Today I had a video shoot for something I can’t tell you about because apparently publicity is bad. I don’t entirely understand it but it was fun and at one point my friend Maile tried to do my hair, but as I was blow drying it I realized that I was in some sort of time warp.
Me, seven years after my icon picture:
A little plumper, a little more wrinkled, a little wiser, the exact same hair dryer, but all in all…still me.
Awesome! You look great!
Beautiful!!
And bigger, more awesome curls.
YOU is fabulous
Awww – too cute! In both pics. And I want your eyebrows.
Beautiful as always!! Also, HOW in the world do you have a a hairdryer that still works after SEVEN years?!? Mine usually die after two or three years!
Love.
We love you.
Also, I can’t wait to find out why your kitten was being interviewed.
Okay, you gotta tell us more about this immortal hair dryer.
Your hair dryer lasted 7 years!!! That’s awesome.
Lovely darling! You look Marvelous!
I think you actually look younger & happier now
You look amazing in the new pic, the seven years is really working for you!
Following the trend, but you forgot ‘just as beautiful.’
And still gorgeous and impossibly hilarious. I may or may not have read through your entire archives last summer. You were genius back then, but if it’s even possible you’ve only gotten better with age.
Looking faaabulous, dahlink!
Good work keeping the same hair dryer! I have bought about five of them during my life. I use them for a day or two, then forget about them for a year, have a sudden hair drying need, buy a new one…wash, rinse, repeat!
You’re beautiful. And amazing. The rest is just details.
Still sexy.
I have the same hair dryer since my first year as an undergrad. That was 16 years ago.
And I think you look prettier now than you did in your picture 7 years ago, and I thought that was a glamorous shot. So there.
Please do a Pinterest tutorial. There would be so many curse words and booze and goodness that we could all die happy.
I think you look better now. Happier. I vote for an updated icon.
7 (mostly) GOOD years, right? Congratulations on your secretive interview!
The absolute best part? You’re still you…even after relative (the quit-my-job-to-write) success AND the uber (I’m a bestselling writer!) success. Go you!
Also, it’s fucking disturbing that you still have the same hair dryer…wait, I never use mine so I think it’s old enough to be dangerous. Damn. I retract my statement: just stop reading this comment at “Go you!”
You look great! And mad props to you for finding a hair dryer in the universe that lives longer than any I have ever owned.
Ps and totally unrelated as I have recently moved to the midwest which is rought with tornadoes and 100plus heat, how exactly does one make a wine slushy because that might just be the cure. Yes yes I know margaritas and tequila but after an unfortunate mechanical bull incident I have been banned by the public at large from partaking of tequila or any other agave based spirits. your help is greatly appreciated.
can you do a blog on how to set curlers? I have been wondering about this (how to set curlers, not whether or not you can blog about same) for awhile. Does it last better than a curling iron?
You are divine in every way!
But still JUST as awesome. 🙂
This is so totally awesome. I LOVE IT. Full circle baby.
I only see plump in those delicious full lips. You’re doing something right.
Dorian Grey.
so excellent. you should plug that hair dryer big time.
And still beautiful! You haven’t aged a day (jealous!).
You not only look lovely, but you look much happier in your “now” picture than in your “then” picture.
The SAME hair dryer? Maybe it’s my hair’s uncanny resemblance to Don King, but I blow through a couple a year! I’m going to buy the one you have!
Oh, and congrats on 7 years! You look fabulous!
Awww. You are adorable!
Glad to see you are still in it seven years later!
Angel (@themommytsunami)
There is something about large hair curlers that just screams “I am so much better than you because i know how to use these things”
and looking, in fact, lovelier than ever! 🙂
You still look fantastic and continue to amaze me!! A hairdryer lasting 7 years?! 😉
Still fabulous!
Still awesome seven years later, will still be awesome when 7 more have passed. XXOO
Hm. Pointier on top.
More curlers on top=looking taller. Adds height.
looking a little more smiley-er too
Looking lovely… Bigger curlers that’s all.
You’re so lucky. My hair dryers never last that long. 😉
Miss Jenny, you are such a purdy lady.
You look even more fabulous than you did back then!
Wow, your hair dryer has lasted seven years?!
You missed the still beautiful part. I wish you were my friend. Sad panda. 🙁
Personally, I think you look happier now and I like this picture better. Success suits you 😉
Because you’re amazeballs, that’s why.
