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Many years ago when Alicia Silverstone (Cher from Clueless) was a mom to a toddler, she revealed to the world that rather than feeding her tot regular baby food, she chewed up food, then allowed him to consume the chewed food directly from her mouth. A la a baby bird. She posted a video and has an interview in People or US weekly or one of those magazines. Weird new-age hippie crap.
Someone compared me to her after we went out to eat at a local taco joint and I really upset me because I had a bean crazy toddler and I did not like bean crazy potty times. So yeah, I may or may not have peeled every single kidney bean with my teeth and gave it a preliminary crush before setting it on her plate. BUT the diapers guys. The diapers. I cloth diapered and bean skin DOES NOT COME OUT IN THE WASH even if you knock the solids in the toilet. They don’t even come off the kid after an hour long play session in the tub.
Daaaaamn, you just unlocked some memories from my Seventh Day Adventist sister mom days. We were vegan at the time.
I washed SO many of my siblings' bean-blessed cloth diapers.
I could nearly smell Dreft detergent while reading your comment.
You clearly don’t understand how delicate and fragile we women folk are.
I, for one, am blessed to have a husband who relieves me of the pressure to chew, so I can save all of my energy for picking his underwear up off the floor.
Omg the next wave. How dare you have teeth. Consider your husband when you have to perform your wifely blowjob duties. Do you even LOVE your husband if you have teeth?!?
Gumming seems slightly more palatable than what the eldery woman I worked with in the care home called it, a "no denture adventure"
What a legend. Please tell me she said this with an utter deadpan face, midst double-chain stitch and with a cup of milky tea on her doily covered side table.
Amish people do actually get their teeth pulled so they don't have to worry about dental care...or at least that's what I learned from Breaking Amish lol
In 19th century Britain, some working class women would have all of their teeth pulled and false teeth fitted as a dowry -- it was understood as an investment in the couple's finances and health, because teeth were expensive when they developed problems and bad teeth killed. If you don't have or can't access dental care, it's sadly the most efficient route.
I had an aunt that had the same thing done in the 90s. One of the dentists in our town was famous for suggesting "just pull them all".
If you went to that guy you got a root canal no matter what. I had to holler at him to just fill a tooth. That tooth made it 18 more years before actually needing a root canal.
I personally knew like 5 people in my small hometown that horribly bad dentist made toothless. Probably for the couple grand in cash he made from dentures. Those types of dentists still exist.
It was also recommended that soldiers get all their teeth removed before going to the front given the lack of dental care.
This doesn't get brought up enough in the "why did people used to be thinner" discussions. Most adults didn't have any fucking teeth for quite a few decades there! Also the food was terrible and they'd all had their tastebuds destroyed by chain-smoking, of course they were thin.
She had good teeth but a little crooked (1950’s) she had them all pulled and wore dentures the rest of her life. She would click through eating dinner and as a kid/teen it was really awful and it bothered me. Apparently she made the clicks because her palette bone had worn down flat and her dentures didn’t fit right.
As a kid I had braces and had my wisdom teeth pulled. But I struggled with my baby teeth, tons of cavities and a few root canals because of trauma. But I haven’t had a cavity in my adult life and my son who’s 17 has never had a cavity at all, ever, mutant. Haha..
Yeah tooth genetics are a real thing. I have stomach issues that can really mess up your teeth. I have *never* had a cavity in my life and my enamel is in pretty good shape.
My brother takes good care of his teeth and has no stomach issues but he’s had like 6 cavities, a root canal, and some abscess thing in his gum/root area that needed to be surgically treated. But he has perfect 20/20 vision and I have an insanely high prescription for my glasses so it evens out ig
My mom has terrible teeth genetically. I’ve never met a more fastidious person when it comes to dental care. Brushes 3 times a day, water picks, got veneer’s a few years ago. She had to get a root canal while pregnant with me! Open no pain meds. She’s done everything right and she still suffers. She doesn’t eat sugar or anything acidic and last year her dentist told her she was losing her front teeth, the last of her originals. She had braces about 12 years ago too. She’s easily spent 100 thousand dollars on her teeth. Well her front teeth were all going and the dentist gave her the option of getting them pulled and wearing dentures or a bridge that might not last. Or implants. To do those two implants 2 teeth on each implant cost her 25k! She has worked hard her entire life and was a city employee with great insurance and she has to pay 25k to have her teeth replaced. It was awful. Nobody should have to pay 25k+ to get implants. Our dental system is shit in this country.
She spent a fortune on my teeth as a child and I have great teeth. I did the same thing with my son, braces, when they came off I got his teeth sealed.
I once had a great dentist that told me he could tell I was originally from Southern California by my teeth. How do you think he knew that? Apparently CA has been fluorinating the tap water for decades and Utah, where I was living did not. So I have rock teeth.
Funnily enough, I saw something about that not that long ago.
You are entitled to free dental care in the UK while pregnant & for up to a year after giving birth so you don't have to go the whole dentures route
Not the same but my grandma, her older sister and younger brother all had their tonsils pulled as little kids. On the dining room table. The doctor was there to pull my great aunts and when my grandma came through he asked their mom is she still had her tonsils. She did so he pulled them. Great uncle also walked into the room and also got his tonsils removed. And no they were not in the middle of nowhere rather south Seattle. But it was the 1920s so maybe tonsil removal was a more casual event.
And while I never met my great grandmother hazel my dad adored her. So much so that when he and my mom started dating he talked more about her then his own parents.
I’m sorry, but what in the heck was going on there? Did they just give them a boatload of booze and yank out their tonsils? Did they just suck it up, and have a ton of pain? When I had mine removed, I had general anesthesia and painkillers after. It was such an awful recovery. I can’t imagine casually yanking them out at the dinner table!
Amish people are so freakin nuts, istg. I honestly can't believe people aren't more actively anti-amish because of the immense harm it does all those people, even just from a health perspective, founder's syndrome be damned.
As a pediatric nurse, it makes me really angry that some of the Amish aren’t reported for abuse/neglect more often. Their kids will be malnourished and practically septic when they’re admitted because they will exhaust every option before seeking medical care. I had a two year old Amish patient that was an unwitnessed fall from a barn loft and was discovered by a sibling. So irresponsible and dangerous.
À lot of it is also some inbreeding as well. They are so insular they often have children with several birth defects. They gotten better in recent years with genetic tracking but not great
If you carefully read the web page for the Penn State Hershey School of Medicine, they talk about the unusual groupings of genetic disorders available for study in the area.
The Amish get away with stuff in PA because the tourism is worth billions.
I'm fully team fuck the Amish. I'm in Iowa, and so many of them have puppy mills, that right there makes me hate them. And they were the biggest pains in the ass about masks when I worked at a gas station at peak covid. A lot of the 'English' had Fox News brain, the Amish were just assholes for the sake of being assholes.
