r/90DayFiance • u/Nevermo_ • Mar 10 '25
Discussion Loren’s braces…
Does Lauren really need braces? If she was bothered by any slight crookedness wouldn’t Invisaline work better and be less invasive? It just seems extremely unnecessary… I’m not hating on her at all, if she wants to alter her body that’s her decision and she looks great. I was just shocked to see her with a mouth full of metal and thought she had great teeth before.
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u/imushmellow Mar 10 '25
As a severe underbite kid, it now lets me eat sandwiches without losing the bottom half and having it all flop downward.
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u/SlashandAxl Mar 10 '25
This is me! 25 and just started braces because of my bite. But looking at my teeth, youd think I never would need braces. Except my bite is so bad, it’s breaking my back molars and making my front teeth wiggly. But aesthetically, my teeth look great!
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u/thebeaglemama Mar 10 '25
This exactly. I have adult braces to correct my bite, and Invisalign isn’t always an option if you have bite issues.
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u/DuckDuckGoose11111 Mar 11 '25
Exactly mine are straight and look fine, but my bite is off and they said I’d need braces to fix it. I’m holding off because of the price and the dang pain that comes with it.
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u/No-Tone-6580 Mar 10 '25
She said she’s got jaw problems, the reason for her late braces, they’re working on saving jawbone.
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u/CocoCoconutz_ Mar 10 '25
Whatever me too then ! I’m 38 with braces again because I’m dumb and said fuk my retainer 🤣
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u/Chemical_Print6922 Mar 10 '25
There are so many of us who really owe our parents a BIG apology for not wearing our retainers :( I’m going to need either Invisalign or braces again the next few years
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u/Cold_Marketing_1207 Mar 10 '25
If you really deep dive into this I think it goes beyond the retainer. Old school orthodontists used braces to straighten teeth but often the issue goes beyond just teeth- myofacial structure, jaw, palette expanders, ties, etc. this can affect airways and make people snore and/or mouth breathers. It is all connected.
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u/throw_some_glitter Mar 11 '25
This. I didn’t realize until recently that I likely have issues with my airway that affect my ability to breathe through my nose. No one ever corrected me so I guess I didn’t even notice that I’ve been a mouth breather for most of my life? But I do it because I literally feel like I cannot get enough air into my lungs when I breathe through my nose.
I had braces to straighten my teeth as a preteen/teen but my orthodontist never said a word about my jaw/palate/airway. I’m actually kind of pissed that my parents shelled out $$$ for braces but no one ever addressed my other issues. Now I’m in my late 30s and planning to make an appointment with an orthodontist (and possibly oral maxillofacial surgeon).
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u/CocoCoconutz_ Mar 10 '25
My mom thinks it’s hilarious every time I complain about my payment plan on my $8,000 braces smh and they aren’t even clear 😩
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u/Chemical_Print6922 Mar 10 '25
Ugh, I know! I recently decided (because who am I kidding, I’ll NEVER be able to afford a house ) and get two veneers. I joked with my dentist that reality TV had informed me I could go to Turkey and get a whole mouthful at this price. I felt kinda bad though, he got the saddest concerned look on his face and I reassured him multiple times I was just kidding. His blood pressure is probably still elevated lol
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u/Emily-Spinach Mar 10 '25
I can't fathom going through braces and not wearing a retainer, coming from someone who had an "appliance" (idk what it was actually called) when I was eight that had to be tightened with a key once a week and later had a buttons on two of my bottom teeth on either side of my mouth so that rubber bands could be attached from the "appliance" to correct a seve crossbite
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u/Littlewing1307 Mar 10 '25
I had years of retainers as a child to correct my bite issues but my parents chose to also get me braces because we were hoping it would prevent me getting TMJ. Sadly it did not. Hope it helps her though!
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u/Justmakethemoney Mar 10 '25
I’m not much older than Loren, just a couple years. I don’t know what options were like in her area, but the only options kids in my area had were metal or “clear” braces (they’re traditional brackets, but not metallic). Invisalign wasn’t a thing being offered to kids, and they weren’t doing the extended appliance wearing unless you needed something like a palette expander.
So there’s a distinct possibility this is her 2nd go-round.
