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Forgive our naivete, but by this point we thought Courtney Love was about as messed up as she could possibly get. But the campers at Dysfunction Junction have welcomed her back with open arms, as she's mysteriously dropped more than 50 pounds and now looks like a refugee from the flesh-melting climactic scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. London's Daily Mail has bravely gone out on a limb and decided her attitude about the emaciation is suspect:

Love denied reports gastric bypass surgery and liposuction aided her initial transformation, but she caused controversy recently by making light of her painfully thin appearance.

During a free concert in New York last month, she sipped on a protein shake and told the audience: "[I] had to take care of my eating disorder."

She then swiftly insisted she was joking, adding: "I don't have an eating disorder."

Denying gastric bypass? That sounds familiar somehow. Yet we're not really sure why the Mail's panties are in such a wad. This is Hollywood, people. Don't they know that you're nobody in this town unless you diet yourself into a stand-in for those skeletons that sit in biology classrooms, and then get the cover of Us Weekly for being seen eating a bag of Skittles in triumphant proof you're on the mend? Courtney is probably just trying to fit in at the lunch table. Now that Nicole Richie's pregnant, there's room there for a clone.

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