Saturday night, the annual LACMA Art + Film gala was held. It was very well-attended, because all of these late-summer and autumn events in LA have been well-attended. People are desperate for red carpets and parties following (hopefully) the late stages of the pandemic. Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, attended with his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez. Bezos and Sanchez have been together since 2018, when there was overlap between his marriage to Mackenzie Scott and his affair with Lauren. By 2019, Bezos and Sanchez were attending social events together and she accompanied him on business trips. They live together and he’s very happy, one would assume, since he tanked his marriage for Lauren. But is Lauren happy? Or does Lauren flirt with every man she encounters? This video is of Bezos and Sanchez greeting Leonardo DiCaprio at the Art + Film gala:
Leonardo Dicaprio meets Jeff Bezos & his new girlfriend at the Art Gala in LA pic.twitter.com/8UmvOMgJFT
— 2Cool2Blog (@2cooI2blog) November 7, 2021
One of the most perceptive comments I’ve ever read was on this blog when someone noted that Jeff Bezos “is not a hunter.” He went for a woman who was already in his orbit, someone who threw herself in his path, someone he did not have to “hunt” or really pursue whatsoever. But here’s the thing: former entertainment reporter Lauren Sanchez IS a hunter. That is the body language of a woman who is always looking for either an upgrade or a lateral move. What do you do when you’ve landed the richest man in the world? You throw yourself in the path of arguably one of the most eligible bachelors in the world. It’s second nature to her.
PS… How do I say this? Um, Jeff Bezos bought his girlfriend an upgraded chest. She was not that busty a few years ago and she definitely enhanced her lips. Her plastic surgery my God!!! How many cosmetic procedures has she had?
PPS… Leo didn’t even pose for many photos and he was there with his girlfriend Camila Morrone. Camila is 24, just FYI. She won’t “age out” of Leo’s Girlfriend Experience until next June.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Getty.
She looks like a cartoon. I don’t get it.
DF had pics of boob job and dress. Something is going on there..It’s too much for her frames.
The shot did LS and JB no favors because it looked like LC was literally looking down on them and not in a good way.
All that plastic surgery makes her look like Janice from the Muppets.
LC is the kind of woman who flirts with everyone. She’s seems like she’s always looking for some side d@ck.
And the more money attached to that d@ck, the better….Bezos lost his looks decades ago. Well, maybe he never had them, given his soul. It’s probably been black and rotten for awhile now. Same with TOBB.
As for LC, it looks like she actually cut the top of the dress off of the bottom part as you can see the unfinished seem on the top. So she basically cut a dress in half to wear it like a character in a cartoon.
🤦🏻♀️
I was about to say the same thing
My god he’s stupid. She’s a massive downgrade from his ex-wife and looks like a clown. Are these wealthy men around so much bad plastic surgery that they have no idea what an actual attractive face looks like? I can’t imagine seeing that on the pillow each morning.
I always thought the first wife was the type of woman extremely wealthy men are attracted to (i.e tall and thin, maybe someone who looks like they run marathons or something). Thin — meaning smaller chests but slim in structure — and tall are what I associate with the tastes of a certain class status. Even Leo’s girlfriends, despite being young and possibly less sophisticated given the youth factor, are in that category of thin and tall, but with the glamour of a model. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Leo, despite his penchant for youth, with a very curvaceous or big-chested woman.
Maybe that sounds classist, but I associate Jeff Bezos’s girlfriend with a way different socio-economic status (er, a little lower?). The first wife he had seems like someone you’d want on your arm at a billionaire’s party. This other lady, not so much.
@remarks are you saying McKenzie Scott is the perfect white WASP while Sanchez is not?
No, I’m saying she doesn’t have breast implants.
Mark Zuckerberg’s wife is Asian and (Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife was too?) and I think they also have the type of look wealthy men like.
I think there is a class connotation of some kind going on within their billionaire group, but I don’t know if it’s exclusively white because I’ve seen wealthy men with people of colour who have slim builds all over.
