To think Tamara Ecclestone is the luckiest woman alive

What gets me is that this Insta culture (and its predecessors Hello and OK magazine etc) just allows the very rich to get even richer. This is the industry and it relies on clicks and likes from us. I am not interested in making other people richer by looking at and salivating over their (already privileged) lives.

I genuinely don’t care what the Ecclestones or the Beckhams or whoever do with their time and money as long as they aren’t harming others (though I do feel that a life of excess is usually not good for the environment, which is a huge concern for me. In almost everything I do, I try to minimise what I buy and what I waste).

If other people want to make the Ecclestones even richer by constantly looking at pictures of them and feeling jealous of them, that’s their prerogative but it seems like a waste of time and energy to me.

Nice work, Tamara but you can’t fool us. We know you’re the OP.

Well if I was extremely rich I could probably break up my daytime TV watching with multiple luxury holidays. That really would be the dream 😂

what Jo Wheatley's husband?

You doubling down doesn't make your rude post any less rude. If she doesn't want to work and can afford not to, that is her right. She doesn't need to 'find meaning' in a job.

I haven’t trawled through any of her posts. You just recognise regulars who don’t appear to name change. @Comedycook always says the same kind of thing. My vague memory is that she’s got older children, and desperately trying to justify staying at home long past all need to, because she never found a fulfilling job. Always negative about people who find meaning in trying. Actually, if memory serves, the first post I remember by her was about her horror that her DH, I think working from home during Covid, got in the way of her pottering and daytime tv habit. (I could be wrong about the last bit.)

Oh MN thinks you're betraying the sisterhood if you're a SAHM. It's tedious and reductive but there you are.

I knew someone with wealth up there with the ecclestones. The son said as a teen and young adult he always felt like ”what’s the point” because anything he wanted to do could just ✨be done✨ Yes he could cut himself off and stuggle to achieve something but then he felt like that money could be better used on charity causes than fulfilling his need to feel satisfaction from achieveing. He eventually had made peace with dedicating his life to charity work (not that he was down on doing that, I think he just wished he’d had an opportunity to do something for himself first)

…but yeah, I’d still like a yacht

You're more than welcome. I can't believe how rude and personal some people are on here. It's bang out of order. Also, the spite and scorn against SAHM has to be seen to be believed. I'm not even a mother but I think it is awful for a parenting site to have such an anti SAHM bias.

Thank you! I actually couldn't even face replying to that so I appreciate it!

I used to watch her other shows before that one. If it wasn't postnatal depression, she definitely needed medical help attention for her anxiety and how to deal with the baby. You literally see her struggle on screen. Having a husband who cared more for parties and art dealership and constantly ignored her. Her daughter could not play with anyone else because they all had to be vetted. As a result, changed her swimming pool into a play area but with no friends. Tamara didn't look well throughout the show.

What a rude, patronising post. I don't fully agree with @Comedycook, in that I actually do think that Tamara's life looks a bit boring and surrounded by yes men, but I do take some of her points. You trawling through her posts and concluding that she seems 'lost' is just such an overstep it isn't funny..

Money guarantees neither happiness or misery. All it does is remove certain sources of stress/unhappiness. But the absence of that stress isn't the same thing as happiness. There will be happy wealthy people, and less happy ones - I would wager that the ones seeking validation on Instagram are likely to be in the latter group.

Poverty is truly miserable, but once our needs have been met, humans do not generally become happier through accumulating greater quantities of wealth and possessions - so many studies show this.

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You have no idea what her life is really like, you don't know her, you're not her.
Just because you see shiny things on Insta doesn't mean that's always the reality!

I think I'd hate having to have bodyguards and worry about attacks and kidnapping

And the children must live in a gilded cage

Anybody who has to live their life through Instagram is to be pitied, not envied. Especially if they're not needing to use Instagram to make a living. Just put the sodding phone down, stop taking selfies and actually live a bit!

I don’t think many people are saying they wouldn’t like to be rich, it’s the stuff that appears to come with it for her so being surrounded by dodgy men and knowing (and everyone else knowing) that your dad is quite open about only wanting a wife/partner who is a model / less than half is age etc. do you think she’s so used to it she doesn’t get embarrassed? I suppose to her he’s just her dad?

Am sure it’s even scarier if you live on a really rough council estate knowing your house could be broken into by one of the local dealers !

I think I'm with GBS and his expressed sentiment that "A lifetime of 'happiness' would be hell on earth".

In fairness, though, from recognising your name from around Mn, you don’t seem to do a lot other than be a SAHM. Obviously, I assume that’s your preference, but it doesn’t sound as if you know a great deal about other types of lives. You always sound kind of lost.

Only If you’re the kind of person who thinks children make your life meaningful, surely? I adore my DS, but I can’t say I find my life any more meaningful since I had him. I have extra love for a new person, and an extra job in raising him to independence, but I’d think I’d come pretty low if he was at the centre of my own sense of meaningfulness.

And it’s not that poorer people find their lives more meaningful, it’s that rich people have far more choices about how their lives are. If we assume that most people, most of the time, do what they want within the bounds of their own personal constraints, rich people’s lives should be able to be very meaningful.

people do generally find meaning in having careers and working toward goals and feeling capable/productive and helping their community

I'm pretty sure she does things for charity.

I'm a normal person...not rich. I don't have a career and have never found fulfillment from work. I don't do anything charitable or for my community. I don't really care if my life has 'meaning'. In fact it's something I never even think about

This idea that the only way to be happy is to have a massive career is such bs.

Petra always comes across as a mean girl. I think she is actually brighter than Tamara but also comes over as mean and bratty.

I don't think Tamara is really like that. Are you maybe thinking of Petra?

Well she has two daughters...I'm sure they provide her with plenty of meaning. I don't see why someone poorer is more likely to have a meaningful life.