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• July 10, 2026 · Dispatch

  'Just needs a little filler in her face': Mace mocks Charlize Theron amid Ozempic rumors, months after telling Politico she was 'totally broken'

  After Charlize Theron drew a wave of Ozempic speculation and health-concern commentary for looking noticeably thinner at the July 8, 2026 Paris premiere of 'The Odyssey,' Nancy Mace joined the pile-on. Replying on July 10 to a post mocking the actress, Mace wrote: 'Just needs a little filler in her face. She'll be fine.' The line lands against a record Mace built herself. In a February 2026 Politico profile she said she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' as 'the pain that I need to feel' and called herself 'totally broken,' and her own former consultant testified under oath that during that stretch she was 'drinking too much, and losing a ton of weight.' Her office has said how she chooses to heal 'is her decision alone.' This dispatch places her public words side by side and takes no position on anyone's health.

• February 27, 2026 · Dispatch

  'The pain that I need to feel': Nancy Mace says she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' while serving in Congress

  In a February 27, 2026 Politico profile by Michael Kruse, Nancy Mace said she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' in late 2023 and early 2024, as her engagement to Patrick Bryant ended and staff churned through her office, describing them as 'the pain that I need to feel.' 'So my story is I am totally broken,' she told Politico. One is the opening line of Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway.' The tattoos had surfaced months earlier in sworn testimony from her former campaign manager, who said Mace called them her 'stress tattoos.'