Never Change!!!!
I see the resemblance!!! 😉
Wow! You look amazing! I think those curlers are just about big enough to fit Hunter S. Thomcat in them too!
With age comes …. bigger curlers. Rock on!
You look happier. I mean, I know you’re smiling a bit more, but aside from that I mean your eyes look happier.
As lovely as ever.
I LOVE it. Beautiful kid.
And of course the edges of the mouth are now pointing ever so slightly upward, as if about to break into a smile. Happier now, yes?
I bet yes.
You are fucking fabulous.
Nice! My hairdryer is jealous of the use yours gets.
That is a really good hair dryer if you are still using it seven years later.
And I can’t wait for the surprise something that you were filming for.
You still look great, and a little happier in the new one, I think.
Different Day, same blow job.
You look happier now.
I think you definitely look happier… and more stabby.
VINTAGE!
You also look like you have a secret and you’re not sharing.
I can’t believe you still have the same dryer after 7 years. Mine died after like, 2. It must be my insane crazy horse hair.
Still Beautiful!!
Actually, you look lovelier.
You look beautiful! I can’t wait to find out what’s going on (even though I THINK I have an idea…)! <3 🙂
My vote: they are moving forward with plans to make Let’s Pretend into a full length movie – your version of Channing’s Magic Mike, only with less strippers/stripping and more random adventures hiding out in public restrooms. I have to say, your decision to have Matt McConaughey to play the younger/childhood version of your dad is pretty brilliant – he’ll pull off that Texas Crazy no problem – while Joe Manganiello will be fabulous as Victor. I can SO see him snarling “it is NOT a nice chicken” at the UPS dude. You should, of course, be playing yourself because anyone else would be just WRONG and I’m looking forward to purchasing my advance tickets.
Hmmm…I think you’ve changed the hair a little.
(I think I’ve had the same hair dryer since at least 1995)
And you’re still Jenny from the blog.
I’m just impressed you managed to get a hair dryer to last 7 years!!!
What kind of a magical hairdryer do you own that it’s still in operation after 7 years? I’ve got to get me one.
you look more beautiful and happier. just lovely!
I love your updated picture. After seven years, the biggest change would probably be that you’re the writer being stalked rather than doing the stalking. But? We’ll always have BlogHer ’07 and writing stalker notes to Amy Sedaris. But in a good way. Not creepy stalkers because that would be a whole different kind of fucked up.
You are beautiful!
I can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeve!! 🙂
I can’t believe it’s been seven years. So glad your talent is finally getting the attention you deserve, and that you’re still the totally awesome person you were when that first pic was taken. We’re so lucky to have you in our lives!
I’m all kinds of shades of impressed that the hair dryer as lasted so long. Or do you only take it out for special occasions? 😀
You look slightly happier in the more recent photo, dunno if that’s on purpose or not, but hell – plumpier be damned ! Happy is awesome :O)
The Bloggess: Now with added inspirational…um…-ism. Yeah, that’s a word. (immortal hairdryer not included.)
You know, when I’m having a shit day and depression and all the other crazy dysfunctional things my brain tells me to do are kicking my ass, knowing that you are out in the world and not at all unlike me makes everything seem… more beautiful. And so are you. Keep on keepin’ on.
THANK GOODNESS YOU ARE STILL YOU!!!
You look Mahvalous!
I think your eyebrows are better now than they were then. 🙂
I’m pretty sure my wife has never had a hair dryer that lasted that long.
And still a motherfucking badass.
I think you look amazing & younger now too! My hair dryers last that long too, it’s called lack of use from never fixing my hair!
Love it, love you, you goddess, you.
You look happier in the new pic?
Don’t you just come to the conclusion that you may be a little plumper, wiser, wrinkled but then when you really think about it, happy too. I am all of those things but also very mentally stable (fingers crossed) and that means the world to me, even if the arse is bigger and half my wardrobe doesn’t fit. And you look all goddessy anyway.
Jenny, when that liar comes back around, please come back to the comments on this page. Love you.
-Matt
Secrets are harsh!
Love that it is the same hairdryer! Keep the funny sarcasm coming!
Honestly, I think you look happier now. Maybe a little more settled with yourself? You’ll have to take another one in another seven years.
That hair dryer should get a purple heart of something.