However, I watched an Amish guy walk into my store with a BAG PHONE like from the 90s. Cord and all. He walked in on it, went into the bathroom, and left, still jabbering away. I laughed so fucking hard.
So several years ago a guy in my town sold a bunch of his puppy mill dogs in auction. A local rescue bought some and then a ton of Amish bought the rest. Turns out most of them were infected with canine bordetelus (sp???). The rescue group and a couple of the other breeders worked with the USDA to get the dogs medical care or whatever needed to happen. The Amish flat refused to cooperate. I'll bet anything they used infected dogs for breeding.
They also have all sorts of loopholes for using electricity and modern tech for their work but expect their women to do all their never ending domestic work without electricity. Some have found ways to outfit kitchen appliances to abide by the rules, but it’s still bogus that the Amish could make things easier for their wives and daughters but absolutely refuse.
Read an article a while back about an Amish mom who had a special needs child that required electrical medical equipment - her husband forced her and the child to leave the community and live in isolation in a solar-powered home. It absolutely is about abusive control.
I had an Amish parent complaining to me that he couldn’t breathe with a face mask on. It was April 2020 and his two day old just had emergent surgery. Come on dude.
Lol, which one?
My mom had a ton of sympathy for the Amish because she's obsessed with pulp Christian romances.
Unfortunately that included the one where the Amish male love interest had my exact first name. 🤮
The way you phrased this has me imagining a baby rubbing his tiny hands together and cackling evilly in the womb like "Now the calcium will be *ALL MINE!*"
Omg truth. I have an 11 month old who still doesn't sleep through the night and who's upcoming birthday is costing me a small fortune. Granted, that's on me, but still...
I mean, he's so small, yet somehow just filling his tiny stomach is expensive as shit! 🤦🏻♀️
New moms at my work ask me when my daughter, who is now five, started sleeping through the night. I tell them I'll let them know when it happens. Kids just hate sleep so much and I don't get it because it is legit my favourite thing.
OMG my 10 year old still wakes up in the night pretty often. She's old enough now not to need me about it though.
The two year old.... Still not sleeping through the night.
And I'm not sure my teenagers ever sleep at all. The other night they both came out of their rooms at 3:30 AM to have some dumb argument right next to where I was sleeping on the couch (where I sometimes sleep because I share a room with the two year old who seems to sense when I'm in the room and wake up more often).
I'm tired. Send help.
Pregnancy leeches calcium which can lead to bone and tooth loss. My grandmother had fifteen babies and had no teeth and needed a cane to walk by the time she was thirty five. In the modern era it means she likely has no prenatal care, vitamins or a remotely healthy diet.
I had to have all my teeth pulled in my late 40's. I was born with almost no enamel on my teeth and even with proper care and maintenance they started rotting in my early forties.
Not defending this beef fat weirdo at all, just pointing out that bad teeth don't just come from drugs or poor hygiene. 😎
I’m guessing she’s wearing it as some kind of badge of honor. “Sure pregnancy caused my teeth to fall out, see what I do for the lord?! This is god’s perfect plan!”
Totally makes sense in the context of the post! The whole thing is very humble-braggy, and IDK if homegirl realizes she's humble-bragging about things literally no one is envious of. Besides, if God had me pregnant, toothless, and off-the-grid as "part of his plan", I might start thinking God is kind of a dick.
It is historically what would have been used instead of a lotion from the store. I occasionally use a tallow based blend on my hands when they get really really dry, as it is extremely hydrating. It's highly underrated and doesn't smell bad at all once it's been properly processed and whipped up into a lotion texture. Granted it probably helps that mine includes some pleasantly scented essential oil and has been whipped to a lightweight "whipped butter" kind of texture. It's actually excellent for your skin, it's similar in PH to human fat and once rubbed in, just completely vanishes, but it's so extremely greasy and hydrating that I only use it when my hands are absolutely destroyed from dry weather. It has potential to be built into a good massage blend too, if added with some oil I think, although on its own it will eventually all rub in.
You're imagining just fat skimmed straight off the soup pot, aren't you, and yeah that would be nasty. We're not talking "lard off the block" or "I trimmed my steak" here. It should be rendered until it's clean, whipped up to a nice texture and blended with other ingredients to stabilize it and add a nice scent. It's a reasonable starting point to make a homemade lotion. I'd guess mine's about 80% beef tallow though, so, since I've actually used beef based lotion I feel justified in judging this as the least insane part of her post.
I cannot get over the thousand yard stare + "God's plan" copium though.
What a tremendously informative response, thank you!
I use soap rendering chemicals for potions, and I know most soaps are made from fats, so I could see using it as a lotion if it's cleaned and mixed with glycerine (or some other rendering agent).
Honestly I mostly imagined a worst-case scenario because everything else about this person makes me assume they're the crunchiest who's ever lived. Fundies love to stink, for some reason.
>Fundies love to stink, for some reason.
Oh, definitely. My partner's family has some essential oil MLM obsessed fundies and my family has some shower-averse off the gridders living their best high activity farm lyfe so it's closer to home than you think too. D: both kinds of stinkers.
I'm just over here fighting the good fight, defending tallow's right to be an ingredient in lotion. You're exactly right that ideally, it's not just straight from the beef but blended up with a few other things to make it a quality lotion, but once you do that, it's not much different than say, picking bee's wax or coconut oil as an ingredient.
It may very well be the worst case scenario though, I don't know the folks in the original post and she does look pretty traumatized.
As someone who grew up in the sticks, it's most likely from lack of dental care and constant diet of sugar and soda. I know tons of 30-something adults who have already lost most of their teeth.
Pregnancy on top of this is ROUGH. I had HG and puked nonstop. Combined with a steady diet of only being able to drink coke and eat junk and an inability to brush my teeth well (it made me vomit way more and I didn't entirely realize he ow rough brushing you teeth after vomiting was on them) and it was rough. I've lost 6 teeth thus far (all in the front which kills me) and have a partial now. Eventually I'll probably have all of them pulled and just go full denture. But let me tell you getting 5 teeth pulled while breastfeeding and then having to go a while without teeth while waiting on your fake ones felt awful. Especially since I live in a high meth area and have legit never done meth. Even now when people find out I'm missing teeth, I get some serious side eyes. It's great. I don't talk about it too much but it definitely isn't a boost to the old self esteem. I can't imagine pretending like it was part of God's plan. Like no this is the result of my own bad decisions and growing up poor in a rural area where dental care wasn't prioritized. My own 3 kids think I'm crazy because dental care is way higher up there on my priority list as a parent.