I mention the description is classist because I think different classes have different beauty tastes.
@mac, yeah I think that’s exactly what @remarks is trying to say. “Tastes of a certain class status… Someone you’d want on your arm at a billionaire’s party” = tall, thin, “meaning smaller chests… Slim in structure”
Versus the bigger chests that denote “way different (er, lower) socio economic status”
It’s a lot of roundabout words to say that specific body types are higher class – and higher “socio economic”… Something.
**So gross that this kind of attitude left me no choice but to sound like I’m defending Sanchez! She’s a tacky man eater and I’m all for dragging her. But this comment wasn’t about her directly. It was about ALL women who don’t fit a certain look. And that look has nothing to do with plastic surgery but about “certain” ideal. I don’t know how she/he meant it but the wording is… Questionable**
I apologize for my wording being questionable and how it’s wrong. I was trying to get inside the mindset of how billionaires think, but clearly I was wrong. The wording should not have been like that, and I shouldn’t have written it like that.
I see your point @remarks, and I appreciate your explanation and apology. For everybody else, I didn’t read it that @remarks specifically feels that way about how women from different races and classes look, I think it’s an observation about our society at large. How many billionaires do you see with a more curvy woman? How many billionaires do you see with women of color (unless they themselves are a person of color)? How many billionaires are with a women that looks like what is typical for their age? What does our society judge as beautiful? Women are always being judged on how they look. Even here we’re saying that LS looks tacky, looks like she’s from a reality show, etc., and then we think we know something about her personality. I’m not saying that’s *wrong* to do because y’all know I’m judging her and him too, but when is it harmful? For us as women? Even for men?
You are totally right. I have observed this a LOT in NYC. There’s no question that tall, slender (also WASPs) are considered “catches.” I guess men are finally catching on that it’s not just women who can discriminate based on height? Also, possibly, it’s a rejection of certain ethnicities?
@remarks I don’t think you should apologise because what you’re describing happens?
I’ve worked with very, VERY rich housewives when I still worked at the museum (granted, this was in Europe, so maybe there’s a difference) and they all fell under that look and lifestyle that Americans would describe as WASP-y. Except that not all of them were white, anglo-saxon or protestant, quite a few of them were from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries and I remember a(n actually nice for a change) dark-skinned Cuban lady too. But they all were slim, tall and looked like they modelled for magazines like Horse and Hound on the side. They were all highly educated but none of them worked, because their husbands made enough and they could stay at home and care for the kids (read: let the nannies care for the kids and divert themselves with feel-good charities like the one I was entertaining them at). And I always got the impression that these husbands looked exactly for that, that these yoga-skinny, flat-chested women with gloriously shiny hair and this “I went to Oxford” flair, were exactly what they needed in their elite array of status symbols. So yeah, seeing Bezos with Sanchez and her badly done surgeries is weird, I did not expect it either, since I’m used to different choices from his peers. If this sounds sexist and classist, yes, but it’s because I’m DESCRIBING a sexist and classist practice.
@remarks thanks for clarifying. And for seeing why the wording was questionable. Appreciate the lack of defensiveness.
@Sally, no one asked remarks to apologize. They did so once they saw why that phrasing was questionable, something you clearly can’t see. So let’s get even more obvious: this isn’t about “describing” douchy, snobby preferences for racially coded physiques that denote socio economic status. Obviously that happens all the time. There’s no need to explain why water is wet at this point.
This was about sounding *approving* of those preferences. @remarks saw what I meant and clarified that it wasn’t their intent.
I imagine that it is even more frightening without makeup. I don’t understand these (mainly) women that do all this to their faces. Do they not see what we see?
@remarks, I think you’re referring to body type? I’m thick and most upper class guys aren’t interested. I know what you’re saying
@remarks I think you have a point about what a trophy wife looks like. Katherine Shwartzenagger (spelling ?) is a perfect example. I have seen this too and they don’t always have to be white just well educated with a Pilates body. The mistress could be a busty white woman.