And are those orange juice cans or what?
the change I see is a different way of “hairstyle”- I believe “Beyonce” has had an influence. 🙂
You rooooock! Yourockyourockyourock!
And still gorgeous. Your beauty shines straight out from your soul. Keep on doing what you are doing Jenny and I will keep on applauding you from Australia.
haha Love it!
And we love the you you are!
I think you look happier in the more recent one. 🙂
still a great pic!
Blahblahblahhairdryer7years!blahblahblah
I want to know what the secret is. TELL US, DAMMIT.
Oh, and we really truly need more about the kitten. He is hysterical and adorable.
I love it!
Love the change in the look on your face. You go from a bit annoyed looking to very hopeful. The eyebrows say it all. We are all getting plumper with age . . . but that hides wrinkles.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
Also, I am so happy for your success. It is well deserved. Love the book. Hang in there, the best is yet to come.
You’re more gorgeous, more inspirational, and even more full of win.
Awesome! I wonder if what you were doing today had anything to do with what I was doing today.
You haven’t changed much, but man, have you changed the world. It’s incredible. Congratulations.
You look fab. And the makers of that hairdryer should pay you for free publicity. What’s it like being a goddess to so many people? 😉
Love this pic! (Love you too) xx
Plump people don’t look as old…ever.
Still just as beautiful! I can’t seem to keep a hair dryer for 6 months.
Just as we love you, Jenny….
Such a gorgeous photo of you! Stunning 🙂
I can’t believe you have the same hair dryer I feel like I am buying a new one every year. Perhaps I am doing something wrong. Like buying shitty hair dryers.
Ravishing!
Now if you could just show us the third nipple…
You look a little bit happier, in some way. Must be the addition of the roller right on top of your head. And I know the world is a whole lot happier now, for knowing you.
Better eyebrows!
To everyone shocked that Jenny still has the same hairdryer from 7 years ago, let me tell you a little something. I got my current hairdryer *used* around July, 1998. And yes, it still works, like a champ. That was what? 14 years ago… The key? DON’T DROP IT ON THE FLOOR! Same goes for curling irons. (Easier said than done, right?)
You look just as beautiful now!
I can’t believe you still have the same hair dryer! I usually burn them up within a couple of years. actually had one catch fire one day…I should probably write about that.
You look awesome! And how do you keep a haridryer for 7 years? That should be in the guinness book of records!
You look glamorous in both photos, but what struck me immediately is that bit of a smile in the new one… It looks good on you. And it’s a well deserved smile, you’ve helped a lot of people be furiously unapologetically happy.
I love you dearly, Jenny! Stay awesome.
I still have the hair dryer that my mom bought before i was born, probably around 40 years ago. Stool works like a charm too!
Still lovely after all these years….!
btw….I thought of you while in Kirkland’s today… They had a big metal chicken for sale. But it may have been a somewhat smaller rooster. I took it’s picture in your honor!
Only you can make a head full of curlers look totally fabulous!
Still photogenic. Love the tiny bit of smile in the current picture.
It’s just a jump to the left…
Rock on with your bad self! Great photo then, great photo now ~
Looks good to me! 🙂
Awesome as always.
I just got your book yesterday afternoon (FINALLY), finished reading it today, and then proceeded to use the word stabby in three different conversations. I’d say you’re a good influence, yes?
Them are some mighty big curlers, ya’all!!
And THAT is what friends are for. 😉
I think you look even prettier now!
“…but all in all…still me.”
Thank the gods for that!
You’re still beautiful. Perhaps even more so…your eyes are smiling in the newer one. *grin*
I like that your mouth tips UP in your new picture. You look happy and healthy to me. My husband and I both enjoy you blog and loved your book. Thanks for being a constant source of pillow talk for us 🙂
Yup, that’s you. Man, those hair dryers have staying power.
Hey gorgeous, looking good!
Damn, women are lucky. You go back seven years and there is still plenty o’hair to talk about.
Rocking those rollers. Just sayin.
Very cool!
And you still look fabulous (curlers and all)!! <3
Gorgeous!
None of my hair dryers have lasted that long without breaking.
I’m a little jealous of your hair dryer.
you still have the same dryer ?
wow.
ps: Australia loves you. (this sounds a bit sucky but your book is a great inspiration. thanks so much)
Are you all buying your hair dryers at the dollar store or something? I have not 1, but 2! hair dryers that I’ve had for years upon years! LOL
Love the pic, I too think you look happier <3 and I'm also curious about hair curlers vs a curling iron …
You forgot – more beautiful – it shines from you.