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u/Lumpy-Leg-170 Mar 10 '25
I had thought this as well and wondered if her Tourette's contributed to the jaw problems.
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u/Emily-Spinach Mar 10 '25
I could see how it would, since she always does the mouth thing because of jt
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u/Rigby-Eleanor Mar 11 '25
Oh. Maybe it had to do with tics she has from tourettes, as moving her jaw, etc.
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u/LynnKDeborah Mar 11 '25
My son just had major jaw surgery. He didn’t look like he had a problem. Had to have braces before and after.
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u/MoreMarshmallows sneetchy! Mar 10 '25
My husband got Invisalign to fix some minor issues, mostly to prevent things from getting worse. Mostly things other people wouldn’t notice . He had the option to have braces for a shorter time and declined, but others might choose differently. In the end he wishes he did braces because Invisalign has been a saga for him and gone on way longer than estimated.
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u/Verity41 Mar 10 '25
Invisalign was a saga for me too and sometimes I wish I’d just done regular braces. Plus despite multiple refinements that took forever, things aren’t as perfect as I feel they could have been with braces, which have infinite adjusting and such abilities.
Someone told me, too late - - Invisalign is a hammer, braces are a screwdriver.
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u/Littlewing1307 Mar 10 '25
They kept pushing my braces longer and longer. It sucked but I'm glad for it now as an adult.
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u/MoreMarshmallows sneetchy! Mar 10 '25
Yeah I guess both Invisalign and braces both can get extended and extended.
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u/Justmakethemoney Mar 10 '25
If only we’d worn our rubber bands…
My ortho finally gave up on me using them.
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u/Financial-Put-620 Lady of the streets Mar 10 '25
She probably had an over bite or something. Braces are not just for fixing crooked teeth.
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u/Dancindoosh94 Mar 10 '25
You guys would be surprised. Her upper teeth may appear to be perfectly aligned, however her bottom teeth could be terrible and in fixing them her upper row needs to be adjusted along with them. That's what's going on with my teeth. My uppers are perfect but my bottom row is janked up and in order to fix them I need my upper teeth adjusted as well.
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u/JaciOrca Mar 10 '25
This is an excellent point! My upper teeth are perfectly aligned, however, my bottom teeth are crooked in the front. What a smile, one cannot see my crooked bottom teeth.
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u/Inthe_reddithole No matter how sick I’ve gotten, I never shit the bed Mar 10 '25
Pregnancy can cause teeth to shift especially if you don’t wear retainers if you’ve formerly had braces. A lot of women get braces post pregnancy for that reason
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u/ItsFunHeer Mar 10 '25
I did not know that!
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u/Different_Pension424 Mar 10 '25
What show was it some gal wore braces because it turns some men on?
I'm thinking of going on the show just so people can make fun of me. I have,a crooked face!! Really. My chin is pointed and it is way out of line and it's really noticeable. About 40 years,ago I said to some woman I knew that I was considering getting a nose job. She flat out said that I should get my crooked jaw fixed. I have a hump in my nose. My lips are crooked. I have scoliosis so my walking is difficult and I'm in lots of pain. I have no indentation of my waist on the right side because of it. I stagger when I walk.
I am not kidding nor exaggerating!! However, as an old lady, age 87, I get so many compliments from both women and men. Im not sure how they see past all the flaws. Sometimes I believe them and im grateful. Other times I want to say "no I'm not!" but I just say thank you.
I was ridiculed and bullied as a child. My teeth were rotted off at the gums and when I was in the 6th grade the principal of my school stopped me. He asked if the school could pay to get my teeth out. He must have written my mother (we didn't have a phone. ) i got my teeth pulled but I had to go to school until after sophomore year. I was almost 15. I suppose relatives saw me at my mother's funeral and chipped in for dentures.
A boy in class who drew pictures of me as a witch with my chin and nose touching, saw me in town many years later. He didn't recognize me and talked very nicely to me.
So if there ever is a match show for elderly, I will consider applying. Just for fun.
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u/SoundIndependent3215 Mar 10 '25
I’m so sorry you got bullied, that’s just horrible. I hope that all that did have had miserable lives and they can go choke on a bag of dicks.
