Tanning Mom Patricia Krentcil Bites Back at Critics

Tanning Mom Patricia Krentcil Bites Back at Critics

The New York Post tagged Patricia Krentcil the “Toast of the Town” because of her “toasted” appearance due to excessive tanning.  She suffers from “Tanorexia,” dermatologists remarked.  Snooki, of “Jersey Shore,” who is a known tanning veteran, slandered her as being a bad mom.

This does not affect Patricia Krentcil, the New Jersey woman who was accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into the tanning booth which resulted to the kid’s having severe burns that alarmed even the school nurse.  She lashes her detractors labeling them as jealous, fat and ugly.

"I saw the headlines today, but I don't care! I don't care what anyone thinks of me!  There's somebody out there, for my whole life, that doesn't like me because they are jealous, fat, and they're ugly," she said outside of her hair salon, the New York Post reported.   "I don't always sit in tanning booths," she insisted. "I have a life."

Krentcil, 44, and a mother of five, insisted that she doesn’t have a tanning problem.  And tanning for her is just like drinking coffee, in some days you drink a lot, in some days you don’t.

"I like the sun. I'm from Long Island," she told reporters later at her home. "I lived at the beach."

She motioned the reporters to look at Anna, her daughter, whom, allegedly, she brought to the tanning booth and whose report to the school nurse about "going tanning" with her mom started the wildfire. "Look at my daughter," she said. "She's white as a ghost. She won't tan."  She contended that had she brought her daughter to tan, she wouldn’t be as white as a ghost.

When asked for investigation, the couple Rich and Patricia, had conflicting statements in court.  While her husband said that their daughter got sunburned waiting outside the salon on a sunny April day while her mom was in the tanning booth; Patricia, however, said that they (she and her daughter) went for a walk and then she tanned while her daughter was in the room.

Krentcil was charged with second-degree child endangerment.  She is presently out on a $2,500 cash bond.  She had been under probation from a 1999 arrest for forgery, credit card theft, and issuing bouncing checks, but that has been terminated.

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