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American Housewives Wanna Get With This Lesbian

Images-4-7Many and many straight, married gals get all hot and woozy when they watch sinewy lesbian Jackie Warner flex that sweaty six-pack on Bravo's reality show Work Out. "Andy Cohen, senior vice president of programming and production for Bravo, said: 'Straight women across the country are not only obsessed with the show, they are obsessed with Jackie.' Obsessed? 'I cannot tell you how many of the e-mails that we got from last year’s ‘Work Out’ reunion that were women saying, ‘I am married. I have never looked at another woman. I have a huge crush on Jackie,’ Mr. Cohen said." But Jackie's all, meh.

“'They get crushes,' she said in her office at Sky Sport & Spa, her penthouse gym in Beverly Hills with sweeping views of the city and the Hollywood sign. 'I have hard-core women that get major crushes. I have women that send me—this is the weird thing—I have women that send me photos of themselves with their husbands and three teenage boys or whatever—I’m just giving you an example—with a love letter attached.'”

But when you can't actually find any wedded women who'll admit for the record that they'd like to have... you know... actual lesbian sex times with Jackie, just hit the Net!

"Those who can’t afford the $400 an hour fee have joined social networking groups such as 'If Jackie from ‘Workout’ hit on me, I’d definitely reconsider my sexuality.' As a woman with the moniker LibbytheCute put it in the interactive magazine Zimbio.com. 'I’m straight. Very straight, and even I would seriously consider batting for her team.'" [NYT]

1:56 PM on Sun Apr 13 2008
By ian spiegelman
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  • girl crushes are so cute

  • I wonder if the yucky Andy Cohen ever gets propositioned via email? Hork.

    I wish Bravo would send him to Outer Mongolia on permanent assignment.

  • Image of AndSheSaid AndSheSaid at 02:22 PM on 04/13/08 *

    I want Jackie's abs.

  • Image of belltolls belltolls at 02:22 PM on 04/13/08 *

    All I can say is the Times is getting WACKY! And Spiegelman, you are a frikkin hit machine with these stories. Bravo.

  • @AndSheSaid: me 2 ... i had a girl crush a long time ago on someone just like her

  • Her? Really? To each her own. I'd personally beat my elderly parents to death with a pickaxe to get my mouth around Shannon Sossamon.

  • Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall at 02:46 PM on 04/13/08 *

    Meh, indeed. My girlcrush of the moment is Freaks and Geeks-era Busy Phillips. I want Kim Kelley to push me up against a locker and take my girl-ginity AND my lunch money. Twice.

  • Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall at 02:51 PM on 04/13/08 *

    (OK, apologies if this posts twice ...)

    Meh, indeed. My current girlcrush is Freaks and Geeks-era Busy Phillips. I want her to slam me against a locker and steal my girl-ginity AND my lunch money. Twice.

  • Image of Theda_Bara Theda_Bara at 03:17 PM on 04/13/08 *

    I have had many girl crushes, but I have never felt the need to qualify them by telling everyone I'm straight. It's like that time one male student grabbed his friend's ass and said, "No Homo."

  • Image of phlox phlox at 03:33 PM on 04/13/08 *

    Soccer moms? Pshaw. Call me when the hardcore powerbottom geighboys develop a girlcrush on her, then I'll be impressed.

  • @phlox: Morrissey! dreamy sigh

  • @phlox: I don't think anyone can take that role away from the lovely Ms. Ana Matronic.

  • @AndSheSaid:
    I want Jackie's vaj.

  • I've had plenty of girl crushes and I get nothing from her. Never in a million years would this girl cross my mind when I'm trying to pull a little girl on girl action fantasy in my head. But, I've been stuck on Joey Lauren Adams ever since I saw Chasing Amy.

  • 1. I hate Andy Cohen. He annoyes the holy hell out of me on those Bravo specials.

    2. I get the Jackie attraction but coming from a married straight girl, she has nothing on Dani from the Tila Tequila show. I loved her so much I think my husband got nervous.

  • I'm a straight girl who has a total girl crush on Jackie...and its freaking me out. I have to admit though, I like her butchier, with the shorter haircut than the bob she has now...and I'm so glad I'm not alone in my faux lesbianism.

  • Image of htotheomo htotheomo at 05:46 PM on 04/13/08 *

    As a Geigh, this is so fascinating.

    If this were a guy, we'd already be out lasso'ing him.

    Don't think your husbands don't have the same thoughts.

  • The term "girl crush" makes me want to hurl.

