Filed Under: Zahara
pitts091406_03baby.jpg We can't help but wonder what's going on with Zahara's lips. Did she just wake up after sleeping on her face? A bad photo angle? Or is it something more serious that we never noticed before? Can any mothers out there explain this? It would NOT be easy to have unattractive lips in a family so famous for their puckers, so let's hope for the best.
Posted by Janet Charlton on September 15, 2006 2:14 PM
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53 Comments

Isn't criticizing the looks of a baby a little low class?

Anonymous


Looks like a fever blister.

ZiKia


Ok now I think you have reached a all time low picking apart a baby.. no class or style. saddddd

Anonymous


How dare you scrutinize an innocent baby's appearance. Shame on you. You are no better than perez hilton making fun of the dead.

Leslie


Well. Since you tell us to tell you what we think, here goes. She is African, and has lips that are well, African. To me, your observation seems insensitive and racist. To call full lips, which are commonly associated with Africans and African Americans, "unattractive," well, I find that unattractive. Open your mind.

Wendy


Wow...that's pretty low, isn't there any good news to day you have to bag on a toddler...you must be proud of yourself...

Anonymous


Why is everyone having a collective heart attack about this. There does, in fact, seem to be some sort of blister above her upper lip--it's not just that she has "full" lips, there's something ABOVE the lip, like a blister or sore. This isn't racism, it's just curiosity.

chill out, people


leave little zahara alone. hasn't she suffered enough!

Anonymous


What a bunch of pearl clutchers!

It's obvious that there is something wrong with her lip.
Fever blister sounds right.

Anonymous


Leave poor Janet alone. Actually when I saw the pictures earlier this week, I was thinking the same thing. Fever blisters was my guess.

Anonymous


you are treading thin ice with the comments about a child's appearence.


Anonymous


You're the racist one Wendy,if you think that African lips look like that. Her lip looks strange in that photo. What's derogatory about that?
Should we close our eyes and pretend we don't see it because she's St. Angelina's child?
Lighten up!

Pebbles


No!
Children!!
Decorum is important.
Tact!!

Pat


Well, since you took that from another site that had scanned the magazine you would know the picture is distorted because of the orginal scanned version.

There isn't anything wrong with her lips.

Annon26


her lips DO looked jacked up.

get over your "P.C." bull crap and get real.

it's almost 2007 people.

I'm mixed, and I agree w/Janet.

-

Hey Janet, please visit a new hair stylist and have your hair color corrected.

You look great for your age, but the color is cartoon-ish.

the streets of hollywood.


Janet. Take that advice from the streets of Hollywood post. You're too pretty to have that 1990s haircolor. Do domething new.

Anonymous


"Yawn"

yet you posted

Anonymous


I just think shesneeds a lil chapstick :)shes adorable

Kasey


It does appear that there is something strange there...however I thought the same thing about the photos of Shiloh in the people magazine when they first came out. It looked as if she almost had a cleft pallet. Weird coincidence.

me


I stand by my original opinion. I am sticking up for the kid, not her mom. I am not into people who date married people. Messed up. But I don't really care, either, about that. None of my business. But calling a baby unattractive is just mean.

Wendy


noone is calling her unattractive. The baby is beautiful. And noone is making fun of her. That is not the point. The point was that something does not look right. Not "man that kid has a big nose" it is that her little lips appear to have something wrong.

Anonymous


what has this poor innocent black child ever done to anyone. Leave her alone. Picking on people because of their lips, or skin color, or hair color is cruel, mean and very tasteless.

frenchie


frenchie

It's a fever blister..

take your pills

Anonymous


I actually looks more like scab from a fall, maybe fell and bottom teeth cut lip. It has happened to my children.

Jenny


It actually looks more like a scab from a fall, maybe fell and bottom teeth cut lip. It has happened to my children.

Jenny


My guess is same as Jenny's: it's a boo boo! Maybe Maddox pushed her down?

Vee in the Dee


It's irrelevant whether its a blister or an injury. There are a lot of other things to talk about then a baby's lips.

Seriously.

Mimi


Leave Zahara alone bitch

Anonymous


Like, what, Mimi?
Save us!!
Seriously.

