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January 15, 2004

Courtney Love: Still Crazy After All These Years

I think she wants us to worry about her mental state. Check out this disturbing new photo (click img to enlarge):

UPDATE:
Some of you have pointed out New Courtney's resemblance to famed NYC tranxsexual Amanda Lepore. Here's the side-by-side:

 

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a.) she looks very amanda lepore.
b.) it literally looks like her head isn't on straight.

Posted by: tamara at 01/15/04 12:56 PM | Reply
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oh my god, she looks just like amanda lepore! you know that transsexual that david lachapelle is obsessed with? i hope frances bean is never returned to her.

Posted by: vivakate at 01/15/04 12:57 PM | Reply
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i shudder at the though of how many man-hours of digital image retouching went into making her look like that.

Posted by: curtie at 01/15/04 1:09 PM | Reply
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*ding!* it's a tie.

Posted by: tamara at 01/15/04 1:41 PM | Reply
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lips schmips... its the twisty "im fooor yeas old" footsy shit that drives me up a wall!
stand up like an f'in woman for chrissakes!
-A

Posted by: allison at 01/15/04 1:44 PM | Reply
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the resemblance is uncanny and quite creepy.

Posted by: foxy j at 01/15/04 3:28 PM | Reply
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Gawd...I wish Amanda had a band.

Posted by: Janelle at 01/15/04 4:04 PM | Reply
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Courtney's been photoshopped. The head is in the wrong place.

Posted by: rocco at 01/15/04 4:50 PM | Reply
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and to think, i was *THIS CLOSE* to being in her nolita loft. damn i really wanted to show up and steal, uh, borrow, stuff.

photoshop. courtney hasn't seen abs in years, well, at least not in the mirror unless she's lookin' @ someone else @ fred segal.

she isn't foolin' anyone!

p.s. amanda lepore is crazier looking in real life! we both modeled for a betsey johnson show like four yrs ago and good lord, i thought she had on wax lips.

Posted by: selena at 01/15/04 5:24 PM | Reply
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Yeah that picture is definitely photoshopped. Massive heal-brush action there. Yikes.

Posted by: Dustin at 01/15/04 5:25 PM | Reply
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Ha! That's so hilarious!!! I posted a link over on my blog to your page if that's ok. Too funny to pass up. :-)

Posted by: soulshine at 01/15/04 5:49 PM | Reply
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courtney's shot is so very wannabe lachapelle. unfortunately the stylist of this stunt double shoot was a bit on the lazy side...what's with the salvation army props?

Posted by: aaron elvis at 01/15/04 7:20 PM | Reply
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Put down the contour brush, Courtney. That's a girl...
Who told her Michael Jackson's nose was cute, anyway?
I'm not so sure about the alleged fakery: Courtney was the girl who always told us to stick our heads way forward, with chins out as far as possible ("it makes you look thinner, and more mysterious"), when posing for spare change on Pier 39. She's probably just regressing.

Posted by: Jessica at 01/15/04 8:46 PM | Reply
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What is going on with the leg on the right?!

Posted by: Courtney at 01/15/04 11:14 PM | Reply
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who shot that piece of crap?

Posted by: wha? at 01/16/04 1:44 AM | Reply
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LOOK...ALL YOU FUCKERS NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
I THINK COURTNEY LOOKS AS COOL AS EVER...SO WHAT IF THE THING IS FULL OF FAKERY AND SLEIGHT OF BRUSH?WHO SAID SHE HAD TO BE ANYTHING BUT A TOTAL ARTIST?
AFTER ALL...ISN'T IT SHE(OUR FAIR AND BEFALLEN MAIDEN)WHO SAID,'I FAKE IT SO REAL,I AM BEYOND FAKE'?
IT SUCKS GETTING OLDER IN A WORLD WHERE YOU ARE JUDGED BY THE MASSES ON YOUR OUTER RATHER THAN ONE'S INNER BEAUTY AND INTRIGUE.
I SAY GOOD FOR HER!!!!

Posted by: Lori Bravo at 01/16/04 2:37 AM | Reply
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"ONE'S INNER BEAUTY AND INTRIGUE."

hahahahahaha

Posted by: tamara at 01/16/04 8:33 AM | Reply
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yeah, it was a good idea to give someone who did heroin while pregnant untold millions of dollars. Like that wasn't a train wreck in waiting.

