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May 4, 2004

Tina Fey's Yearbook Photo

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add a scar and an eyebrow waxing and she kind of looks the same.

Posted by: tamara at 05/04/04 3:19 PM | Reply
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woah. she doesn't look the same! she's HOTTTTTTTT now. poor thing--i would hate for my yearbook photo to be floating around.

Posted by: ej at 05/04/04 4:03 PM | Reply
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how did she get that scar on her face? i just recently noticed it.

Posted by: tam at 05/04/04 4:42 PM | Reply
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a ransom-motivated kidnapping when she was 19. the kidnappers sent the bloody bandage to her family.

Posted by: Paul at 05/04/04 4:45 PM | Reply
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That's interesting, Paul. I haven't heard that before. Do you have a link?

Posted by: incomple at 05/04/04 4:46 PM | Reply
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Tina addressed it in a Nov. 25, 2001 NY Times article. "She started as a co-anchor for Weekend Update with a cast member, Jimmy Fallon, last year, wearing her navy suit and trademark glasses. Her other trademark is a scar that runs along the left side of her face, although she won't discuss it. "It's a childhood injury that was kind of grim," she said. "And it kind of bums my parents out for me to talk about it."

Posted by: nothinsoexciting at 05/04/04 5:04 PM | Reply
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ok, NOW i see her greekness...

Posted by: sheridan is MA waf at 05/04/04 5:04 PM | Reply
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whatever, she's hot now

Posted by: ishtar gonzalez at 05/04/04 5:13 PM | Reply
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I wanna hear the truth about where the scar came from. I've heard 5 different stories.

Posted by: stereogum at 05/04/04 5:27 PM | Reply
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shes beautiful now, but damn, she makes my eyes bleed.

Posted by: Ron Mwangaguhunga at 05/04/04 7:31 PM | Reply
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Awww ... she's cute. I didn't expect everyone to start ragging on her. I have so much respect for her after 'Mean Girls.'

Girls with scars are HOTT.

Posted by: stereogum at 05/04/04 7:48 PM | Reply
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no no, i think she's very cute. i was just wondering if anyone knew about the scar. i thought it was a known thing. oops. sorry.

Posted by: tam at 05/04/04 7:51 PM | Reply
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Tam, I wanna hear about the scar too! But I want it known that I'm BEING INQUISITIVE as opposed to GOSSIPING. Like it makes a difference.

Posted by: stereogum at 05/04/04 7:53 PM | Reply
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me too!

Posted by: tam at 05/04/04 7:55 PM | Reply
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a friend of mine wants to make herself seem less attractive (something about people loving her for what's on the inside?) and thinks a scar would help. i was like, "have you ever seen tina fey?" case closed. and this picture makes me recall her second city days.

Posted by: james at 05/04/04 11:14 PM | Reply
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I'm going to start a band called The Fey Scars

Posted by: Chris at 05/05/04 8:40 AM | Reply
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I love Tina fey.. Funny,nerdy girls... we are rare...

I think she may be alot funnier then I tho... I heard she got the scar from a dog when she was 10.. she was walking home from school and her neighbors dog got loose and bit her face or something like that...

Posted by: Lady Lynn at 05/06/04 6:12 AM | Reply
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well I heard that she was one of michael caine's masochistic sex slaves, the infamous 'brides of abel'. he forced her to streetwalk once and only once while he scored a particularly mean hit of meth inside a nearby arby's. he came back, found her putting on her underfannies behind a dumpster, and beat her with a 40.

Posted by: alana post at 05/06/04 10:51 PM | Reply
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Whoa she has gotten so much better looking with age- I know a lot of people like that.

Posted by: Ellogoods at 05/08/04 12:33 AM | Reply
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Last I checked, I believe the scar has an agent. You may want to start there first if anyone wants to know where and how the scar got its start. I personally expect big things for Tina and said scar.

Posted by: Abe Sapien at 05/08/04 2:04 PM | Reply
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I love Tina Fey. She is great at what ever she does and she keeps expanding and yet unlike many others in her feild keeps making us laugh!

