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Post by margojata on Aug 28, 2014 14:25:24 GMT -4
That ice bucket challenge video is maybe the first time in a long time I found her cute and kind of dorky. I hope she is in a good place today and has finally let go. It's easy to do that when you're happy so here's hoping she really is. I don't think they communicate announcements anymore. Maybe in the beginning but it's been so long since they divorced don't think they owe that to one another any longer. Yeah, I've had issues with liking her for years, but the ice bucket was adorable. It seemed completely sincere and "real", as opposed to how I always see her playing the PR game. Case in point - she and Justin recently celebrated the 2 year anniversary of their engagement (no really). I'm still side-eying this Chelsea Handler BFF thing, though. Ugh
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 15:52:04 GMT -4
I'm just going to assume that Chelsea Handler has possession of blackmail videos on all these A List BFFs of hers. That's the only logical explanation.
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Post by Ladybug on Aug 28, 2014 16:22:07 GMT -4
I'm so glad Handler's show ended before the announcement of Brad and Angie's wedding.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 16:35:24 GMT -4
Haha! Okay, I am usually not a conspiracy theorist, but I actually can see that being a big ol' purposeful, planned eff you. It was literally hours after Chelsea lost her platform to make fun of them.
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Post by Foo on Sept 1, 2014 2:33:32 GMT -4
I'm starting to have a lot of sympathy for her now. Not like "Poor Jen!" feelings, but actual sympathy. It actually must be pretty tough to be hounded by the tabloids because you were married to someone once and there are no babyfriends to keep you company. I liked her ALS video, thought she was charming, and I'm know she's insanely privileged and whatnot, but I feel for her. I wish they'd stop talking about her womb so much.
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Post by technicolor on Sept 1, 2014 4:55:00 GMT -4
Yes, I know that the Vanity Fair article played a large part in setting the narrative for her forever. And ever. And that it was calculated on her part and on the part of her PR team. It's been a double-edged sword ever since. She profited from it and from the attention on her personal life (the magazine covers, her status as a celebrity, monetary profits associated with that), but it has IMO overshadowed everything she's done since. I'm not sure that was the plan.
I also don't know if once this thing got going and the tabloids recognized that there's profit in flogging that tired story again and again, that there was a way for her to stop it. She plays into it sometimes. But even if she doesn't, that train just keeps going. At a certain point perhaps you just resign yourself to it and say, "hell, might as well profit from that nonsense". But sometimes she's seemed really frustrated with all of that.
Perhaps Nicole Kidman after the Tom Cruise divorce is what they were striving for. But Kidman is more highly respected as an actress and really hit her stride during that time. So there was immediate focus on her professional achievements. And then she remarried and had children in her new marriage as well. Unfortunately that sexist narrative is still going strong, that a woman not having a family is somehow "lacking".
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Sept 1, 2014 11:52:58 GMT -4
I can sympathize with Jen. But at the same time, I feel like there are other childfree celebs like Cameron Diaz and Renee Zellweger who simply don't make a big deal out of it, so neither does the media. She made a mistake being so defensive in that VF interview.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2014 12:06:57 GMT -4
I don't know, I feel like Cameron Diaz does get questioned about being childfree all the time. You're right about Renee Z., though. Maybe only being a "serious actress" buys you a pass from mothering.
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Post by Witchie on Sept 1, 2014 12:11:24 GMT -4
But...Renee & Cameron have never played the mothering card in interviews and I feel like Jen has dipped into that well one too many times to appease a certain segment of her fanbase. I'd have more sympathy for her if she hadn't played that game to begin with and has set some very clear boundaries. My womb is off-topic and frankly none of their business. Be more like Cameron. It hasn't hurt her box office at all.
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Post by narm on Sept 1, 2014 12:37:28 GMT -4
But that VF piece was what, nearly a decade ago? Maybe she thought she would have kids. Who knows. Her interview was her public response back then. She had the right to say whatever she wanted, because lord knows the other two points in the triangle had their own narrative to benefit them. Maybe she is still ambivalent about children. I'm not sure flogging her on her PR strategies from back when she was cheated on by half of the World's Hottest Couple all the way to now really benefits any feminist progress on the motherhood/child free debate. Especially given her latest statement on the subject.
She sure seems to engender a lot of projection, from how she should have handled things. Maybe that comes from being America's sitcoms sweetheart?
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