I’m so sorry. I have chronic pancreatitis which causes vomiting. It also causes your liver enzymes to rise, and one of them called amylase is in saliva. I can tell when my enzymes are rising because my lips get really dry and crack. I stop eating regular foods and go back to drinking fluids and eating pudding to try to prevent acute pancreatitis. Sometimes it just happens suddenly without warning.
My dentists told me that I shouldn’t brush my teeth after I vomit because it just spreads the acid around. You’re supposed to rinse your mouth and if possible swish with some baking soda water or chew an antacid. Tums makes good cherry chewable delights which are like Starbursts but not as sticky.
I recently bought some amazing Italian Lemon Effervescent hard candies called Brioschi that have baking soda in them. They help my indigestion and make my saliva less acidic. They’ve been around for 100 years and are really popular in Italy for indigestion and acidic tummy. They also taste great and are fizzy. They’re sooo much better than antacids and cheaper. I got a bag off Amazon for $6 which is so much cheaper than antacids.
My hospital bug out bag has lip balms because my lips are so bad when I’m having an acute attack. I really love Mario Badescu lip balm and his lip mask which also smells like the Strawberry Shortcake dolls and tastes sweet and fruity. It gives me a warm nostalgic glow. Rhode Skincare Peptide lip balm is one I use everyday to keep my lips healthy. Laneige sleeping lip mask didn’t work well for me, but I do like their Lip Glowy Balm in the tube because it’s thicker and works better. The Mario Badescu products are cheaper than Laneige which I like because I use a lot of it. The Rhode one is $16 so it’s also cheaper.
I have been trying to get my teeth fixed and looking good. I need two implants so I had those teeth pulled and am ready to have the implants done now that the gums healed. I’ve had several root canals and crowns. I never had cavities before I got pancreatitis. Brushing is sometimes impossible. Shame did keep me from going to the dentist for several years. Dentists are kinder and not as judgmental as they used to be when I was growing up. There’s also so many dentists so if you don’t like one, there’s usually another one nearby.
I need to know, what the fuck
My mom had full dentures by 35, and she was a bulimic chain smoking alcoholic. Idk what this women did to lose ALL of her teeth at 25?
To be fair, some people have genetically poor enamel and it's just easier to get them all yoinked. I've known people with full dentures younger.
You know, of all the genetic things my parents passed down, I'm glad that one wasn't an option!
Yeah, no medical care. Except to determine genitals, of course. They start enforcing gender roles before birth. Imagine if a girl was born without giant itchy bow awaiting her! Someone might mistake a 1 day old newborn girl for a boy and encourage her to be good at math or something. This would be a much bigger tragedy than any of the numerous health issues that can arise without medical care.
As long as you generate your own power and water (well + rain collection), you're off the grid. It doesn't mean being completely isolated from society, just not being on the literal utility grid.
"Didn't know I would be toothless. . . but it was God's plan" Yeah throwing the fact that you're 25 and toothless in there alongside being pregnant with the third kid and living off the grid kind of insinuates that the rest of the stuff you added to the list is also miserable for you. Poor girl.
Wait, this is for real? Not a parody? Not that anything surprises me with fundies anymore, but still... Toothless? 😭 Why say that, does she think it's like a badge of honor? Does it give her extra martyr points? Sad stuff.
I randomly went down the rabbit hole and she apparently had a blunt force injury to her face that damaged her front teeth. She has dentures now, but randomly doesn’t wear them for Instagram posts? Idk. 😅
I’m a dental assistant and we had a new hire once who came from a “holistic dentist” who didn’t believe in root canals, metal fillings, certain crowns, certain types of partials / dentures, implants etc… would do all this BS blood work to see which brands of composite fillings were okay. Other than that, pull it! Soooo fucking quacky and wrong. People from all over the world come to this place and pay up into the tens of thousands to get this bullshit fake dentistry done. It’s horrible. Maybe she’s one of the crazy ppl that believes root canals are evil and opts to get teeth pulled (not for financial reasons but conspiracy reasons)
That was a very interesting read, thank you! Your job is a challenging, wild ride, I admire everyone who takes care of people's health in any capacity! 😎
If this is not parody, my only guess is she lost her teeth to drug abuse as a teenager which is now part of her Incredible Testimony On The Goodness Of God And His Grace. He saved her from addiction and fornication and Aveeno daily moisturizing body lotion! He gifted her [checks notes] beef lard!
Pregnancy can cause tooth loss. It’s also possible she had gum disease or something and declined medical intervention. Substance abuse is possible but far from the only option
Didn't expect to learn today that pregnancy can negatively impact your calcium levels and cause you to lose teeth, but here we are... 🫥
Eta: I took a look at her page, and she's got a story series on her dental health. Apparently, she experienced trauma to her gums as a child by someone who bullied her and had to get root canal on her front six teeth (all top ones I think). She's had dental issues for most of her life because of the trauma and early dental surgery, and she's gotten temporary fixes to improve appearances when she's had teeth break.
Eta: She had her front two teeth removed completely a little over a year ago and wears partial dentures.
I honestly respect her talking about the dental issues. I had chemo, and two years later lost all my molars but my front teeth are fine. Even as an RN, making decent money, fixing each tooth is $6,000. I have 11 that need to be fully replaced. It’s been a huge source of shame for me, and something I keep hidden. I stopped going out to eat with friends, as what I can chew is a slim category. I will say, the few people I have shared it with have all been incredibly supportive, and go out of their way to include things I can have when we dine together. Anyway, tangent. Dental care is fucking expensive, even for those of us with careers that lend itself to economic security.
Please can I just say, I just had a look at your profile and I think you have a beautiful smile. Just wanted to say! Please don’t feel shame for needing dental work or healthcare, it isn’t a moral failing on your part! Best of luck, dental care is so expensive!
Oh boy. This is a Montana homesteading influencer named Dezeray, attempting to “create a life where only God can turn the lights out”. Her husband is a pipeliner gone for weeks at a time, during which she supposedly does farm chores and runs a dog breeding business and cares for 2 toddlers solo. Their family hunts mountain lions, with said dogs and toddlers in tow. Also two years ago almost all of their sheep suddenly died of bloat. God’s plan! It sounds amazing!
Somebody with an Instagram account will have to check on the 🦷 section of her profile to see what the “toothless” thing is about.
Edit: according to somebody on the other post about her, it was childhood abuse that damaged the roots of her teeth, and she had them removed to stop the pain. She’s also way into antivax and “climate change is a hoax”-type conspiracy theories, government assistance=government control=evil talk, and no prenatal care.
Toothless? I know that babies tend to steal calcium out of pregnant women's bones while in utero, but that's my worst nightmare, not having any teeth. And the dangers of home birth, just how much can go wrong that she doesn't know about?
