The best part of Tens'post was the emojis covering the people who didn't want to be online, including the children.
She can still include and respect boundaries while creating memories unlike Jenny.
The worst thing Jen ever did was invite the world into every detail of her family life, allowing thousands of people to watch and comment. I never understand why people on Youtube or social media do this without realising the life-changing consequences. If you're going to make content for public viewing online, choose a subject and stick with that, don't make your actual life the content. Unless you and your family have very thick skin and literally don't care at all what others think of you, your sharing will be both addictive and ruining your life at the same time. I see 'influencer' women on IG oversharing all the time and you can see their husband in the background absolutely sick to the back teeth of being filmed for the 26th time that day. Meanwhile their kids are doing things for camera-attention and showing off when mommy pulls her phone out because they want to read the comments afterwards (what a fantastic way to raise your children... they learn that attention and fame are the only things worth having). The whole thing is a toxic ticking time bomb, and Jen should be a warning to anyone considering vlogging or public social media.
To be fair, back when she started, Youtube (and social media) was quite different, and was not a legitimate way to make money. A lot of the Youtubers back then didn't get the views or fans of today.
That being said, there was alerady the mommy bloggers, and it was already known that it was not a good idea to put your children/life out there for public consumption.
And I totally agree that making your life the subject of your content and your income is the fastest way to isolate yourself or turn every relationship into a business transaction - families and friends become either part of the cast or special feature guests, not actually organic friendships.
I already think private Facebook/mom groups where people post pictures of their kids to strangers is weird and invasive, but to do that like the family vloggers do is plain exploitation, and these kids will have to live with it for a long time - even if their parents aren't famous anymore, the stuff is still out there.
Sorry to go back to the 4Runner maiden voyage, but as she is preparing the wraps, she just opens her hummus, and tosses her lid straight onto to counter, "inside" right on the surface, instead of putting the outside part on the counter to protect the side that could be in contact with the food once you close the container back.
Seeing her cooking is always so unappealing. She really has little concern for hygiene. Not surprising she doesn't think twice about mold in her home.
Also, little miss I'ss by all the eco products is over there using wax paper inside her beeswax wrap, putting packages of turkey slices and faux cheese inside ziploc bags. To put in her new cooler, that will go in her second gas guzzler.
On top of mistreating her dog.
I'm pretty sure sleeping with the lights on is considered a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
Sorry, but No. Not with Jen's huge nose and mouth. That haircut is for someone with small features.
That person has fine hair but it's dense enough to have volume. Jen's 2 hairs would be glued to her head. That hair swoop of hers is so awful. Has she never seen people? Even back when she was into getting dressed and wearing makeup, why did she never watch hair videos?
She only watched Tiffany D and Ingrid (and Elle Fowler). None of them have thinning hair, yet she ised the same products.
It’s sad how that Jen’s world has gone from just‘socially anxious’ to going days without speaking to another human. She hasn’t a friend in the world. All of her associates prior were through Don. And her ex in-laws, who she considered her friends and swore she would be close with them forever, noped right out of her life at the first opportunity. And who can blame them after she insinuated that Don abused her? She just has two parents and a brother who lives out of state. That has to suck. She says she’s a hermit who loves to be alone, but if that was really true, she wouldn’t have made past videos about not having friends, and how she so wanted a girl tribe. I’ll never believe that she wants to be as alone as she really is. She went from happy and perky with a semi decent social life situation with Don and his family to totally alone, gloomy and grey.
You’re not fooling anyone, Jen. You are leaning into your miserableness because it’s your only option, so you are trying to make it work. If you would start making less selfish choices, you might find a little happiness in your life. Don is not coming back, and Tens will be an amazing mom to your kids while you train then to hate you when they are older. Fast forward 15 years, Your parents are very old. Your kids are grown and rarely call or visit. Your brother has a life of his own with his wife and grown kids. Will you truly be happy puttering around in your grey mausoleum with Winnie 3.0 as your only companion? Deep down, you know you won’t be.
