July 31, 2007


Thank God I’m not hot.

In her high school track and field career, Stokke had won a 2004 California state pole vaulting title, broken five national records and earned a scholarship to the University of California, yet only track devotees had noticed. Then, in early May, she received e-mails from friends who warned that a year-old picture of Stokke idly adjusting her hair at a track meet in New York had been plastered across the Internet. She had more than 1,000 new messages on her MySpace page. A three-minute video of Stokke standing against a wall and analyzing her performance at another meet had been posted on YouTube and viewed 150,000 times.

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One Response to “Thank God I’m not hot.”

  1. Michael Grant Smith on August 1st, 2007 at 8:47 am

    Pop fame is so transient. All Allison Stokke has to do is wait about twenty minutes and the world will have moved on to some new shiny thing. My attention span is so short, by the end of this paragraph I won’t even remember her name.

    I used to go to the Cincinnati Zoo and watch the monkeys. They make me laugh! I like monkeys.