Does anyone else think that this is the case? I know a couple of people who are like that and lots of people seem extremely taken in by it, they are treated like royalty and as if they really are superior to everyone else.
One of the people I know is a woman that I went to uni with; I don't live near her but a group of us meet up fairly regularly, and she is on my Facebook friends list.
She has always been quite superior; I think she was quite spoilt as a child by her parents, and still is to an extent, therefore her behaviour has always been princessy. When we were at uni, things often had to revolve around her and what she wanted. Now we all have DCs, she has decided to be an "earthmother" type, which is fine, but she goes on and on about her parenting ways, the meals they eat, activities they do, etc, and is put on a bit of a pedestal by our friendship group, as if she's something we should all aspire to be. She is self absorbed and talks about herself all the time, too. She looks down on other types of parenting that are not the same as hers.
I've noticed on Facebook thought that it isn't just our friendship group that behave this way to her; she seems to have a lot of fans who repeatedly tell her what an amazing mum she is when she posts photos of a homemade soup she's made, or photos of her children playing games. She never acknowledges any comments that anyone makes, but posts photos and statuses repeatedly. A status posted by her about something very mundane can get 50+ replies.
It's occurred to me that because she's always felt that she is better than others, that other people pick up on this and think they should treat her that way too?
The other person I know is someone from an online group that is reasonably pretty but who thinks she is supermodel-beautiful, and who goes on and on about how great she looks, and posts a lot of selfies, and who has hundreds of admirers telling her she looks fantastic all the time. Like I said, she is quite pretty, but there are lots of women that are far prettier than her, and again I can't help thinking that because she tells everyone how great she is all the time, everyone is taken in by this. As far as I know she too was/is spoilt by her parents so maybe this aspect has something to do with it too? They expect everyone to think they are as fantastic as their parents think they are?