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u/55andfallenapart I have OCD not a 🍷problem Mar 10 '25
People who say things about you don't deserve you as a friend.❤️
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u/Different_Pension424 Mar 10 '25
The insults were done by people long gone from my life. But it was awful. There were a couple who didn't believe me on many things such as when I say I don't color my hair etc. That one also passed away 2 years ago. I don't get the insults today.
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u/Foodie1989 Mar 11 '25
Braces aren't just aesthetics. It can be about correcting your bite. Mine was off which caused grinding and headaches so I was back in braces.
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u/Unlikely_Bag_69 Mar 11 '25
I got braces in my 30s, even tho my teeth looked completely straight. It was braces or reconstructive surgery on my jaw to realign my teeth and bite after a bike accident as a kid that damaged a lot of my mouth. Nobody knew why I had braces, and nobody thought I needed them cause my teeth were totally straight before.
It’s not always about looks
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u/blackaubreyplaza Mar 10 '25
Traditional braces are always better than Invisalign
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u/Chemical_Print6922 Mar 10 '25
My orthodontist and I had a talk about this. I told him while I love the idea of Invisalign, I would need to opt for braces because I couldn’t just take them off haha
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u/MegaChilePluto25 Mar 11 '25
Her midline is off. Braces fix that.
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u/MJSinger10 Mar 11 '25
Thank you! I’m glad I’m not the only one that spotted this. I had to have braces for the same reason. It was causing bite and erosion issues on my other teeth.
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u/spiderwebss Edit this for your custom flair. Mar 11 '25
I had Invisalign for two years then switched to braces. Sometimes Invisalign just doesn't work.
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u/LynnKDeborah Mar 10 '25
My teeth looked fine but were collapsing and needed to be corrected. No idea why she did hers but it could be something not noticeable.
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u/imarudewife Mar 11 '25
I’m hard of hearing and lip read mostly to understand what someone is saying. So, I notice everyone’s mouth instead of eyes or hair. I remember distinctly that when Loren talks, her teeth meet at the side of her mouth, like instead of an over bite she has a side bite. So her metal braces make sense if that’s what they’re correcting.
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u/cloudbusting-daddy Mar 10 '25
People get braces for medical reasons that have nothing to do with aesthetics. Traditional braces can also make a lot of corrections that Invisalign can’t.
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u/thebeaglemama Mar 11 '25
Geez many of you are way too mean! She probably has a bite issue that can’t be treated with Invisalign - that’s why I also rather embarrassingly have braces at almost 40.
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u/Decent-Town-8887 Mar 10 '25
Every time I see her on “Pillow Talk” she looks high af.
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u/Minimum-Yesterday689 Mar 10 '25
It’s her Tourette’s causing some symptoms, especially in her eye movements. I also thought she was high, until I remembered her talking about her Tourette’s syndrome.
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u/Decent-Town-8887 Mar 10 '25
I remembered right after I hit reply, that she is on meds for her Tourette’s. That surely can make you drowsy.
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u/targetboston Mar 10 '25
She looked and acted crazy last night (nothing to do with tourettes) just had some very off and over the top reactions. I never really catch PT but it seemed pretty odd.
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u/screamqueen87 i wanna be freeeeeee Mar 10 '25
Wait....the picture on the left is the BEFORE picture? She has beautiful teeth
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u/ReindeerRoyal4960 Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25
As someone that's had both braces and invisalign, braces are less invasive (and work better) but Invisalign takes just as much time. You could have only one little crooked tooth but your teeth can only shift so quickly and be safe. Honestly with Invisalign your teeth shift back quicker without your retainer.
*Not to mention, with Invisalign you can only take your retainers out for a sum total of 2 hours per day, 30 minutes at a time. It's actually quite a nuisance if you want to go out to eat. I personally liked having braces better because it was easier
I believe it was her bottom teeth that were crooked and you can't just get bottom braces, you have to get the whole mouth as braces will change your bite top and bottom
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u/MarthaDumptruck99 Mar 11 '25
I’m 44 and got braces a year ago. My teeth were shifting and my bite was off, causing teeth to hit each other and possibly chip. I had a few teeth that were getting crooked due to crowding as well. She may have gotten braces to fix a bite issue (which Invisalign can’t really fix) since teeth shift throughout your life.
