PR lady Lara Shriftman was so cute as a youngster, before she got all fake-tan and plastic surgery-looking on us. An enterprising former classmate of LAI-ra's ("she would always correct people and say it's LAIRA, not LAURA," our tipster reports) sent along a photo of her in elementary school, as well as a point-by-point rebuttal of parts of the seminal 1998 article on Lara and her cohorts, Vanessa Grigoriadis' NY Mag piece "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Both pieces of Shriftmanobilia after the jump.

Power-PR lady Lara Shriftman—she of clients like Kimora Lee Simmons, Gwen Stefani's fashion line L.A.M.B., and, uh, OK! Magazine, and subject of that 1998 New York magazine article about the new breed of power publicists—has a MySpace page! Here's what she has to say about herself: