It feels a little odd to me that I’m glad that things are working out so well for Don and Tens, even though I don’t know these people and we will never cross paths. They do seem emotionally mature and they are able to provide emotional stability for the kids, and make them feel loved and supported.
Jen hiding, seething and just being so miserable is unfortunate but she brought this all on herself. It sucks that after such a fun weekend the kids have to go back to that.
We don't actually know them though and just see some one off pics on social media, I think that's important to remember. We can't view their relationship through the lens of knowing how crazy Jen is and assume they've created some secure, stable union by blending 5 little kids within less than 2 years. Maybe they have, and that's great, but I am not making assumptions, especially given that I watched Don as well for almost 10 years on youtube and he's no prize.
Jen has always been weird about what she would spend money on. She would drop $3k on a PD (PD=personal day) but then agonize about buying a new Christmas tree and wait for Don's permission. Her oven door was broken forever and she refused to fix it but spent thousands to run the Disney Coast to Coast races for her 30th birthday. She would wear the same Target tank over and over but had an expensive gym membership in addition to her home gym just in case she felt like running on the track vs her treadmill. She has some serious WASP tendencies in that regard.
I only subscribe to one Patreon. It's the Beyond the Blinds podcast that is all celebrity blind gossip and they keep the really juicy stuff behind a paywall for legal reasons. There is zero chance I would give a stranger even $5 a month if I was getting nothing in return. That's a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
I found Jen in 2012 when I used to travel for work. I would be in hotel rooms a lot with nothing to do so I would watch shopping hauls on Youtube. I also followed people Jen was obsessed with at the time (Makeup By tiffanyD, Ingrid, Elle Fowler) so when YT suggested her shopping haul when she and Don went to Vegas I watched. I remember being so confused why a grown, married woman the same age as me was so excited that her husband bought her high heels on a random trip because her "husband likes to see me in nice shoes", I could already tell their dynamic was weird. Was it a sugar daddy thing? I needed to know. I was already a member of GuruGossip so I looked for the Jen thread to see if anyone else had any more info on her and the rest is history.
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Subjects are cute. Feet are not. Picture quality gives off JCPenney vibes. The portraits are flat and lack vibrancy. I could easily photoshop those and bring them back to life with simple filters and adjusted contrasts. It's typical Jen. She found a photographer and decided there was none other. Same thing with bespoke bowls and drunk elephant. It's part of her inability to expand, she finds boxes and what fits, fits and that is it. No creativity. No thinking outside the box. Hence her dying brand.
Excuse you, that is her photographer of CHOICE and even if it's nor your cup of tea it's what work for her.
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I think I remember Don had to go search the neighborhood for bunsy after it was left behind during a walk. I think that's what prompted Jen to ensure she would never be Bunsy-less again
I hate that I know this .. CC has two of those nasty things !!!! They were rotated .. Jenn kept the one that was not being used on the dresser in the master bedroom .. they would “exchange” them. CC knew about both … she showed in a vlog once
“Fresh bunsy” around 3:11
You know it because she talked about the second bunsy constantly, it was peak infant CC content. Did she ever show video of her baby or her playing and bonding with her? No. Did she show multiple videos of the dueling bunsies and how CC was so attached because Jen wouldn't let her get close enough to her mama to get attached? you betcha.
Lacey.LooWho12 Neither Leigh Ann nor Grant have told their viewers anything concerning Lucy’s medical condition & THEY DON’T HAVE TO.
Nothing has been ‘proven’ by groups on any social media.
If they wish to tell people, they will. Until that day comes, everything said concerning Lucy is speculation & should stop.
Let’s just be grateful that Luck looks healthy, happy & is adorable.
You are either new here or have some kind of agenda & just keep making new accounts about the same thing over & over.
If you are new, we do not talk about Lucy & her health. Period.
And if you are the same person making new accounts to bring up her health, you will be banned, again.
Please, find something productive to do with your time other than this. Thanks.