Posted by: Ali Rose at 05/17/04 7:57 PM | Reply
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Oh ya one more thing! I would like to wish Tina a happy birthday for tomorrow. She will be 34 years old tomorrow!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINE! WE ALL LOVE YA!

Posted by: Ali Rose at 05/17/04 7:59 PM | Reply
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she has said, "my parents get kind-of bummed when i talk about that" - so I'm guessing that it was a case in which her parents were responsible like they were fighting and she got hit or her dad was fishing and he cast the hook back without thinking about it.

Posted by: moegolden at 05/18/04 11:12 AM | Reply
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something is really fucking wrong over at gawker for choire's asshole fill-in to highlight this shit and pretend it's okay. this is so wrong.

what the hell has gawker become in one day? wonkette?

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Posted by: jane sixteen at 05/18/04 11:24 AM | Reply
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choire's sub is a moron.

Posted by: apostrophe at 05/18/04 11:38 AM | Reply
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yep, nothing better than bitching about the internet on the internet

Posted by: x. at 05/18/04 11:42 AM | Reply
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Blah, stop ragging on gawker, it's funny and people want to know about the scar. stop being a blogsnob.

Posted by: desus at 05/18/04 11:48 AM | Reply
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I can't see a scar -- where's the alleged scar anyway -- absolutely cannot see a scar here.

Posted by: LS at 05/18/04 12:19 PM | Reply
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I own her ass. That little scarred shrew answers to me! Don't you forget it!

My dad is wealthy and I am getting there too. We own this city. I will step on anyone's neck to get there.

By the way, our show is so fucking unfunny even Fallon quit. And he sucks!

Posted by: Marci Klein at 05/18/04 12:50 PM | Reply
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HOTT? Sure, if you like fucking scar-faced, middle-aged librarians!

A more important issue: did Tina Fey have a stroke at some point?

I notice that she usually speaks out of one side of her mouth, kind of like Betty Davis after her stroke.
If you notice on her yearbook picture here, her smile is a bit one0sided, denoting possible brain damage of some kind.

Posted by: Allie at 05/18/04 12:54 PM | Reply
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Here's a question:
How come her flack always says that she's the first female head writer on SNL, when she was assigned a co-writer by Lorne Micheals from the get-go?
Normally, head writer's don't have to have their work examined by a co-writer assigned by their boss.
Dennis McNicholas is her assigned, but paid to be silent co-writer btw.

Posted by: W at 05/18/04 1:00 PM | Reply
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Re: stroke / mouth corner speaking

It could be Bell's Palsy maybe? I know someone who had it when she was younger and has never fully recovered.

Posted by: Sun Zoom Spark at 05/18/04 1:14 PM | Reply
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I don't think she did have a co-writer from the get-go, W. I believe one was assigned when she became an on-air talent, doing Weekly Update.

So there.

Posted by: Mike at 05/18/04 1:18 PM | Reply
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Regardless, she is flacked as the first female head writer, when in fact, Lorne wouldn't dare do that without hedging his bets with a "silent" male co-writer, since Lorne felt, and rightly so, that most females usually aren't as funny as males.

So there.

Posted by: W at 05/18/04 1:40 PM | Reply
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i saw her talk at a new yorker presentation with lorne at the studio. y'know that new yorker fest or whatever. bell's palsy is interesting.. cause I thought she was OCD as her lip kept twitching one way and she seemed to be biting her cheek.

Posted by: hmmmm at 05/18/04 2:28 PM | Reply
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Choire's sub = crack gargling retard.

Posted by: Choire's sub sux at 05/18/04 2:34 PM | Reply
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So you're saying that Lorne had a "silent" co-head writer since Tina was named to that post? Do you have a link, because I think you are mistaken. I think she was the head writer until she became an on-air talent, which is when she became co-head.

Posted by: Mike at 05/18/04 2:59 PM | Reply
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Tina is genuinely funny in writing sessions, because she knows how to be mean. So yeah, even if most girls aren't as funny as the Irish/Jew/cock stew that is the usual male clusterfuck, Tina's got it going on, becuz she's got a sadistic streak as wide as John Candy's last bowel movement. (Which was in his trailer, apparently, when he keeled, ala Elvis 'stoolstrainer' style.
The only thing is, she's probably all girly and submissive in bed -- most female public doms are. So probably no good head. Just another reason to realize that TINA DOESN'T SUCK.

