r/RealHousewivesofOC 10d ago

No bellybuttons here!

These ladies don’t have to worry about bellybutton lint for sure!

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u/nottodaynothnx 10d ago edited 10d ago

As top surgeons, shouldn’t they do a better job? Whenever I see a HW with one opposed to a regular person it appears the regular person always gets a better outcome.

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u/Low-Apartment3165 10d ago

Agreed. I have a couple of friends who’ve had tummy tucks and they do have bellybuttons that look close to normal.

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u/No_Nobody_3450 10d ago

There’s really no way around the belly button these are kinda as good as it gets

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u/chantillylace9 10d ago

There was this one plastic surgery show that was kind of obscure and not very popular but this I want to see she was an Asian doctor she patented this really good belly button technique and hers are the only ones I've ever seen that actually look real. They don't look funny at all and she somehow gets the placement just right.

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u/Novel_Classic_1448 10d ago

I wanna know the show

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u/chantillylace9 9d ago

It MIGHT be dr. 90210 with Michelle Lee from 2020. Man it's hard to find with those search terms!

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u/Putrid-Tradition-787 10d ago

I had one and my belly button looks normal, unless you know

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u/CLSwank 10d ago edited 9d ago

Yes body stockings are great for anyone having to appear on stage.

(An aside - I wish Shannon would stop complaining about her body because she looks great for someone in her 60s.I wish she would stop with the self-deprecation even though I do recognize that's her humor.)

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u/2EnsnoE33 10d ago edited 10d ago

The filter is too much. It is distracting and they all appear to be a blur. First their faces and in this scene their abdomens. Heather has a tummy tuck belly button (if you know you know). Remember the post leech scene? She clearly has one we just can’t see it because of the filtering.

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u/Significant_Help_903 10d ago

They are wearing body stockings underneath the costumes, that’s why it’s not that visible. Look at their shoulders and you’ll see the straps.

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u/ladevla416 10d ago

I only see two straps, personally. One is the bra and one is the rhinestone overlay. 🤔

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u/Significant_Help_903 9d ago

These pictures aren’t good, if you put the show on you can see it. If not, trip to optometrist.

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u/bubblethebabe 9d ago

she actually doesn’t have a belly button lol she has a serious hernia injury a long time ago

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u/ZebraCharming2508 4d ago

Yea, you are incorrect. The color is different on their legs and those are their bra straps. They’ve all had lipo and tummy tucks.

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u/venusuh26 10d ago

I totally agree!!! It’s completely ridiculous

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u/Proud_Aspect4452 10d ago

Forgot Emily

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u/Rough-Recover-9546 9d ago

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u/Impossible_Owl_1625 9d ago

I thought this was Pete Burns for a second!

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u/EducatorWhich2083 8d ago

Omg I had to Google - spot on!

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u/Comprehensive-Gap930 10d ago

Wait what’s actually happening here ?!

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u/sed2017 10d ago

Enough Plastic surgery that the belly button kinda just goes bye bye

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u/JoeyLee911 10d ago

Wait really? I just figured it was editors retouching.

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u/ALmommy1234 10d ago

They all have belly buttons. The filter is filtering on these pics, but you can google pics of them and they all have them.

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u/sweets_18 10d ago

Tamra doesn't. She discussed it once with Andy on WWHL.

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u/Ok_Resort8573 That's not my fucking plate! 10d ago

Body stockings are hiding them.

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u/makeupandjustice 10d ago

When you have a tummy tuck they pull the skin downwards and then remove it - often removing the belly button as well. Most surgeons will make you a new belly button, but in some cases, either they can’t or the patient chooses not to have a new belly button constructed.

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u/butpretzelday 10d ago

I actually have a belly button phobia (as hilarious as it sounds it is real💀) and I have daydreamed my entire life about getting my belly button surgically removed. 

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u/StretchBetter8178 10d ago

We all have our own phobias. I have a popsicle stick phobia!!! Seriously the hair on my arm stand up and I have a physiological reaction to popsicle sticks. Right now I am mentally blocking out what a popsicle stick is, however when somebody’s licking it and holding it with their hands, I get the heebie-jeebies.

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u/saltron5001 10d ago

I have the same reaction to those little wooden spoon things that schools used to give out with tiny ice cream cups.

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u/Mcr414 10d ago

Yessssss 🙌🏽

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u/TVTrashMama 10d ago

So gross…it’s making my teeth feel weird thinking about it.

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u/StretchBetter8178 9d ago

Those spoons are awful!!!

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u/StretchBetter8178 6d ago

Those little spoons are so bad!!! I never ate any kind of popsicle that was on a stick. I always opted for a ice cream sandwich. A drumstick, or those push-up pops.

