B5Erik

Ummmm....

Isn't incumbent on the people claiming that this woman who looks NOTHING like Bridget Fonda is, in fact, her? Don't they have to provide the proof since what they're claiming seems highly unlikely.

We've all seen women gain weight. Ann Wilson. Kirstie Alley. Delta Burke. None of them looked radically different, even decades later. Just bigger and puffier in the cheeks, etc.

That woman looks like a completely different person. In only 12 years. Not 30 years, 12.

There are multiple possible reasons why Fonda hasn't come out publicly. One being she doesn't want to be out in public, and this is giving her cover. If she's developed a phobia or other issue regarding being in the public eye this is a great way to stay out of it. She could just tell family and friends to say nothing and she's content be the next Howard Hughes type recluse. To me that's far more likely than her becoming a completely different person in appearance in only 12 years.

Runaway

What speaks against it, is the fact that no one claimed to be the person in the photos. In a country where everybody sues everybody else, I would expect someone who rightfully felt invated in her privacy would sue.

B5Erik

Sue for what? What damages?

And when you're out in public you have no expectation of privacy, legally. It costs a lot of money to sue, and if you have a shaky case the safest thing to do is let it go.

When a reputable news source says it's her, or SHE comes forward and says it's her, then I'll buy it. So far I have heard or read of no one reputable definitively saying that it's her.

rocket1312

And we're back!

d2cheer

When is the last time the "news" verified anything??


For the record I don't give one shit one way or the other. I do enjoy seeing everyone whipped up over it however...

philo

How can there be any doubt at this point? You really need a public sworn statement from her? They have pictures of the woman putting out garbage bins. I'm guessing the photographers know that address is the home of Fonda & Elfman. They usually engage in small talk with the people they're photographing so they've probably called her by name too. If there was any doubt and some woman was pretending to be Bridget driving around with her son I'm sure the tabloids would be running that story.

windom

Someone please check if Jennifer Jason Leigh has updated her look.

Draven

Yep - even paparazzi know who they are taking a picture of. It's literally how they make a living. They aren't going to snap pics of a random woman on the street, claim it's a celebrity and get paid for it without someone doing the bare minimum to follow up on the facts (especially when the pictures are so drastically different than what we all expected).

It's not like this was on some random person's blog where they took the pics and uploaded everything themselves. These were sold pictures - no one is going to pay without some kind of verification.

Decker

That's pretty funny.

And yes she has.

TGM

the same people who believe that woman is really her are the same people that think Bob Saget died of natural causes.

GoldenJCJ

Are you suggesting that Bridget Fonda used a decoy and then flew across the country to murder Saget?

TGM

I have been sworn to secrecy.

Draven

*sigh*

Not everything is a conspiracy.

Count Dooku

Exactly what THEY want you to think!

Kurt D

Fonda withdrew from the public eye because she knew 10 dudes on the DVD Talk forum would spend a week screaming at each other about her for little reason.

Coral

I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I'm 95% sure it's her at this point.
You can criticize the paparazzi all you want - but they're usually pretty good at identifying celebrities. How often do they track and follow celebs, take their pictures and sell them to publishers a few times - only to find out they took pictures of a nobody instead?

windom

Fresh pics for everyone to analyze: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ng-outfit.html

TGM

I still don't see it. at all.

JeffTheAlpaca

Sucks she was one of the hottest women in Hollywood and now she looks like somebody you would see at Wal-Mart.

TomOpus

Hokeyboy

We all get older. We all go gray. We all gain weight. We get frumpy and unrecognizable. Once you hit 47, everything changes.

But you know I gotta admit, it is difficult to reconcile the screen beauty from Single White Female, Singles, Point of No Return, Jackie Brown, etc. with the woman in those photos.

Sonic

Jennifer Lopez is 53yrs and got the body of a 18-21yr. But then again she is strictly diet and exercise because her career depends on her image. Some people give up after a certain age and eat themselves to death with no remorse. Sadly Bridgette is one of them. You don't get that fat naturally. You do get that fat when you give up and don't care what others think.

Hokeyboy

Lopez takes care of herself but she has also had a metric ass-ton of plastic surgery. Her face from her Living Color days is pretty different from now. Heck, you can even go back to Money Train and see it.

Can't argue about Fonda though. She has let herself go, but if she's happy then that's all that matters. Live your best life however you want to live it.

Count Dooku

What I like is that the photographs and the story only exist to gape at this woman and say, "Look at how this once sexy starlet has become just another fatso!" But they write it like they are describing her arrival on a red carpet, describing her clothes in detail and her hairstyle.

Hazel Motes

I still think there is a mental health component to it.