Very cool!
Wait, you have the same hairdryer 7 years later? What hairdryer do you have? and where can I get one?
A modern-day Mona Lisa. Only less enigmatic. And prettier.
AND A SHIT TON MORE AWESOME!!!!
Not everyone get’s better with age. Good for you!
Hugs!
Valerie
And just like that, you just inadvertently created crazy demand for that brand of hairdryer. So by my estimate, that hairdryer maker owes you a gazillion dollars for your endorsement. Bazinga!
PS – is the pic flipped around? Cause I can’t read the backwards writing on the dryer. Or else I’d run out and buy it, given your endorsement. 😉
You look WAY smarter in the new pic!! Happier too!!
Oh, wait, WE are all smarter and happier people because of you!!!
You rock lady. You totally rock.
You look more pleased in the new body you.
And prettier.
you can totally WEAR big rollers like NO ONE ELSE.
Gorgeous, funny and…how did you manage to keep that hair dryer from over heating and/or shorting out after seven years? That is an amazing feat. Looking forward to the video of secrecy which shall not be publicized!
wait… are the curlers bigger…. or is your head just smaller??
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Like fine wine my dear; better with age.
Love it!
You look fantastic! Nobody can pull off curlers like you!
You are still the same, but if I may say so, you seem to be quite a bit more content and happy today 🙂
First thing I noticed was the hair dryer being the same as well.
You look beautiful 🙂 Congrats on your shoot.
You look great! I think I prefer this picture! It might be the smile ^_^ xx
Like a fine wine you look more beautiful 7 years on 🙂
Two things got bigger … not those – dirty minds
1. Your hair curlers
2. Your bewdiful smile!
P.S. Your hair dryer is a zombie. I’d keep an eye on that.
I’m with Caramelia (#165), my first thought was that you have a twinkle of happy about you in that little quirk of lips etc. 🙂 It’s good to see.
Coincidentally, I’m still using the hairdryer my brother gave me for christmas the year I turned 15 and I’m 38 now. lol. I’m almost afraid of it giving up one day lol.
You also look happier!
This somehow makes me happier than I can probably describe.
love the picture!
Love it! What kind of rollers do you use?
You look happier in this picture
I’m impressed that you still have the same hair dryer. Mine tend to catch on fire every 3 or 4 years or so. Keep doing what you’re doing (being hilarious and fabulous)! 🙂
Was it an audition for Tom Cruise’s new wife? I hear the Scientologists like to interview first…
Sometimes it’s best if history repeats itself. Like your hair. And every “new” version of technology that makes the previous one obsolete after a week. And the remake of 21 Jump Street.
Sometimes being too adorable is flat out gross, Jenny. Quit being so gross.
That hair-dryer must be part of the family at this stage. I wish any of mine would last that long… =(
The seven-year itch, huh?
This was really cute to wake up to. =)
Hey love it! I think sex is funny too. Please check out this short I did with a bunch of actors auditioning to be the face of a new condom commercial. P.s – Don’t watch it if you are at work! It would be great to get some feedback! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05y_wq9Fl-k
And just as awesome as ever. 🙂
I’m sorry if this borders on stalker-ish but you are seriously my favorite person on the internet. And probably the most helpful too (except if we’re counting Google, but the almighty G is not human, so probably not). ANYWAY. I stopped seeing my amazing therapist (long story) and I’m now seeing one that well, put nicely….kinda sucks. And I think part of why I’m not collapsing into a helpless heap of mess is thanks to you, your adventures (and mis-adventures) and the legion of followers you’ve amassed over the years. It seems like you went around the internet and picked the nicest, coolest and more compassionate people and brought them all here to hang out. So, long story short- you’ve come a long way in 7 years, and you’ve helped a lot of us do the same. 🙂
Bluhh…MOST compassionate. yay early morning brain!
Let’s do the time warp again! Honestly, I think you look better now.
Timelessly beautiful!
p.s. totally unrelated– but my friend Sal was having problems with fruit flies and she got rid of them by flipping that little switch on her hairdryer that reverses the flow and she sucked them in and fried them up! Creepy yet so creative.
You still rock the extra large curlers. And that’s the truth – all of us (okay most of us) end up a little plumper and more wrinkled but I’ll take the wisdom that goes with it any day!