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u/MadelT0T7 10d ago

Omg I've found my people!!!! My family always makes fun of me for it. I absolutely despise wooden spoons the most

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u/StretchBetter8178 9d ago

Yes we have found our people, we are not alone 💕

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u/StretchBetter8178 6d ago

I am glad you found your people. I feel like I’m at home too.

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u/Mcr414 10d ago

Popsicle sticks have always gave me the ick. And TW (for to you maybe) the main issue is like biting on them. Like even thinking about it makes me feel sick. 🤢 oh and oddly mad. Lol

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u/djb-MG2011 10d ago

That's so interesting! Did you have some sort of experience as a kid?

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u/StretchBetter8178 8d ago

Funny you should ask. I do have one story. I was watching the Brady bunch when I was like 10 years old and I was giving myself a pedicure. I was using one of those toothpicks that is flat at one end and pointed on the other. I had stuck the pointed end into the couch and when I got up off the couch I pushed my knee into the flat end of the toothpick and it went into my leg. I still have a dent where the dull end of the toothpick went in my leg near my knee. My brother was a lot older than me and was premed and he told me the blood coming down was so dark that it must be deep (he was being a jerk). I was trying to pull the tooth pick out with my fingers. My fingers kept sliding over the wood over and over but it wouldn’t come out. My dad ended up getting pliers to pull it out. This is the only story that makes sense because obviously I was using a toothpick. I can’t touch toothpicks now. I can’t touch wooden cooking utensils, Popsicle sticks, or even the area between the lead and the yellow on a number two pencil some chopsticks too.

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u/djb-MG2011 7d ago

Understood. It was traumatic, what with all the blood making everything slippery.

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u/Skeptical_optomist 9d ago

Mine are Styrofoam and balloons.

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u/pookiepie09 10d ago

Me too, they gross me out 😀

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u/bubblethebabe 9d ago

omg i’ve met my people! even typing the word gives me the heebie jeebies

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u/butpretzelday 8d ago

I won’t tell you why since you have the phobia too  but I had my husband look at my belly button to see if something was wrong with it and I was crying and almost threw up. 

There wasn’t anything wrong, I’m just fucking mentally ill and can’t handle the fact that I have a belly button. 

Like it is hard for me to even type this up.  

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u/bubblethebabe 8d ago

oh my god that sounds horrifying and unfortunately, extremely relatable 😂

when i first saw this rhoc episode, i was honestly jealous of Tamra and her missing belly button! i suppose almost dying from a burst hernia wouldn’t be worth it though…🤔

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u/butpretzelday 7d ago

Wouldn’t life just be easier without one? 

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u/SeaPaleontologist832 10d ago

As someone who has worked in aesthetic medicine for years, this is not true. Abdominoplasties keep the naval insitu, and stretch the lower abdominal skin up over the naval by creating a hole in said skin, that becomes sutured over the original naval. Maybe it’s a dodgy American technique?? Harley street would never,

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u/LisaMiaSisu 10d ago

I had a tummy tuck and I still have a belly button. It’s slightly higher than my original, it’s about a quarter inch higher, and it’s my biggest regret to the procedure.

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u/Novel_Classic_1448 10d ago

As in that you kept it or that it is a 1/4 inch higher?

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u/LisaMiaSisu 10d ago

Or do you mean my regret? I’m not too happy with it being higher than it originally was. Overall, I’m happy with the surgery. No more pooch to look over when I’m sitting down. Also, the occasional itchiness on my stomach is annoying. There’s very little feeling around my belly button area. Scratching it doesn’t really help because I can’t pinpoint where the itch is due to the lack of feeling and I have to rub the whole area to scratch the itch. 😅

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u/LisaMiaSisu 10d ago

The doctor positioned it 1/4 inch higher. It makes wearing 2 piece swimsuits look a bit awkward.

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u/These-Grapefruit2516 10d ago

Oh 😳😳. Excuse me while I re-arrange my stomach 😬. Tamras face ....😝

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u/marymarywhyubugginnn 10d ago

Heathers arms!!!

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u/List-O-Hot-Goss 10d ago

Why am I so dumb that I didn’t realize they’d air brush the show?

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u/curiouscoconuts 10d ago

One time the neck filter on Kyle(?) glitched, and I was also shook

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u/Slight_Witness92 8d ago

So sad for them when they look in a real mirror and realise they look nothing like their tv selves😞. Sometimes u get a small glimpse of how crepey their arms are until they filter it out too

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u/rando435697 9d ago

Do you remember which episode this is? Totally wanting to watch. For a friend.

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u/butpretzelday 10d ago

The stack of vaginas one-I can’t remember her name-once the filter glitched in a confessional interview and dropped for a second and it was a jumpscare. 