Chow

Posted by: Ben at 05/18/04 3:52 PM | Reply
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She lost a lot of weight at some point between that high school picture and now too. She was on the cover of Bust with the non-scar side of her face showing. When I saw that, I knew it wasn't going to be mentioned in the article.

Posted by: sarah at 05/18/04 4:58 PM | Reply
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But that scar makes half of her face inert! There's serious nerve damage, which doesn't show on the small screen, but does on the movie screen! She should have done a test shot and then decided against any close ups.

Posted by: Rachel at 05/18/04 5:11 PM | Reply
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she was skull f*cked repeadedly, then a plastic surgeon with a "mail order" degree used fishing line to sew her up. Too bad he didn't also sew up her mouth. She's a f***ing bitch.
(sorry, but she is).

Posted by: nic at 05/18/04 5:48 PM | Reply
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She's made the rounds of morning talk shows and when they say to her, "You're the first female blah blah blah" she corrects them and says, actually, she's a co-writer. Don't know where it keeps coming from, I think people (Joy Behar et al) want to make it a big deal.

Posted by: Lost in Jersey City at 05/18/04 6:34 PM | Reply
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"Lost," you are incorrect. In EVERY interview setting I've seen her in (leno, letterman, conan) they have heralded her as the first female head writer on SNL, and she's NEVER contradicted them.
Perhaps she's doing it now, since some on the staff have been speaking up against her on the internet to set the record straight.
As far as I'm concerned, she put the final nail in the snl news coffin.
Constantly laughing at her own jokes that she presumably has read many times before during rehersals, is nothing but an insecure performer soliciting the audience for cheap laughs.

Harvey Korman laughs at her!

Posted by: Ben at 05/18/04 8:08 PM | Reply
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Apparently, she's the most annoying of SNL newsanchors of all time for women, and the only person who beats her is Brad Hall, a most formidable opponent:

http://amiannoying.com/(wwv0krz4r4kuef45uqm25n45)/collection.aspx?collection=513

Posted by: Jeep at 05/18/04 8:35 PM | Reply
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i find this whole xchange boring..what a bunch of jealous, unclever and apparently unemployed nerds...

Posted by: j at 05/19/04 3:01 PM | Reply
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Agreed....some people should keep their noses out of other people's private business...Tina Fey is a wonderful writer...

Posted by: a fan at 05/19/04 11:53 PM | Reply
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loved her as the stripper in Pierce Brosnan Vegas daycare sketch & she is hot as hell with or without that sexy scar. I will forever be jealous of that bastage that married her... funny smart chicks rock.

Posted by: Bill Hicks Fan at 05/20/04 1:25 AM | Reply
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Well "fan," if she's a great writer, I think we can all agree that she's been keeping it her private business.

In the meantime, I can't wait for her next literary masterpiece, "mean girls II, the antioxidant incident."

Tina tries to remove her scar with retin-A, but an allergic reaction initiates another stroke, and she awakens with her scar still smoking, and the right side of her lower lip hanging like a side of vietnamese beef.

Posted by: 'nother fan at 05/20/04 12:22 PM | Reply
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From what I've heard from various sources, Tina was raped at a young age, and the rapist apparently etched that line in her face with a knife to remind her to never talk about it.

That would explain, if it's true, why she wouldn't want to talk about it. Since part of her job is taking cheap shots at celebrities, it becomes somewhat problematic when an obvious disfigurment is tied to such a tragedy, and that tragic person is trying to sell us on what a skank Paris Hilton may be.

Essentially, it's hard for a victim to point and laugh at other victims, regardless of the fact that the other victim may have brought it on themselves.

Usually, victim's acqire a more deeply rooted sense of empathy for their fellow men, but that won't pay the rent for Tina, so she prefers not to mention it, not because it would upset her parents, but because it would make her look like a bitter asshole.

