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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, cool kid adjacent. I realized watching tonight’s clip of Jen that she’s always been selling herself. The packaging may shift but she’s constantly building a cult around her personality. That’s how she scored a multi book contract as a 30 something with little expertise in anything. She once talked about being warned about the dangers getting that much voice with her book deal at such a young age with her cuteness and personality. Essentially it could lead to pride and losing herself. Welp….But honestly she’s a gifted saleswoman, who has an unwavering belief in herself. I feel a little bewitched myself by her conversational intimacy at times.  
A pp wrote how she plays on the vulnerabilities of the lonely and disenfranchised aching for intimate friendship, but it’s all smoke and mirrors. [/quote]

"A gifted saleswoman with an unwavering belief in herself." Yes! I think this is very true. Does anyone remember the story...I think it's from Seven...where she talks about speaking at a conference and I think she was talking about homeless people or something and then felt compelled to take off her boots (which apparently she really, really loved...it's probably a Texas thing) to donate to the homeless and then hundreds of women were crying and coming and taking the shoes off their feet and leaving them at the altar? You have to have a LOT of 'sales' power to get someone to leave their shoes and walk outside barefoot to go back to wherever. (Me, I'm practical. Forget grand gestures, I'm going home, hopping on the internet and donating cold hard cash to Samaritan's Feet or something like that.) But that's what makes her so good at what she does. Whatever she's doing, talking about, etc she BELIEVES in with her whole heart. I know I said earlier that she wasn't authentic, I'm maybe slightly revising that. I'm trying to think of a word for someone who believes wholeheartedly in whatever they happen to believe in the moment, but what they believe can shift rapidly. (Histrionic is the first word that comes to mind, but that's not quite it.)[/quote]

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