I came here from the other gossip site where the people have the ability to see the truth. That FB group doesn’t allow anyone in unless you are a parent of a child with that disorder, so yes that’s proof among many other things. The fact that LA dangles Lucy in front of her social media, clickbaits, and shills her audience but won’t even make a statement about the obvious concern people have? Please. I can’t believe people on this site are so far in denial about what’s really going on, the “rumors” were so blatantly true and everything adds up. No one would ever troll some gossip sites with such a rare and specific disorder. Grow up. Go read over there and catch up, they took away any silly restrictions about what could be discussed when LA was making it a point to be vague about Lucy but still post about all her medical appointments and hospital stays. She uses the concern from people to make money on affiliate links. Come on!
Personally I don't need to see "the truth". This isn't some effort to take down Scientology from the inside, this is a real woman's life with her sick baby. As a random viewer I don't deserve to know anything about Lucy's condition and I'm not some unstable keyboard warrior determined to find out by stalking closed facebook groups. I fully respect that despite the fact that she was all over social media before Lucy was born, she has stepped back and reprioritized and put efforts into protecting her daughter instead. That's what I would expect any new mom to do.
Ew David, no one does dedicated hashtag days on IG anymore, what is this 2012?
Also, I hate to break it to her but she didn't "earn" those medals, she paid for those medals. I do freelance social media work for some large races and as long as you're registered you can email any time after a race and if we have leftover medals we will send them to you so technically you don't even need to finish the race. She literally paid thousands for those. Get outta here.
She had a strange gait before, but she didn't run on the outside of her feet like that. Plus she has been complaining about the pain in her feet and was seeing a PT to help. I have a bunion, nothing compared to Jen's, and when it first started I discovered that walking and putting my weight more on the outside of my foot as opposed to the inside relieved the pain. Now, obviously I can't say with certainty, but she didn't run like that before.
She also wasn't running in Altras before which is a zero drop shoe so her gait is going to look different. She actually looks like she is trying to force a forefoot strike here which is not how she ran before. Also I don't know when in her race this picture was taken, if it was near the end and she was fatigued her gait would have deteriorated. Regardless I don't doubt that she has foot pain, I worked with someone with the WORST bunions I have ever seen and she refused to stop running even with pain and I have no idea how she did it.
Absolutely it is because of the bunions. It hurts to run in normal foot position, so she is taking pressure off of the bunion hitting the ground.
I don't necessarily agree. I've had to check the gait of hundreds of people and some just hit on the outside and roll in, keeping them too long in the overpronation part of the gait cycle. I've seen people run completely fine with bunions and I have seen people not but this would actually put more pressure on her bunions as she rolls through the gait so I wouldn't say it's related. This is also why she has knee problems, she's hitting on the outside of her foot and rolling in which forces her knees out of alignment. She really should go back to a shoe with some stability or guiderails to at least take up some of the impact of her foot rolling through instead of the Altras although if she's feeling less pain from them than a traditional shoe she's fine. But honestly, this is a pretty common gait and how running shoes blew up as a specialty in general.
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Look how she always lands on the outsides of her feet. You'd think she would have knee and hip problems too.
Oh wow - is that because of the bunions? She should get a treadmill analysis at a running store
She's been fitted at Fleet Feet Chicago. I have trained some of their staff, she got good advice
They add Mg, K and NaCl which are all electrolytes. If you drink too much water without lytes you get hyponutremia. The level itsn't not enough to prevent that per say but it's also not enough to dehydrate you either, especially since it isn't NaCl alone. They just do it for taste and I can taste the salt so I hate it. I also hate electrolyte drinks like Nuun because it tastes like fruit sweat to me since it's so salty.
Buy drapes and have them installed in her home. Have the backyard fixed up and some trees planted and a garden. Buy large area rugs for her home. Learn how to do flower arrangements or other crafts and show how she has done them. Cook a few meals that she has never tried before such as pot roast, soups with real meat/chicken in them. A sewing video. A crocheting video. Jen actually doing some house cleaning and not only washing the dishes or folding her laundry. Jen mowing the lawn. Have a large canvas shade installed to cover her patio so she and the kids can have some shade this summer in the back of their house. Buy some nice backyard patio furniture that is not plastic chairs. Shopping for new make-up. Getting her hair cut and styled. Having one of her family members choose an outfit for her to buy at a store.