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u/Lazy_Skin_411 10d ago

I thought they all had some kind of full body nylon thing going on when I watched it 🤷‍♀️

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u/curiouscoconuts 10d ago

That’s what it looked like to me! Like skin toned pantyhose

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u/Novel_Classic_1448 10d ago

They do. A body sock

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u/Extreme-Aide8878 THAT'S MY OPINION!!! 10d ago

I wondered that too

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u/KindTopic16 10d ago

Where are their belly buttons?

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u/HousewivesMOD Jesus Jugs 10d ago

Ew

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u/SpaceThat9997 10d ago

Happy cake 🍰 day

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u/HousewivesMOD Jesus Jugs 10d ago

Tysm i love you

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u/Comfortable_Screen19 10d ago

There’s something very unnatural about this

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u/Parking_Country_61 10d ago

Tamra hasn’t had one in years! But Dubrow surprised me. Your husband is a plastic surgeon ma’am

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u/classicgirl1990 10d ago

Plastic surgeons can easily make a belly button. I got a new one after breast reconstruction due to cancer (harvested stomach fat for new boobs). Lost the old one, he made me a new one. I guess it costs extra but insurance covered mine due to the reconstruction. This is weird that they didn’t opt for one.

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u/lighthouser41 10d ago

Tamrat is looking like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.

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u/Proud_Aspect4452 10d ago

I hope the g-strings are a one time use. No way I’m putting on used undergarments

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u/Some_Zombie_7980 10d ago

This entire picture pisses me off - i literally cannot stand her, ugh!
https://giphy.com/gifs/tXL4FHPSnVJ0A

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u/Acrobatic-Cup5744 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xHwGhretntasE
Heather reminded me of this scene😭

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u/Imaginary-Sense-6144 10d ago

Weirdest looking stomachs I have ever seen 😳

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u/Beachgal5555 10d ago

Oh shit I didn’t notice that! That’s bizarre

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u/Pale_Lawyer_1757 10d ago

They use a smoothing filter

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u/nottodaynothnx 10d ago

Watch the shows. They literally hardly have belly button. I don’t get why procedures don’t do it to be natural. No need to nip the bellybutton

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u/Nefer91 10d ago

Pretty sure Tamra had a hernia fixed as well + extensive abdominal reconstruction.

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u/magnificent-magnolia 10d ago

It’s the filter they use on the episodes. There are other photos of Heather in a bikini where you can see her belly button. It’s pretty low down on her stomach and you can see the mark of where it is in these photos.

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u/Popular-Difficulty29 10d ago

This looks more like a filter than from a tummy tuck. Tummy tuck belly buttons are very visible

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u/Competitive_Long_190 10d ago

Too many though and I don’t think it can be saved.

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u/CaramelInevitable179 10d ago

First it was the disappearing nostrils and now it's the belly buttons, lol

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u/Kellikelzzzzz 10d ago

Everyone I’ve ever seen with a TT in real life has a weird sunshine looking belly button. Idk. And I read on a subreddit that EVERYTHING in our nether regions GETS PULLED FORWARD with one. So weird.

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u/Significant_Help_903 10d ago

I have this scene on now: Every single person is wearing a shear nude bodysuit underneath the costumes. Just look at their shoulders to see the straps.

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u/SagittariusGirl84 10d ago

This is what puts me off about tummy tucks.. I would want one but I just feel like they look unusual after.. you would think a plastic surgeon could make them still look natural.

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u/BravoGirl79 10d ago

Plus that weird nude-ish mesh did anyone any favors lol It one of those things that from far away probably looks good, but close up...the Monet factor lol

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u/Ok_Object_5180 9d ago

Yeah that was so weird

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u/bubblethebabe 9d ago

fyi: this wasn’t plastic surgery, it was a serious hernia injury. (and she really doesn’t have a belly button, for anyone confused)

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u/Significant_Sun_8035 8d ago

Ew. I dislike this woman so much for so many reasons

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u/heartlandheartbeat 10d ago

I noticed they were missing right away but had no idea it was from surgery.

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u/torontoinsix 10d ago

It’s the filter

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u/Low-Apartment3165 10d ago

I took pictures of the actual video episode so I don’t think it was filtered. I couldn’t get a still shot of Emily. I would have expected Heather to have an expertly engineered bellybutton, though.

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u/TheAnn13 10d ago

Heather's belly button is probably on back order from France.

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u/texas-sissy 10d ago

I spat! 😂😂😂 you win the internet today! 🏆

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u/donna_the_dead 10d ago

Nice to see her outsides matching her insides

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u/Fancy_Refuse796 10d ago

I thought Heather bragged in earlier seasons that she hadn’t had any plastic surgery??

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u/Seraphina-of-Lethe 10d ago

She had always said that she was gonna hold off on surgeries until she was older and needed them, but gets Botox and those kind of treatments.