Posted by: Ron Mwangaguhunga at 01/16/04 10:29 AM | Reply
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Courtney Love is still HOT, come on she is 38 or 39 years old. I'd like to see YOU at that age.
In reality, she does not even resemble Amanda Lepore--maybe the hair, but that is it.
And as always, all photos are photoshopped and airbrushed.

Posted by: Nicole Holland at 01/16/04 11:12 AM | Reply
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To be fair, she doesn't look anything like Amanda Lepore. They're both wearing red lipstick and have blonde hair, big deal. Let's face it, Courtney obviously wasn't going for the Girl Next Door, natural look in that photo-shoot, was she? And yes, of course it was photoshopped.

Don't waste your time condemning her, kiddies.

Posted by: annie at 01/16/04 1:13 PM | Reply
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C'mon CLove fans, don't make a big deal out of this. What did you expect from a site that has Britney Spears' video on it, anyway?

Posted by: Pixxxie at 01/16/04 1:15 PM | Reply
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Ugh, Courtney's a skank. Always has been. All this squalking about 'inner beauty' - but who was the first to go under the knife and betray all her 'pretty on the inside' fans? Miss Love, that's who. She's not 'beyond fake', she's just fake.

Posted by: Nicole at 01/16/04 1:31 PM | Reply
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that is some scary shit.

Posted by: jinners at 01/16/04 1:32 PM | Reply
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i dunno, she scares me a little

Posted by: marcus at 01/16/04 4:34 PM | Reply
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there was a point when courtney love wanted to avoid the cameras as much as possible. she had a right; vanity fair published a trumped up article, dramitized for you protection, about her abilities as a mother. this was an attempt to discredit her and her husband, for some unknown reason. now, she seems confused, in the sense that her reaching for publicity (or portraying these kinds of ideas as part of publicity) is some akward attempt to make up for the ghosts of images past, as it were. it's best to say that, maybe if more people hear a lie, talking loudly about percieved truths doesn't compensate. misguided attempts, but still heartfelt.

Posted by: commentor at 01/16/04 5:13 PM | Reply
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Heroin Chic? Nah, just too much Heroin.

Posted by: SO at 01/16/04 9:55 PM | Reply
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I know Courtney. She is a mess. She needs help. Somebody needs to help her cause she's gonna kill herself soon.
Aiden

Posted by: dorian corey at 01/16/04 10:36 PM | Reply
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she didnt know she was pregnant when she did heroin.

dont contradict.

Posted by: ridts at 01/17/04 2:55 AM | Reply
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she's a cool chick, and she f***in' rocks...it's hard enough being a woman in this culture, particularly a woman on the verge of 40...and how hard must it be to be loaded with talent and face the potential of a fading audience just because of age? rock n' roll was created by the young, for the young, she's trying to stay relevant in the marketplace...if not for her bizarreness, it's possible we would overlook her and then where could she express her talent? rock on, girlfriend!! pave the way for the next generation who will struggle to keep themselves as relevant 'media artists'...

Posted by: booster at 01/17/04 7:17 PM | Reply
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to the people who said this photo looks like she's trying to copy LaChappelle.....

Courtney did a photo session with LaChappelle a few months ago. That photo is not among the ones that I've seen, but it could be his. See them at moonwashedrose.com.

And everyone stop giving Courtney shit for everything!!! To survive all she has and be making music as long as she has (15+ years), that really says something. Where do you think Britney will be in 15 years?? Believe me, no one will know!!!

Posted by: sparkles6567 at 01/18/04 6:33 AM | Reply
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Courtney's great, and y'all are just jealous, hahaha. Get lives, losers.

Posted by: francis beans at 01/18/04 9:34 PM | Reply
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Dont i look sexy btw nothing like Fucking amanda, lol i love the heading to this page.....it's soo me!


xox Clover

Posted by: Courtney Love at 01/19/04 10:46 PM | Reply
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ok, you don't look like amanda.


you look like dolly parton.

Posted by: tamara at 01/21/04 11:04 AM | Reply
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About, yes.. I love Courtney. I love Amanda Lepore... I love, I love, I love.... Also I am not going to argue for whom she it is similar. Courtney she is similar on Courtney, unique and unique. And photos at David LaChapelle have turned out very good. By the way, I think that in 15 years Britney will be somewhere London, to write down a new album, she will sing songs Madonna and will adopt Lurdes.

Posted by: Vitaliy at 01/24/04 12:45 AM | Reply
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About, yes.. I love Courtney. I love Amanda Lepore... I love, I love, I love.... Also I am not going to argue for whom she it is similar. Courtney she is similar on Courtney, unique and unique. And photos at David LaChapelle have turned out very good. By the way, I think that in 15 years Britney will be somewhere London, to write down a new album, she will sing songs Madonna and will adopt Lurdes.

