ok, so a friend is going to burn me Medea, and it reminded me of this Maria Callas thing that has haunted me for ages. Is there any truth at the rumour that she swallowed a tapeworm in order to get thin?? people always mention that when they talk about her. I think that is so gross, it's beyond me how can anyone do that, is it true???

If you go back a few decades, this sort of thing was actually commercially advertised, i remember seeing some 40's style box for tape worm ovules.

the fuck is up with that.. maybe they finally discovered the side effects of having hugeass.... bugs crawling out your ass and stuff.

OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS??????????? I can't believe this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really?? where did you see that?

maybe you saw an hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/vanities/tapeworm.htm

No one has been singled out by this rumor more than opera singer Maria Callas (1923-1977). Callas was afflicted with tapeworms, but not due to any "lose weight quick!" reducing scheme. She was overly fond of steak and liver tartare, raw meat dishes prone to contamination. In her case, the rumor about tapeworm diet pills collided with her real-life condition, resulting in her being misidentified as someone who used such a product. Compounding the error, respected newspapers passed along fatuous statements about her and this rumor as if they were revealed fact. (Example: "Maria Callas, whose desperation to lose weight led her to swallow a tapeworm, shed several stones over a matter of months and never regained her former power," trumpeted The Guardian in 1992.) Some poorly-researched biographies have even claimed this as truth, falling for the myth instead of the reality.

It's interesting to note many accounts of the Callas rumor spitefully and self-righteously conclude with the news that her indulgence in this ill-advised tapeworm diet fad caused her to lose the ability to hit the high notes. Such flourishes remind us that vanity rumors are often employed to humble women who aren't much liked or are seen as having attained high positions they did not merit. In Callas' case, her well-publicized, long-standing liaison with Aristotle Onassis caused some to belittle her talent by ascribing her success to her having a powerful benefactor; others wanted to find additional justification for disliking a woman who openly consorted with a (then) married man.

Maria was such a diva