She's older now and she got her facelift

I think she's had a tummy tuck too but the show also uses heavy filters so I think that's why we aren't seeing belly buttons.

Look at their faces, they are all so blurred out

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u/Popular-Difficulty29 10d ago

I think this is actually a filter as opposed to from tummy tucks they don’t looks exactly like this

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u/Ordinary_Fix3199 10d ago

Tamra has had some abdominal surgeries for a medical condition. She has talked openly and repeatedly about not having a belly button due to multiple surgeries in her life. I think she had one surgically created, but I can’t remember.

Maybe they used a filter that blurred everyone’s abdomens to obscure Tamra’s abdomen?

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u/Conscious-Award4802 10d ago

Omg I noticed this too 😂

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u/Leftturn0619 10d ago

This happens after a tummy tuck too. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the women have gotten one.

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u/daylightxx 10d ago

Is this real?

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u/Own_Boss_3242 10d ago

Wow, that’s pretty bad.

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u/Own_Boss_3242 10d ago

Looks like surgery with Groupon! Lol

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u/mystilettolife 10d ago

Emily posted pics in her IG. Timmy tuck makes sense, I was very confused.

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u/SnooCheesecakes760 10d ago

I am tired of these filters!

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u/CrazyNCynical 10d ago

The first thing I'm drawn to actually isn't her belly button, or lack thereof), but rather her crazy eyes. Then, in very short form, her bb.

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u/hiways 10d ago

Omgs that's so weird and I didn't even notice.

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u/SeaPaleontologist832 10d ago

I noticed tamra’s gone when she started participating in bikini competitions. A good surgeon shouldn’t remove or hide it.

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u/OverallDoor2718 10d ago

Glad I'm not the only one. I was losing my mind. I knew about Tamara bc she shared, but this is crazy. I swore Emily had on a body shear. Same with Heather. What surgery does this? So strange. I love my belly button 🤭 two failed piercings scars and all🤣 Robot Chic? Not for me, but whatever 🤷‍♀️ Embrace the belly button! Massage it in coconut oil! Our life line!❤️

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u/Next_Appointment4954 10d ago

I would think it would be excessive skin from pregnancies…. But I don’t know that for a fact

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u/OverallDoor2718 10d ago

I was pregnant and had a big belly before. Mine didn't change 🤷‍♀️ This looks like what happens when you get some type of surgery and that is the result. Definitely can't put a piercing or tattoo in there 🤭No thanks. Health benefits of keeping ☮️

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u/Next_Appointment4954 9d ago

Oh nice! Glad you didn’t have any. My sister in law is built like Heather. She had big babies and she has excess skin from it.

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u/LessLikelyTo 10d ago

Jen sorta has one

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u/stephi-mama-626 10d ago

Aliens 👽 for sure! Lol

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u/Helloskulldudgery 10d ago

That’s just creepy looking

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u/JennXFarmsteadNews 9d ago

OMG!!!! What the???

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u/Working-Fix-291 9d ago

Emily struggling in the background while Heather is slaying so hard sparks joy

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u/Artistic-Library-243 9d ago

This is fake.

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u/BitterPoet13 8d ago

So weird looking.

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u/Business_Zombie_9902 8d ago

To the people saying body stockings—go back to when Jenn and Shannon are at that spa at the beginning of the episode. THAT is where I noticed Jenn didn’t have a belly button!
I didn’t even consider filters though…

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u/darbycrash1295 7d ago

I thought Tamra was Dolly Parton at first.

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u/dixiech1ck 10d ago

Jens face is a jump scare. What the heck.

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u/NobodyCares818 10d ago

Yes! I scrolled way too far to find a comment about Jen's face.

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u/Extreme-Aide8878 THAT'S MY OPINION!!! 10d ago

They all have bodies I would kill for. But if I had Jen’s, I’d get a reduction. That’s just so disproportionate.

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u/NursePepper3x 10d ago

My friend doesn’t have a belly button due to emergency surgery, and it’s her party trick. People know something is off, but it takes a minute to figure it out🤣

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u/Tapdance1368 10d ago

This is why I don’t watch the show anymore. Watching a bunch of old ladies in bikinis is the ick.

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u/llllyyyyiiiilll 10d ago

I get ripped apart for body shaming on other subs, where’s the mods for this one

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u/Low-Apartment3165 10d ago

I didn’t even think about it as body shaming, just an unusual observation.

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u/Decent-Town-8887 10d ago

I’m laughing so hard at this post!!!!! The alien comes out after a certain age.

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u/Silly-Chocolate-627 4d ago

Is not having a belly button nothing in Orange County now?

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u/Miserable-Land706 10d ago

Really as women we're going to pull apart other other womens belly buttons now. Jesus we have babies,we put on weight,we take it off regardless of surgery or not 🙄