I don’t know why this story annoys me quite so much but it really, really gets on my tits. The Joker Priscilla Presley, she of the massively messed-up face, says she doesn’t want Lisa Marie’s twins to call her “Grandma” because there’s such a negative connotation to the word.
What’s the connotation, Priscilla? That your child had a child???
I guess it’s not so surprising that The Joker Priscilla would take such offence to being called Grandma when one considers what she’s done to her face in order to stay youthful-looking. Irony: It didn’t work. Now every time I look at her, I see a woman in her 60s who’s destroyed her face in an effort to look 25. It aged her more assuredly than allowing nature to take its course ever would have.
I can’t wait til I’m in my 60s and there are kids around calling me Grandma. It will be one of the great parts about being in your 60s! Arthritis and failing hearing and eyesight will surely suck, but cuddling and hanging out with your children’s children and then being able to send them home at night to their parents sounds awesome to me.
It so pains me the many ways in which women refuse to accept their age. No one gets to opt out of aging. It happens to us all. And until all of us as women start to embrace aging with dignity and grace, we’re always going to remain fucked up about it. Hey, Priscilla! You’re 63! Deal with it!! Step away from the Botox, the lip injections and the cheek implants and enjoy your stinking grandchildren!!
August 6, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Whenever I hear complaining about being called “Grandmother” because it sounds old I think of Claire Huxtable’s solution.
Mother: The Sequel
August 6, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Doesn’t Lisa Marie already have some kids? I have to think this is really mean to them, like Priscilla is saying “I wish you weren’t here, because your existence reminds me I’m older.” God, lady. Shut up.
August 6, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Bitch, please. There is no negative connotation to “grandma” at all.
There is only your own deep-seated paranoia about growing old. And since you see the (painfully hideous) results of that paranoia every time you look in the mirror, why don’t you leave your poor grandkids out of it, k?
August 6, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Admittedly, I heard her face got messed up during a botched plastic surgery operation, BUT…I know an older woman who got a face lift probably 20 years ago, and NOW her face is just as wrinkled as any woman’s her age, BUT it is wrinkled in a weird way b/c the face lift changed the way her skin hung. It has solidly convinced me to say NO to plastic surgery.
August 6, 2008 at 1:27 pm
It’s pretty easy for me to scoff and advocate aging gracefully while I’m in my twenties. I don’t think I’d be opposed to a little nip-tuck down the road, but probably something minor.
I’m going to go defensively apply my sunblock and anti-wrinkle cream now. Then I’m going to have a cigarette. My, I am a contradictory creature!
August 6, 2008 at 1:29 pm
The pic you posted is actually one of the less horrific I’ve seen of PP.
August 6, 2008 at 1:38 pm
@tailfeather: a contradictory creature who is sooooooo busted!
bad, tailfeather, no!
August 6, 2008 at 1:53 pm
The best was when PP was on Dancing with the Stars doing the tango or something and the judges went on and on about how EXPRESSIVE her face was. Like, really? I do not think this word means what you think it means.
My mother was so eager to be “grandma” that she uses the word in referrence to my pets. Granddog, grandcat, etc.
August 6, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Don’t forget Goldie Hawn. She says that she wants her grandkids to refer to her as “Glam-ma”.
August 6, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Priscilla, YOU HAVE A GRANDDAUGHTER. What does she call you?
And she’s one of the people who got the industrial-grade silicone or whatever squirted in her face by a South American doctor not licensed in the U.S. And the procedures were done in a friend’s living room.
WTF?
August 6, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Holy cow, this same storyline is happening on General Hospital right now! No, really.
In all seriousness, this pisses me off. I guess I just don’t get what the big deal is about “staying young.” Old is good. Old means you’re a survivor.
August 6, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Why did I put “staying young” in quotations?
August 6, 2008 at 3:41 pm
@notaclevername: I know some female impersonators who did that too. It effed them up.
have ya’ll noticed that in Madonna’s latest pix – she is resembling PP?
Please tell me that women resort to this out of some sort of insecurity. I’m in my 40′s, a lesbian, and I think women my age are hawt as hell. What is wrong with people?
August 6, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Clever: That’s right, and the guy insisted on being paid in CASH!
Real bright, ladies. That guy seeemed really reputable.
August 6, 2008 at 3:57 pm
My BFF’s cunt of a MIL reacted to her pregnancy news with a fit of tears, during which she blurted out, “But I’m too young to be a grandmother!”
Um, bitch was 62. Yeah.
August 6, 2008 at 4:09 pm
@Bowling: I think women your age are hot, too. See: You, Trixie.
@MBB: My parents are dying to be g’rents. Esp my dad. They’re 50 and 53.
August 6, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Grandma has NO negative connotations at all! To me, it means regular infusions of cash, as long as I send a prompt thank-you note, and I can think of nothing negative about that.
August 6, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Ugh- PP’s on Entertainment Tonight and her face is not movin’! Ugh! Why are people so afraid of getting old? I wouldn’t go back to my 20′s for nuthin! I was so insecure about who I was and what I looked like. Getting older is a sweet acceptance of life, and it is good. And D4F is right, being called grandma will be all good. I can’t wait to be called grandma.
Oh, and Lisa Marie’s older kids call PP “Nona” whatevs…
August 6, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Funny how Priscilla spent so much time in her youth trying so hard to appear much older than her years and now at a this stage of her life she desperately wants to appear younger. She’s fucked up her face and is clinging to the wreckage at this point. Poor thing.
August 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm
@dictator4life: But you gotta make sure to send the thank-you note! My beloved grandma belongs to the Orthodox Church of Our Lady of the Thank You Note. Some of my cousins have been excommunicated by Grandma because they failed to send notes. I, on the other hand, always send sincerely thankful notes and reap the benefits: everything from $20 bills to handmade quilts to homemade cookies sent to me by UPS.
August 6, 2008 at 8:22 pm
@BeckySharper: I get the most $$ out of all my cousins, b/c some of them stopped sending thank-you notes once they went to college. My aunt has threatened to put half a $20 bill in a birthday card and tell them the rest of it is at the end of a thank-you note.
August 6, 2008 at 9:01 pm
@dictator4life: Ooh, SNAP! I’ll have to remember that for if I have any ungrateful grandkids. My grandma basically just stopped sending things, with no explanation. But that’s the WASP side of my family, and they’re passive-aggressive like that.
August 6, 2008 at 10:30 pm
@BeckySharper-Hey are we related?!Cuz’ my Grandma did the exact same thing to my cousins-no explanation, just no gift. Needless to say, my daughter’s thank you note to great-grandma for her birthday card is sitting on the table ready to be mailed out tomorrow. Not doing anything to mess up THAT gravy train! She’s got a great car, she’s talking about giving up driving, and my car sucks…hey don’t judge me!
August 7, 2008 at 9:34 am
Fillers and facial implants are a 1-way ticket to Marvel Comic land. If people INSIST on holding off facial aging, it takes small surgical readjustments of the underlying facial muscles.
August 7, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Why can’t all the old ladies just look like Helen Mirren? Is that so hard? To look just like Helen Mirren does?
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