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PiscesConfession: Julia Roberts Makes Us Feel Inadequate
Watching Julia Roberts on "Oprah," we couldn't help but feel a little inadequate. The woman sews her kids' clothes, never has a disparaging word to say about her children or her husband ... and just ran a half-marathon in her spare time.
Is she even human?! Here are the lines that made us wonder:
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Good for her, I am happy for her. She deserves it! She cherrishes what she has and I think we all could learn from her very positive outlook.
I definitely think like a child…..oh well. If you can juggle 3 kids under the age of 4 you can do anything!!
Why feel inadequate? Feel inspired. I think she’s great. She loves her life? Good for her! I love my life too, it’s just different. Why should we feel the need to criticize? There’s way too much of that in the world. Celebrate those who are happy an fulfilled, it spreads.
She’s an actress. She’s projecting a public image of herself. I read once that Julia Roberts always smiles in public so the paparazzi can never get ugly shots of her. She was on a TV show acting out a public image. Who knows what she’s really like or really thinks. And frankly, who cares?
I have found that everything this woman says about her love life and being a mommy just seems to undermine other women and make her sound so superior. It’s a kind of smugness that almost takes your breath away. One of my favorite smug lines of hers was when she was pregnant the first time. She said that she didn’t have morning sickness and explained that she was just from “good country stock,” as if those of us who did have morning sickness were from INFERIOR stock.
omgd. reading this just made me feel sick. seriously? thats awesome that you love your kids, life, husband etc, but who actually talks/acts like that.
Sorry, but she doesn’t make me feel inadequate. I love my husband and kids too!
She doesn’t make me feel inadequate. More power to her if she is that happy. I’m satisfied in my life and I’m past the point of comparing my life to others, especially people I’ve never met and probably never will.
Sure she has plenty of spare time, she most likely has a nanny, housekeeper, accountants to do all the grunge work for her so its easier for her to enjoy her family and never be stressed over the loads of laundry that seem to multiply by themselves while we’re asleep. It’s a public image she’s projecting, I’m sure she’s not happy all the freakin’ time! Who is? The Dalai Lama even has his moments!
phony, phony & more phony…
Frankly I am a little disturbed that I wasted 2 minutes reading this.
I agree that it’s easy to enjoy your life that much when you have the money to hire someone to clean your house, do your laundry, watch the kids when you need to go out, etc… It’s also really easy to enjoy your life when you’re a multimillionaire. I don’t begrudge her that, though.
I think that living in the spotlight like that must be difficult and she has to watch what she says. The media has a tendency to take celebrity quotes out of context and twist them around. If she’d said, “Sometimes I just need a break from my kids,” you know that some magazine out there would print, “Julia Roberts doesn’t love her children!!!” so I don’t blame her for only mentioning the positive.
I certainly have moments where I look at my husband and my child and feel like I’m the luckiest lady in the world. I just have them less often because I’m the one who cooks the meals, cleans the floors and does the laundry :)
I think it is great that she is so happy. If she were to complain people would say “OMG, Julia Roberts doesn’t love her kids” or “How dare she complain when she’s rich or famous, she’s ungrateful.”
She seems very appreciative of everything she has in her life. I lost count of the number of times she said she realizes how fortunate she is, how appreciative she is, how grateful she is, I think that’s great - that she’s happy and appreciates that.
As far as the interview, if you’ve ever seen Julia, she is notoriously private about her personal life. She rarely ever talks about her kids or her family and that is why I think she talked about them so much on Oprah, because Oprah is a friend. Usually she gives one word answers because she reallly wants to protect them and her privacy.
This is the main question though:
Why should anyone but a ridiculously insecure person feel inadequate because of another person’s happiness? She said that there is chaos in the house, but it’s matched by moments of quietude.
Something is seriously WRONG with our society when we question or feel threatened by someone else’s happiness.
How can anything a celebrity says have an effect on how I feel about myself or my life?! Why should it?! I think she is just projecting an image and has her moments of doubt, guilt, anger, fear, etc. just like the rest of us. She’s human, no matter what she wants us to believe. And if this is authentically her, well then…awesome!
What a joke - she’s sewing her kids’ clothes because she knows how hard the economy is!! HAHA!! Yes, my polo pony got sick and that left me with only 8 other polo ponies. Oh the hardship. She makes $20 million a film. Get a grip, Jules.
You’re a happy girl I have to say so I will.
Dude, gimme more!
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I was like “yeah right” with everything until I read that she is aware of the economical times being hard for everyone including her then it was like “STFU” What the hell does she know about how hard it is out here for “real people”. Jeez