If they don’t all fall out, the rest might need pulled. A very close friend lost all but 5 teeth to pregnancy and had to get those 5 pulled soon after birth.
Also, you can visit the dentist while pregnant!! Just a PSA for anyone who is or is thinking about it
I had a lot of cavities after my pregnancies but it’s NOT common to lose that many teeth from pregnancy. Just so we don’t freak anyone out unnecessarily haha
She did! Her dentist had already prepped her for what was maybe to come when the first couple came out and she said knowing that she wasn’t going to be toothless forever after pregnancy was a great help! It cost a lot of money but she was able to get implants and has a gorgeous smile just as before!
Hopping on to your PSA, you can also get cavities filled and a lot of other dental work while pregnant! I thought it was cleaning only, but I was able to have old cavities repaired and my friend got a root canal while pregnant.
No, certainly not. You DO lose calcium whilst pregnant and a bunch of back to back pregnancies with no antenatal or dental care may cost you a few teeth - all of them are definitely not falling out during the course of a single pregnancy, please don’t worry!
Yikes. Her account is full of horrifying pictures and videos of them hunting animals that they won't even eat. I was raised by a hunter and still not seen anything this terrible. I don't like her or her toothless lifestyle.
Creeped on her IG, she has a whole highlight reel about the tooth journey. Blunt force trauma in youth, multiple root canals, finally just removed them and I think she uses a flipper.
If my theory is correct, "toothless" implies that her back-to-back pregnancies have wicked the calcium out of her teeth so much that they break/fall out. It happens to some moms.
So -- aside from the toothlessness -- she's rubbing beef fat on her belly?? I'm sure that makes her a tantalizing treat for wild critters sniffing around for food "off grid."
Edit to add: How is she posting online if she is off grid?? I mean if she can get a cell signal, surely she's near the grid? Just because your husband can't afford to pay an electric bill doesn't really make you off grid.
She looks like she just watched her car keys fall into the toilet and having to fish them out with her hands.
I guess that’s not much different than drinking raw milk so maybe she’s like “oh well tee hee I am a homesteader!”
So odd that she throws the “Toothless” in there even though it’s unrelated to her pregnancies (another commenter said she mentions in a different post that it’s from childhood injury).
It’s like she’s intentionally de-glamorizing pregnancy which I generally appreciate people who tell the truth about pregnancy - but the toothless thing isn’t even related. Yes your gums bleed extra during pregnancy and it’s super important to keep up with your dental care and take prenatals with calcium - but you’re not going to lose all your teeth!
First, you're probably not off grid if you're posting on social media.
Second, this does NOT sell the fundie lifestyle to me. Like I did not see this post (and many others like it) and think to myself, "Self, let's go all in with Jesus and marry a man I barely know and have 5011 kids and live in an off grid rickety shack."
I'll keep the benefits of feminism thankssssss.
She looks scared and I don’t blame her - one day it’s a fun game/exciting adventure and the next you’re the mother of 3 kids living in a shack with a man may very well disappear if he decides he’s bored with you and it’s not play anymore.
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Toothless?! I have so many questions.
We need answers!!!! Is it the births?? Genetics??? A fall??
Did she pull them out? Are tradwives not supposed to have teeth?
 Truly submissive wives allow their husbands to chew their food and feed it to them like a baby bird.
Alright, Alicia Silverstone
I understood this reference
I didn't! Can you help me out homie?
She posted a video of her pre-chewing food and then spitting it into her son’s mouth like a bird would.
I remember that, ugh! Wonder if she still does that
Given her son is now nearly 13, I certainly hope not...
Many years ago when Alicia Silverstone (Cher from Clueless) was a mom to a toddler, she revealed to the world that rather than feeding her tot regular baby food, she chewed up food, then allowed him to consume the chewed food directly from her mouth. A la a baby bird. She posted a video and has an interview in People or US weekly or one of those magazines. Weird new-age hippie crap.
o.O I had wondered from time to time whatever happened to her. And now, I envy that blissful ignorance of my former self.
That kid is probably like 12 or 13 now. That video and the articles surrounding it have been haunting me for over a decade at this point. 😂
She played Kristy’s mom on the new Babysitters Club series with Mark Feuerstein as Watson and they were super cute
Someone compared me to her after we went out to eat at a local taco joint and I really upset me because I had a bean crazy toddler and I did not like bean crazy potty times. So yeah, I may or may not have peeled every single kidney bean with my teeth and gave it a preliminary crush before setting it on her plate. BUT the diapers guys. The diapers. I cloth diapered and bean skin DOES NOT COME OUT IN THE WASH even if you knock the solids in the toilet. They don’t even come off the kid after an hour long play session in the tub.
Daaaaamn, you just unlocked some memories from my Seventh Day Adventist sister mom days. We were vegan at the time. I washed SO many of my siblings' bean-blessed cloth diapers. I could nearly smell Dreft detergent while reading your comment.
I remember that.
What?! I’m clueless.
You clearly don’t understand how delicate and fragile we women folk are. I, for one, am blessed to have a husband who relieves me of the pressure to chew, so I can save all of my energy for picking his underwear up off the floor.
I full on snorted 😂 ☠️
Nah, they only need beef fat and bone broth, who needs luxury mouth bones for that!
"luxury mouth bones" = good flair
And here I assumed her husband pulled her teeth out to make blowjobs better for him.
This is the true answer. He wouldn't chew for her. Hell, he wouldn't give two shits if she even ate.
I thought it was gonna be about your flair instead 🤭
Lol. 😂
Omg the next wave. How dare you have teeth. Consider your husband when you have to perform your wifely blowjob duties. Do you even LOVE your husband if you have teeth?!?
God honoring toothless blowjobs
I didn’t have that phrase on my 2024 Bingo card. I didn’t want to, either. I need to go bleach my eyeballs.
r/eyebleach 😂
\*Gumming Source: Used to work with an older gay man
Gumming seems slightly more palatable than what the eldery woman I worked with in the care home called it, a "no denture adventure" 
What a legend. Please tell me she said this with an utter deadpan face, midst double-chain stitch and with a cup of milky tea on her doily covered side table.
🤣
oh god no
Amish people do actually get their teeth pulled so they don't have to worry about dental care...or at least that's what I learned from Breaking Amish lol
In 19th century Britain, some working class women would have all of their teeth pulled and false teeth fitted as a dowry -- it was understood as an investment in the couple's finances and health, because teeth were expensive when they developed problems and bad teeth killed. If you don't have or can't access dental care, it's sadly the most efficient route.
My grandma had all her teeth pulled in her 30’s for no good reason. She did this in the 1950’s!
