Jennifer Wilbanks - The Runaway Bride
Instead of a giddy newlywed, Jennifer Wilbanks (search) is the butt of jokes at water coolers across the nation.
Photographs of the thin, wide-eyed Georgian that last week were printed on missing persons posters now adorn running shoes, "Runaway Bride" kits, T-shirts and — it was only a matter of time — toast.
The first items poking fun at the jogger who fled on her cold feet appeared on auction site eBay less than 24 hours after Wilbanks admitted ditching her pending nuptials.
Antiques dealer Harry Lonzello, 48, of Newton, N.J., said he could not resist carving Wilbanks' image on a piece of toasted bread and placing it for sale on eBay.
"I thought it would be a goof to put it on the site because I thought the story was so funny," he said. The toast has received more than 10,000 hits since Sunday, Lonzello said, and as of Tuesday afternoon bidding on the slice of bread reached $66.
Still, it is likely that Wilbanks acted out of genuine panic over the looming ceremony, to which more than 600 guests had been invited.
"I think it is best to be nonjudgmental because we don't know what is going on inside her or the nature of their private relationship," said Dr. Elizabeth R. Yoon, a psychiatrist based in Reston, Va.
Yoon said last-minute bouts of commitmentphobia (search) are quite common among soon-to-be-wed couples, and that Wilbanks probably took her own issues too far.
"She acted out her problem instead of confronting it, and then she went to the extreme. I'm sure it got worse and worse for her — the more she worked herself up the more unreasonable she became," Yoon said.
Jennifer Wilbanks is really dumb... dont you think ?
Photographs of the thin, wide-eyed Georgian that last week were printed on missing persons posters now adorn running shoes, "Runaway Bride" kits, T-shirts and — it was only a matter of time — toast.
The first items poking fun at the jogger who fled on her cold feet appeared on auction site eBay less than 24 hours after Wilbanks admitted ditching her pending nuptials.
Antiques dealer Harry Lonzello, 48, of Newton, N.J., said he could not resist carving Wilbanks' image on a piece of toasted bread and placing it for sale on eBay.
"I thought it would be a goof to put it on the site because I thought the story was so funny," he said. The toast has received more than 10,000 hits since Sunday, Lonzello said, and as of Tuesday afternoon bidding on the slice of bread reached $66.
Still, it is likely that Wilbanks acted out of genuine panic over the looming ceremony, to which more than 600 guests had been invited.
"I think it is best to be nonjudgmental because we don't know what is going on inside her or the nature of their private relationship," said Dr. Elizabeth R. Yoon, a psychiatrist based in Reston, Va.
Yoon said last-minute bouts of commitmentphobia (search) are quite common among soon-to-be-wed couples, and that Wilbanks probably took her own issues too far.
"She acted out her problem instead of confronting it, and then she went to the extreme. I'm sure it got worse and worse for her — the more she worked herself up the more unreasonable she became," Yoon said.
Jennifer Wilbanks is really dumb... dont you think ?
posted by forexdude at 5/06/2005 12:34:00 am
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