Posted by: snip at 05/20/04 4:08 PM | Reply
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My friend has a scar just like Tina Fey's from when she was sick as a child. Her superstitious grandmother cut the side of mouth to "let out the demons" that were making her sick.

Posted by: n/a at 01/16/05 3:16 AM | Reply
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God, you fucking little perverts. If you didn't piss me off so much, I would pity you. If making up disgusting rumors about a celebrity's scar is the best way you can think of to spend your time, you obviously need some help. And I'd be more than glad to offer that help, with the business end of a steel baseball bat. Give you your own goddamn facial scar to think up sick stories for. Assholes.
And what is the deal with being all uppity about Tina having a co-head writer? She is still the first FEMALE HEAD WRITER on SNL even there were FIVE head writers, you ignorant jackasses. Besides, Mike is right, she was the only head writer until she started playing in the show. Then McNicholas started to co-head.
Tina Fey is gorgeous, scar included. Tina Fey is brilliant. You little shitheads can suck it, because at the rate you're going, you'll never be worth a piece of dog shit on Tina's shoe, much less worthy of making lewd comments about her.
Sorry for any decent citizens who end up reading this, it wasn't intended for you. It's for all these webcrawling little pricks in Internetland.

Posted by: Mal at 01/23/05 11:02 PM | Reply
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Tina mentioned once in an article that she was the victim of a street crime. She didn't mention if this was the reason for her scar or not. I for one, could care less about how she got her scar. She is a beautiful woman, talented, and funny. Rachel Dratch and Tina are the reason I was SNL after being away from it for 20 years. Give her the credit she deserves, and especially tonight, when she returns just a month after giving birth. She is rich enough to become a stay at home mom, but she is back for her fans.

Posted by: Logan at 10/22/05 5:04 PM | Reply
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Tina Fey is a wonder, she is the complete opposite of comedy. Whatever comedy is, she ain't it. She is terrible, and has typical female humor. Her so called "nastiness" is just her attempt to tell jokes like a man, and of course that is why it's so painful and embarrassing to watch Weekend Update. She has no talent, and she should be fired. And no, I am not jealous of her! Why would I want to ever work in television or be a public figure? I'm not a whore. Although some friends of mine may disagree.

Posted by: S at 10/26/05 1:34 AM | Reply
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Who really cares how she got the scar? Sure, we'd like to know, but it's her decision to talk about it or not. I actually respect her more for not spilling the beans about it. I think Tina is hilarious, as is 30 Rock. The scar just gives her character.

Posted by: Stacie at 10/04/07 5:24 PM | Reply
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Bad yearbook photo! What else is new? Most normal people have bad yearbook photos. Some have good ones, but that doesn't mean anything, because most of the time they're just photogenic or have put a ton of makeup and don't actually look this good. And then some girls have pretty, bur boring photos...those are usually beautiful girls that turn out to be gorgeous women. :) Why? Cause they have little makeup in the photo and they truly look this good.

Posted by: mike at 12/27/07 11:45 PM | Reply
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I have the real inside info on Tina's scar. My sister's sister was Tina's college room mate's third cousin. When Tina was just a little girl in elementary school she wanted to help her Mother with the household chores. She accidentally plugged the vacuum cleaner into a 220 volt outlet. The out of control machine attached itself to her face and sucked her chin off of her face. Thankfully the machine seized before completely removing her chin. A very skilled reconstructive surgeon repaired the injury. With a few touch-up procedures the injury was barely noticeable. I know that you all want to know more, but Tina will not say anything more about the incident other than, "it really sucked!"

Posted by: Jodie at 04/13/08 2:00 AM | Reply
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The real reason for tina feys scar is this, and this is from her mouth, she was slashed in the face at 5 years old by a strange man in her front yard. There, all other answers are wrong, don't deny it.

Posted by: Me at 12/01/08 8:44 PM | Reply
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she was stabbed when she was 5

Posted by: asf at 12/02/08 4:47 PM | Reply
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Her face was slashed when she was five years old playing in the yard. It's true. A vacuum cleaner? Wtf, you're not funny.

Posted by: katie at 12/06/08 10:11 PM | Reply
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