Are there any genuinely normal, well-adjusted celebrities

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Viola Davis strikes me as sane and grounded from what I can know from IG.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a number of celeb parents at our kid’s school. A few act like they’re in witness protection wearing caps and sunglasses everywhere even though there’s no one to see them and none of the other parents care. The more relaxed/normal ones are easy to spot and are genuinely open and nice. My kid is friends with several celeb kids and when they spend time at their homes they say the parents are nice, normal moms and dads.

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Emily Blunt is in the wpp
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal seem pretty normal and down to earth.

People say Maggie gylenhaal is actually incredibly rude.

A good friend of mine grew up with Maggie and Jake and has always said he was shy/nice and she was a huge jerk even when they were kids.

But also people are complex and I don't think any one person's experience is definitive. I actually think how celebs treat fans is not the best measure for how down to earth they are, because interacting with a fan as a celebrity is a very weird and specific experience. You could be a very down to earth person and come off as rude and aloof to fans because lots of down to earth people don't like being accosted by strangers on the street. Meanwhile there are people who are famous for being very kind to fans and they are likely very good at projecting a fake version of themselves that seems authentic because I think that's the only way to graciously deal with being very recognizable. That's impressive, but not "normal."

I was the student of a famous author. This person was snobby and highly critical of everyone and everything. I was at an event and watched them be very polite and present with fans, the kind of Hoi polloi that they rolled their eyes at. Taught me a lesson about public versus private faces.

This exactly.

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I don't think you can tell anything from an interaction with them or their social media or their public image.

People who aren't nice people can have moments that are kind and sweet and come across great and people are are nice people can have moments of irritability, annoyance, frustration.

I am most impressed by those who stay fully out of the limelight and just raise their families or live their lives separately from their career. Their career is their job but they don't seek fame and just want to be left alone outside of work duties.

People are so multifaceted. How do we really define normal or well adjusted? Even on this thread it seems to be defined in many different ways

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I think normal is different than well adjusted. Take Dave Grohl, for example. I practically worship him and agree he seems pretty well adjusted and like a wonderful guy. But it’s pretty well known that he and his wife have an understanding that he can sleep around when he’s on the road or at least they did years ago.

Is that normal? I mean, I imagine most of us don’t have that understanding or situation with our husband and father of our children, but I can see why she would put up with it. He seems like a great dad and they have a great life. If she divorced him, I’m sure financially she would do fine, but a couple years later he would just end up marrying someone else and probably having more kids with her and that would really affect and split the time with her kids and they wouldn’t do things as a family. Plus, I imagine she’s playing the long game and he’s probably settled down quite a bit now that he’s in his 50s and doesn’t do that as much. Would be hard to divorce him in his early 40s to see him get married and settled down with someone else.

I doubt most of us would put up with that from our “normal” husbands.

BTW I’ve heard the same about Matt Damon.

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Gary Sinise seems like a fundamentally good guy.

I have never heard anything bad about the following:

Saoirse Ronan
Pierce and Keeley Smith Brosnan
Liam Neeson
Michelle Yeoh
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves

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Anonymous wrote:I think normal is different than well adjusted. Take Dave Grohl, for example. I practically worship him and agree he seems pretty well adjusted and like a wonderful guy. But it’s pretty well known that he and his wife have an understanding that he can sleep around when he’s on the road or at least they did years ago.

Is that normal? I mean, I imagine most of us don’t have that understanding or situation with our husband and father of our children, but I can see why she would put up with it. He seems like a great dad and they have a great life. If she divorced him, I’m sure financially she would do fine, but a couple years later he would just end up marrying someone else and probably having more kids with her and that would really affect and split the time with her kids and they wouldn’t do things as a family. Plus, I imagine she’s playing the long game and he’s probably settled down quite a bit now that he’s in his 50s and doesn’t do that as much. Would be hard to divorce him in his early 40s to see him get married and settled down with someone else.

I doubt most of us would put up with that from our “normal” husbands.

BTW I’ve heard the same about Matt Damon.

Different strokes and all that, but this is one heck of an extended justification for accepting a partner's infidelities. You OK?

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LL Cool J
Debbie Allen

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I’m not sure why so many PPs think Dave Grohl is so well adjusted. He’s an AIDS denialist. Anyone who doesn’t believe that HIV destroys the immune system and causes AIDS is not well adjusted. WTF?

https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_AIDS

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Betty White

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Honestly, I’m going to say Dolly Parton because she’s got a clear public persona and keeps her private life thoroughly private and spends her money on everyday things (for others — thinking of the imagination library among other things here).

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Steve Carell?

Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie prinze jr seem to lead pretty quiet lives

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These are the ones who seem pretty well-adjusted and have strong family ties and friendships:

Reese Witherspoon
Jen Garner
Emily Blunt
Ryan Gosling
Emma Stone
Jen Aniston
Courtney Cox
Jimmy Kimmel

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Anonymous wrote:Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick? They definitely present a very ideal social media image.

+1

Didn’t read the whole thread but the KB roommate story is just about absolute confirmation of this.

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Alice Cooper.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the definitive list. Normal (and by normal I mean well-adjusted, intelligent, functional with stable children where it applies, etc):

Katie Couric
Jen Garner
Sandy Bullock
Dave Grohl
Henry Winkler
Matt Damon
Chris Evans
Seth Meyers
Adam Sandler
Conan O'Brien
Mick Jagger
Adam Sandler
Ron Howard
Laura Linney
Barbra Streisand (despite her Ozempic comment)
Cynthia Nixon
Lisa Kudrow

I have to run but there are more

I couldn’t agree less with the many on here I have met or worked with. Ugh.