The problem with thinking that Bezos first wife is ‘the type extremely wealthy men are attracted to’ is, he wasn’t extremely wealthy when they met and got married. They started Amazon together and ran it out of their garage.
How do you think the pillow feels?
These smart type guys are stupid in other ways.
But it’s not like waking up to him is any prize either. In a weird way, they sorta reassemble each other. Both of then with their wonky eyes and potatoes heads.
Totally agree, but it’s on-brand for Bezos he’s literally a walking example of ‘money can’t buy class’
@ remarks & @ Springfield, USA, as a native Houstonian, I grew up with Lynn Wyatt being the Houston WASP-y type too. It transcends all continents. Wyatt, I think, came from a old money family with an outstanding education, hence her marriage into the Wyatt dynasty. Wyatt is in NYC all of the time with galas/benefits/philanthropist. We have them too, and Wyatt is the south’s epitome of WASP-y, to me.
I don’t think it’s so much an ethnicity thing as an over-inflated plastic fantastic thing.
Too-large implants, with overly tweaked/injected faces does not project class and deportment. It doesn’t make you look like the consort of a billionaire. It looks like a lack of judgement made worse by desperation and cheap/poorly executed work.
For example, Salma Hayek has a banging super voluptuous body and beautiful face, but doesn’t have that overly jacked look Lauren has. Both have billionaire spouses.
She reminds me of one of those cartoon Jokers from Batman
@Seaflower thats exactly what she looks like,those old school grinny DC cartoon villains.
Wtf is wrong with her face? Like this is attractive? Eww
same reaction. not just the “circus t*ts” (WAY TOO BIG for her) but also in the face. she got the Jessica Rabbit package.
or maybe more like if Jessica Rabbit and the Joker had a kid?…
Her lip fillers were done wrong bc she can’t close her lips. Also this look ages women and makes us look creepy. This exaggerated filled up plumped look is so bad and it’s making a caricature of traditionally Black and Indigenous and other WOC features. Just an FYI, Latinx is an ethnicity not race so she is a white Latina. This confirms what I already thought about Bezos: he’s a pos misogynist who needs his ego stroked by displaying a trophy gf.
She has new tatas and new bigger lips. She looks fake and awful.
Bezon’s former wife looked a lot better and is classy unlike the tata girl.
She needs a refund on those lips. They are simply horrid.
But at least they distract from the overboard Weird Science boob job.
they all look like that in LA, Dallas, and a few other places-duck lips, huge plastic t*ts, Botox, Restylane and polished to a sheen. IRL the look is way worse than in photos.
I am so, so interested to see if Leo breaks up with Camila Morrone next year. I think he’s been aware of the chatter around him never dating anyone over 25 and it’ll be so blatant if he does the same with Camilo. I predict they’ll stay together until she’s 27/28 and then break up lol
I’m predicting Leo will be like Clooney. They’ll be on rotation until he meets a woman who can be their level up.
I do wonder about this- about what Leo has to offer. I mean, he is a tremendous talent/actor, rich, and still sort of attractive but personality-wise he seems like a dud. Clooney is pretty smart(see his interviews), multi-talented(writer, director, actor) and very charming. So when he settled down with someone amazing, you could sort of see what she saw in him. I wonder what smart, self-aware, accomplished woman would be eager to settle down with Leo.
As to Lauren, I wonder if she is a bit bored with Jeff?
Yeah, Leo is no Clooney. Clooney is an artist with a point of view. Leo is Hollywoods lacklustre replacement for River Phoenix.
I think Clooney is a lot more charming than most other hollywood celebs, including Leo. His charm just oozes out of him and I think is a huge part of his appeal. I also think he’s funny and can laugh at himself and comes across as pretty smart.
