Trying to put together the pieces of her adrift career, she took a red carpet tumble at a party/concert in Miami Beach on Saturday evening, in advance of Sunday’s Super Bowl. This Showbuzz/CBS piece gives a pretty comprehensive (and eviscerating) recap of her recent troubles and bad pub, but the sadly hilarious apex comes when Reid describes — in quotes from an October 2006 interview in US Weekly — a bout of “body contouring” gone bad, amazingly enough at the hands of the same surgeon who botched her boob job. Says Reid of her stomach: “[It was] the most ripply, bulgy thing …As a result, I couldn’t wear a bikini. I lost a lot of work.” Umm, sweetheart, I hate to break this to you, but it wasn’t just because you couldn’t wear a bikini that you lost a lot of work…
Tara Reid is a cautionary tale for all the young Hollywood “It” starlets out there. I was honestly surprised she didn’t make this week’s Newsweek “Girls Gone Wild” cover w/Paris Hilton, as she’s much more emblematic of that phenomenon than Britney Spears, imo.