• Truffle@lemmy.ml
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      20 hours ago

      Story time! Many years ago I read a Maria Callas biography and I have no idea if this fact is true or not, but here it goes:

      Maria was self conscious about her body image and she wanted, moren than anything, to look as thin as her idol: Audrey Hepburn. So in order to do that, she went to a famous doctor who would give his patients a pill thay contained tape worm eggs so they would hatch and live inside them making them lose weight and then this same doctor would deworm them but plot twist! María loved being thin so much that she decided to keep her tapeworm so she would not gain back any weight. This book said that when she took long baths, the worm would kind of wiggle out a bit due to the warm water and then coil back up inside her when she existed the tub. This piece of info was very disturbing for me.

    • runiq@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      I, cannot disguise,
      all the stomach pains
      and the walking of the cranes
      when you, do come out
      and you whisper up to me
      in your life of tragedy
      But I cannot grow
      till you eat the last of me
      oh when will I be free
      and you, a parasite
      just find another host
      just another fool to roast
      cause you
      my tapeworm tells me what to do
      you
      my tapeworm tells me where to go
      Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
      Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
      Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY
      Pull the tapeworm out of your ass, HEY

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      Used to legit be sold for exactly that, but when you got to your ‘ideal weight’ you wrote them for the second set of pills-a dewormer.

      Lol