Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt’s Picture-Perfect Life

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Anonymous wrote:Chris Pratt is a tool and Katherine has a half-brother from her dad’s affair that she ignores. No one believes her life is perfect.

I think the subtext is the article is that she’s deluding herself.

How often does her husband see his special needs child with Anna Farris?

I think the subtext of your post is you’re jealous and projecting your own unhappiness and disbelief that someone can actually be genuinely super happy being pretty, thin, devout and filthy rich.

I suppose you can be happy and also delusional by ignoring the reality of your life. It’s dangerous though, and hurts a lot of people, when this is portrayed as a perfect life.

But it makes her a perfect wife. I was shocked by the thread on the relationship forum, but this is what men want. A happy, encouraging wife without any problems who earns some money in a flexible manner that doesn't require DH to compromise his own career.

Life has problems, that is what life is.
You want to go back to 1950 with so called white picket fences and women having dinner on the table by five, which no problems like Leave it to Beaver or Father knows Best YUCK!

No? I said I was shocked that's what modern men expect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must be nice to live a perfect life. She writes that her childhood was perfect. Her marriage is perfect. No complaints. Had a baby around the same time as her and my life is anything but perfect!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/style/katherine-schwarzenegger-pratt.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-styles-general&variant=show®ion=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc

Her father has an affair and impregnated the. Housekeeper. Parents get divorced , scandal and tabloid headlines. She's a Kennedy and has all their baggage.

Also. No one, and I mean no one, has a perfect life. Her life is extremely privileged but the slings and arrows of life will catch up with her.

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Can't read it due to paywall, but will just go based on what people on DCUM say. I am happily married after coming from an abusive household. I have been married 20 years and still can't believe my husband is real and just a genuinely great person. I am bragging about him here, but never ever brag to anyone but him IRL. I don't need to prove anything to anyone and I know how awful people can be and would never want to make anyone feel bad. It's almost cliche that the people who brag are hiding major issues. Heck the family I grew up in was known as perfect-happy marriage, kids with top grades, yada yada and it was a living hell and my parents threatened to kill eachother on regular basis. I was forced to put on an act in public so they could show off. People who need others to envy them have deep seeded issues IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of seething on here. Broke, childless and miserable triggered by a happy, rich and pretty Christian mother who has it all.

God, this is the same poster over and over again who is just irate that people aren’t jealous of the Christian housewife. Talk about triggers and projection!

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Anonymous wrote:Chris Pratt is a tool and Katherine has a half-brother from her dad’s affair that she ignores. No one believes her life is perfect.

I think the subtext is the article is that she’s deluding herself.

How often does her husband see his special needs child with Anna Farris?

I think the subtext of your post is you’re jealous and projecting your own unhappiness and disbelief that someone can actually be genuinely super happy being pretty, thin, devout and filthy rich.

I suppose you can be happy and also delusional by ignoring the reality of your life. It’s dangerous though, and hurts a lot of people, when this is portrayed as a perfect life.

But it makes her a perfect wife. I was shocked by the thread on the relationship forum, but this is what men want. A happy, encouraging wife without any problems who earns some money in a flexible manner that doesn't require DH to compromise his own career.

Yeah. When I married my husband 20 years ago we were both top graduates from top schools. He would never have dated any woman that wasn’t serious about her career and with top academic credentials. But now, 20 years down the road, it’s clear he would prefer a wife who works out all day and makes sure the house is spotless and organized. He keeps telling me I can quit and then I can go to the gym every day and get the house organized. Im clearly not the perfect wife.

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really drives the bitter malcontent wannabe girl bosses here nuts when an idle woman is pretty, skinny, rich, married, with kids — and devout. Clutch the pearls - she CAN’T be perfect. Or maybe she is and it makes you jealous as hell.

They are basically the HBO Gemstones.

Virtue signalers that wouldn't know how to be real Christians to save their life and I say that as an atheist. I'm more Christian than their fake a$$es

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She reminds me of Ivanka trump. Thin veneer. Little substance.

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Anonymous wrote:She reminds me of Ivanka trump. Thin veneer. Little substance.

Yes! Thank you for the perfect comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of seething on here. Broke, childless and miserable triggered by a happy, rich and pretty Christian mother who has it all.

God, this is the same poster over and over again who is just irate that people aren’t jealous of the Christian housewife. Talk about triggers and projection!

It's Brunch Granny and she's a tiresome bore who repeats this crap on any thread even tangentially related.

She must be the type (self professed Grandma by 42!) and is obviously her calling in life to troll these threads.

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Probably relationship problems are happening. The celebs start selling the happy marriage line in a big way when things are going poorly.

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Anonymous wrote:I also did not understand the point of the article. Is she selling us her happiness? Why do we care? Is it a humblebrag? Is the NYT mocking her? Or is it a piece they had to do as a favor for her well connected family and spouse?

Don’t get me wrong- have nothing against them. Just don’t understand why a relative nobody is in the NYT gloating about her life.

She has a new book out.

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Anonymous wrote:How tedious.

Are we being punked? This reads like it was written by a ChatGPT and this is a bizarre picture:

No, I think she’s the one getting punked.

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Anonymous wrote:Weren't they member of the hillsong church where the pastor was a huge cheater? Also, the church is notoriously anti LGBTQ.

Wow what a dig! One of their pastors (was he ever at the church they attended?) was scummy and was removed from the church. You totally took her down with that one!

So is Katherine in this thread or what?? This combined with the Brooklyn dog comment makes me think so.

[Anonymous]

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?).