in the hotel bar watching the BBC. We were the only Americans in the place, and all of a sudden the Britney news comes on. It’s hard to explain, but it was kinda humiliating.