<p>I checked out that interview, she actually is more appealing in video than still pics. Perhaps she is more attractive in person than in those initial photos. They were very awkward ‘wanna be’ photos, but not everyone is photogenic.</p>
<p>I bet Samantha Brick is like many aging attractive or semi-attractive women I know - spending enormous amounts of time, money, and energy on making sure she looks good. Make-up, fashion, hair styling, beauty treatments, battling back against normal aging, special diets, gym memberships, etc. Then she turns around and complains about the burdens of looking good. </p>
<p>Crocodile tears.</p>
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I used to work with an attorney who was a successful movie actress before going to law school. She was very beautiful in the Hollywood sense (and I mean this is a compliment), she was also kind, funny, sweet and a bit wicked. She was married to a doctor who was decidedly plain looking, but he watched everything she ate and commented on it. He married a goddess and felt that looking that was part of her marital obligation. (He actually said that.) Of course he treated her like an object, but that’s another story. She is very, very successful professionally and he still looks like a garden gnome.</p>
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<p>What is she trying to punish herself? Why be with someone like that?</p>
<p>I am over weight, but I wonder how bad I would be if someone did that to me?</p>
<p>I agree that this woman is a professional ■■■■■. (And if her husband actually shouts out loud that other women are fat, it is beyond simple rudeness: he needs to seek therapy.)</p>
<p>Her articles all contradict each other. She goes around and around about what size she wears-- alternating between a british 10 and 12, and her story changes about when she was overweight and when (and how) she became such a stunner (<em>cough</em>). It’s kind of hard to read, she makes my head spin. </p>
<p>Whether she’s trolling, a compulsive magical thinker, or what, I am surprised her husband isn’t too embarrassed to be associated with all this, much less repeatedly pictured.</p>
<p>Please tell me she wrote that garbage on April Fools Day. Please. No one can be that shallow and self-absorbed. Shes also got plain features and ugly teeth.</p>
<p>This <a href=“http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/apr/01/ny-preschool-starts-dna-testing-for-admission/[/url]”>http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/apr/01/ny-preschool-starts-dna-testing-for-admission/</a> is a much better April Fools gag</p>
<p>I liked the story about her pricey twenty-year addiction to psychics!</p>
<p>Worst “journalist” ever or worst person ever!? Or both! You decide.</p>
<p>And all of you who disparaged the lack of compassion demonstrated on this thread. Please, please tell me you’ve changed your minds.</p>
<p>There is an old expression that women marry a man hoping he’ll change; men marry a woman hoping she won’t.</p>
<p>I saw her on the Today Show and I wouldn’t be friends with her. Life is too short to have to listen to someone talk about a stranger that gave them something because they are so beautiful and how they don’t have any friends because they are so beautiful and how they didn’t get a promotion because they are so beautiful. It’s boring and she can attribute my motives to whatever she wants but no amount of telling me I don’t want to be friends with her because I am jealous will make me change my mind.</p>
<p>I’ve had friends in the past who were really beautiful. They were also warm, funny and kind and had lots of friends.</p>
<p>Weird–don’t even think she’s beautiful and in any case, not nearly as attractive as many others I have met. Oh well, it takes all kinds in this world. It’s not great to always be judged by your looks, whether it’s preferential treatment or worse discrimination. </p>
<p>She may have gotten some “perks” due to her looks, but there are many in HI & elsewhere who are model-attractive and still seem to have fulfilling lives in HI anyway, not complaining to everyone as to how it stunts their options and how tiring it is to be so attractive. Sounds tiring to be around a whiner/braggart!</p>
<p>There is some useful information in her story. It reminds me of the saying that “it’s lonely at the top” for CEOs or that the children of billionaires tend to lead wrecked lives. The impulsive response to the information is “boo hoo, must be miserable to be so beautiful, successful or rich. Waaaah!”. The useful takeaway is that maybe we can feel better about our own lives, knowing that those things are not the keys to happiness.</p>
<p>The article about how the husband controls her weight, and she’s grateful because she wouldn’t do such a good job without him shaming her, was very disturbing. As RGE noted, either she’s in an abusive relationship, or she’s writing fiction that’s flippant about abusive relationships. Either way, horrible to read, and an unhealthy affirmation for readers who may be in that kind of situation.</p>