  • I have a coif crush on both Jackie and Shannyn Sossamon.

  • "She" looks like a pre/mid-pubescent Hitler Youth inductee.

    Siege Pediheil

    [histclo.com]

  • Jim McGreevey was once a married straight girl too. And just look.

  • If "This Week in Girlcrushes" doesn't become a weekly feature here (or possibly on Jezebel) by May at the latest, then clearly no one is minding the store at Gawker Media.

    (Um, can anyone confirm for me it's not on Jezebel already? I get scared when I go over there and don't recognize anyone.)

  • @skahammer: See, you'd think a feature with "This Week in" in the title would automatically appear weekly, but I wanted to make sure there was absolutely no doubt at all.

  • as a geigh, i'm all down with jackie until i get to, you know. the THING. otherwise i love her. i think it's just more how you roll.

  • Image of phlox phlox at 12:40 AM on 04/14/08 *

    @girlsintuxedos: True that. I do lust Ana; almost as much as I lust after Jake.
    @NeverEnough: I know. *Sigh*
    First day w/my new avitar. At least we know he's emotionally unavailable going in, right?



  • @hughman:

    I'm fruitier than thou and I, too, love Jackie.

    She reminds me of great athletic dyke-pals I had when I was young. Of all possible friendships in the world, there are perhaps none tighter than those between a gay man and a gay woman who have a little physical attraction for each other. In the bargain, you get exciting-but-safe mutual admiration.

    And, Lord have mercy, did those athletic dykes know how to have fun. A dyke volleyball championship somewhere? They'd pack everyone into cars and we'd all hit the road for three days. With lots of tequila.

    Now these gals have tenured positions teaching things like Caribbean literature. We exchange email. They have long-term girlfriends with whom they've bought at least one home. But, damn, we had so much fun together before life got serious.

  • I'm sorry, but girl-crushes? As a non-geigh dude, I've always thought that 99% of women were at least bi-friendly. And of course, that it was 100% a bad idea to express ideas that included the phrase 99% of women -- but I digress.

  • I SO do not get this. Jackie Warner is a walking billboard for the sapphic set's (stereotypically) worst qualities. To me she's a melodramatic narcissist with predatory tendencies and I hate that she's the only non-fictional lesbian that middle America knows.

    But that being said, I freely admit to being totally sucked in by the show.

  • @phlox: Ha! I've got the Ana love, but my attraction, as one of the fairer sex, lies with the fairer sex.

    I'm actually in a SS tribute band over in NZ, rocking the Babydaddy drag. Yes, really.

  • @Shazzer:

    "...To me she's a melodramatic narcissist with predatory tendencies..."

    Unless you generally hang out with Buddhist monks and nuns who've renounced all attachment to physical experiences derived from the temporal world, you could probably describe most people you know as "melodramatic narcissists with predatory tendencies."

    Or maybe it's just a matter of regional context. For a high-profile Westside Angeleno, Jackie comes across as low-key to an almost catatonic degree.

    I mean, she hasn't killed anyone while drunk-driving down Sunset or Pacific Coast Highway. And she's one of only a few local celebrities whose names never surfaced during the Pellicano investigation.

    Jackie's a quiet old-fashioned girl. I bet she darns her own athletic socks.

  • If I were gay, she would make me straight.

    ugh.

  • All physical trainers scare me. Not in a nice ooh scary way either. More of a run away as fast as the remains of my legs will allow me way.

  • I speak on behalf of the lesbians when I say, you straight ladies can have this crazy bitch. Granted, she is built like a brick shithouse, but she is also batshit crazy. For Big Apple lady-crush satisfaction, please direct all of your straight-lady crushes to my private getaway, MILF Island, from this point on. No need to thank me; just doing my duty.

  • @girlsintuxedos: Really?! That's awesome!

  • Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot at 12:27 PM on 04/14/08 *

    Let's be honest, do you ever hear of straight women having a crush on bull dykes? They like Jackie because although Jackie is tough, she isn't completely butch and that could be alluring.

  • girl crushes are stupid. i guarantee that if anyone with a so-called "girl crush" on Jackie got her head sandwiched between Jackie's legs, they'd start crying and try to explain how they only wanted to hold hands or make out.

  • @sing_michael_sing: That will never happen. Most lesbians who take straight women up on their girl-geigh crushes pretty much assume they will top (do all the work, in gayspeak). If all you want is make-out and hand-holding, we'll oblige. Granted, the hand you're holding might migrate south, but you gotta make some sacrifices to get what you want in life. It's just girl fun anyway, right?

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