Leo….he’s good looking, he’s successful and wealthy and an international star, and he likes yachts but drives a Prius (does he still do that?) I can never get a vibe for his personality from interviews or red carpet appearances etc.
That said…I wouldn’t be surprised if he did “pull a Clooney” and ends up dating and then marrying someone that none of us would expect. Stranger things have happened in this world.
I don’t know that I’d say Clooney is an “artist” but he is definitely charming, witty, smart, and politically informed. I can see why Amal Clooney fell for him. Leonardo di Caprio is informed about the environment but the rest of it, ehhhhhh….
Clooney has an amazing level of charisma. I have seen the power he has over an audience the few times I have seen him in person at TIFF and it is a special talent. Few others can work a room of hundreds like he can.
So that charm has to be even more amazing in a smaller setting.
Covid is on the wane and as soon as he (Leo) can get back to the party circuit they’ll be dunzo (when she’s 25).
There is no accounting for taste but good luck to all parties involved.
Someone needs to tell Lauren she’s not 25, nor does she look it. So much money, such obvious plastic surgery.
Bezos got demoted to #2 behind Elon Musk, and they both continue to suck as people.
Sanchez looks like a Real Housewife, I’m assuming that’s what Bezos likes. Huge new boobs, yanked up face, pitch black long hair.
Exactly
Just goes to show you that money does not equal class.
Sorry to be mean but she looks like the hookup/affair that everyone assumed he’d get out of his system once it wasn’t secret, but somehow managed to stick in it for the long run.
I think he’s just not bothered to change girlfriend’s and she knows this. He was in a long marriage until this piranha snatched him. He’s probably happy to let her do whatever she pleases as long as he can focus on his work. It seems he likes status quo in his private life
They won’t break up unless she leaves him for a better prospect
@Nina: or until someone with sharper teeth comes for Jeff. He’s lazy, not loyal.
I cannot understand why women choose to make caricatures of themselves like this. But I also remember seeing something on the internet that showed what certain celebrities/actors used to look like and what they look like now after a godawful amount of plastic surgery, injections and fillers. it was a horror show. What is wrong with aging in a natural, healthy way?
Lauren Sanchez is delusional if she thinks she has a snowball’s chance with DiCaprio.
She sure was working it though.
She doesn’t know what to do with herself. Literally. She’s all over the place and everywhere at once with those things, which, incidentally, probably took a sip of her soup before she knew the first course was on the table. They precede her by two miles when she enters a room.
Soooo tacky. But well played. I could learn a few things from her.
“which, incidentally, probably took a sip of her soup before she knew the first course was on the table.”
*DEAD*
I had to read that several times to follow. But now I’m laughing. Thanks, ThatsNotOkay.
As did I! So funny. What a gift for words.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
DYING 😂😂😂
Wouldn’t that be something – a side piece turned gf who cheats on the richest man in the world. Even all the wealth in the world can’t prevent boredom. 😂
I’m sure she already cheats, just not publicly
Ewww.
That is all.
Lauren is a pretty woman that is refusing to accept the fact that she is aging, and she is resorting to plastic surgery that is making her look like a caricature of her old self. As for Leo…I think dating 25 year olds is making him look older than he actually is. I’d give him late 50’s, not because he looks it but because the contrast is so stark between him and his girlfriends that the mind just assumes that he is a much older creepy middle aged guy.
MacKenzie must be rolling around laughing her head off!!!
Meanwhile, she’s happily remarried to a science teacher from her kids’ school who seems like a super nice, normal guy.
Notice how the exes have gone on to be happily married and Jeff and Lauren aren’t. There is no reason to have a long engagement when you are older and that rich. Me thinks he thinks he made a mistake (remember she shared his dick pics) and he is taking his time going down the aisle. Plus she has no sense of style too. They do deserve each other though.
