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Giulia Rozzi April 15, 2008 | 11:59 pm EST
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I also was disgusted by the show Bulging Brides but it wasn’t until Feministing.com posted this piece that I realized I wasn’t alone in my discomfort. Bulging Brides is a classy program where women buy wedding dresses two sizes too small and then kill themselves to fit into those tiny frocks. Check out this clip:

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The shows tag-line is “the perfect day is still pounds away.” First of all, there is no such thing as a perfect day or a perfect body. Secondly, shouldn’t happiness on your wedding day come from the actual marriage and not from the size of your wedding dress?

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Giulia Rozzi December 17, 2007 | 12:24 am EST
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Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy in Miami after it was reported she married 10 men Supposedly she married 10 men in four years without divorcing any of them.

“I can tell you that none of the individuals she married had any type of residency,” said Terry Chavez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade office of the state attorney.

Apparently the marriages were part of a scam in which Lopez would charge immigrants to marry her for citizenship status.

Sorta puts Liz Taylor marriage record to shame, huh?

For more on legal citizenship visit http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscisĀ 

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