Oh, Nikki.
You bring back so many memories.
It was the first season of American Idol, the little talent show that could. It was early summer — the first summer after the World Trade Center attacks. We were a nation still feeling our way out of a fog of fear and devastation. We needed to spend a summer watching teenagers belt out tunes from decades past on a national stage. We rooted for you, with your tattoos and your piercings and your dyed hair and your unfaltering sweetness and we’d think to ourselves: “Here. This is as radical as things get. This is the worst of it.” We needed you that summer, on stage, doing your very best impression of something threatening and hardcore and unpredictable, and you did it every week, and you were never anything but endearing in the process, and we loved you for it.
And your 2007 album bombed into such oblivion that no one even bothered covering its failure. And you’ve gained thirty pounds. And you’re being photographed at a red-carpet event for washed-up reality TV stars next to Heather from Rock of Fucking Love. And the photo agency has you tagged here as “Nikki McGibbin.” Your career was never going to recover from your very public tenure as a very fake bad-ass.
I’m sure you didn’t realize it at the time, Nikki, but you took one for the team that summer. And I, for one, appreciated it.
Thank you.
Oh! Nikki. What a pity.
…should be the title of this post.
I don’t know who either one of these broads are, but I like the hair on the one on the left… she just needs some deep conditioner. As for the one on the right, she’s nursty.
This looks like the beginning of a tasty Poison sandwich!
Whyyyy????
She looks about 40. No joke.
She looks like a younger Roseanne Barr.
BettyCrocker – LMAO!!
Honestly, when I saw that picture I thought, “that’s what Heather from Rock of Love is going to look like is about 7 years” -apparently she’s aged a lot since the show ended.
I think we all should think a little more about what we say about people, because you never know what they are going through. The sad thing is we do in this case because she is on tv now on celebrity rehab. Her mom died because of drugs and she has a family she is trying to be strong for. Its sad really how shallow the comments are above. I hope to God she never reads these. Words can hurt people so much and all people like that need is support.
I agree Nikki is a beautiful women. She needs to stop acting like a victim and be strong for her son. It is not to late for her to recreate herself.
Nikki seems like a sweet girl. Hopefully she can find the strength to stop the drugs an drinking and loose the dreadful weight she has put on. It is amazing how much the weight has aged her. She was so beautiful. Let’s all say a prayer for her. Plus that heather chick in the picture is rough, nasty, and looks used and abused. ugh
Adderall is legal and it will help her, cause it can b e addictive and she will get back on her normal drug weight. Poor girl is just expanding like our debt.