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NOTABLE/QUOTABLE: Larissa "Bootz" Aurora

Posted Jul 20th 2007 3:33PM by Karu F. Daniels
Filed under: Entertainment Newswire

By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices

there is no love lost between runaway reality tv personality Larissa

"It was about what all the girls should have been saying all along ... (I wanted) to talk about reality and not fantasy. If you didn't learn anything then just say it. If you didn't feel that Mo'Nique was the right person to represent us on that show, then just say it. And I was the only one who said anything ... felt that everything she feels the girls were dealing with, she's dealing with as well. And she didn't like that I said that. It was to be said. She needed to hear what we had to say instead of her preaching to us all the time. Instead of showing her faults and then us all moving on together, all she did was preach."

-- Runaway reality TV personality Larissa "Bootz" Aurora about 'Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School' head mistress Mo'Nique. (EURweb.com)

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31. Bootz your a beautiful girl, but your another New York! I think you two have mental issues. BIPOLAR! Monique is a mature wealthy women with CLASS. P.S I'm Bipolar got it!

wanda at 9:44PM on Jul 22nd 2007

32. I understand that Larissa was "keeping it real" but I still feel that she put herself out there. Monique did the best she could for her. Now it's time for her to take what she should have learned and apply it to real-life situations. The problem is that she always thinks she's right and believes she has nothing to learn. That attitude will definitely come back 2 bite her in the ass. I was wondering what her problem was but when I saw her mother, I realized she is an enabler. In other words, "she get it from her mama." It still doesn't make it right. Black women of today are being portrayed and highlighted by the media in such a negative perspective...I wonder why...

Sparkle at 9:52PM on Jul 22nd 2007

33. Sparkle your comment is right on the mark.

sunny at 10:22PM on Jul 22nd 2007

34. While I don't feel Monique was the best choice to teach young women charm and etiquette, Larissa is a damn fool. Probably will always be one because she doesn't close her mouth long enough to "hear" what anyone else is saying. Being outspoken and opinionated is not a bad thing. Being loud, ignorant, ghetto, rolling your head and eyes like you are possessed is a bad thing. Larissa may have had something intelligent to say but if you fail to deliver it in an articulate manner, the point is totally missed. It's all in the delivery and Larisssa lacks the skills necessary to get her point across without looking stupid. It's time for her reality tv career to come to an end. It's a rap!

Lisa at 4:53PM on Jul 23rd 2007

35. Is it just me or does Monique and Larissa look like they could be related in those pics?

Dani at 8:13PM on Jul 23rd 2007

36. Larissa is just trying to get a tv show like New York! There is nothing special about her, other than the fact that she is rude, nasty, a thief, coniving lady who can't except the truth and we don't need her on tv, that's all she's trying to do. Her mother needs a make over, she's trying to be white with all that white powder or should I say (flour) on her face, she looked like a ghost. I just wish Mo-Nique would have knocked her on her ass, but Mo-Nique is class and she handled it like a classy lady. Mo-Nique you go girl!!!! Represent the black race and all women well! Larissa and your mother go straight to HELL!!!!!

Louise at 9:19PM on Jul 23rd 2007

37. Larrissa got da boot!just what she derserved!And she aint gonna learn nothing til somebody put her in check,she only bad cuz her mama is going for that behavior..If i was Monique i'd chunked both them off my dayum show! She didnt stand up to New York like that!Now she tryna be like NewYork(waiting for her to get Dumped on TV againx4..lol (she'll never learn )either.Just keepin IT REAL!!

Mi$$ LaLa at 12:57AM on Jul 24th 2007

38. To me Larissa and that whore Brooke were really the two of all the ladies on charm school who tried to show their ass....and boy was it NAUSEATING to see young women not only carry themselves like that,but to also go around being so manipulative. Larissa bottomline youg buck, that heavy duty weaved-up bobble head of yours is so far stuck up your ass to realize that your wrong,and that "mo" just tried to tell you in patiicular and show you ladies the positive concepts that should've already been instilled as a real youg woman. Larissa you have lost all my laughter because your too much of a dumbf*&k for me to continue to find your attitude humorous darling.

Dora at 7:43AM on Jul 24th 2007

39. Larrisa needs Jesus and her mom too. I actually think the mother is afraid of her crazy daughter. Insteand of telling Larissa to act like a lady and shut her polutted mouth.. the mother tries to jump MoNique. Dang that was dum. MoNique could buy and sell Larrisa and her mother in the blink of an eye. The mother looked like a big pig ready for roasting and her daughter is a disgrace to all the young Black women of the world. I love Shae cause she was big enough to admit her mistakes. Good luck to you Shaw... God is proud of you. As for Larrisa and her Mom... they can go back to the ghetto where they came from.

Theresa at 8:08AM on Jul 24th 2007

40. oh and by the way Larissa darling, you did not embarrassed me one bit...because you don't represent me as a black woman; You represented no one but yourself and obviously your family as well. I just think that you should've signed up for charm school only if you really wanted the help and confidence you so need to have return to the real world as a better Larissa.

Dora at 8:10AM on Jul 24th 2007

41. learn to yap yap yap less and listen much more!

Dora at 8:14AM on Jul 24th 2007

42. Larrissa is a perfect example of why some women meet with violence in their male/female relationship. Can't you just see Larrisa all up in a man's face cussing like she does. Then can't you see a man knocking the crap out of her. Like MoNique tried to tell that fat ghetto hard core looking mother of Larrisa... one day somebody is not going to back down from Larrisa and they gonna beat the hell out of her and her mother gonna have to pick up the pieces. Notice how the mom sat silently in the audience while Larrissa spew out a bunch of insults but when someone talked back to her..the mom gets up and attacks MoNique instead of her daughter. Monique did not tell Larrisa to lie, steal, and decieve others on the show, yet the Mom wanted to attack MoNique instead of blaming her daughter for her actions. Just a real mal-functional family. Good job Shay and MoNique

TMT at 8:44AM on Jul 24th 2007

43. BYTCH GET A GRIP!!!!!!!

Tasha at 6:26AM on Jul 25th 2007

44. Man you people. Number 4: How do you know she is a bitch unless your apart of the club. Number 6: Why do black women sterotypes themselves? I havent head one person of another race say all that, if so, what about Brooke and Becky? Number 12: Larissa is 22 genius. She has no kids and is not having sex. So what did your mother teach you? Number 14: Larissa hodrat..please..have you seen her house? I dont think her house is evidence of a hood-rat, check your ignorance. I think if Larissa was not attractive as she is, a lot of you would not have being making these comments. Secondly, Monique is not a historical black figure..so why does she deserve respect when it was not given? I don't know what woman would stomache another woman calling them a lil girl all the time? Moreover, Larissa cant be that stupid; she has "learned" how to block all this hate, and keep doing her. Keep it moving motivators!

Marco at 6:29AM on Jul 25th 2007

45. Sparkle and Sunny hit the nail on the head. However, Shay doesn't get completely let off the hook, because she was down for the picture thing and was getting pleasure out of it until...it became clear that it wasn't going away. They were in it together and that's all Larissa was trying to say. She felt betrayed because she felt Shay was her girl.

Larissa'a mom was like one of those hood moms that defend their kids, no matter how wrong they are. And that probably is where the attitude comes from.

Bottom Line: Larissa gets props for speaking her mind, I just wish she had done it more eloquently

tkeitorlveit at 7:05AM on Jul 25th 2007

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