Anonymous wrote:Big Sis all with the sads reflecting on how she used to have My Big Family Spring Breaks with all the rowdy kids and the friends and the lake house and the husband and the life and now she’s alone and working in her house all week.
Anonymous wrote:Oh, wow. I haven’t followed Jen Hatmaker for years. Can we just all give the poor woman some privacy so she can reset in peace? Just because someone is asking for the attention, doesn’t mean you need to give it to them. If she’s not getting clicks, she’ll eventually find another job, and hopefully, some peace.
Anonymous wrote:She has honest options:
-write articles for Today show about parenting and other stuff they’ve called her as a guest. I know she’s out of the thick of parenting and her kids don’t want to be her content but she writes those motivational blogs pretty well
-promote the book and try to get some food sponsorships
-try to wedge her way into Legacy as a more full time role to get donations that’s more of a job than board member.
-do something similar with Noonday or something in that charitable vein
She doesn’t have to sell clothes and MLK makeup. That’s not sustainable as a near 50 yo, she’s not good at it bc she has no fashion sense and doesn’t have good skin to promote skincare or beauty products. She doesn’t have to set up a cheap and tacky cruise or worse, these me courses.
Stop spending month long vacations on yourself bc if you can’t afford it and don’t want a real job then you’re creating this spiral for yourself.
There are ways out of this situation she created.
Anonymous wrote:It’s go to be terrifying having a season of financial wealth then experience a downward ratcheting of financial security. Not all at once, but over time. Jen got used to a certain East lifestyle of MeCamps and jet-setting and expensive dinners and concert and Broadway trips. One can sustain that when one is inking $100,000 book advance deals and filling theaters on speaking tours. But imagine trying to do that plus pay for cosmetic surgeries and health care premiums and mortgage payments and assistant salaries and car notes and everything else when you are now making 1/3rd of what you made just four or five years ago??
Anonymous wrote:I've started to wonder how much of the desperation we're seeing with the shilling is about being able to maintain the lifestyle she's become accustomed to. I have no clue what sort of alimony she's getting, if any, and I know there is speculation about possible misuse of money on Brandon's part pre-divorce. But I know a lot of people who had to majorly downsize their lives after a divorce and I wonder if the seemingly relentless self-promotion is driven by her need to keep up appearances. It seems that a lot of work went into that house and I wouldn't want to leave it either, but it's her and one kid at home, so I just wonder how she maintains everything if her main source of income is book royalties and affiliate marketing. That would be super stressful.