Hi ladies. Love this issue! I have to admit that I was crushed (and shocked) by (Cup of Jo) Goddard's news, which I subsequently spent a day analyzing: Why did I even care that someone I never met was getting a divorce? I suppose it's because I followed Joanna back when she first started, like really just started, and she's always posting about her boys and great date night outfits and cute pics of her and her husband and their trips and the sweet things her kids say -- The way that she presented her life always felt so authentic. So to hear that she and her husband were miz for three years was a punch in the gut. I write fiction for a living, I've been a journalist for even longer, and still, I'm always surprised by how different the public face is compared with the private one. Everyone's interiority is so much more complicated than they let on.
Brooke - this is the thing of it, right? When you make your own life, your lifestyle, your kids, your footwear, your marriage into a BRAND, what do you do when things go pear-shaped? Goddard's online life is a sort of fiction that bears a passing resemblance to a real life, but what choice does she have, really? If she shared all the ups and downs of a real life marriage, in real time, not only would she be less aspirational, we'd call her nuts. [See: the life and times of Emily Gould.] It seems like a real bind. I personally feel she handled the divorce announcement elegantly and movingly, but I here's what a friend texted: "Please—it’s a lot easier to get divorced if you are rich and can have the 4mil brownstone + daddy’s new apartment with soda."
Hi ladies. Love this issue! I have to admit that I was crushed (and shocked) by (Cup of Jo) Goddard's news, which I subsequently spent a day analyzing: Why did I even care that someone I never met was getting a divorce? I suppose it's because I followed Joanna back when she first started, like really just started, and she's always posting about her boys and great date night outfits and cute pics of her and her husband and their trips and the sweet things her kids say -- The way that she presented her life always felt so authentic. So to hear that she and her husband were miz for three years was a punch in the gut. I write fiction for a living, I've been a journalist for even longer, and still, I'm always surprised by how different the public face is compared with the private one. Everyone's interiority is so much more complicated than they let on.
Brooke - this is the thing of it, right? When you make your own life, your lifestyle, your kids, your footwear, your marriage into a BRAND, what do you do when things go pear-shaped? Goddard's online life is a sort of fiction that bears a passing resemblance to a real life, but what choice does she have, really? If she shared all the ups and downs of a real life marriage, in real time, not only would she be less aspirational, we'd call her nuts. [See: the life and times of Emily Gould.] It seems like a real bind. I personally feel she handled the divorce announcement elegantly and movingly, but I here's what a friend texted: "Please—it’s a lot easier to get divorced if you are rich and can have the 4mil brownstone + daddy’s new apartment with soda."