Jen doesn't have to clean her house, I guarantee she still has housekeepers in order to "stimulate the local economy".
Last week she showed some journaling saying something about this is her job, it is work, something like that.
How is this a job or work when you are a flake, and you post craft projects glorifying yourself and how proud you are of yourself? Everything is at whim and contributes nothing.
You dismissed all the requests *that you asked for* from your viewers. "I wanted to share...". No, you don't want to share. You want to document your own life, all about yourself for yourself. You love the sound of your own voice. You think you're adorable, occasionally get fulfilled by compliments from anonymous viewers, and everybody else can eff off.
She has ALWAYS clung to the narrative that this is her job, not a hobby. I think it gave her some sort of self worth when she was with Don but now that she is a well kept ex wife I'm not sure why she is still beating that dead horse.
This is why a part of me does feel bad for Jen. The pressure society puts on women to have kids is insane. I do think she and Don had a great marriage that worked for them and that she didn't want kids but felt expected to have them. Maybe she didn't even know at 22 when she got married that this was the case. Maybe it became more and more clear to her as time went on but she felt pressured to have them which is why she delayed it for so long. But they really were happy, going on the same trips and eating the same foods and her dressing up because he liked it and him buying her gifts because she liked it. She was kooky but she was happy and harmless. She is SO unhappy now but how could she ever admit that without sounding like an absolute asshole? How do you come forward and say to the world "I never should have had kids because it ruined my marriage and my sense of self and I have no idea how to be happy anymore?". I have no idea.
Ok, I am done Jen defending, I will see myself out
I see what you are saying, but I disagree with these ^^. I think JEN was happy, but when I watch them together in the rewatch, THEY don't seem happy. At best they seem to be playing the parts of happy husband and happy wife. They are snippy with each other, micro-correcting, and generally done. At best they seem to share some inside jokes and enjoy their gluttony and showing off their '1%er' life. And these are the edited interactions Jen included. I think behind the scenes there was even less happiness
Yeah but it worked for them. "Great marriage" is within context of their specific relationship.
I watched in old video recently and even thoughnshe was wearing aqua eyeshadow she looked so good. Pretty. Lipstick on, jewelry, cute-ish clothes (she never has had anything nice but better than a grey wrinkled tshirt). I didn't look as good at 39 as I did at 27 but I didn't take that much of a turn. I still don't look that bad.
Again, curse Don for forcing her to put on makeup and nice clothes. What an ass.
This is why a part of me does feel bad for Jen. The pressure society puts on women to have kids is insane. I do think she and Don had a great marriage that worked for them and that she didn't want kids but felt expected to have them. Maybe she didn't even know at 22 when she got married that this was the case. Maybe it became more and more clear to her as time went on but she felt pressured to have them which is why she delayed it for so long. But they really were happy, going on the same trips and eating the same foods and her dressing up because he liked it and him buying her gifts because she liked it. She was kooky but she was happy and harmless. She is SO unhappy now but how could she ever admit that without sounding like an absolute asshole? How do you come forward and say to the world "I never should have had kids because it ruined my marriage and my sense of self and I have no idea how to be happy anymore?". I have no idea.
Ok, I am done Jen defending, I will see myself out
That’s pretty interesting, and definitely connects to Gene. My sister, who might be the most empathetic person I know, writes in tiny all-caps. However, that was a deliberate change she made as a teenager, inspired by our grandfather. He was an architect so for him it was inspired by his training. We’ve seen proof in Gene’s old list-making videos that she hasn’t always written this way. I think it would be fascinating to see a retrospective handwriting analysis and if it would line up with her personality changes over the years.
I was in a writing course in college where we would print out copies of our work for classmates to comment on. There was one guy who wrote in all caps, very stylish—he was a former architecture student.
I also write in all caps. I started in college because it's very common in the science world so you don't get letters messed up with numbers. Lowercase can look ambiguous.
