To think Tamara Ecclestone is the luckiest woman alive

Not seen her on anything for a while but when I did I thought she comes across as warm and lovely. I hope her life is as happy and fulfilled as you say it seems on Instagram. There is no reason why her life shouldn't or wouldn't be as meaningful as anyone else's. Good luck to her and her kids

DFriend's husband was her security (pre her children) and said she was very nice but absolutely naive. She didn't know how to pay for parking, boil an egg or do anything. He said a lot of people, from sales staff and staff in bars to 'friends' used to take advantage of her naivety to get money/designer items/advertising. She has almost no true friends & her relationship is... strained

It’s not a ‘nothing phrase’. It means ‘experiencing your life as meaningful’ in whatever terms you choose to use. For some (including me), it comes chiefly from meaningful work that adds something to the world and is always engaging, and sometimes enjoyable. For others, it might come from family relationships, from friendships, from contributing to society in some way, from the natural world, from a hobby, from religion etc etc. People with no financial constraints are much freer to lead the kind of life they experience as meaningful.

I have been an expat spouse with lots of money and holidays and staff and parties, and no ability to work because I didn't have a work visa. I hated it. Not more than I would hate being dirt-poor certainly, but overall it was meaningless for me.

However, I am clearly avoiding my work today. And I really would like a personal chef at least!

ok, your comment veered quite a long way off my comment..

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

When those things are removed people can feel quite empty and aimless despite material wealth - I have peripherally known people with similar lifestyles on a smaller scale, and they do tend toward boredom and depression.

Shopping and holidays and spending are great but if that’s the only thing in your life it’s pretty empty and meaningless.

Fait play to her. May as well enjoy it!

That was Petra

"find meaning" in your life just sounds like such a nothing phrase. What does it even mean? Do you think all poor people have lives full of meaning? This idea that poor people all have meaningful, fulfilling lives devoid of any emptiness and loneliness whilst the rich sit alone sobbing with their cash is such nonsense.

Was it her or her sister who withdrew their funding for a specialist nursery for autistic children after deciding her own child wasn’t autistic after all? Can’t remember all the details, so may have misremembered. Struck me at the time that the amount involved was walking around money for an Ecclestone but a huge deal for the families and staff involved. Genetic apples falling from genetic trees for the Ecclestone genes.

Meh. Just another rich person enjoying her life. Nothing new.

She always had a lot of money but seemed miserable. Never photographed with any friends, just buying tons of stuff in empty shops. There doesn’t seem to be any meaning behind what she does. You could help the world so much with that much money, and find meaning in your life.

No, I don't. I have nothing against her and think she seems like quite a nice woman. I am vaguely envious of her being able to jet off somewhere warm whenever she feels like it, but apart from that, no. Her father is a toxic little arsehole. My father was the best man in the world. So no. I don't envy her.

Couldn't agree more. It's sad that people feel jealous of those who are just lucky to have been given everything on a plate.

Do you find it difficult to understand that people are all very different in their personalities and interests? That we don’t all want the same things in life? I am not interested in Dubai or private jets or Ferraris or cosmetic surgery. Those things don’t hold any meaning for me. I don’t know why that’s difficult to understand! 😂

If the question had been ‘would you like to have enough money to never have to worry?’ then the answers would have been very different. But the question was about a specific ‘celebrity’ and her lifestyle. I believe people are answering honestly.

You might personally covet the lifestyles of the rich and famous, but it doesn’t mean that everyone else does.

Sometime I despair that I share the planet with people this vacuous

I was good friends with Tamara during our schooling years - not in the UK. She was always such a lovely and kind person. I’m sure she appreciates how fortunate she is and she seems like such a great mum.

I'd be embarrassed to live the life of a sponger, which is what she is doing.

Why be jealous of someone living off the back of a wealthy parent (or partner for that matter)?

Just think how soul destroying it must be to know you're only where you are because of someone else's work and haven't actually achieved a single thing yourself.

oh god, I would LOVE to be rich

But not her life

Does anyone else think these fawning 'celeb' posts are usually just a PR exercise in increasing their client's social media accounts and profile? I wouldn't normally post on them but it's getting a bit too obvious and boring now (isn't so and so marvellous in their new West End play, don't we all envy this rich influencer!). It's pretty offensive really, trying to manipulate a load of 'mums' into caring.

Charmed life? hmm....

From Wiki

In 2002, at age 17, Ecclestone dated Jonathan Ketterman (who later changed his name to Derek Rose). The relationship ended acrimoniously, and they had no contact for the next 10 years. In 2013, Ketterman was found guilty of attempting to blackmail her for $200,000 and sentenced to four years in prison.

Ecclestone married Jay Rutland in June 2013. They have two daughters, Sophia and Serena.

The family resides in a house in Kensington Palace Gardens in London that was purchased for £45 million in 2011. On 13 December 2019, Ecclestone's house was burgled and jewellery with a reported total value of £26 million stolen, despite 24-hour security patrols and extensive surveillance measures. In January 2020, a Romanian woman, Maria Mester, and her son were arrested in possession of some of the jewels at Heathrow Airport and subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, allegedly as part of a support team. The pair were subsequently cleared of all charges.

In 2021, three male Italian nationals were convicted and sentenced to jail terms, for committing the robbery.

I would love to be rich.

I wouldn't want her life.

The two things are not the same.

What a strange way to live.
If I look at her life as she portrays it I have to say I see it as a bit sad.
You seem very triggered by people who are happy in their own lives.

Sometimes I think about what I would do if I had a lot of money. It always involves making a difference. Something involving the environment. A massive rewinding project. .
Not going to Disney on a private plane and making my kids do endless photoshoots. Wealth like this seems sad and a bit pathetic.

I'm not sure it's either or.

I would not like to have multiple luxurious holidays a year with my kids because one or two a year would be more than enough. Especially with kids

I WOULD like to have the money to buy huge amounts of land that I could use to walk in peace and private. I WOULD like to have the money not to work and to have someone else clean up after me - kinda. I did used to have a work contract that provided that and it was actually a bit of a pita at times. But overall it was better than cleaning my own toilet.

The OP's question was 'is she the luckiest woman alive?' not 'is she luckier than someone working two jobs'.

Yes to the latter. No to the former.

See that baffles me, why in God's name would anyone envy someone who had 40 staff and a huge house? I hand on heart would absolutely hate every second of that lifestyle. That doesn't mean I wouldn't like a couple of million to pay off my mortgage and help my kids buy a house. It doesn't have to be either or surely?

I find it a bit tragic that the OP would look at someone like her and hold her up as some sort of ideal ..

There are, absolutely, people whose lives I would love, but they tend to be people who have been successful with meaningful work in the arts, and who are rarities in being able to live well and not worry about money because of their work, rather than hustling for grants and residencies. Someone whose most significant ‘work’ involved posing for Playboy and starring in a reality tv show called ‘Billion $$$ Girl’ wouldn’t make me think ‘That is the life I want’.