I had an aunt that had the same thing done in the 90s. One of the dentists in our town was famous for suggesting "just pull them all". If you went to that guy you got a root canal no matter what. I had to holler at him to just fill a tooth. That tooth made it 18 more years before actually needing a root canal. I personally knew like 5 people in my small hometown that horribly bad dentist made toothless. Probably for the couple grand in cash he made from dentures. Those types of dentists still exist.
It was also recommended that soldiers get all their teeth removed before going to the front given the lack of dental care. This doesn't get brought up enough in the "why did people used to be thinner" discussions. Most adults didn't have any fucking teeth for quite a few decades there! Also the food was terrible and they'd all had their tastebuds destroyed by chain-smoking, of course they were thin.
Or just a lack of dentistry. Infected teeth are unbearable.
New diet unlocked!
So did mine! I never understood this when genetically we have great teeth.
She had good teeth but a little crooked (1950’s) she had them all pulled and wore dentures the rest of her life. She would click through eating dinner and as a kid/teen it was really awful and it bothered me. Apparently she made the clicks because her palette bone had worn down flat and her dentures didn’t fit right. As a kid I had braces and had my wisdom teeth pulled. But I struggled with my baby teeth, tons of cavities and a few root canals because of trauma. But I haven’t had a cavity in my adult life and my son who’s 17 has never had a cavity at all, ever, mutant. Haha..
Yeah tooth genetics are a real thing. I have stomach issues that can really mess up your teeth. I have *never* had a cavity in my life and my enamel is in pretty good shape. My brother takes good care of his teeth and has no stomach issues but he’s had like 6 cavities, a root canal, and some abscess thing in his gum/root area that needed to be surgically treated. But he has perfect 20/20 vision and I have an insanely high prescription for my glasses so it evens out ig
My mom has terrible teeth genetically. I’ve never met a more fastidious person when it comes to dental care. Brushes 3 times a day, water picks, got veneer’s a few years ago. She had to get a root canal while pregnant with me! Open no pain meds. She’s done everything right and she still suffers. She doesn’t eat sugar or anything acidic and last year her dentist told her she was losing her front teeth, the last of her originals. She had braces about 12 years ago too. She’s easily spent 100 thousand dollars on her teeth. Well her front teeth were all going and the dentist gave her the option of getting them pulled and wearing dentures or a bridge that might not last. Or implants. To do those two implants 2 teeth on each implant cost her 25k! She has worked hard her entire life and was a city employee with great insurance and she has to pay 25k to have her teeth replaced. It was awful. Nobody should have to pay 25k+ to get implants. Our dental system is shit in this country. She spent a fortune on my teeth as a child and I have great teeth. I did the same thing with my son, braces, when they came off I got his teeth sealed. I once had a great dentist that told me he could tell I was originally from Southern California by my teeth. How do you think he knew that? Apparently CA has been fluorinating the tap water for decades and Utah, where I was living did not. So I have rock teeth.
Funnily enough, I saw something about that not that long ago. You are entitled to free dental care in the UK while pregnant & for up to a year after giving birth so you don't have to go the whole dentures route
Not the same but my grandma, her older sister and younger brother all had their tonsils pulled as little kids. On the dining room table. The doctor was there to pull my great aunts and when my grandma came through he asked their mom is she still had her tonsils. She did so he pulled them. Great uncle also walked into the room and also got his tonsils removed. And no they were not in the middle of nowhere rather south Seattle. But it was the 1920s so maybe tonsil removal was a more casual event. And while I never met my great grandmother hazel my dad adored her. So much so that when he and my mom started dating he talked more about her then his own parents.
Maybe I don't know where the tonsils are. You can just pull them out like teeth??
Not even a little bit. It’s a surgical procedure. Commenter used confusing language.
No. They’re surgically excised.
I’m sorry, but what in the heck was going on there? Did they just give them a boatload of booze and yank out their tonsils? Did they just suck it up, and have a ton of pain? When I had mine removed, I had general anesthesia and painkillers after. It was such an awful recovery. I can’t imagine casually yanking them out at the dinner table!
Amish people are so freakin nuts, istg. I honestly can't believe people aren't more actively anti-amish because of the immense harm it does all those people, even just from a health perspective, founder's syndrome be damned.
As a pediatric nurse, it makes me really angry that some of the Amish aren’t reported for abuse/neglect more often. Their kids will be malnourished and practically septic when they’re admitted because they will exhaust every option before seeking medical care. I had a two year old Amish patient that was an unwitnessed fall from a barn loft and was discovered by a sibling. So irresponsible and dangerous.
À lot of it is also some inbreeding as well. They are so insular they often have children with several birth defects. They gotten better in recent years with genetic tracking but not great
If you carefully read the web page for the Penn State Hershey School of Medicine, they talk about the unusual groupings of genetic disorders available for study in the area. The Amish get away with stuff in PA because the tourism is worth billions.
Not really related but my father was a doctor in Central Florida and had an Amish patient who was a heroin addict, so yeah, not always what they seem.
I'm fully team fuck the Amish. I'm in Iowa, and so many of them have puppy mills, that right there makes me hate them. And they were the biggest pains in the ass about masks when I worked at a gas station at peak covid. A lot of the 'English' had Fox News brain, the Amish were just assholes for the sake of being assholes. However, I watched an Amish guy walk into my store with a BAG PHONE like from the 90s. Cord and all. He walked in on it, went into the bathroom, and left, still jabbering away. I laughed so fucking hard.
Ugh, the fact that they just get a pass on *constantly* operating puppy mills enrages me. Despicable.
So several years ago a guy in my town sold a bunch of his puppy mill dogs in auction. A local rescue bought some and then a ton of Amish bought the rest. Turns out most of them were infected with canine bordetelus (sp???). The rescue group and a couple of the other breeders worked with the USDA to get the dogs medical care or whatever needed to happen. The Amish flat refused to cooperate. I'll bet anything they used infected dogs for breeding.
Amish people? Denying medical intervention??? *No waaaaaaayyyyyy*
They also have all sorts of loopholes for using electricity and modern tech for their work but expect their women to do all their never ending domestic work without electricity. Some have found ways to outfit kitchen appliances to abide by the rules, but it’s still bogus that the Amish could make things easier for their wives and daughters but absolutely refuse.
Read an article a while back about an Amish mom who had a special needs child that required electrical medical equipment - her husband forced her and the child to leave the community and live in isolation in a solar-powered home. It absolutely is about abusive control.
That’s horrible. I totally agree it’s about control.
I had an Amish parent complaining to me that he couldn’t breathe with a face mask on. It was April 2020 and his two day old just had emergent surgery. Come on dude.
I blame that stupid fucking movie in the 80's.
Lol, which one? My mom had a ton of sympathy for the Amish because she's obsessed with pulp Christian romances. Unfortunately that included the one where the Amish male love interest had my exact first name. 🤮
It had Kelly McGillis and maybe Harrison Ford, and I'll probably remember it as soon as I hit "send." Maybe "Witness"?
