Being charged with child endangerment for taking her 5-year-old daughter to City Tropic Tanning in Nutley, N.J., was just the opening salvo in Patricia Krentcil’s crusade to embarrass the one hitherto unembarrassable state. Krentcil, we all discovered, had the dark, leathery tan of 15 Snookis. When people commented that she might be overdoing it with the T part of GTL (the gym-tan-laundry regimen popularized by the Situation), she called her detractors “jealous, fat and ugly.” Unbelievably, she still doesn’t have a reality show.
The Year in 15 Minutes of Fame
Video villains, manic moms and science nerds who (fleetingly) made us look
15. Tanning Mom
Full List
15 Minutes of Fame
- 1. Replacement Refs
- 2. Kony 2012
- 3. Fox News decision desk data cruncher Arnon Mishkin
- 4. Greg Smith
- 5. Mayor Bloomberg’s Interpreter
- 6. NASA Mohawk Guy
- 7. Aly Raisman’s Mom
- 8. Shirtless FBI Guy
- 9. Rafalca
- 10. Angelina’s Right Leg
- 11. Clint Eastwood’s Chair
- 12. “Zou Bisou Bisou”
- 13. “Bronco Bama” Girl
- 14. 138-Point Guy
- 15. Tanning Mom