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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I came  relatively late to her book/podcast world. And, even though I’m a decade older, I still found wisdom and humor in her work.  I found her to be authentic  and as a fellow “3” I identified with her.  The problem I have with the current Jen is that, [b]after years of revealing everything[/b], and using those revelations to help herself and her audience learn and grow, she now doesn’t reveal  the most important event in her life.  It feels like a betrayal.  It feels dishonest.  I’m sure there is a voyeuristic element to wanting to know “what happened.” But, there also is a genuine sense that after marketing her self as super real, she is now …. not.  And we don’t know what the “not” is.   [/quote]

Interesting.  I had a different reaction.

When everything came crashing down, we learned she [b]didn't reveal everything[/b].  That the story we had been fed was illusory and filled with lies.  That their "perfect" marriage was in real life marked by angst, emotional distance and lack of sex for 3 years.

Her brand was built on this illusion.  Not only has she lost the core of her brand, she's lost credibility.  Her followers can't trust her because everything they believed to be true turned out to be a marketing campaign. Combine that with going through a painful divorce and it now feels like she's just flailing around to figure out what might stick instead. While I can't imagine how hard this must be and wouldn't wish on anyone the pain of a public divorce, it highlights how troubling being a social influencer is and the false adulation that's tied up in many of those personalities.  She needs to heal in private...trying to keep up the charade of I-have-it-all-together-and-you-can-too-for-only-$69 is just more of the phony folly.  And most of her former followers now know it.

I don't think she owes us details about her divorce.  There's multiple lives wrapped up in that (Brandon's, her children) and it's not her place to disclose things that could infringe on other's privacy, so I respect that.

She had a niche that her brand was built upon. Now that that niche has disintegrated (messy bun Christian family leader), she's desperately searching for a new one.  I'm not sure she sees how adrift she comes across. What she probably needs is to get off social media for a long time to reflect, heal and reset. The conundrum is that her income is tied to social media, so the painful charade continues. The perils of being an Influencer.

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