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Today in TMI: Zac Efron (and His Mom) Love a Condom

Posted by Lindy Parker

You know when you hear something that freaks you out, and yet, you feel almost irresistibly compelled to tell everyone else you know, just so you're not the only one who has to carry that particular mental image through your day? Just a heads up, that's what's happening here.

Here's a quote we could've gone our whole lives without hearing from High School Musical star, Zac Efron: "[My mom]'s like, 'I knew you were being sexual!' But she understood. My stocking was full of condoms this Christmas. She buys me the economy box." (Us Magazine)

We don't know about you, but we're not sure what skeeves us out more: the image of Zac Efron's mom buying her adult son an economy size box of condoms, the fact that he felt comfortable sharing that information with the world at large, or that, against our will, the phrase "economy box" has us picturing Zac and V. Hudge going at like rabbits 24/7. All we can say is, thank god he refrained from emphasizing what size condoms they were. We can't handle talk of barely legal penis size. We just can't.

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Posted Mar 06 2009, 02:04 PM

Filed under: High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron

Comments

Kristin said:

No! No, no, no, no, no!

March 6, 2009 12:23 PM

Erica said:

What an appropriate picture you chose, they look as if they just got done using a couple. BTW, I'm glad he choose to use the word "economy" as opposed to "bulk".

March 6, 2009 8:53 PM

Shannon said:

Also, cut your hair, Efron. Only Pattinson looks good that dirty.

March 6, 2009 11:38 PM

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for nerve.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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