Posted by: Vitaliy at 01/24/04 12:45 AM | Reply
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Courtney does not look anything like Amanda Lepore... Amanda has nicer tits, but seriously.... that is a funny comparison and one that Ms. Love would probably agree with wholeheartedly. Courtney looks fine, (though she could of done without the plastic surgery if you ask me)

Posted by: Ellogoods at 02/17/04 10:52 AM | Reply
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Courtney Love is trying waaaay too hard to look sexy. No one see's her a sex symbol, she's fucked up and bitchy. Plus, she killed Kurt Cobain!

Posted by: Louise at 02/17/04 10:21 PM | Reply
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Courtney didn't kill Kurt although I sometimes think that she was a bit of gasoline tossed on Kurt who was the fire. Read "Heavier than Heaven" and you will see how timultuous their loving relationship was and how on many occasions she pulled him back from the brink of death. I, sometimes think that he would of been better without her because they fed off each other but who am i to say and besides, they chose each other... it was inevitable as was his untimely death, (he thought about extinguishing his own flame since he was a little boy)... sad rock tragedy.

Posted by: Ellogoods at 02/18/04 8:46 AM | Reply
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you people are fucken hypocrites. the worst thing you could ever say about courtney is that frances shouldnt be with her. dont you think she would be a hell of a lot happier with her mother, who is also very rich and could give her all she needed? also, she is very slim and pretty, and i bet most of you are ugly fat internet freaks. youre just jelous, and anyway, transexuals rock..

Posted by: kate at 03/10/04 11:25 AM | Reply
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how does Ron Mwangaguhunga know for sure that courtney was on drugs while pregnant? only she, and possibly kurt will ever know that so FUCK YOU.

Posted by: kate at 03/10/04 11:28 AM | Reply
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Courtney love is as strung out as ever. As for the photo and her head looking like its lop sided...did anyone see her bizzaro movements and twitches on letterman? or her strung out look w. she goes to court. Its like HELLO COURTNEY...YOU CAN STILL BE A DRUGGED OUT FUCK, JUST HIRE A PERSONAL STYLIST TO MASK THE DEGRADATION.

peace

Posted by: mike at 03/18/04 9:03 PM | Reply
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i didnt realize the photo was fake til i read the posts on it...it looks like a lopsided head pose she would strike (see letterman show)

Posted by: mike at 03/18/04 9:09 PM | Reply
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Finally, to answer courtneys question re is it against the law to be wacky: Your not being arrested for being wacky, but for breaking laws w. your stoned out of your tree! Wake up and smell some reality.

Posted by: Mike at 03/18/04 9:13 PM | Reply
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WOW!!!!

Posted by: Bob at 04/04/04 10:49 PM | Reply
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Thanks for great info

Posted by: Medicine center at 05/18/04 1:13 PM | Reply
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Her legs look weird. Kind of gangly, newborn-giraffe weird. And she looks like a deluded junkie five-year-old.

Posted by: Alex at 07/11/04 8:36 PM | Reply
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Courtney tries too hard. I think that Amanda is more feminine and probably more genuine about who she is. Courtney's spent millions of dollars paying people to write books about her and to plug her tired old act. Let's face it, Courtney Love is very OVER.

Posted by: Dylan at 07/24/04 8:17 PM | Reply
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So simple, Courtney needs a little love, we all do the same thing when we need affection..draw attention to urself!!! WHATZ NEW.
We love our artist Pogus Caesar, he brings lovely cakes, lovely tea and wine to fight over..XXX (just watch it grow to rartidcup)

Posted by: shawn cormiere at 11/05/04 11:28 AM | Reply
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If Courtney had any talent or "inner beauty" she wouldn't be running around stripping anytime someone looked in her direction. She is a very desperate, sad, lonely, fucked-up loser of a person trying to hide behind a mask of being some old sexy botox-lipped, lumpy breast implanted trollop. She hasn't written a decent song since 1992, she lost her child (and rightly so, the poor kid is doomed if that thing is anywhere near her upbringing), she has wrecked her career completely with her pathetic incompentence (music and film). She ought to just retire on Kurt Cobain's millions that she inherited (ironically, he was on the verge of divorcing her when he died, and supposedly shot up a lethal heroin injection which would have killed him instantly, and then fired the gun at his own head). She is obviously having a hard time living with the fact that she had something to do with his death. Crash and burn.

