Sarah Palin Underweight, Anxious, Needed "Emergency Help" For Thinning Hair: New York Times

Update: Sarah Palin's hairdresser speaks! 9 days after the Times pondered the possible reasons for Sarah Palin's sudden withdrawal from the Alaskan governorship, at least one thing has become clear: it wasn't really a hair emergency. "It wasn't like I did an intervention,'' Jessica Steele, Palin's long time friend and hairdresser, told the Boston Globe in a phone interview from her Wasilla beauty parlor, the Beehive. "I think the combination of traveling and just being down there in the lower 48... We needed to get her back to shiny.''

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The New York Times has a lengthy story on Sarah Palin in Monday's edition, examining the personal and political pressures that may have driven her to resign her governorship.

The article, like many others before it, describes Palin's political operation as largely dysfunctional, to the point that prominent Republican adviser Fred Malek felt the need to personally urge her to have someone "set up a mechanism so you can return calls."

"You are getting a bad rap," he recalled saying. "Important people are trying to talk to you. And she said, 'What number are they calling?' She did not know what had been happening."

The piece describes Palin as obsessed with her critics, and under severe strain from souring relationships with Alaska legislators and encounters with the national media and paparazzi. Perhaps the strangest details of the story come from accounts from Palin's friends about her physical deterioration:

Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.

Read the full story here.

Comments

[RJII]

STAT!! call a hairdresser. How tragic, not her beautiful hair. People, please tiptoe and wear kit gloves next time.

[G-guy]

Running herself ragged?
The Only thing running ramshod, has been her ego, and her mouth.

[Yasmine]

EXCESSIVELY ambitious , she is obsessed of her loss in 08........­......she is consumed with it

[JaneQCitizen]

Good grief.

Honey, if you can't handle 600,000 citizens in Alaska, you certainly can't handle being leader of the free world. You don't see Hillary curled up in a ball after all the smack-talk she and Bill went through, do you?

And this was someone who wanted to be three steps from the Oval Office.

[kev1000]

Yeah, if you can't take the heat, get out of Alaska!

---- or ... wait a minute ....

[blkcat x lady]

hehe, silly!

[newhouse1]

600,000 citizens of Alaska?
The pop. estimate in July 2008 was 686,293 so you were not too far off!
And that's the whole state
There are comparable US cities, and I suppose other POTUS candidates in waiting.

Memphis Tennessee, 669,651
Baltimore Maryland, 636,919
El Paso Texas, 613,190
Boston Massachusetts, 609,023
Milwaukee Wisconsin, 604,477

The responsibilities and stresses for these city leaders is pretty intense, and no quitting yet.

[measie]

North Korea dropping a nuclear bomb would thin out my hair, too. I need someone strong enough to stand up to that challenge and not get all stressed out and need a spa day if they send a nuke to Hawaii. Male or female, doesn't matter. They must be able to function under pressure.

[rubberstamp]

NK is not sending nukes anywhere. They can even send a missile into the pacific ocean. Let alone shrink the bomb in to a train sized vehicle.

its called propaganda

[rabiddog6708]

And Palin thinks this is pressure..­...imagine what a wreck she would be if she was POTUS....a­nd imagine what a wreck she would make of the country as she had her meltdown.

[Martha12]

Here’s the rub; Governor Palin aborting her term will end up costing Alaskans more than all of the non-Palin ethics complaints combined.

Former legislators I spoke with estimated this session would cost somewhere north of $150,000. $150,000 just to sort out her mess!

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers I’ve talked to see this “July Surprise” as an expensive constitutional train wreck. Most are projecting the session needing at least a few days.

Let’s do the math:

Branchflower Report: $75,000 (Legislative investigation that found Sarah Palin guilty of abuse of power.)

Palin’s own ethics complaint: $187,245.5­8 (A political tactic filed in an attempt to de-rail the Branchflower Report.)

Special Session (Low estimate):$150,000

PALIN’S cost to the State of Alaska? $402,245.5­8

“FRIVOLOUS ETHICS COMPLAINERS” cost to the State of Alaska? $101,101.8­4

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[publicenemy2009]

The incredible disappearing woman... Poof! now just blow away with the wind.

[carrinco]

It is not unusual for a women to have significant hair loss after giving birth. It is a temporary condition. Don't worry yourselves too much. We are not voting for her hair anyway.

[progressivelady]

My sympathys only go out to the rest of us ; )

[grailknight]

I suppose Governor Diva could've borrowed a wig from Tina Fey.

[senorlou]

Everybody's got to know their limitations. I feel a little sorry for her, as a human being, but thank god she didn't succeed in the election.

[MarciaJ720]

I'm about the same age as Palin.

Ever heard of Menopause?

Well, at least we now know how she would handle that 3:00 a.m. telephone call.

[glomtt]

BLAH!!! BLAH!!!! WHO CARES GO AWAY!!!!!!

[avchavis]

Well - lying all the time about being a pitbull with lipstick will do that to a person! Can't handle the fray -get out the way! No sympathy here.