BECCA ALT
1. I am a never nude.
2. I have never been skinny-dipping.
3. I spent the first 18 years of my life takin’ tubs.
1. TRUTH: That is right folks, you have before you a real life Tobias Funke (for those of you who have never seen “Arrested Development,” get your shit together). No waltzing around the house in my birthday suit when the roomie’s M.I.A., no venturing to the infamous nude beaches of Europe and definitely no sleeping without, at the very least, a loin cloth and sports bra. Nudity does not equal liberation for this gal.
2. LIE: Remember how I said I am a never nude? It’s funny how a glass or two of Pinot Grigio can suddenly make your friends’ entreaties so much more convincing. Another fun fact about my skinny-dipping venture (for those interested in trying it out some day): bare asses make the ride down the lakeside slide infinitely more fun.
3. TRUTH: For those faithful followers, this one was a freebie. For 18 horrible years of my life, I was forced to take tubs—a reality that has rendered tubs one of my most formidable foes.
JAIME BRACKEEN
1. I stuck a dryer sheet up my nose.
2. I was a performing clown in the Shrine Circus.
3. A tree branch fell on me whilst I was peeing.
1. LIE: This is my lie, but it DID happen to a neighbor girl while we were playing at my house. She was a year older than me and even I knew she was dumb. She stuck it so deeply in her nose because she thought it smelt so good she had to go to the emergency room.
2. TRUTH: Hell yeah I was. I told a joke on the radio to win a contest and got to get my face painted and everything. I did not get to squish into a small car though, and it only lasted for about 10 minutes.
3. TRUTH: After a debacle with a tree in 5th grade, I now serve as a living example of how not to pee outside while camping at the beloved Girl Scout camp of my youth, Camp Ehawee. We were told that, as females, the best way to relieve ourselves outside without accidentally getting pee on our clothes was to hold onto a tree around its middle and lean back. I picked what appeared to be a sturdy, young sapling and—mid-squat—it proceeded to snap in half and fall on top of me.
RILEY BEGGIN
1. I ate a rat.
2. I puked on my professor’s shoes.
3. I broke a 2000-year-old stalactite.
1. TRUTH: When in Guatemala, do as the Guatemalan’s do—although I highly doubt that rat is a thoroughfare of Guatemalan cuisine, as I was told it was. And there’s no way I’ll ever pass up the option of trying a new food, even if it used to live in the sewers or co-starred in “Ratatouille.”
2. LIE: Nope, that was my roommate. After over sleeping the deadline to a paper that was worth 70 percent of her grade, she panicked while pleading for mercy and ended up throwing up on her professor’s shoes. Needless to say, he let her turn it in late.
3. TRUTH: That shit is real. I was granted the opportunity to go swimming in an underground pond in Mexico—something they would never let us do in the U.S. because it’s way less fun up here. Turns out the over-sensitive national parks are on the right track though, because I bumped into a stalactite and it came crumbling down. Luckily, the cave didn’t follow, but it really solidified the fact that I’m a terrible person.
JENNA BUSHNELL
1. I flashed 40 people.
2. I shattered a pyramid of mugs at a gift shop.
3. I’ve been in the audience of “Family Feud” three times.
1. TRUTH: Let me preface this by saying I am no exhibitionist—far from it actually. The ocean just hates me a lot. The exposure went down when I was competing in my camp’s skimboarding competition (yeah…) when I was 15. I thought I could catch a monstrous wave and beat the 7-year-olds I was competing with, but the ocean had other plans. Needless to say, I spent a good 15 seconds gasping for air before I realized my bathing suit top was nowhere to be found.
2. TRUTH: Something that can be detrimental to a fifth-grader’s psyche: getting yelled at by a crotchety old museum docent for breaking 80+ “Spy Museum” mugs. I still shudder thinking about it.
3. LIE: Survey says...nope. I’ve only seen it taped twice. I don’t really have a good explanation for why I’ve seen them filmed at all but I can tell you eight things “an old man would take 30 minutes to do.”