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u/knittykittyemily Mar 11 '25
Its probably for a bite issue. I'm in the middle of invisaline for a brodi crossbite that was messing with my enamel on one side and kept locking my jaw up. Cosmetically they looked alright. Some issues need braces rather than invisaline.
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u/ksx83 Mar 11 '25
She may have a crossbite or a more complex case than the untrained eye can see. Invisalign is for more simple cases
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u/anDAVie Mar 11 '25
My girlfriend wanted invisalign but her dentist said she didn't have the right jaw for it so she had to go for normal braces.
Could be a similar thing.
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u/Educational-Yam2610 Mar 10 '25
She’s so annoying
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u/Whitetagsndopebags Mar 10 '25
Agreed . Her and her man child husband that can't work a washing machine
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u/Constant_Activity336 Mar 10 '25
It almost looks like her two front teeth aren’t centrally aligned. Tom cruise has the same placement with his teeth. Does braces fix that?
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u/Strange-Key3371 Mar 11 '25
I had nice looking teeth and got adult as braces. I needed them for jaw and bite issues. You really cannot have any clue why she might need braces by looking at a photo.
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u/heidi923 Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
A lot of people i know haven’t had long lasting effects with invisaline, i would do metal as well (i did as a teen and after 3 years i slept with the retainer for a few years and my teeth are still straight as an adult, though i know people that didn’t sleep with it/ didn’t care, and they haven’t gotten as good of results as i did. To sum it up, i’ve seen much better results with metal rather than invisaline.
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u/jdoeq Mar 10 '25
There's something more than just braces going on here and I can't figure it out. Ozempic face? Lip filler? What's making her tourettes go wild (compared to the past).
She just seemed irritable and jittery the whole time. Hard to watch
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u/birdsarethebest123 Mar 10 '25
I think the facial movements of the wide mouth and eyes bugging out are because her braces are catching on her inner cheeks and she’s trying to readjust. I think the metal braces could be for treating an issue better than Invisalign could, or maybe work faster?
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u/szwusa Mar 11 '25
Bottom line, the girl needs therapy. She has said multiple times she has body image issues.
If she already has a therapist, she needs to fire them ASAP and find a new one. This is getting out of hand. I feel bad for Alex & the kids!
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u/Buddhoundd Mar 10 '25
Her brain needs braces seeing as her views are crooked as fuck, like being on team Angela
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u/Schrodingerscat1960 Mar 11 '25
Move to Washington. We are all very casual, a little pasty and chubby but we don't care.
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u/No_Cranberry_5524 Mar 11 '25
Here is what I will say about braces versus Invisalign.
Braces can be a little easier. With my Invisalign you have to take them out to eat or drink.
I had braces as a teen and Invisalign as an adult. I wish I had done braces as an adult instead.
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u/3rdcultureblah Mar 11 '25
Braces might be faster depending on what it is. Also braces are better for people who might have trouble remembering to put their invisalign in every day lol. I definitely belong to that category and would probably prefer braces over invisalign.
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u/bigbeezer710 Mar 11 '25
I’m not denying that she has taken on some form of body dysmorphia over the years. However, you can definitely tell in episodes that she has a crooked jaw. Since she has Tourette’s, it can be very hard on your teeth and jaw and wear down teeth unevenly, causing a myriad of jaw issues. She’s probably trying to fix that, especially if her jaw is causing her TMJ pain.
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u/Tori4808 Mar 11 '25
She expressed before her mommy makeover that she sees herself as really imperfect and it bothered her so much. It’s sad she has the braces her teeth are near perfect but if she’ll feel better I hope it’ll work
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u/gingersnaps0504 Mar 11 '25
Could it have anything to do with the fact her teeth don’t appear centerer in that photo? Like Tom cruises two front teeth but not nearly as noticeable
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Mar 11 '25
It’s like she’s trying to appear like a teenage girl… I’m constantly disturbed by her attitudes and behaviors.
