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APR 10, 2004 12:06 PM
APR 10, 2004 05:18 PM
APR 11, 2004 08:09 AM
Semitic
Boston, MA
December 2003
APR 11, 2004 08:25 AM
princessleah said:
After last night's episode of the Real World, I feel confident in saying I have reached the end of my rope with Frankie's attention seeking tactics. I swear, if it's not one thing with her, it's a cutter.
Frankie admits to Dave that she kissed Adam, and then gets so upset that he doesn't immediately forgive her that she runs to the bathroom and cuts herself with a kitchen knife, or so she claims. Then she walks out of the bathroom and totally drops the knife on the floor with a huge clatter right in front of Jamie and some other random people, and then, when Jamie brings it up, says that she doesn't want to discuss it.
Jamie is concerned, and tries to get all the ladies together to broach the topic, but Frankie gets incredibly defensive and thinks everyone is judging her, and says she's been cutting herself since she was very young (the actual age she started varies on the telling). In the end, "Jamie" (I think production was behind it) convinces Frankie to see a counselor, and Frankie is magically cured fifteen minutes later!
And then Dr. Drew tells us to go to MTV's website for more information on how to become a cutter...I mean, "how to get help."
I can't take it, anymore! Frankie!? Dr. Drew!? Marilyn the mouse!?Somebody give me a knife!
Kind of ironic to put special attention to this on SG. Not just as a lifestyle post, but to give it further attention as a NEWS item. 
APR 11, 2004 10:43 AM
MAY 05, 2004 05:30 PM
wow- opinions are definately like assholes- everybody has got one. 
In my own opinion, If Y'all don't like this girl and her crazy drama, maybe you should turn off the T.V.? I dunno.
And as far as people on the show being "complex character actors", and possibly cast thusly- that makes me giggle. I know a few old skool ex- real world-ers who are perfectly normal- (as in non-actors) - no crazier than anyone else I know.
I sorta feel bad for the youngins on the show that fulfill the crazy/annoying/drama-laden dipshit casting slot. Alot of these kids are cast for this show at tumultuous ages- who doesnt go through some obnoxious drama growing up? The difference for these kids, is that they are doing some of it on T.V., in a hyped up glamorous setting, where almost all of the boring normal stuff gets edited out and never shown.
Meh. 
evilwillow
HOPEFUL
El Salvador
MAY 05, 2004 05:34 PM
I think that her drama queen act does an injustice to people who actually do self-mutilate. god forbid someone see that bullshit she spews and then takes that as the bible of cutting. I want to punch her in the head. 
MAY 05, 2004 06:44 PM
What annoyed me but not really..was the fact she has some kind of lung problem yet she still smokes.
But she cannot be on some boat cause it makes her sick and tired.
She needs to pierce her lips shut.
Oh and enough with the hello kitty!!!
Poor kitty is being exploited on mtv. 
MAY 05, 2004 07:02 PM
rickets said:
I heard that she's supposed to have cystic fibrosis too. Now, I'm not an expert, but the way I understand it, if she had CF she'd 1)be either really sick or really dead at her age and 2) probably cough occasionally/experience some sort of symptoms.
I haven't watched much though, so I could have missed this stuff. Can anybody clue me in?
This isn't nessesarally true, most CF patients are different. I've known a couple people to die from CF. One of them was my best friend and dance friend for the first part of my life. Courtney, she died when she was 14. My friend Lois has CF pretty bad and shes in Isreal right now with a specialist in a hospital with other CF patients... but she reminds me tons of Frankie.. shes very much an attention seeker. Only she doesnt smoke.
I'm not defending this Frankie, but maybe she doesn't have it as bad as she says she does, because smoking does built up mucas in your lungs that you have to go to PT... and pretty much cough it out after having torturous PT. 
cynicminded
Newport Beach, CA
March 2004
APR 10, 2004 11:30 AM