Posted by: you know who at 11/05/04 12:24 PM | Reply
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i think those pics r way cute!
& DIFFERENT!!
courtney rocks.
so what she has probs - every1 does.
get a life with meaning, people.
don't judge ppl by their drug habits. they r gr8 ppl too. u dont understand why they r like that, u havnt been thru the same shit & earlier life as sum of the icons. so don't play the blame game like u r any better. they r there bcause they hav talent & deserve their place in history & thats something u can never take away no matter what u call them. so f@#k u, & u dont deserve what they hav.. & probably will nevr b successful bcuz of the way u think.

Posted by: warmblanky at 11/08/04 1:52 PM | Reply
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that is not usually what courtney looks like...and everyone on here knows that. it's all fun to do what the tabloids do and take one horrible picture of someone and ridicule them. who fucking cares..this woman is a strong talented extremely smart person. she's been beaten up by society over and over because she's not a "perfect lady"...if she were a man her "crazy" behaviour would be perfectly acceptable. she's written some incredible music..is one of the most passionate live performers ever, has encouraged thousands of girls to pick up a guitar and be a musician themselves instead of just standing in the crowd obssesing over male rockstars

Posted by: IHEARTCLOVER at 11/08/04 6:26 PM | Reply
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All you people are bitching about Courtney and trying to make Kurt come off as a God, but yet he's still the one who blew his fucking head off and made his wife walk in his blood. Made his fucking child grow-up without a father. Made her have to imagine his head torn apart for the rest of her natural life.


If it weren't for Courtney none of you would be getting the new box-set.
Appreciate it or fuck-off and don't buy Kurt's stuff either. Talking shit about his wife will not get you into Kurt's "Grunge Heavan."


-jb

PS: Courtney's been sober for 90 days. She's doing better then ever.

Posted by: Jay at 11/08/04 8:49 PM | Reply
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courtney love is the greatest, she looks beautiful.

Posted by: Cassie at 11/11/04 9:28 AM | Reply
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Courtney Love is beautiful on the inside and the outside. Courtney Love is beautiful and talented and a godess. She is one of the great unrecognized talents of our time. Either worship her or shut the fuck up losers!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sex Monkee at 11/11/04 9:21 PM | Reply
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that really cracks me up( kurt's grunge heaven) i hope i get to go there one day.

Posted by: fun at 11/11/04 10:04 PM | Reply
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it's not the best picture of clove (yes that's what we rabid fans call her), but all the "crack whore" "unfit mother" and "she killed kurt" comments are fucking ludicrous. get a grip. also this site seems a little nuts...fake. and she doesn't look like amanda lepore...that woman is unwomanly because she's an exaggeration. courtney is a real woman who yes has experienced vanity and has given in by having plastic surgery...but she is never over...never will be...you're talking about her right now which proves she's still relevant. she's looking very healthy now...that was during her cock addiction earlier this year...check the ap sites...peeps

Posted by: lalaloveyou at 11/12/04 4:30 AM | Reply
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testing this form.......

Posted by: Tester at 12/08/04 7:02 AM | Reply
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testing this form.......

Posted by: Tester at 12/08/04 7:53 AM | Reply
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"...that was during her cock addiction earlier this year..."

hehe. Is that the same as sex addiction?

Posted by: sex monkee at 12/12/04 10:21 PM | Reply
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Courtney Love is an ugly hag who is at the end of her patchy career. In the future people will not pay .10 for her album at tag sales. She blew the money she inherited on drugs payoffs and plastic surgey, and someone obviously had free access to account for all the money to disseapear. The plastic surgery she recently had is terrible, she looks like Bozo the Clown, the legs are usuall junkie's legs with underdeveloed muscles of a new born baby dear, they look like scary stilts.
I don't wish Courtney death, but it looks like she is going to self implode in slow motion, with the whole world watching.

What about the Rolling Stones reporter landing her $20.oo for lunch during an interview? Pathetic.


For betting on Courtney Love soon to be extinction
go to Rotten.com and see how many people are betting on it.

Posted by: Clover at 01/26/05 10:33 AM | Reply
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Courtney love is asshole!!!!! kiss my ass!!! fuck you! fucking whore...

Posted by: Kurt Cobain at 06/28/07 5:14 AM | Reply
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Does anybody remember a photo of Courtney Love years ago injection heroin while she was pregnant? It may have been a set up- I think it was published in some fashion magazine..

Posted by: Paul Morrison at 08/26/08 11:21 AM | Reply
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