U S I N V E S T I G AT E S “I have one semester left to be a vet tech!” Polizzi tells Us of one day going back to school.
The Wi sdom of Snooki
“Old people, they lose their sex life,” she tells bar pals. “That’s why people always get divorced.” Senior smushing is real, says Dr. Laura Berman of OWN’s In the Bedroom, citing “modern medical technology and healthy lifestyles” as contributors. There goes Polizzi’s divorce theory! In fact, Dr. Phil McGraw tells Us the root cause is often “stress Wrong associated with money.”
The salt actually comes from minerals “as rocks are eroded, dissolved and washed into the sea,” says Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director John Hocevar. Besides, he jokes, there are Wrong too few whales to impact the taste of an entire ocean!
Is the Jersey Shore star spouting fun facts — or spreading fiction? b y C A R O LY N E . D A V I S
She says that despite her tiny frame, if provoked, “I will f--kin’ attack you like a squirrel monkey.”
For pilgrims in the 1620s, the L in their GTL involved paddling wet clothes outdoors to loosen dirt, says Chapman University’s American history expert Jennifer Keene, PhD. At least the chore was infrequent, she adds: “They did tolerate more Wrong body odor than we do today.”
Recalling an old bicycle accident, the pint-size partier says, “I thought I broke my vagina bone.”
Our Experts
Like all humans, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has 206 bones — but not one in her va-jay-jay! “So it would be impossible to break it,” says Dr. Bruce Young, professor of ob-gyn at New York University. More likely, she Wrong hit one of the pelvic bones on each side of her vagina.
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Reduced to washing her laundry in the sink, she complains, “I feel like a pilgrim in the friggin’ ’20s!”
DR. PHIL MCGRAW has a master’s and PhD in psychology and hosts his own talk show.
With reporting by Sarah Attman, Wynter Mitchell, Jennifer Peros & Charles Thorp
Us consulted some of the tops in their fields Dr. Laura Berman has been a sex educator, researcher and therapist for 20-plus years.
DAVE SALMONI is a zoologist, animal trainer and a predator expert for Animal Planet.
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Polizzi’s threat is bananas, according to zoologist and Animal Planet host Dave Salmoni. “Nothing that little has any means to be a true threat in the wild,” he tells Us of squirrel monkeys. The preferred primate? “I would have gone with chimpanzee. Wrong I’m scared of them!”
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Her beach confession: She hates the ocean! “It’s all whale sperm. . . . That’s why the water is salty.”
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