Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt’s Picture-Perfect Life

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Anonymous wrote:I do enjoy following her social media. I'm also a millennial mom of young kids, but I know my life is actually nothing like hers. It's inspirational even if fictional or unattainable.

I'm not sure you know what any of these words mean.

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I mean, I'm sure PP can find a dumb guy who abandoned his first family if she's really so "inspired"!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do enjoy following her social media. I'm also a millennial mom of young kids, but I know my life is actually nothing like hers. It's inspirational even if fictional or unattainable.

I'm not sure you know what any of these words mean.

+1
I mean, I'm sure PP can find a dumb guy who abandoned his first family if she's really so "inspired"!

Haha I'm the PP. I enjoy it and social media for what is - an idealized facade. I wish I had the perfect life that she thinks she has. I definitely don't want Chris as a husband and I don't think Arnold modeled a great example of a husband for her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do enjoy following her social media. I'm also a millennial mom of young kids, but I know my life is actually nothing like hers. It's inspirational even if fictional or unattainable.

I'm not sure you know what any of these words mean.

+1
I mean, I'm sure PP can find a dumb guy who abandoned his first family if she's really so "inspired"!

Haha I'm the PP. I enjoy it and social media for what is - an idealized facade. I wish I had the perfect life that she thinks she has. I definitely don't want Chris as a husband and I don't think Arnold modeled a great example of a husband for her.

It's the same reason I love Hallmark shows and movies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do enjoy following her social media. I'm also a millennial mom of young kids, but I know my life is actually nothing like hers. It's inspirational even if fictional or unattainable.

I'm not sure you know what any of these words mean.

+1
I mean, I'm sure PP can find a dumb guy who abandoned his first family if she's really so "inspired"!

Haha I'm the PP. I enjoy it and social media for what is - an idealized facade. I wish I had the perfect life that she thinks she has. I definitely don't want Chris as a husband and I don't think Arnold modeled a great example of a husband for her.

It's the same reason I love Hallmark shows and movies.

Oh that is a great insight because I hate Hallmark movies too. So maybe her product is just not for me. No shade, I love a lot of things other people don’t like. I mean shade on her frankly, she skeeves me out. But not on you for liking hallmark movies!

[Anonymous]

I'm so intrigued what a difference eyebrow shape makes between her and her mother. And intrigued Katherine looks amazing with downsloped straight eyebrows. Generally I assume upward and arched is more attractive. Why am I so intrigued by this I don't know but compare mother and daughter and see

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so intrigued what a difference eyebrow shape makes between her and her mother. And intrigued Katherine looks amazing with downsloped straight eyebrows. Generally I assume upward and arched is more attractive. Why am I so intrigued by this I don't know but compare mother and daughter and see

She looks average but at least not hideous like her mom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so intrigued what a difference eyebrow shape makes between her and her mother. And intrigued Katherine looks amazing with downsloped straight eyebrows. Generally I assume upward and arched is more attractive. Why am I so intrigued by this I don't know but compare mother and daughter and see

She looks average but at least not hideous like her mom.

Maria looks fine and her hair is amazing.

[Anonymous]

I’m amazed her mother raised such a horrible human

Real handmaidens Chris Pratt gross

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Anonymous wrote:I’m amazed her mother raised such a horrible human

Real handmaidens Chris Pratt gross

Blue butterflies Chris Pratt happy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so intrigued what a difference eyebrow shape makes between her and her mother. And intrigued Katherine looks amazing with downsloped straight eyebrows. Generally I assume upward and arched is more attractive. Why am I so intrigued by this I don't know but compare mother and daughter and see

She looks average but at least not hideous like her mom.

She looks exactly like her mom, just younger

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so intrigued what a difference eyebrow shape makes between her and her mother. And intrigued Katherine looks amazing with downsloped straight eyebrows. Generally I assume upward and arched is more attractive. Why am I so intrigued by this I don't know but compare mother and daughter and see

She looks average but at least not hideous like her mom.

She looks exactly like her mom, just younger

No, her mother isn’t as pretty as her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm so intrigued what a difference eyebrow shape makes between her and her mother. And intrigued Katherine looks amazing with downsloped straight eyebrows. Generally I assume upward and arched is more attractive. Why am I so intrigued by this I don't know but compare mother and daughter and see

She looks average but at least not hideous like her mom.

