Tina Fey’s scar is not something she likes to discuss, but in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine, the actress and her husband, Jeff Richmond, talk about the childhood slashing incident that caused the scar on the left side of her face.

“It’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it,” she says.

Fey’s husband, SNL composer Jeff Richmond, says he was fascinated by the scar.  “This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life. When you have that kind of thing happen to you, that makes you scared of certain things, that makes you frightened of different things, your comedy comes out in a different kind of way, and it also makes you feel for people.”

“It was in, like, the front yard of her house and somebody just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen,” Richmond says of the incident.

Fey was shaken up over the anthrax attack at 30 Rock shortly after 9/11 and used therapy to cope with her fearful reaction. The therapist talked to her about 9/11 and the anthrax delivered to Tom Brokaw’s office, linking them to the crime against her when she was little. “It’s the attack out of nowhere,” Fey says. “Something comes out of nowhere, it’s horrifying.”

Read the entire Tina Fey Vanity Fair interview.

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Tina Fey opens up about dropping 30 pounds for Saturday Night Live, her facial scar and remaining a virgin until her 20s in the January issue of Vanity Fair.

LOSING WEIGHT

Fey, 38, says her career took off after she dropped 30 pounds with Weight Watchers.

“I’m five-foot-four-and-a-half, and I think I was maxing out at just short of 150 pounds, which isn’t so big. But when you move to New York from Chicago, you feel really big,” says the 30 Rock star - who started working in comedy in the Windy City.

Adds Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond (who composes the music for his wife’s award-winning sitcom): “She was quite round in a lovely, turn-of-the-century kind of round - that beautiful, Rubenesque kind of beauty.”

Fey says she knew she had to drop the weight after catching a glimpse of herself in an SNL monitor as an extra.

“I was like, ‘Ooogh.’ I was starting to look unhealthy,” she says. “I looked like a behemoth, a little bit. It was probably a bad sweater or something. [Or] maybe cutting from Gwyneth Paltrow to me.”

She called her husband that day and announced: “OK, I’m starting Weight Watchers.”

The diet worked - too well. As Fey’s star was on the rise - she took over as “Weekend Update” anchor and became the show’s head writer - the cast grew worried about her becoming too slim.

“I got to that thing that’s so enjoyable where people tell you, ‘Oh, you’re thin, you’ve gotten too thin,’” Fey says. “[SNL creator Lorne Michaels] was like, ‘Please, please make sure you’re eating.’”

Now the actress has found a happy medium, but still watches her weight.

“The most I’ve changed pictures out of vanity was to edit around any shot where you can see my butt,” she says. “I like to look goofy, but I also don’t want to get canceled because of my big old butt.”

The star - who blames her curves on the “Greek-girl thing, I have, like, boobs and butt” draws the line at cosmetic surgery though.

“I don’t have botox or anything,” she says.

HER FACIAL SCAR

Fey opens up about the faint scar that runs along her left cheek, which was the result of a cutting attack by a stranger when she was five years old.

“It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen,” her husband says.

Adds Fey, who rarely speaks about the incident: “It’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it.”

Growing up, Fey didn’t feel self-conscious, “because I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid. It’s really almost like I’m kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera, and it became a thing of ‘Oh, I guess we should use this side’ or whatever. Everybody’s got a better side,” she says.

How has the attack affected her as a mother to three-year-old daughter Alice?

“Supposedly, I will go crazy,” says. “My therapist says, ‘When Alice is the age that you were, you may go crazy.”‘

REMAINING A VIRGIN

Fey also admits that she wasn’t very popular growing up.

“I really didn’t have very many dates at all. And that’s not an exaggeration. But also, I don’t think we should discount the fact that unplucked eyebrows and short hair with a perm may not have been the best
offering, either.”

In fact, “I remember bringing people over in high school to play—that’s how cool I am—that game Celebrity. That’s how I successfully remained a virgin well into my 20s, bringing gay boys over to play Celebrity.”

SARAH PALIN IMPERSONATIONS

Fey also responds to the criticism that she was too hard on Sarah Palin with her impersonations.

“What made me super-mad about it, was that it seemed very sexist toward me and her,” she says. “The implication was that she’s so fragile, which she is not. She’s a strong woman.

“And then, also, it was sexist because, like, who would ever go [and say], ‘Well, I thought it was sort of mean to Richard Nixon when Dan Aykroyd played him,’ and ‘That seemed awful mean to George Bush when Will Ferrell did it.’”

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In an interview with Vanity Fair, which will feature in the January issue Tina Fey says “It’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it. When Fey was 5, she was playing in her front yard a stranger approached her, and then violently cut her cheek. Jeff Richmond, her husband said “She just thought somebody marked her with a pen.”

