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Tanning her hide

Electro-bronzed mom gets lambasted in New Jersey

Tanning her hide

POSTED: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 8:51 AM

A New Jersey mom who allegedly allowed her six-year-old daughter into a commercial tanning chamber has pleaded not guilty to a child endangerment charge.

“It’s a lie,” a dramatically electro-bronzed Patricia Krentcil told reporters Wednesday outside Superior Court in Newark.

Krentcil, 44, claims her daughter Anna got sunburned the old-fashioned way -- by playing outside.

“I’d never endanger her life by putting her under the ultraviolet light,” she said.

Krentcil's own epidermis is another matter; in videos and photographs, she looks sufficiently...unusual for a downtown fashion runway or renegade music video.

Perhaps she could be a TV spokesmodel for the latest tattoo/piercing/body mod products and processes with which millions of trendy consumers deface themselves, and the landscape, these days.

But since Krentcil lives in Nutley, rather than, say, LA, she's SO not cool.

"Ugly," "stupid" and "horrible" are some of the descriptives posted online.

And no less an authority than Snooki told Extra that Krentcil, whom she referred to as “that -----,” is “crazy.”

Arguably as crazy: After Anna complained of having a sunburn and babbled about tanning with mommy, someone at her school called the cops.

Kevin Riordan @ 8:51 AM Permalink | 24 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:08 PM, 05/03/2012

She has to have a mental condition - her skin is the color of Minwax Walnut stain. She's a loon

— delcorules

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:11 PM, 05/03/2012

Holy...that woman needs psychiatric help. She's off her rocker if she thinks that is attractive.

— akh

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:15 PM, 05/03/2012

What a leather faced freak! Maybe look in the mirror and realize your insane! I feel bad for the husband he looks normal, she looks like a baked potato left on the grill!

— protek67

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:19 PM, 05/03/2012

1. The government has no right to be involved in this. What next? I'm arrested for letting my child play outside too long?
2. I believe the mother. The kids a red head and if she were in the booth for any time at all, she'd be burned.

— onejn416

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:38 PM, 05/03/2012

Now thats how you play black face.

— towelie

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:04 PM, 05/03/2012

OH MY GOD!!! Is this idiot for real, what would warp someone's mind to do this to themself, and drag a child into this insane exhibition???

— Dadair1

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:37 PM, 05/03/2012

Horrific face...

— ricciaje

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:40 PM, 05/03/2012

i think my new cole haans were made from her face.

— GratefulYid

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:42 PM, 05/03/2012

she said in the interview that someone would have to be crazy to put a child in a tanning booth.....she says this with the evidence of her ample craziness literally all over her face. this story is hilarious....hopefully salons will see this chick is whacked and ensure that her kid never again gets into a booth with her

— IcanTakeit

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:49 PM, 05/03/2012

How does she think she looks good? It looks like a chocolate pudding exploded on her face.

— Corn_On_The_Cob

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:50 PM, 05/03/2012

I've seen less frightening zombies in horror movies. Ick.

— verve

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:30 PM, 05/03/2012

Looks like she is applying for a job with Willie Wonka. Maybe we should all ask her for advice on how to cook a Thanksgiving turkey.

— jp8899

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