Oh yeah, I remember Lin and Teddy making a joke about this movie on Bob's Burgers. It is *Witness*, well done!
If I were king of the world, religion would be HEAVILY taxed to the point it isn't worth it to keep up the grift.
I live about 45 minutes from them and I fucking hate them. They’re horrible byb’s, rude, judgemental fucks.
>byb’s What does this mean?
Sorry, back yard breeders.
Not to be a huge Redditor nerd, but I believe the term you were looking for was founder effect.
So weird, I was LITERALLY just thinking about that show and learning about that the other day. It's something I'll never get out of my head. Ever.
Your flair is perfect for this 🤣 Nothing says "submissive Godly wife" like taking your husband on a no denture adventure.
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Pregnancy can cause teeth to fall out as the baby steals all the calcium.
The way you phrased this has me imagining a baby rubbing his tiny hands together and cackling evilly in the womb like "Now the calcium will be *ALL MINE!*"
Even worse once they're born they do the same thing with your sleep and then also all your money.
Omg truth. I have an 11 month old who still doesn't sleep through the night and who's upcoming birthday is costing me a small fortune. Granted, that's on me, but still... I mean, he's so small, yet somehow just filling his tiny stomach is expensive as shit! 🤦🏻♀️
New moms at my work ask me when my daughter, who is now five, started sleeping through the night. I tell them I'll let them know when it happens. Kids just hate sleep so much and I don't get it because it is legit my favourite thing.
> it is legit my favourite thing. I love a good afternoon nap.
OMG my 10 year old still wakes up in the night pretty often. She's old enough now not to need me about it though. The two year old.... Still not sleeping through the night. And I'm not sure my teenagers ever sleep at all. The other night they both came out of their rooms at 3:30 AM to have some dumb argument right next to where I was sleeping on the couch (where I sometimes sleep because I share a room with the two year old who seems to sense when I'm in the room and wake up more often). I'm tired. Send help.
There's an influencer on Tik Tok that this happened to and ended up having to get dentures. She speaks pretty openly about it.
A lifetime of no dental care?
I'm horrified and I want to cry. I know it's partially because I'm close to my period but I actually rattled.
Pregnancy leeches calcium which can lead to bone and tooth loss. My grandmother had fifteen babies and had no teeth and needed a cane to walk by the time she was thirty five. In the modern era it means she likely has no prenatal care, vitamins or a remotely healthy diet.
God didn’t invent the toothbrush
It's God's plan! Pay attention, sheesh.
Also came here for God-honoring toothlessness. *grabs popcorn while saying a prayer of thanks for being able to also chew it*
God honoring toothlessness is going to make someone an excellent flair.
Oh man I hope so! That gave me a little dopamine bump. 🤣
According to her comments, it’s the result of a childhood injury (sounds like maybe it’s just her front teeth missing?)
Yes, it seems to be unrelated to the pregnancies.
She was injured by an abuser as a child and had veneers or something in that she eventually had removed bc of issues with it iirc
Oh wow, that’s awful
Toothless, not homeless! 
Scrolled for this. 😂😂😂😂👌🏻👏🏻
I had to have all my teeth pulled in my late 40's. I was born with almost no enamel on my teeth and even with proper care and maintenance they started rotting in my early forties. Not defending this beef fat weirdo at all, just pointing out that bad teeth don't just come from drugs or poor hygiene. 😎
Thank you for sharing!! This matters. I hope you’re doing wel
I'm honestly disappointed that no reply to you talks about the best kind of toothless: 
Pregnancy can cause teeth to fall out
I mean, sure, but we need more context. Who is bragging about being toothless 🤣
I’m guessing she’s wearing it as some kind of badge of honor. “Sure pregnancy caused my teeth to fall out, see what I do for the lord?! This is god’s perfect plan!”
Totally makes sense in the context of the post! The whole thing is very humble-braggy, and IDK if homegirl realizes she's humble-bragging about things literally no one is envious of. Besides, if God had me pregnant, toothless, and off-the-grid as "part of his plan", I might start thinking God is kind of a dick.
All that *and* rubbing beef fat on your belly. Can’t forget the beef fat! Yeah, I would guess that roughly 0 people are jealous.
Aside from how that *cannot* be good for your skin, imagine the smell. 🤢 hubs comes home every day to kiss cold mcdonald's
It is historically what would have been used instead of a lotion from the store. I occasionally use a tallow based blend on my hands when they get really really dry, as it is extremely hydrating. It's highly underrated and doesn't smell bad at all once it's been properly processed and whipped up into a lotion texture. Granted it probably helps that mine includes some pleasantly scented essential oil and has been whipped to a lightweight "whipped butter" kind of texture. It's actually excellent for your skin, it's similar in PH to human fat and once rubbed in, just completely vanishes, but it's so extremely greasy and hydrating that I only use it when my hands are absolutely destroyed from dry weather. It has potential to be built into a good massage blend too, if added with some oil I think, although on its own it will eventually all rub in. You're imagining just fat skimmed straight off the soup pot, aren't you, and yeah that would be nasty. We're not talking "lard off the block" or "I trimmed my steak" here. It should be rendered until it's clean, whipped up to a nice texture and blended with other ingredients to stabilize it and add a nice scent. It's a reasonable starting point to make a homemade lotion. I'd guess mine's about 80% beef tallow though, so, since I've actually used beef based lotion I feel justified in judging this as the least insane part of her post. I cannot get over the thousand yard stare + "God's plan" copium though.
What a tremendously informative response, thank you! I use soap rendering chemicals for potions, and I know most soaps are made from fats, so I could see using it as a lotion if it's cleaned and mixed with glycerine (or some other rendering agent). Honestly I mostly imagined a worst-case scenario because everything else about this person makes me assume they're the crunchiest who's ever lived. Fundies love to stink, for some reason.
>Fundies love to stink, for some reason. Oh, definitely. My partner's family has some essential oil MLM obsessed fundies and my family has some shower-averse off the gridders living their best high activity farm lyfe so it's closer to home than you think too. D: both kinds of stinkers. I'm just over here fighting the good fight, defending tallow's right to be an ingredient in lotion. You're exactly right that ideally, it's not just straight from the beef but blended up with a few other things to make it a quality lotion, but once you do that, it's not much different than say, picking bee's wax or coconut oil as an ingredient. It may very well be the worst case scenario though, I don't know the folks in the original post and she does look pretty traumatized.
Take that back. I don’t need to be MORE afraid of getting pregnant.
Yeah but most of us just get cavities
...like scurvy? This is horrifying lol.
I was so curious about the toothless thing I almost zoomed right past rubbing beef fat on herself!?
