Collingswood dwarf couple sues over E! TV jokes

Cara and Gibson Reynolds are not "fertile little tattooed pageant parents who enjoy baking."

They're a married, professional couple from Collingswood, Camden County, both born as achondroplastic dwarfs, who struggled to conceive a child.

In 2006, a year after the couple's first daughter died, they agreed to an interview with the Associated Press to discuss issues surrounding couples who have genetic conditions and are trying to conceive. A photographer took their picture, holding hands on their front porch.

Fast forward three years, and that same picture was being used by E! Entertainment Television's popular show "The Soup" to spoof the onslaught of reality TV programs that had popped up about big families, dwarfs, cake and tattoos.

"The Soup" came up with its own show, "Fertile Little Tattooed Pageant Parents Who Enjoy Baking," and used the photo with images of tattooed babies in sashes and lingerie superimposed all around the Reynoldses.

Now the couple has filed a defamation lawsuit in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court against Comcast, E! and the host of "The Soup," Joel McHale, claiming that their doctored image has wreaked havoc on their emotions.

Neither the Reynoldses nor their attorney returned phone calls for comment yesterday, and a spokeswoman for NBC Universal, a parent company of E!, declined to comment.

A Comcast representative did not return a request for comment.

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