Sarah Palin Underweight, Anxious, Needed “Emergency Help” For Thinning Hair: New York Times

According to huffingtonpost.com
The New York Times has a lengthy story on Sarah Palin in Monday’s edition, examining the personal and political pressures that may have driven her to resign her governorship.

The New York Times article, like many others before it, describes Palin’s political operation as largely dysfunctional, to the point that prominent Republican adviser Fred Malek felt the need to personally urge her to have someone “set up a mechanism so you can return calls.”

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“You are getting a bad rap,” he recalled saying. “Important people are trying to talk to you. And she said, ‘What number are they calling?’ She did not know what had been happening.”

The piece describes Palin as obsessed with her critics, and under severe strain from souring relationships with Alaska legislators and encounters with the national media and paparazzi. Perhaps the strangest details of the story come from accounts from Palin’s friends about her physical deterioration:-

Sarah Palin’s Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.