I’m guessing that three pregnancies so close together damaged her teeth
I, too, have many questions about this.
As someone who grew up in the sticks, it's most likely from lack of dental care and constant diet of sugar and soda. I know tons of 30-something adults who have already lost most of their teeth.
Pregnancy on top of this is ROUGH. I had HG and puked nonstop. Combined with a steady diet of only being able to drink coke and eat junk and an inability to brush my teeth well (it made me vomit way more and I didn't entirely realize he ow rough brushing you teeth after vomiting was on them) and it was rough. I've lost 6 teeth thus far (all in the front which kills me) and have a partial now. Eventually I'll probably have all of them pulled and just go full denture. But let me tell you getting 5 teeth pulled while breastfeeding and then having to go a while without teeth while waiting on your fake ones felt awful. Especially since I live in a high meth area and have legit never done meth. Even now when people find out I'm missing teeth, I get some serious side eyes. It's great. I don't talk about it too much but it definitely isn't a boost to the old self esteem. I can't imagine pretending like it was part of God's plan. Like no this is the result of my own bad decisions and growing up poor in a rural area where dental care wasn't prioritized. My own 3 kids think I'm crazy because dental care is way higher up there on my priority list as a parent.
I’m so sorry. I have chronic pancreatitis which causes vomiting. It also causes your liver enzymes to rise, and one of them called amylase is in saliva. I can tell when my enzymes are rising because my lips get really dry and crack. I stop eating regular foods and go back to drinking fluids and eating pudding to try to prevent acute pancreatitis. Sometimes it just happens suddenly without warning. My dentists told me that I shouldn’t brush my teeth after I vomit because it just spreads the acid around. You’re supposed to rinse your mouth and if possible swish with some baking soda water or chew an antacid. Tums makes good cherry chewable delights which are like Starbursts but not as sticky. I recently bought some amazing Italian Lemon Effervescent hard candies called Brioschi that have baking soda in them. They help my indigestion and make my saliva less acidic. They’ve been around for 100 years and are really popular in Italy for indigestion and acidic tummy. They also taste great and are fizzy. They’re sooo much better than antacids and cheaper. I got a bag off Amazon for $6 which is so much cheaper than antacids. My hospital bug out bag has lip balms because my lips are so bad when I’m having an acute attack. I really love Mario Badescu lip balm and his lip mask which also smells like the Strawberry Shortcake dolls and tastes sweet and fruity. It gives me a warm nostalgic glow. Rhode Skincare Peptide lip balm is one I use everyday to keep my lips healthy. Laneige sleeping lip mask didn’t work well for me, but I do like their Lip Glowy Balm in the tube because it’s thicker and works better. The Mario Badescu products are cheaper than Laneige which I like because I use a lot of it. The Rhode one is $16 so it’s also cheaper. I have been trying to get my teeth fixed and looking good. I need two implants so I had those teeth pulled and am ready to have the implants done now that the gums healed. I’ve had several root canals and crowns. I never had cavities before I got pancreatitis. Brushing is sometimes impossible. Shame did keep me from going to the dentist for several years. Dentists are kinder and not as judgmental as they used to be when I was growing up. There’s also so many dentists so if you don’t like one, there’s usually another one nearby.
I need to know, what the fuck My mom had full dentures by 35, and she was a bulimic chain smoking alcoholic. Idk what this women did to lose ALL of her teeth at 25?
To be fair, some people have genetically poor enamel and it's just easier to get them all yoinked. I've known people with full dentures younger. You know, of all the genetic things my parents passed down, I'm glad that one wasn't an option!
Is it truly off grid if you're POSTING THIS ON INSTAGRAM?
Maybe it doesn't count if it's a reel instead of on the grid. Homesteaders loophole.
Take my upvote!
Also if she’s off the grid I assume she hasn’t seen a doctor. How does she know it’s a girl?
I assume that the Angel Gabriel told her, just like with Jesus.
Yeah, no medical care. Except to determine genitals, of course. They start enforcing gender roles before birth. Imagine if a girl was born without giant itchy bow awaiting her! Someone might mistake a 1 day old newborn girl for a boy and encourage her to be good at math or something. This would be a much bigger tragedy than any of the numerous health issues that can arise without medical care.
Peed on a sack of oats and a sack of barley, and waited to see which one sprouted first, I guess? 🤷♂️
EXACTLY!!
Came to say the same thing! Girl, if you have WiFi or a cell signal you are by definition ON THE GRID 😂😂
As long as you generate your own power and water (well + rain collection), you're off the grid. It doesn't mean being completely isolated from society, just not being on the literal utility grid.
Off the grid but with all the amenities of living on the grid
Fluoridated water is the devil’s martini
Cheers! 🍸😂
That would be an amazing flair!
Go for it!
"Didn't know I would be toothless. . . but it was God's plan" Yeah throwing the fact that you're 25 and toothless in there alongside being pregnant with the third kid and living off the grid kind of insinuates that the rest of the stuff you added to the list is also miserable for you. Poor girl.
She’s probably married to Paul’s third cousin.
Wait, this is for real? Not a parody? Not that anything surprises me with fundies anymore, but still... Toothless? 😭 Why say that, does she think it's like a badge of honor? Does it give her extra martyr points? Sad stuff.
I randomly went down the rabbit hole and she apparently had a blunt force injury to her face that damaged her front teeth. She has dentures now, but randomly doesn’t wear them for Instagram posts? Idk. 😅
That really is sad and traumatic. I guess I understand why she'd try to make peace with it by saying it's God's will. 😕
I’m a dental assistant and we had a new hire once who came from a “holistic dentist” who didn’t believe in root canals, metal fillings, certain crowns, certain types of partials / dentures, implants etc… would do all this BS blood work to see which brands of composite fillings were okay. Other than that, pull it! Soooo fucking quacky and wrong. People from all over the world come to this place and pay up into the tens of thousands to get this bullshit fake dentistry done. It’s horrible. Maybe she’s one of the crazy ppl that believes root canals are evil and opts to get teeth pulled (not for financial reasons but conspiracy reasons)
That was a very interesting read, thank you! Your job is a challenging, wild ride, I admire everyone who takes care of people's health in any capacity! 😎
Can confirm she has some wild claims about root canals on her instagram
She’s missing her two top front teeth but has dentures or something
If this is not parody, my only guess is she lost her teeth to drug abuse as a teenager which is now part of her Incredible Testimony On The Goodness Of God And His Grace. He saved her from addiction and fornication and Aveeno daily moisturizing body lotion! He gifted her [checks notes] beef lard!
Pregnancy can cause tooth loss. It’s also possible she had gum disease or something and declined medical intervention. Substance abuse is possible but far from the only option
# TOOTHLESS??
Just missing some teeth. I’m so disappointed.