How in the HELL did you find a hair dryer that lasted you SEVEN YEARS? Mine rarely lasted a year and a half before frying out.
Gorgeous, woman. You look tickled over something … maybe you could not tell us what the video shoot was for in the form of a fill in the blank?
You look Mavalous Daling! Even after 7 years you own that Curler in your hair style! Love it! I hope it was fun and groovy or groovy fun!
I think you mean the iconic picture! Love this post, btw.
I’m crazy impressed that you still have the same blow dryer from 7 years ago!
Hey? Remember? That one time? At band camp? And I made your icon a Flair on Facebook? And you commented on my blog? And then I died of happiness a little bit? Yeah, good times! 😀 **gets out freak flag and waves it proudly**
I think you look fantastic!
you make me laugh & cry at the same time. passive aggressive tendencies can be so soothing 😉 You make me feel normal–in a ‘fuck normal’ kind of way 😉
I think you look fabulous and they’re not wrinkles but roadmaps to the fun and crazy life you lead. Reading your blog everyday since discovering it, I can tell you love fun, have a wicked sense of humour and I shall continue to stalk you 🙂 but not in a creepy way. Even my husband gets a smirk now and then….. and that’s saying something.
Hmm. This does say a lot for the hairdryer. Solid state, I bet.
7 years, and a whole lot hotter.
You were cute back then, but now, you look real. You look like someone who has lived and loved, and held a motherfucking sloth.
It looks good on you.
There are times when i wish your comment section could be upvoted like reddit simply because you have so many awesome commentators. and they’re all right – you look fucking fantastic 🙂
You’ve still got it! The look, I mean. OK, the hairdryer, too, but I meant the good looks. But why on earth are you using a blowdryer in central Texas in the summer? Just go outside for a few minutes! Especially if the sun is out.
And some kinds of publicity actually can be bad, depending upon who is being publicized and who will see it.
You look beautiful, but could you please do a post on how to do your hair with rollers? Everytime I try, my hair ends up kind of half-dry and looked like something that just crawled out of the sewer.
You look beautiful!!
I think you look adorable, and much more confident and relaxed 🙂
And still yummy cute. That picture makes me want to shoot Victor. But here’s a virtual high-five instead. Cowboy up!
I have had my blow dryer for a long time too! does yours make funny noises like mine?? no? hmmm. mine does. it hasn’t burned up yet- it’s still good!
Life and FAT are NOT best friends!!! ……..UUGGGGGHHHHH!!!! T:)
And you haven’t aged a bit! 🙂
Ooo…a photo shoot. For… a new book already?
… a guest spot on a popular TV show?
… A GIANT BUS AD!!! …or billboard…
… your debut in the political arena.
That’s it: VOTE FOR THE BLOGESS! Jenny Lawson for President!
Do bigger curlers mean you have made it to the big time?
You are even more beautiful!
So fucking weird that it’s been seven years. I remember the first comment you left me about naming your next baby ‘cakelet’ because it made me laugh so hard.
JENNY. YOU ARE SO LOVELY STILL. ?
The question mark was accidental. All keyboards are trying to destroy me this week. No really, it’s true.
You’re beautiful!
You are beautiful, Jenny. Can’t wait to hear more about your super-secret project. 🙂
Im pretty sure I saw one of those Red Bull acrobatic planes fly through one of those curls lol.
Not just an ‘icon’ picture. An ICONIC picture.
Ummm thanks a lot. I have now continued to purchase and listen to multiple books on audible in hopes of finding a book that remotely entertains me as much as yours did. I’m now $64 and some change in the hole and have credits that I am scared to use because the continual disappointment is well…disappointing. I don’t like disappointment (not said in a crazy way). Sigh. Please write another soon and please please please realize that it isn’t just how good the book is but how well the author reads it when you are listening to it. You did great (said like Tony the Tiger 🙂 Hugs from a fellow Hill Country Girl (was going to write Cunt-ry but then I realized i would be calling YOU that and weelllllll that’s rude. Kind-of, no it is,…I think?? Personally I thought it was clever. Peace Mel
You’re adorable.
You’re adorable !!
Beautiful!
The picture looks great to me. Your hairdryer has lasted seven years? Mine only lasted two years and it started to smell like smoke.
What the hell kind of hair dryer do you have that lasts seven years??