>Cathy Anderson and Her White Teeth

>I was checking my e-mail the other day when I noticed this ad at the top of the page.

Take a close look at that picture in the middle. What exactly is going on with that kid? Wouldn’t it qualify as child abuse? And what did it have to do with whitening teeth? Curious, I clicked on the ad.

And that’s how I found Cathy Anderson’s mommyblog.

Cathy Anderson is just a normal mother of 3 living in, of all places, Nashville, Tennessee! She discovered a two-product combination that works better than anyone could have expected. Even, as it turns out, her dentist.

With that kind of life story, it was obvious that Cathy Anderson needed to start a mommyblog.

Cathy didn’t show her face on her blog, but she did share her smile. And oh, what a smile it was.

I could tell by that smile that Cathy Anderson was a barrel of laughs. The life of the party. I wanted to know more about Cathy Anderson, to maybe meet up with her at Starbucks. But Cathy Anderson had only written one post.

Despite this, she had already gained quite a following. Cathy Anderson had 29 comments from readers who seemed to hang on her every word. People like Taylor, who wrote the following:

ME LIKE ME LIKE. tank you ver mucho fer giving me a great idea! i been struggling with bad yellow teeth for years and nows i cans get a great one ! tank you mucho.

After reading comments like Taylor’s, I was inspired to leave my own.

Cathy Anderson, I typed, You sound like my kind of woman. Perhaps we can get together and let the kids run wild while we split a bottle of wine?

I posted my comment and was satisfied to see it appear at the bottom of the page. But when I refreshed the page to see if by chance she had responded, my comment had disappeared.
That’s when I began to get suspicious.

And so I did what all smart people do when they get suspicious. I went to Twitter.

Look. I wrote. A totally fake mom blog, made to sell a product. It looks like you can comment, but real comments don’t appear. I posted a link to Cathy Anderson’s mommyblog. Soon, I got several responses.

schmutzie@SuburbanTurmoil Weird. And she apparently, if there is a “she”, lives in my city.

Amy2boys@SuburbanTurmoil The fake mom blog just kills me. I don’t know why I’m surprised, but somehow I am.

CityMama@SuburbanTurmoil hey she lives in Palo Alto! I bet she lives in your city, too! And yours! And yours!

debontherocks@SuburbanTurmoil Cathy Anderson is missing out on exciting marketing relationships by limiting her mommyblog to teeth reviews.

And so on. Cathy Anderson had rigged her blog to say that she lived in the same city as her reader, no matter where her reader was from.

SpaceCasie@SuburbanTurmoil Where does it say Cathy Anderson lives for you? It says she lives in Tamuning for me. I doubt she lives in Guam, right?

Guam? Oh, Cathy Anderson. Cathy, Cathy, Cathy Anderson.

Soon, responses began pouring in from Twitterers who hadn’t caught on to the hometown trick, and were trying to track her down “locally” for me.

gaudet2@SuburbanTurmoil there isn’t a Cathy Anderson in the book or online. She must be listed under her “hubby” or not at all.

And, as it always is when a mommyblogger rises to fame, other mom bloggers began to turn green from envy.

MeaganFrancis@SuburbanTurmoil I’m really jealous. Look at all the comments she’s got! She must be better than me 🙁

I could totally relate to Meagan’s hurt feelings. Next mommyblog brouhaha: “Why do fake mom blogs get more comments than I DO?!!!” I wrote.

To which Meagan responded…

@meaganfrancis the fake mom bloggers will blog on their fake mom blogs saying “B#tches need to quit telling me what to doooo.”

It wasn’t long before the Twitterverse had exploded with comments about Cathy Anderson.

At this rate, #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth will be a trending topic by tomorrow, I wrote.

And that’s when things really got weird.

debontherocks #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth is the new Chuck Norris.
CityMama #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth: I am your father. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
debontherocks #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth has fingernails that shine like justice and a voice that is dark like tinted glass.
SuburbanTurmoil #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth is not just the president of Hair Club for Men. She’s also a client.
Busymom Pardon me, but do you have any #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth?
CityMama #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth can see Russia from her house.
schmutzie #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth floats like a butterfly but stings like a bee.
debontherocks At first #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth was afraid, she was petrified.
thinkingmonkey Good news! I just saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth
SuburbanTurmoil #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth did not have sex with that woman.
thinkingmonkey That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth
SuburbanTurmoil RT: @breakingnews #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth ‘s industrial output shrank 8.2 pct in April.
CityMama #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth practices Fishful Thinking while attending Baby Camp at Disneyworld with Chris Mann
joyunexpected #cathyandersonandherwhiteteeth is not here to make friends

And that is how Cathy Anderson and her white teeth went from fake mommyblogger to TWITTER LEGEND, all in about 30 minutes.

Just so you know.