I don’t think he’ll get married to her. Unlike Mackenzie who helped build Amazon alongside Jeff and was entitled to the billions she got in the divorce, Lauren had nothing to do with the creation of Amazon. Maybe she has stock in Amazon but I doubt it. She is not legally entitled to any of that Amazon/Blue Origin money unless they get married. If they do get married, he will insist on a prenup with a clause stating she gets no Amazon money. If he were to get divorced from Lauren, it would be a huge mess and potentially mess with whatever he wants to leave to his kids. I think he’s decided he never wants to do that again to protect his monetary interests. But who knows, I could be wrong!
It’s true, Patrick Whitesell’s wife is stunning
I’m so happy for her that she’s living her best life, and is out there making a difference in the world.
Just goes to show money isn’t everything. Dating a man worth 200 billion and still heavily flirting with others. But you do make a good point: If you’re like Lauren and always looking to go higher and higher, where do you go after landing the (second) richest man in the world? And if theoretically, she gets Leo, where does she go after that. Must be a difficult and unfulfilling life to constantly chase after things and never really stopping.
I guess she can try dying her hair blond and try to snag Musk. He loves the pseudo intellectual blond young type though, so she better bring her A game.
Well I guess after their little “who has the biggest spaceship” phallic contest its time for who’s girlfriend has the biggest rack?
Bezos doesn’t have moves or the aura of one of the richest men in the world. His gf makes him look cheap but also look at his body language around Leo. Leo is clearly brushing both of them off
You’d think Bezos would have more poise and confidence
You really nailed it. Totally agree.
Totally agree. She looks like a hooker.
Unless this is fillers/ filters, she’s inching into bad plastic surgery. The exaggerated cheeks, lips, boobs and pulled tight face…not a good look
Inching? She jumped into the bad plastic surgery pool face first! I’m assuming MacKenzie has not had work done. They are the same age and MacKenzie looks SO much younger. Lauren would probably be a gorgeous woman still, but in search of youth turned herself into the joker.
I’m sure Mackenzie has had work done – maybe not anything with incisions, but she must have had injectables. She was just smart enough to find a dermatologist or plastic surgeon who used a light hand, unlike Ms Sanchez, who, from the end result, must have run over her doctor’s dog.
MacKenzie doesn’t look like she’s had work done, certainly not in the boob area. But who knows? She came out the best in this whole mess. She’s incredibly rich, married to a nice retired schoolteacher and living her best life in Seattle.
I think Jeff is difficult, as any billionaire would be, and Sanchez does not have an easy life. Jeff has not married her. She has no claim to his fortune. She can be replaced. I’m sure he’s not thrilled that her lunging at Leo is what people remember from this event, not Jeff’s speech.
LS looks grotesque. A mockery of her old pretty self as she now looks like a Joke(r). That stretchable mouth and air pumped boobs, ugh.
Imagine leaving Mackenzie Bezos, someone who is beautiful inside and out, for a woman who acts like this.
No fool like an old fool.
I’m sure McKenzie lost her hots for him years before Lauren. I know I would have.
I’m sorry, I will always love Leo. He so clearly wants to get out of there ASAP. his hand gestures remind me actually of one his characters, just can’t think which one.
I’m not a fan of Leo but this video made me sorry for him. He seems creeped out
He went up in my estimation- a totally appropriate reaction from him. I’ve actually heard he is “somewhat” down to earth, and while his friend group is cringey I do have to respect his loyalty to his friends.
I guess I am not the only one seeing it as looking to move on to someone else.
That is her default is to look at men with some power like that. A little challenge and nothing more ans from the look of it, Leo wasn’t having it.
Leo, although worth about 150 million, is too broke for her.
Why would she think she had a chance with Leo? That’s what I’m laughing about. She’s way out of his age range. Has she never picked up a newspaper? We all know his type.
Even extremely beautiful women his own age (there are a number of them in Hollywood) don’t have a chance with him.
I think people are just reading a lot into a 30 second greeting with her bf present? Where’s the actual story?
“Why would she think she had a chance with Leo?”