Maybe she'll then give Paula a call, if she's still around.
She led a very isolated lonely life. I highly doubt she had tons of friends etc in college. Other than her roommate I bet she knew no one.
Well she did have an accointance she thought was a friend, sent a care package to, and never got a response.
She shaded her in a video, and said woman responded in a comment, saying she hadn't thought their brief and friendly interactions counted as friendship, had been surprised and embarrassed at receiving the care package and never responded because she became sick and didn't have money to spare to send back a care package to someone she didn't know, and then I guess she forgot, being busy living her life and not reminiscing about accointances from college.
ngl, I kinda think the legless bear is cute. If I was in a store with a friend or my husband, I'd point it out. Maybe get it for a kid if there was a birthday close.
But to buy it (for herself) and apparently sleep with it???
Most information in a quick search on the Goog says petite sizing is either 5'3 or 5'4 and below. I would never consider the average height for a woman to be petite. Jen doesn't have shorter proportions, as evidenced by her awful too short petite dresses, so she shouldn't need those sizes at all.
Except major clothing retailers sell petites for 5'2" and under. Google may say differently but back in the day when Petite Sophisticate was a popular chain for women's clothing, I shopped there but could only buy tops and dresses. I'm 5'3" and the pants were always 1/2" to 1" too short.
I am 5'. Petite pants and dresses fit me properly, with only a bit of adjusting. It's not about being thin - it's about being short. XS petite and XS regular are the same width. It's just that it's shorter on the petite sizing.
Someone like Jen, who is 5'4 or so, would be better off getting regular clothes and have them tailored when needed. Or hell, doing it herself with the fancy sewing machine she apparently kept all those years. I think she gets her size with her waist measurement, and not the chest, but for dresses, unless your chest is smaller than your waist, you're supposed to pick your size according to your chest and have the waist taken in to fit. That's why she always look kinda squashed in there.
She misses all of the events and dinners and involvement of Don’s family. She totally is jealous that they are now doing that with someone else. I think she cared about Don at one point, but maybe she also was extremely married to his family and that’s what she also misses and can’t get over.
Well, they were her whole social circle, from what we know. IMO, it was bound to be a harsh realization for Jen, that while THEY were the only people she interacted with on a daily basis, the reverse wasn't true, and when she divorced their son, they didn't maintain as close a relationship without Don as the link between them, because they had other people to turn to/add to their cult.
In a quest to find the infamous To do: love the baby journal entry I fell into a Google rabbit hole and found this gem
lol this never gets old :
overuse of the word "beautiful" from miss English major-turned-art-history, check.
"I finally decided to just cut out any and all photos with people other than me for the most part and focus on the thoughtful details and beautiful ambiance " Sure Jan, not to show that there were only family present.
"Suzanne and Emily transformed Suzanne's house into a Victorian era tea party venue worthy of royalty!" See, this is the problem - Jen was either being her flowery self and laying it on ridiculously thick, or she was salty that was all, because, while I think the decoration was ok (it's a baby shower at someone's home, I don't expect them to remodel or repain their living room to fit the theme) - it's not a "victorian era tea party venue worthy of royalty". Either Jen has never seen an actual tea party venue (nevermind the royalty part), despite being a "tea-party person", or it's as Victorian as their Ross-party cream cheese and caviar pie abomoination was italian.
So, I went to look, but I didn't find it, and I'm not that patient. Here is one weird one though, like, even if it is technically an embryo, don't people call them "babies" from the start? I know I did. Also, if you treat your pregnancy as a self-involve science project, with documenting everyday your changes, cravings, etc. like a lab notebook, it's not a good sign. Then the baby book, with the same tracking of wight, feedings and sleep to the minute in the official memory book:
time stamps : 7:14 : started to feel more sure + more attuned to my little embryo