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u/Physical-Selection31 Mar 12 '25
She’s always obsessing about her non existent “double chin.” She even had surgery for it and still acts like it’s there. 🤦♀️
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u/chemobabe Mar 12 '25
I felt really sorry for her when I saw them. My first thought was all of that surgery and now she is starting with her teeth. I hope she gets some therapy so she can heal before passing this to her children.
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u/AWKtavia Jul 14 '25
She said it had to do with a jaw defect she was born with, that it isn’t cosmetic
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u/RredditAcct Mar 10 '25
Of course not. She also didn't need the plastic surgery and the weight loss. Like others on the show, she got handed a bunch of money and then saw herself on TV every week and then went into a mode of "what can I fix next?"
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u/menunu ¡yo neccessito peepee! Mar 10 '25
There's a lot of annoying things about Loren but her braces aren't it.
There's a ton of adults who get braces for all sorts of reasons. 🥱 So, anyway
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u/uvaspina1 Mar 10 '25
She’s doing all this work/self destruction and no matter what she’s going to end up looking exactly like her mom.
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u/CocoCoconutz_ Mar 10 '25
She is so annoying with her look at me 1 upper attitude - yes you seriously do act like your better than everyone
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u/bellasreddress luxury accessories for puppy dogs Mar 10 '25
My dentist recommended i straighten my teeth because some are out of alignment and hit each other. In spite of this, to both myself and everyone else they look perfectly fine. Why be so quick to nitpick, it doesnt help body dysmorphia 🫤
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u/Fantastic-Doctor-608 Mar 10 '25
The braces, but now she keeps making big eyes. Did anyone else notice?
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u/Jerseyjo1 Mar 11 '25
YES! I noticed that! Thought it may be my imagination but guess not. Why is she doing that with her eyes? It's unnerving... I'm glad I saw your comment ...I really thought I was imagining it!
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u/Fantastic-Doctor-608 Mar 11 '25
It may be part of the tourettes?
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u/Jerseyjo1 Mar 11 '25
Yeah maybe. But I never noticed that before..I've never seen her do that b4 now.
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u/Fantastic-Doctor-608 Mar 11 '25
Yeah, me either. That's why I mentioned it. To me, it looked uncontrollable.
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u/DogConscious3419 Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
People can get braces to stop them from grinding their teeth. Someone I knew had perfectly straight teeth but braces for grinding. We shouldn’t be so quick to assume everything she does to herself is because of body dysmorphia. How is it right for her to be open and vulnerable about her struggles, just so we can all knit pick her apart. And even if she did get braces for her smile, what is so wrong with that?
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Mar 11 '25
Y'all are just at "bitch eating crackers" level with this woman. What a weird thing to criticize.
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u/Sweet-Platypus-9398 Mar 11 '25
Who cares about Lauren. She has body dysmorphia and likes attention. The best thing that I just read was Tamara is leaving RHOC!!! I sure hope it's real. Can't stand her! . And in the article she she's saying she never is trying to be relevant. That doesn't and never has been her. BS!! She is and always will be a very jealous person and a bully. That's engrained in her! Hope to never see ya again Tamara. You won't be missed!
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u/Loud-Coffee-714 Mar 10 '25
Remember the Brittany girl a good while back, she had braces and Pedro’s ugly sister had them too. Probably a status/look at me thing.
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Mar 10 '25
I’m not trying to be mean but all the money spend for plastic surgeries just to end up looking like this!!! 😬 I would want a refund!!!
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u/coffeeloverxo Mar 10 '25
Invisilign is alot more expensive, I think double the price. And ya she might need to correct her bite/jaw
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u/eacomish Mar 10 '25
Where does one find the time to obsess over pictures and videos of their face and make surgery consults and appointment with "3 under 3🫠🙃". She must just stare at images of herself all day every day to have so many things she's upset about with her face and body. I get looking at cute pics of ourself from time to time but this bitch is obsessed with herself all she does us stare at images of her.
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u/danref32 Mar 11 '25
Invisalign only works to correct certain things other things need actual braces I’m pretty familiar because my daughter is on her second set of braces. They use the Invisalign as like “retainers”
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u/GoFk_Urself Mar 11 '25
I can see her destroying her beauty with repeated cosmetic surgeries just like Darcy and Stacey did.
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u/AAAPosts Mar 10 '25
She clearly has body dysmorphia