She bagged the world’s richest wannabe Bond villain. Of course she thinks she has a chance with someone like Leo.
“I think people are just reading a lot into a 30 second greeting with her bf present? Where’s the actual story?”
Maybe we’re reading too much, but she did look like she was gazing at Leo with a certain admiration while her billionaire boyfriend with the long-shaped space rocket looks eclipsed.
If she were 20, the gaze would probably look amusing. But on a 50 year old whose boyfriend is standing right next to her, it is less endearing.
Leo was kind of commanding in that clip. You could see where charisma and a certain carriage in the way he was using his hands trumped billions.
If Jeff Bezos wasn’t so annoying, I’d probably insist the girlfriend was just caught up in a short video and we’re reading into something that’s not there. But since Jeff Bezos is detestable, the imagined version of the girlfriend trying too hard to look into Leo’s eyes is funnier (though I’m not entirely sure it’s imagined — she is sort of gazing up at Leo while he seems to order both of these people wealthier than he is to go and do whatever it is they’re supposed to be doing).
I guess money can buy boobs, but not brains.
Possibly unpopular opinion but I don’t find Leo attractive. Never did.
He’s better looking than Jeff Bezos and his lip fillers though.
Almost anyone is.
Leo was beautiful when he was younger, but it was a sort of attractiveness that didn’t age as well, IMO.
Exactly. Boyishly handsome doesn’t age well. See also John Cusack… I find nothing attractive about Leo, although John hung onto it quite a bit longer than most in that category.
When I was a baby I had a crush on him in the Titanic days. He was boyishly handsome but his round face has not aged well at all.
Also an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think he’s ever been a good actor. He’s just been in good projects, where the overall high quality has been able to mask the fact that he’s been the weak link in every single one of them. I can’t think of anything I’ve seen him in where he disappeared into the role.
Leo’s not my type but at least he cleaned himself up a little. He pretty much blew her off as quick as he could.
They’re from the same state, one of the poorest in the union. That’s all I’ve got.
Unless I missed the comment somewhere… are we going to ignore Bezo’s work on his face?! My goodness the fillers! I know next to Sanchez, it almost looks natural, but I was taken aback.
Yeah, his face looks weird. You’d think all that money could get a better doctor.
Wow. To think that Bezos left his beautiful, lovely, philanthropic wife for Miss Boobsalot. Mackenzie loved him before he had his billions. Boobsalot is loyal to only to his checkbook.
Mackenzie Scott wrote a novel about 15 years ago, The Testing of Luther Albright, that seemed like a heavily veiled character examination of… Someone. She’s an excellent writer. The only flaw in the novel is that the main character is SO opaque, he’s confusing. Almost like she was so close to this character, she didn’t see that it wouldn’t be as clear to the reader. It’s a case study in repression and compartmentalization. Worth reading
Gotta hand it to Leo; he entertained *none* of her and commanded all of that situation. Love the deft little hand gesture of dismissal.
Isn’t she a little too mature for Leo? From what I’ve heard, Leo likes his ladies to be younger than his biggest film of all time. “Titanic” is 24 years old and will soon be aging out itself.
As for Bezos, can’t stand that guy. He reminds me of the robber barons of another age.
Bezos is a bozo for going with her.
Holy mammaries, whoever her plastic surgeon is did her so, so dirty. Implants rarely look good on anyone, that’s just my opinion. Maybe some of you know people who got breast implants that look really good and natural but it seems in Hollywood they always go overboard with the women often looking like cartoons. She already had the real Housewife face going, now she has the rack to match I guess.
I’m sure she asked for it dirty
Oh Lauren. You are about 20 years too old for Leo. Lol.
Yikes, poor thing! Her face and chest are such an overdone, grotesque mess, I actually feel sorry for her but what in the Sam Heck is going on at her midriff? It looks like there’s a chunk missing where her abs should be on the left side…Photoshop fail? I can’t figure it out…
Yeah Leo definitely didn’t age well, at least in the looks department. And that mustache makes him look villainous. As for Lauren, it looks like she’s really leaning into the “rich man’s bimbo girlfriend” stereotype. She needs to leave her face (and boobs) alone.
