I like trash culture. I'll admit it. I get glee out of reading People, Entertainment Weekly and other celeb magazines. Right now I'm watching The Fabulous Life of Celebrity Wives, and I swear that I must have wound up in the Eisenhower era.
Why isn't there an episode about celebrity husbands? The men who have helped their women gain power or aided them in their quest for the top? Or is it that those men don't seem to consume as much in terms of designer clothing, bling, homes, cars and other crap like that?
The entire episode implies to me that being a celebrity wife is about spending your husband's money and looking fabulous while you're on his arm. Why get a wife then? Why not get a life-sized Barbie doll?
AND anudder thing: Why the hell did they lump in Ali Hewson into this mess? Yeah, she's married to Bono (everyone's favorite rock 'n roll Jesus)and she's got a fashion line, but she's not someone I'd lump into the same category as Kimora Lee Simmons (whose neck is funnier looking than mine -- and I don't design fashion). Not to mention Edun doesn't appear to be about couture, but about fair trade.
I think that the only wife that made me go "alright!" was Melinda Gates. A geek with a social conscience (see the Gates Foundation) -- she makes the Borg a little warmer and fuzzier for me. But not enough to make me like Internet Explorer 5.
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