<p>When I was in HS, I knew the daughter of the governor. She was quite attractive, in addition to being the D of the gov. She said it was very lonely–people would assume she was conceited if she wasn’t always outgoing and friendly to everyone and folks assumed she wouldn’t be interested in dating anyone because she of course must already have a boyfriend. She said she had very few close friends and fewer dates.</p>
<p>It’s better not to envy others–who knows what lives they really lead?</p>
<p>I too would find it awful being in a relationship where someone felt they should control my actions, especially about how much food I ate or anything similar. No one should be shamed because their actions aren’t perfect–perhaps encouraged to be their best but shaming and being controlled are strong negatives to me.</p>
<p>The woman does look a tad pudgy to me anyway.</p>
<p>I had some time to read some of her other articles. Some of them are pretty good and the one about her disastrous first marriage seemed to shine some light on her present marriage.</p>
<p>[Samantha</a> Brick reveals she married a man-child | Mail Online](<a href=“Samantha Brick reveals she married a man-child | Daily Mail Online”>Samantha Brick reveals she married a man-child | Daily Mail Online)</p>
<p>Her first husband cast her in the role of being his mother, the marriage only lasted two years. Her second marriage is to someone who tells her what to wear, how much to weigh and expects her to cook five course meals or him. (In my opinion she was determined not to make the same mistake twice and overcompensated.) In all fairness her current husband let her know these were his expectations before they got married. Maybe it works for them. It’s very interesting anyway.</p>
<p>"The Japanese have word for people who look good from behind…</p>
<p>My face is definitely my best asset, but certainly not my biggest one"</p>
<p>I think I will use that for my bookmark!</p>
<p>"Samantha Brick is basically a professional ■■■■■. Coincidence that according to one British public relations firm the Mail has has hired a brand new Internet marketing department "</p>
<p>Or that, which answers my questions.</p>
<p>I felt mean about this, but when I saw the story this morning I thought she is fairly ordinary looking. Not hideous but certainly not stunning. I have a pretty large circle of friends and I think they are all pretty attractive. I never feel jealous and I am not casting about looking for plain friends. I have a few friends who are truly, unarguably beautiful, they are nice women and I have never heard them complain about the hand they’ve been dealt. They also don’t thinly hide brags about the perks of their beauty while presenting them as complaints. I on a very, very, very few occasions when I was young received a perk or two for being young, pretty enough and a bit on the curvy side. I never saw that as anything more then the fact that one particular guy found me attractive in that moment on that day. </p>
<p>I think people who have the “don’t hate because I’m beautiful” issue probably have bigger problems.</p>
<p>Samanatha Brick is a freelance journalist. In these tough economic times, she has pulled off a PR coup, with the help of the Mail (odious 'news’paper - suggest US readers look up the history of the Daily Mail), which can only be a boon to her financially</p>
<p>And it’s still going on - there are more articles about it today and she has been on TV… It’s not how I would raise my profile to make money, but then it’s not my life…</p>
<p>[Samantha</a> Brick: ten out of ten men fancy me - Telegraph](<a href=“Samantha Brick: ten out of ten men fancy me”>Samantha Brick: ten out of ten men fancy me)</p>
<p>ETA: I live in London and I can guarrantee you that even the (according to posters here) ugly British think this woman is pretty average. Not ugly, but most certainly not beautiful</p>
<p>[Despite her confidence, she has now admitted she exaggerated her claims of constant male attention, saying: “These things don’t happen to me everyday or every week.”]</p>
<p>[She revealed she had pieced together “half a dozen encounters” from her life as the basis for her article, entitled “why women hate me for being beautiful.” ]</p>
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<p>There are a lot of pretty women that are pretty because they really don’t work at it. I work with engineers - there are engineers that do their job, work out a lot, manage their families and dress rather plainly but the clothes fit. They all have advanced STEM degrees so they’ve been through the pressure cooker in the past. I don’t find attractive women that really work hard at the beauty game.</p>