SOMETHING, MAYBE
ELIZABETH SCOTTEveryone's seen my mother naked,
Well, mostly naked. Remember that ad that ran
‘ring the Super Bow, the one where a guy calls and
orders a pizza and opens the door to see a naked lady
with an open pizza box (“The pizza that’s so hot it
can't be contained!”) covering the bits you sill are’t
allowed to see on network television?
‘That was her. Candy Madison, once oae of Jackson.
James’ gitlfriends, and star of the short-lived sitcom
Conboy Dad . Now she's reduced to the (sexy rare)
acting job or ad, but she was relatively famous (oF
infamous) fora few days after Ube feotball ame with
‘4 pre-game show that lasts longer than the aetual
same.
Whoo.
‘You might think the ad caused me nothing but
et a schoo}, but aside from a few snide comments
fom the sparkly gil (you know the type: unnaturally
white feet, shining hair, personalities of rabid dogs)
and some of the jock jerks (who, of course, were
watching the game, and like both pizza and naked
\women—not a stretch to figure they'd be interested),
no one eke sd anything to me.
But then, no one realy talks to me. That's good,
though. Ive worked long and hard to be invisible at
Slatewlle High, an anonymous student in the almost
2,000 that attend, and I want it to slay that way. (The
School website actually bossts that we'ze larger than
some colleges. [guess overeroviing is a good thing
ov)
However, the a has caused me nothing but grief at
home. When it aired, traffic to Mom's site,
candymadison.nt, tripled, and she worked to keep it
coming back, giving froe “chats” (whore she sits
around in Fingerie and answers questions aboot her
so-alled career and Jackson), and pushing ber self-
published autobiography, Candy Madison: Taking It
‘All Off, We wetualy sold ten of the twenty-five eases
of the thing tacked in our garageAnd the press coverage? Mom loved it, The ad
‘only ran once, because some senator's Kid Siw it
and. you know where I'm going, right?
(Of course you do, and naturally, the ad became
extremely popular online, Celeb Weekly magazine
«id five questions with her, and Mom pushed her
‘website and book and them talked about how she was
always looking for “interesting, quirky character
roles.”
‘The week it ran, Mom bought ten copies of the
magazine at the grocery store and wandered around
the house grinning and flapping the interview at me.
‘The phone rang almost hourly, her brand-new agent
calling with offers (mostly for work involving no
clothing, which Mom tured down) and an invitation
oappear on a talk show,
[Not a clasy talk show, mind you, but still it was a
talk show. She said yes until she found out the shew
was about “Moms Wha Get Naked: Live! Nude!
“Moms!” and backed out, Not because she objected 10
being called « mom. OF because she knew—besause
Pd told her so-that Td ie if she did it
Tewas the “nude” thing.
“Tve never done any nude work!” she said 0 her
agent, “I'm an ait, an actess—all right, yo, the a
Bat I vas wearing a pizza box! I want to be taken
seriously. What about getting me on the talk show
with the woman who says ‘Wow all the time and
gives her audience free cas? I could talk to her:
‘The “Wow!” lady wasn’t interested, Mom's new
agent stopped caling, and today, when we go to the
supermarket, Celeb Weekly doesn't have her picture
init
“I don't understand,”
she says. “I got so much e=
smal from my fans after that interview, and they all
said they'd write to the magazine and ask for more
Do you think [wasn't memorable enough?”
ook at her, dressed ina tight, bright pink T-shirt
with CANDYMADISONNEF in sequins across the front,
‘and a white skin that barely skims the tops of her
highs. Her shoes have heels that could probably be
‘wed lo pierce things
“You're very memorable, Mom, Did you get the
bread?”