Pat


You're an idiot

Anonymous


why are you so mean to pick on a poor child, what's next a slanted eye joke about maddox?

linda


"Yawn"

yet you posted
September 16, 2006 5:56 AM
Posted by: Anonymous

Yes, I did. Nice of you to notice.

I've been reading Janet's columns for a long time, and I was excited when she got her site. However, I'm really disappointed in where this one is going. It's just not the quality that she's known for.

C'mon, talking about "unattractive lips" on a baby??
Must be running out of gossip in H'wood if that's a highlight.

Anonymous


It's not so much that Janet Charlton was making a racist statement, which I don't think she was, but that she's posting about a friggin child. Come on!
Yeah she may have a blister, so?

We don't see you posting about your yeast infection do we?

Come on Janet, there must be something more newsworthy than the blister of a minor.


Sarah


Hey Janet bet you didn't know there were so many moms on here huh?

a mom


Janet, I think the photog did some photoshop on her lips because on their earlier candid photos from New Orleans Zahara's lip are normal.

I don't think it's racist because I thought the same thing and I'm Black. I just think something is off with her lips and I think it's the photograph.

Anonymous


Hey Pat,

Like what? Read the papers lately or watched the news?

Consider yourself saved.

Mimi


The photowas not photo shopped.
Here's a link to a larger photo.Those of you who are offended need not take a look.

http://www.celebitchy.com/index.php/archives/2006/09/freshly_scanned_pictures_of_brangelina_and_family_in_germanys_gala.html/3/

Pebbles


it's a cold sore (herpes). it can appear anywhere on the face (so it's possible that it's not only on the lip but also above it).

Anonymous


It's either a cold sore or more probably it looks like the poor tot's been wiping her runny nose too much and has a little rash under her nose- something quite common.

Anonymous


janet I loved your column in star magazine for years and years. it was fun and refreshing and loaded with juicy gossip. why are you sinking so low with posts like this. I liked your old column better.

Anonymous


Missed my point Mimi.
So seriously! lol

Pat


No one can save anyone Mimi!
I'm on your side, but too vague i suppose.
Janet's just fishing for fat, stupid trout with this stinky bait. Most trout don't see it, some give it a sniff and keep going, some bite, some bite down so hard they swallow it. That's the fat trout she's after!
The story here is...there is no story. And the bait is very distasteful!
But Janet's a good fisherman and knows how to catch a fish, she needs to eat too.
My point is OUR KIDS ARE OFF LIMITS. it's unethical diversion, even for mindless gossip!
Do you swallow Mimi?!

Pat


She has a snotty nose. Big Deal. haven't your heard the saying 'pick on someone your own size' or is that just an Aussie way of life?
Like really, picking on a baby!! tut tut!

Anonymous


Maybe she uses a pacifier frequently and her upper lip is a little chapped. It happens a lot.

Anonymous


Maybe you should stop criticizing baby lips and focus more on those haggy old lady hands that you keep hidden with gloves. You're not fooling anyone.

Anonymous


I saw the same pic in a lot of magazines, Zahara's lips are OK! Nothing's wrong with them. Its just this photo is very blury. Get the better picture, Janet!!!

iii


Can't figure you out Pat. You swing both ways.
Do YOU swallow?

Mimi


Your reporting is petty and desperate, and frankly I'm bored. You've lost this reader.

Anonymous


Lots of Babies from 3rd World countries have cleft lips.. That is what it is.. it looks like a light case of it. they have Corrective Surgery that helps.

Donna


Inspired response Mimi!
Captain Pat. Leader of the Shit Disturbers Brigade.
Just like picking fights with the righteous. They squirm the most.
All in a days loafing...

Pat


i thought it was a cleft lip too, a friend of mine is a speech pathologist-when we were in undergrad, we saw pictures of cleft palates all the time. oh, and janet is not poking fun or ridiculing the beautiful little girl, she was just asking. quit being so sensitive.

Anonymous


IT IS NOT A CLEFT PALLET! I HAVE ONE.. IT IS A SORE OR SOMETHING... GOD... PEOPLE WHO CANT GET THE FACTS RIGHT ARE JUST STUPID! SHE IS A BEAUTIFUL BABY AND OF COURSE SHE IS GOING TO HAVE A FEW BOO BOO'S IN HER LIFE TIME :)

Anonymous


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