She looks exactly like her mom, just younger

No, she's definitely a blend of Maria and Arnold. She has Maria's mouth and cheekbones (and hair), but Arnold's chin and brow. It's easier to tell with old photos of Maria and Arnold:





To me the chin is where it is most obvious -- Maria. has a pointy chin and Katherine's is square like her jaw. But PP is right that the brows really show the difference too. I actually think Katherine is smart not to try and pluck/wax an arch into her brows and to just work with her lower brow bone and play up her eyes as much as possible. It's less classically beautiful but more natural, plus she may actually like to maintain that resemblance to her dad for a variety of reasons.

I don't think Katherine looks like a Kennedy/Shriver the way a lot of those kids do. Arnold's genes are pretty strong with her.

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The Kennedy hair genes are strong!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The article is clearly meant to be insulting but that doesn’t mean it was well done. It’s just sort of nothing for me. It didn’t land.

I fully agree that she is icky. No one is mad or jealous about the details of her life. Most people find creating a public, personal brand that’s so sanitized and sanctimonious to be kind of gross. It feels pompous and hubristic. But I actually think maybe what’s happening is those of us outside of Christian culture just aren’t used to it, whereas people inside Christian-land don’t find it jarring or unusual.

It’s “nothing” and doesn’t land because that’s what the writer absorbed from Katherine; there wasn’t much substance or depth. There’s a lack of vulnerability and relatability and the article reflected its subject. And that’s fine - Katherine isn’t a bad person, and she isn’t harming anyone; she’s benign. Some people might emulate or aspire to that but most won’t pay much attention (although how were her books best sellers?).

Maybe it is also her cultivated persona to the degree that she learned to share next to nothing as a form of self protection. She does sound young and naive, but can you imagine the internalized shame these children had to work through? She's going the other way....maybe in reaction to her father. Uber good, uber wholesome, uber private and "nothing bad to see here" which makes sense as the child of the grandiose, shameless, ugky and entitled Schwarzenegger. My fear is just, she married a milder version of her father....the quieter version. I hope not. But I wonder.

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Anonymous wrote:If she feels her life is perfect and she had the perfect childhood who are we to say otherwise?

Objectively, her life isn’t perfect. Dad cheated on mom. Half brother she ignores (?). Navigating being a step mom. Husband has made several public missteps.

But I agree with you - maybe it’s toxic positivity, maybe it’s her faith, or maybe she’s just a really healthy, happy individual who can deal with the imperfections of life. Either way, if she’s happy and feels her life is perfect, good for her.

Yes, good for her! Absolutely. The goal in life is being content. But I don’t see why there’s an article in the NYT about a woman who’s content because she was born wealthy and famous and married wealthy and famous. How is that breaking news at 11?

This. Reading it makes me think a bit about Maria Shriver and how she, of course, is also a nepo baby who got a huge leg up in life. But I actually have found her a compelling speaker in the past (I haven't thought about her for years) and she did have a fairly successful career in broadcast journalism that I think was earned to the degree that she was good at it. Obviously she got her start because of her name and connections, but she has a real presence on camera, is smart and insightful when she speaks, and also has the aesthetics of television news and commentary down (her voice is well suited for it but I would bet you anything she also worked at that). So I can imagine reading a profile of a 33-year-old Maria Shriver and thinking "huh, she's lucky in a lot of ways but still an interesting person." I wouldn't sit there thinking "why does this profile exist, why am I being asked to think or look at this person?" She had a real career in her own right and it always seemed like she had something to say that was worth at least hearing out.

That is not the impression I get from Katherine at all. She just seems empty. Nothing she says means anything. I can't think of a single quote or anecdote from this profile that would stick with me, except maybe the image of her standing in her house holding a child on one hip will eating gourmet crackers with the other. Which is not a particularly impressive takeaway for someone who is theoretically promoting a book.

I agree and am so surprised Maria raised a sniving twat. Someone who kowtows to her crap husband. Maybe it is not far off given what her dad did. But Maria is a smart woman how she raised this idiot I do not understand.