CONFESSIONS
6“ I’ d been dating this Brazilian guy, and I really wanted to impress him and his family. He put me on FaceTime with his mom, and I’ d practiced saying,‘ Thank you for raising an amazing man— I’ m the happiest woman in the world.’ I royally screwed it up and wound up saying,‘ I’ m a happy yellow planet’ in Portuguese. She must have thought I was a total nut.”
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— LEAH S., 19, STUDENT, JACKSONVILLE, FL
“ There was this beautiful guy in one of my classes— I had a crush from the moment I saw him at Welcome Week. I’ d sit across from him and stare, and I even told my mom about him. Finally, I saw him outside our classroom building and decided to take the opportunity to talk to him and ask about our professor’ s assignment. I was wearing ripped jeans, and the rip was up high, near my crotch. He was way ahead of me, so I had to run after him, and as I was calling his name, the rip in my jeans got caught on a piece of scaffolding. It ripped up sideways, completely exposing my underwear— and it cut up my skin so I was bleeding. He glanced back, said‘ Oof,’ and kept walking. I was mortified.”
— HALEY S., 20
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“ My husband’ s BFF stayed over at our place one night. In the morning, we heard the front door slam, so we assumed his best friend had left. Since he was gone, we proceeded to have super-loud sex— with lots of dirty talk. When I went downstairs after, he was standing there, looking very awkward. Turned out, he’ d only stepped outside to check the weather, and the door blew shut when he came back in. Apparently, he’ d heard everything!”
— KARLA L., 30
CELEB CONFESSION
9“ During my senior year of high school, I begged this girl I was crushing on to come watch my basketball practice. Afterward, we were talking, and one of my teammates ran over and pulled my pants down. I was butt naked. He definitely knew that it would be easy to pants me and expose everything, since I had just showered and put on shorts without boxers, while next to him in the locker room. So, there I was, in the middle of the parking lot, with everything hanging out, swinging in the wind. She yelled,‘ Oh my god!’ I couldn’ t even look at her after that.”
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“ I slept with a guy who ghosted
— JAY ELLIS, INSECURE
me afterward. I put his picture on my Snapchat Story and added the caption,‘ Sleeps with people and then won’ t respond to texts,’ to call him out.”
— JESSICA H., 25
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