milanese15 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 3:14 am
yoyoyo1 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:38 am
In a way, I'm still jealous of Lori Loughlin. Her life is hardly "ruined". She still looks good and has millions in the bank, even after this scandal. She'll probably go to prison for a few months but it won't be the end of the world.
Think about it. She's 56. She's had a nice chill life that she lived to the fullest acting in low-key Hallmark movies for millions of dollars and modeling. Millions of girls would kill for that.
If this happened when she was 23 and had only had a few films under her belt, it'd be a different story. Also unrelated, I'm 23 and I wish I knew what to do with my life, but the next 30 + years getting paid millions to act in movies doesn't sound bad. Even if she destroyed everything she had, she still did far better than most people in life if that makes sense. And I'm sure eventually she'll come out with a teary eyed public speech, do community service, and be forgiven/forgotten to retire in peace.
You have to remember that she has different values and motivations than you. She’s very image conscious, shallow and concerned with being accepted by the rich and powerful. It’s those motivations that got her in this mess in the first place, because she needed her kids to be going to USC and didn’t care if they weren’t capable or even interested in it themselves. She is an elitist who couldn’t accept the types of schools they were qualified for, and having her kids not go to college at all would’ve been even more embarrassing to her. This kind of humiliation is way more devastating to someone like that. She’s not only (likely) going to jail—she was also exposed for 1. raising kids who couldn’t get into a good school and 2. being too poor or too cheap to use her & her husband’s wealth and influence to get them in legally. That sits there as the elephant in the room when handling all the rich and powerful people she’s always wanted to impress. She’s one of those short sighted and status oriented people who can’t be grateful for what she has. She only cares about what others have that she doesn’t.
I appreciate your statement and agree with you 100%!! However, we also have to consider that Lori is one of hundreds of other parents in the scandal, yet Lori is getting all the heat and bad press coverage. That alone shows that other people were jealous of her and wanted her life.
The fascination of this case is a beautiful, successful, thin woman's fall from grace.
No one cares about the other parents in the scandal that are overweight, middle aged business owners. Because no one was jealous of them or aspiring to be like them before.
But when it's a glamorous actress who was famous for 30 years, (who lots of girls want to be like) people want to bring her down because they were jealous of her in the first place for being pretty, successful, and skinny. So in a weird way, the haters are her biggest fans. They say "shame on her" and that they're upset about the kids not getting spots, but let's be honest, this is more about people being sadists than people caring about moral ethics.