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Sunny Anderson Was Named After… AN AVON LADY
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Guys, we couldn’t make this up if we wanted to.
The FN Dish has a new interview with Sunny Anderson, and she reveals the origins of her name:
Sunny is my real name. Nothing cute or inventive about the naming story… It’s as simple as my mom sitting in the hospital after giving birth and flipping through a magazine that mentioned an Avon lady named “Sunny”. She thought it was pretty and here I am.
Not even a bubbly, perky Avon Lady that supplied her mom with make-up for 35 years… but a RANDOM Avon lady in a magazine?! Apparently inspiration strikes at some unusual times in the Anderson household. At least her mother wasn’t reading a gossip magazine when she named her, or Sunny could have had some really unfortunate names:
We think SUNNY “the Avon Lady” suits her just fine.
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24 Responses
Mmm. Not very snarky, FN Humor. You’ve reached such heights of snarkiness in the past, I’ve come to expect great things. This one just kinda … flubbed.
Back to the drawing board with ya!
*smiles*
Ha. Creative post, I liked it. Bananas, not everything has to be snarky and mean to be funny!
Keep ‘em coming, FNH!
lol this is my fav post so far.
how random. i love the insanity , you girls need to get on the late night writing staff
who names their kid after some strange lady they don’t even know who sells makeup.
That tube of mascara is bigger than her head. Avon price: a mere $125.99 plus tax.
I thought this was a really clever post! Bananas you’re bananas.
Hi, I’m inmate anderson, and I’m cookin’ for real.
Hi Food Network Humor
You have a wonderful website! I just found it today and I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard. We really love it here in NY cubicleland! Thank you for the laughs.
Corey
What’s the deal with this chicks hair ? Is it a wig ?
Oh well, she could be known as HairClub Anderson.
Voula, black women don’t wear “wigs.” They wear weaves. I thought the entire world was aware of this by now. They’re especially entertaining during fights, when they are often torn off, either by the wearer or her opponent.
As for this story… meh. She wasn’t actually named after a random Avon lady. Her mother saw a name she liked and used it. I don’t think Sunny should cower in shame for this low-class act of name-finding.
If Sunny’s cooking skill matched her personality, she might be worth watching. But her food is extremely basic, and honestly I still don’t know what she’s doing on the network (she seems to have little to no cooking experience).
Actually, black women DO where wigs. I am one, when I am not wearing my own ultra short fade. Some or lace front and some or your garden variety beauty supply store ones, but they are wigs yet and still. Sunny’s hair appears to be a wig not a weave IMO, the beauty supply store version. In any case, it is not a good one and yes, I agree, she needs to invest in a better wig, weave or lace front.
No one is saying Sunny should “cower in shame” because she was named after an Avon lady, but it is funny to me that people always ask her about her name – thinking there was some big dramatic story behind it – but it’s actually the name of an AVON LADY her mother didn’t even know. That is funny.
Don’t take these posts so literally, guys. We run a SATIRE WEBSITE, not a Sunny Anderson Fansite.
Bee, thanks for the clarification. I am not too schooled in black woman’s hairstyling choices/options. Haven’t seen a catfight recently, although I must admit I have seen some incidents on Jerry Springer’s shows.
Still it doesn’t appear she is wearing a weave or an extension. It just looks like uh mm… a wig.
I was just trying to match humor with humor. I don’t take the posts literally — I think they’re funny. Even though she wasn’t “named after” an Avon lady. Her mother wasn’t honoring the Avon lady. She merely liked the name. More accurately, the Avon lady’s name inspired Sunny’s. But whatever. Let’s get back to bashing Guy or whatever.
Ya know….all they had to do was ask Aida!
FNH -
Thanks for linkage (and for teetering on JUST the right amount of snarky for this post)!
-Rachael of “The FN Dish”
Actually, Sunny is wearing a wig. Voula is correct. Weaves are “woven” in with a wearer’s hair.. but she is wearing a wig, like a large number of African American women.
Oh, and BTW, “Hairclub Anderson” .. that is rather funny!!
you all are some racists. all the african american women i know (including myself) wear their own natural hair. don’t let your limited view and television educate you on african americans. you all are so ignorant.
@TYLER: your comment is so damn ignorant. FYI, just because YOU don’t know any Black women who wear wigs & weaves DOESN’T mean there aren’t any Black women who do. And I bet you don’t wear your natural hair. SO SHUT THE HELL UP
wow that was an ignorant comment. Beyonce, Oprah, Tyra Banks and host of other Black woman wear wigs and weaves. The wigs don’t look like wigs because they are lace front wigs which give the hairline a more natural apperance when done right. Look it up.
Oh my goodness….BOTH Black woman and white women wear wigs and weaves!!!! Somehow it’s more acceptable for a white woman to wear a wig or weave. I know someone who works at a ‘hair factory’…and more white women come in to buy hair than black women. No one seem to be happy with what they have!…..breast implants…lip plumpers…booty shots and implants…tans….hair weaves….
My problem with Sunny and her wigs (and yes, they are wigs, not a weave) is that they are sooooo bad. The color, the style, all of it is just bad and does not fit her face at all.
Aw, I like to rip people as much as the next person, but I love Sunny.
Did nobody notice the obvious Photoshopping of that picture? Since when does Sunny Anderson have a C-cup and a waist?