Her boobs look ridiculously huge. I just think she was a little star struck and swooning. Anyone over 30 is too old for him and this is another way to drag Bezos. Both her and Bezos look tiny next to DiCaprio.
She looks ridiculous. I don’t understand how looking like a cartoon character is better than just aging. I do wonder if I’m a decade or so all this plastic surgery is going to look really dated and a different look will be in. Kind of like how those dumb stamped on Instagram eye brows were popular years ago and now seem so silly except her whole face and body is gonna look dated and silly in a few years.
Wait the epic love story between these two isn’t working out quite like he hoped? Hahahaha who could ever have predicted. She looks like and anime tin man.
Bless her heart she is about 40 years too old for Di Caprio. Then again, flirting is sometimes a form of communication for people. It’s just what they do.
The reality is that this guy was and is a nerdy type. When he got rich he was able to trade in his starter wife for this bimbo. Sorry, but that’s the way she looks.
Her mouth looks painful. Do you think the work she has had on it is permanent and she’ll never be able to fully close her lips again?
We are thinking about this all wrong: Imagine Bezos – he paid $36B to be with the side chick permanently and she is side eyeing Leo. Betcha bezos dumps her for cause now.
That dress probably costs more than I make per year but it looks so cheap. Like I have seen better dresses on Project Runway made for $300.
I could not agree more
This is 360 degrees of ICK.
She looks like she is trying to rub her fake boobies up against his hip. He’s all like “ok, old lady, gotta go now”. Lol.
She is leaning with her whole chest!💀
That’s the nicest comment I could come up with, not sorry.
LOL!!
How can you have enough money to build a rocket ship, and not enough money for decent plastic surgery?!
Interesting discussion about class because no matter how much money you have, that will always factor into how people perceive you. ‘Old’ money has always been considered the ‘classiest’, and those people wielded their social status like a club. Now that the nouveau riche have taken over the world, on the surface it’s not quite the same but it’s still quite significant. Clooney comes across as having much more ‘class’ than Leo…they’re from different generations, so there’s that. What always bugged me about Clooney, though, was that his charm elided the fact that he tended to date these oddly ‘low-class’ women. Then he went and married someone of eminent social status/class – beautiful, extremely well-educated, and with nary a whisper about her personal love life (and god forbid, any suggestion that she had a wild sexual past). It really struck me at the time, that this was a kind of ‘madonna/whore complex’ scenario, except that, again, he was so charming and politically aware and gave great interviews, that it simply wouldn’t be taken as such. It was the classic dude sowing his wild oats like CRAZY, finally meeting some pristine woman of unreproachable morals and accomplishments, and that was what eventually ‘tamed’ him. I HATE that narrative because I think it’s BS. And it was as if any speculation about her romantic past was forbidden. I don’t mean those crappy articles where previous boyfriends say shitty things about her; I mean there was NOTHING. She was a cipher, lauded for her looks and pedigree and I found it really limiting bc I had so little sense of what kind of a person she actually was. Then again, it was a huge celebrity marriage, so I’m sure they locked down all kinds of info in order to control how they were perceived. I dislike the situation only because women are NEVER permitted the same leeway as Clooney or Leo (goes without saying). It’s extremely rare to have a woman with genuine sexual agency who fiercely values her independence behave the same way as these two dudes and then at some point ‘settle down’ and marry a ‘catch’. What does that even mean?? Anyway, hope they’re happy…everyone has to create their own happiness within an imperfect system, so there ya go!
Beard.
Okay, someone please explain to me why everyone fawns over Leonardo Di Caprio? There are other rich Hollywood bachelors that are less doughy in the face.
MacKenzie must be laughing her head off.