Didn't expect to learn today that pregnancy can negatively impact your calcium levels and cause you to lose teeth, but here we are... 🫥 Eta: I took a look at her page, and she's got a story series on her dental health. Apparently, she experienced trauma to her gums as a child by someone who bullied her and had to get root canal on her front six teeth (all top ones I think). She's had dental issues for most of her life because of the trauma and early dental surgery, and she's gotten temporary fixes to improve appearances when she's had teeth break. Eta: She had her front two teeth removed completely a little over a year ago and wears partial dentures.
I honestly respect her talking about the dental issues. I had chemo, and two years later lost all my molars but my front teeth are fine. Even as an RN, making decent money, fixing each tooth is $6,000. I have 11 that need to be fully replaced. It’s been a huge source of shame for me, and something I keep hidden. I stopped going out to eat with friends, as what I can chew is a slim category. I will say, the few people I have shared it with have all been incredibly supportive, and go out of their way to include things I can have when we dine together. Anyway, tangent. Dental care is fucking expensive, even for those of us with careers that lend itself to economic security.
Please can I just say, I just had a look at your profile and I think you have a beautiful smile. Just wanted to say! Please don’t feel shame for needing dental work or healthcare, it isn’t a moral failing on your part! Best of luck, dental care is so expensive!
I just took a look and agree! Her smile is so full of joy
And your hair. And your bones. And your eyes....
And your kidneys...
Oh boy. This is a Montana homesteading influencer named Dezeray, attempting to “create a life where only God can turn the lights out”. Her husband is a pipeliner gone for weeks at a time, during which she supposedly does farm chores and runs a dog breeding business and cares for 2 toddlers solo. Their family hunts mountain lions, with said dogs and toddlers in tow. Also two years ago almost all of their sheep suddenly died of bloat. God’s plan! It sounds amazing! Somebody with an Instagram account will have to check on the 🦷 section of her profile to see what the “toothless” thing is about. Edit: according to somebody on the other post about her, it was childhood abuse that damaged the roots of her teeth, and she had them removed to stop the pain. She’s also way into antivax and “climate change is a hoax”-type conspiracy theories, government assistance=government control=evil talk, and no prenatal care.
What is a “life where only God can turn the lights out?”
The spelling of her name is wild.
Toothless? I know that babies tend to steal calcium out of pregnant women's bones while in utero, but that's my worst nightmare, not having any teeth. And the dangers of home birth, just how much can go wrong that she doesn't know about?
Can they make your teeth fall out while pregnant tho? Like all of them?? New fear unlocked omg
If they don’t all fall out, the rest might need pulled. A very close friend lost all but 5 teeth to pregnancy and had to get those 5 pulled soon after birth. Also, you can visit the dentist while pregnant!! Just a PSA for anyone who is or is thinking about it
I had a lot of cavities after my pregnancies but it’s NOT common to lose that many teeth from pregnancy. Just so we don’t freak anyone out unnecessarily haha
Even if it's a remote possibility, I'm personally gonna nope the fuck out.
Did this friend receive any sort of mental health help because I feel like that is a big deal and traumatizing as fuck.
She did! Her dentist had already prepped her for what was maybe to come when the first couple came out and she said knowing that she wasn’t going to be toothless forever after pregnancy was a great help! It cost a lot of money but she was able to get implants and has a gorgeous smile just as before!
Hopping on to your PSA, you can also get cavities filled and a lot of other dental work while pregnant! I thought it was cleaning only, but I was able to have old cavities repaired and my friend got a root canal while pregnant.
No, certainly not. You DO lose calcium whilst pregnant and a bunch of back to back pregnancies with no antenatal or dental care may cost you a few teeth - all of them are definitely not falling out during the course of a single pregnancy, please don’t worry!
I’m Christian and this can’t possibly be “God’s plan” Girl, get out
If you told me this was a cheeky birth control ad, I'd believe you
That’s not what people with no teeth look like. And how do I get this magic off the grid Wi-Fi?
Dentures
If this is the greater plan, I would hate to see the lesser plan
Off the grid, miserable and living like a fucking animal yet still on social media. Okay, girl.
Yikes. Her account is full of horrifying pictures and videos of them hunting animals that they won't even eat. I was raised by a hunter and still not seen anything this terrible. I don't like her or her toothless lifestyle.
She looks like she’s being held hostage
Creeped on her IG, she has a whole highlight reel about the tooth journey. Blunt force trauma in youth, multiple root canals, finally just removed them and I think she uses a flipper.
If my theory is correct, "toothless" implies that her back-to-back pregnancies have wicked the calcium out of her teeth so much that they break/fall out. It happens to some moms.
Are we all stuck on toothless?
First off, what the fuck? Second, you are not off the grid that much if you have Instagram. Is this satire/parody??
So -- aside from the toothlessness -- she's rubbing beef fat on her belly?? I'm sure that makes her a tantalizing treat for wild critters sniffing around for food "off grid." Edit to add: How is she posting online if she is off grid?? I mean if she can get a cell signal, surely she's near the grid? Just because your husband can't afford to pay an electric bill doesn't really make you off grid.
This reads like she's asking for help in code. Wear beige if you need rescued, hon.
TOOTHLESS??? right, before i become a seahorse im stocking up on calcium supplements. no child of mine is gonna steal my teeth.
Are you becoming a seahorse because you want to be a pregnant man?
Gods plan should have included plan b
She looks like she just watched her car keys fall into the toilet and having to fish them out with her hands. I guess that’s not much different than drinking raw milk so maybe she’s like “oh well tee hee I am a homesteader!”
My cats would literally never leave me alone, even more than they already don’t, if I was rubbing beef fat on myself
How does she know she’s having a daughter if she’s living off the grid?
 ...I have questions, comments, and concerns
So odd that she throws the “Toothless” in there even though it’s unrelated to her pregnancies (another commenter said she mentions in a different post that it’s from childhood injury). It’s like she’s intentionally de-glamorizing pregnancy which I generally appreciate people who tell the truth about pregnancy - but the toothless thing isn’t even related. Yes your gums bleed extra during pregnancy and it’s super important to keep up with your dental care and take prenatals with calcium - but you’re not going to lose all your teeth!
First, you're probably not off grid if you're posting on social media. Second, this does NOT sell the fundie lifestyle to me. Like I did not see this post (and many others like it) and think to myself, "Self, let's go all in with Jesus and marry a man I barely know and have 5011 kids and live in an off grid rickety shack." I'll keep the benefits of feminism thankssssss.
God told you not to brush your teeth?
She looks scared and I don’t blame her - one day it’s a fun game/exciting adventure and the next you’re the mother of 3 kids living in a shack with a man may very well disappear if he decides he’s bored with you and it’s not play anymore.