Tina Fey admitted that the experience was very traumatizing, but she worked hard to try and keep it from affecting her childhood. She added “I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid. It’s really almost like I’m kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera.”

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J.K. Rowling wants some extra millions to add to her already multimillion bank account!

The creator of the Harry Potter books will now be introducing a new collection for tweens to become obsessed over.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of five Potter-related fairy tales that are written NS illustrated by Rowling.

In the last Potter book, the Beedle the Bard book is given to Hermoine by Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore. Just another reason for Potter fans to buy it!

The book's first printing is set at 3.5 million copies. The last HP book, Deathly Hallows, had a first printing of 12 million. But with the success of HP and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, there are good estimates that Beedle will be a big seller. DUH!

Unfortunately, as with the Potter books, no review copies have been made available to the critics so there's no indication if the book will suck.

Advance sales of the book are going for a discounted $12.99. Though Amazon already has 100,000 copies being published as part of a $100 collector's edition.

The book consists of stories that wizard parents tell their children. The stories even hold clues that help Harry destroy Voldemort.

A rep from Rowling's publishers says, "They feel like folk tales or fairy tales that have been around forever. They're as good as any Grimm tale that you might have read in your own childhood. But that's just Rowling's incredible skill."

Eager Potter fans will get their hands on this book when it goes on sale this Thursday. The book will even be published in 38 languages.

Talk about going global.

Will U buy Rowling's new book?

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Creator of Emmy Award-winning TV show “30 Rock” Tina Fey has kept hush about the dramatic story behind the faint scar that is on the left side of her face. Miss Fey, 38, says, “It’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it.”

Finally opening up, Fey tells that when she was 5-years-old, she was playing in the front yard of her Upper Darby, Pennsylvania home when a stranger approached and cut her cheek. “She just thought somebody marked her with a pen, “ said her husband, Jeff Richmond.

The 38-year-old SNL alum and 30 Rock superstar talks to  about a traumatic event from her childhood and her favorite bodily assets.

“It’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it … I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid. It’s really almost like I’m kind of able to forget about it, unitl I was on camera … Supposedly, I will go crazy. My therapist says, ‘When Alice is the age that you were [when you were slashed], you may go crazy.” - Fey reveals the cause of a faint scar on her face, and talks about being slashed by a stranger when she was 3 years old.

“Because of the Greek-girl thing, I have, like, boobs anb utt … I only have two speeds - either matronly or a little too slutty. I have to be steered away from cheetah print.” - Fey reveals her favorite body parts.

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“Jen is very free when it comes to showing off her body,” the bodyguard told Star. “When she answers the door in the morning, she’s wearing a mini camisole and underwear.”

The bodyguard says this type of dressing didn’t only happen during one isolated incident. She enjoys dressing like this, or better yet barely dressing, all the time.

“She never covers up,” the bodyguard continued. “Everyone is used to that. That’s just Jen! She’s always half-naked.”

The bodyguard ended the interview by saying that new “new all of her moles by name” because Anistomn was naked so often in his presence. Really not that bad of a boss, eh? I know I’ve had worse.

TheCrossCustoms is back in business with an homage to sneaker and apparel designer Team Methamphibian. The experienced designer used a pair of Vans high tops to create colorful sneakers in honor of his cutting edge contemporary. These photos were found at TheCrossCustoms Nike Talk post linked here.

The ACID Meth Vans feature checkerboard patterns in four colors. TheCrossCustoms started with a subtle green pattern with black squares on the outside edge of the left shoe. As the viewer’s eyes journey to the inside of the left shoe, a sudden burst of purple awaits. TheCrossCustoms used a similar format for the right shoe by using a subtle blue color on the outside edge and a flashy orange hue on the inside.

TheCrossCustoms will be back with additional customs in the near future. In the meantime, we can enjoy the ACID Meth Vans as documented in the photos below. You can learn more about the influence of Team Methamphibian by checking out the website linked here.

Although it was rumored that Alex Rodriguez would not be spending Thanksgiving Day with his ex-wife and children, he managed to squeeze in some time with family before running off to be Madonna’s sex thing.

The new couple spent Thanksgiving evening and night together, and the next day A-Rod attended Madonna’s Miami concert. During the show, the Yankees playboy handed Madge a water bottle from his first row seat.

This weekend the couple traveled to Mexico City where Madonna performed and Alex helped inaugurate a new sports stadium. He also spent two hours teaching children to bat.

If anyone knows wood, it would be him. Heh.

At the event, Rodriguez told the crowd, “It’s a pleasure to talk about baseball, to talk about the importance of keeping children off the streets, out of drugs and out of all the bad things that there are in this life.”

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