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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It reads like the writer really, really resented being assigned to write it. Like the whole profile was a favor the publisher was doing one of his rich friends, and she drew the short stick and hated every minute of it.

The photo they used for the top of the article is hilarious. It's literally a picture of her through a window, with the outdoor reflections slightly obscuring her appearance. She's not smiling but not frowing, looks neither sexy nor chaste. Just perfectly coifed and made up and neutral. A cipher.

The profile definitely gets some digs in at her. She comes off as vapid, bland, and hypocritical. She praises her parents for keeping them out of the public eye, claims she wants to do the same, but only after explaining that she intends to bring her daughters on her book promotions with her because they are sisters and the book is about sisterhood.

The profile also often provides all of the available details about something without comment, and leaves it to the reader to draw their conclusions. For instance: there is no evidence she is evangelical. She was raised Catholic, of course. But she met Pratt at a "hip" evangelical church frequented by Justin Bieber. So you think, "oh she's evangelical." Nope, her daughters were baptized at the same Santa Monica Catholic Church she was baptized at as a baby. The impression you get is that she is actually not religious at all, just an opportunist who knows how to work an angle.

At one point Shriver says “Sometimes people don’t realize how methodically she’s gone about building her career,” and, uh, Maria, that's abundantly obvious. She wrote a book at 19 about interning at a PR firm. She wrote another book at 22 about figuring out what to do after college while she was... figuring out what to do after college. She released a book about forgiveness that curiously enough came out after it was revealed to the public that her very famous father had cheated on her very famous mother with a housekeeper and fathered a love child. The book, of course, doesn't mention any of that, but there is no question that the publisher of that book anticipated some people would buy it based on that connection, hoping for insight into her famous family.

She's clearly a methodical opportunist who has used her name and connections to build a "career" that amounts to writing bland bablum on a generic, broad topic every few years and knowing people will buy it because of her name. The whole thing is absurd.

I didn't know anything about her before reading the profile and now I have an extremely low opinion of her. Impressive![/quote]

THIS- all of this. It was tongue-in-cheek the whole time.

And Mary's Gone Cracker--- c'mon at least be relatable with Ritz or Wheat Things or oohhh those Ritz toasted crisps *now I am hungry*[/quote]

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