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Jessa, Ben & Spurgeon - Those Smug Seewalds Part 2


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Blessa, Bin, and their unfortunately named spawn. Have they done anything recently besides give the poor baby a terrible name?

Please keep discussion of the TLC cash-grab shit-spewing specials in their own thread. This one's for non-televised shenanigans and stupidity.

Previous thread: http://www.freejinger.org/topic/24764-jessa-ben-spurgeon-those-smug-seewalds/?page=1

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Does anyone know if Bin's sister, Jessica, has met the new blessing? I haven't seen any pictures on her instagram or public posts on her FB, and one would expect something considering how enthusiastic she was about spilling the beans. I think it's fair to say she is the  black sheep of the family (with her tank top loving, hot pants wearing, bikini swimming ways), but I am starting to wonder if she has been fully and unceremoniously black balled by the Smugwalds since robbing her brother and Jessa of a birth announcement. 

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They have veterinary insurance in the US.  Of course, you have to pay for it, but I wish we'd had it when my Shih tzu had to have spinal surgery this fall.

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Even earlier than JLo, at least one pin up insured her legs. (Back in the 1940s.)

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It's actually fairly common among celebrities.  A lot of companies will pay to insure whatever asset that is important to the endorsement deal.  I remember reading on ESPN 5-6 years ago that Head and Shoulders took out a million dollar insure policy on Troy Polamalu's hair.  Totally crazy.

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11 hours ago, WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? said:

Even earlier than JLo, at least one pin up insured her legs. (Back in the 1940s.)

This is one of my odder areas of interest.  Not actually the insuring body parts issue, but the whole removal of body hair issue.  As I understand things (which may not entirely be correct), Betty Grable (a true patriot) spurred a rash of bare legs and thus leg shaving when she sent our troops off to battle with this race pin-up photo in 1943.  Her studio did insure her legs for 1 million, largely as a publicity stunt - outrageous at the time.  Thank you, Ms. Grable.  

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12 hours ago, WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo? said:

Even earlier than JLo, at least one pin up insured her legs. (Back in the 1940s.)

 

11 minutes ago, Whoosh said:

This is one of my odder areas of interest.  Not actually the insuring body parts issue, but the whole removal of body hair issue.  As I understand things (which may not entirely be correct), Betty Grable (a true patriot) spurred a rash of bare legs and thus leg shaving when she sent our troops off to battle with this race pin-up photo in 1943.  Her studio did insure her legs for 1 million, largely as a publicity stunt - outrageous at the time.  Thank you, Ms. Grable.  

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Yes, Betty Grable... it was also rumored that Cyd Charisse had her legs insured too but never confirmed.

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I think leg and underarm shaving predates Betty's iconic bare legs, but it may have well spurred much more widespread interest in leg and pit shaving. In Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madamn, edited by Stephen Longstreet, Nell writes that the owner of the brothel would shave the women's legs and (sometimes) underarms because they didn't want the women to have access to straight razors due to suicide risk.  Nell began her career as a prostitute after the Civil War so she was writing about the 1870s.  

Wikipedia says that underarm shaving began in English-speaking countries such as the US and Canada about 1915 when some fashion magazines showed a woman with shaved underarms.  It didn't become common in Europe until after WWII.  Oddly enough, underarm and leg shaving is part of Islamic culture and was practiced by the ancient Greeks as well.

Does anyone remember the BBC series about a family living like they were in England during WWII, The 1940s House? I recall the women in that show using sandpaper to "shave" their legs.  Sounds painful!

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Yes, that is my understanding - women's body hair removal was likely always practiced in some form in various groups and cultures, but it wasn't entirely commonplace in American culture until 1915 when Harpar's Bazaar magazine printed ads with bare underarms.  Then, Betty Grable and her legs in 1943.  From what I have been able to find out, prior to those general timeframes, the respective body parts were not often bared in public and hair removal was less common and less consistent among those who did remove hair.  Of course, with the increasing availability of pornography and particularly with the internet - we know what areas of the body were impacted next :kitty-wink:

ETA - advances in technology and availability for hair removal products played a major role as well, of course.

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The bangs are not bad. At least they are not "kindergarten" bangs as my BFF calls them. Lol

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40 minutes ago, doubleT said:

Baby Seaweed looks just like Jessa.  Eye and lips.  Wow.   

Yes. But he does that eyebrow raising thing his father does. Shocking

love the bangs lol, plus the colour of the top. And looks like no pouch

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46 minutes ago, Whoosh said:

Yes, that is my understanding - women's body hair removal was likely always practiced in some form in various groups and cultures, but it wasn't entirely commonplace in American culture until 1915 when Harpar's Bazaar magazine printed ads with bare underarms.  Then, Betty Grable and her legs in 1943.  From what I have been able to find out, prior to those general timeframes, the respective body parts were not often bared in public and hair removal was less common and less consistent among those who did remove hair.  Of course, with the increasing availability of pornography and particularly with the internet - we know what areas of the body were impacted next :kitty-wink:

ETA - advances in technology and availability for hair removal products played a major role as well, of course.

I am addicted to movies from the 1930s. I watch them whenever they are on - all day long, every day, if possible. Whether the women appear to have their legs and underarms shaved or not is actually something I have sat and paid attention to (I get into trivia like that) and they are always shaved. You will never catch, for example, Ginger Rogers looking like she didn't shave.

Part of the reason I started watching for that is because I saw an old silent film, probably from the 1890s, where a woman playing a goddess wearing a sleeveless toga-like dress lifts her arms and I was surprised to see she had a rather robust patch of hair under her arms. I gave it a bit of thought and realized that movie came out before the Gillette safety razor, circa 1904. I have no doubt that one little item was a real game-changer in the field of feminine hair removal.

I also watched 1940s House. Quite enjoyed it.

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13 minutes ago, Zola said:

I am addicted to movies from the 1930s. I watch them whenever they are on - all day long, every day, if possible. Whether the women appear to have their legs and underarms shaved or not is actually something I have sat and paid attention to (I get into trivia like that) and they are always shaved. You will never catch, for example, Ginger Rogers looking like she didn't shave.

Part of the reason I started watching for that is because I saw an old silent film, probably from the 1890s, where a woman playing a goddess wearing a sleeveless toga-like dress lifts her arms and I was surprised to see she had a rather robust patch of hair under her arms. I gave it a bit of thought and realized that movie came out before the Gillette safety razor, circa 1904. I have no doubt that one little item was a real game-changer in the field of feminine hair removal.

I also watched 1940s House. Quite enjoyed it.

Very true that there were shaved legs in the movies.  The first razor made just for women came out in 1915.  It didn't really spread to the girl next door in a big way for a while.  One influence was the fact that WWII created a nylon shortage and that is when the electric razor for women also came out.  By the 1950s, hair removal was beginning to be more like what we think of today for underarms and legs (i.e. - something done by many if not most women on a consistent basis even if they won't be exposing those body parts in public).

ETA I forgot to add that my gateway to this strange area of interest was actually seeing some quite notable body hair in a film somewhere...

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