Kate Middleton is a role model for me?

[BlueBookBag]

I like the way she looks, so pretty and stylish but classic and simple at the same time.

Slim but toned and athletic figure, meanwhile I could lose a few kg.

Her personality seems refined and elegant, you will never catch her sharing controversial opinions or offending views.

She seems to be a supportive wife and mother

Seems overall to live such an elegant life.

AIBU? To want to be more like Kate and see her as a role model?

@BlueBookBag

On another note I’m leaving Mumsnet soon. Maybe later on today. Or in the early morning hours.

Why would you start a thread, then immediately announce your imminent departure? Hoping to stir up a shitstorm and then sit back and watch?

As to the thread title. Well I've never met her. She could be the most inspirational, kind person on the planet, or she could be horrible. I'm guessing she is probably somewhere in between, like most people.

you will never catch her sharing controversial opinions or offending views. Why is this a good thing? I mean in her role, obviously it's required of her. But why do you find it to be aspirational?

Well of course you're NBU to admire someone for who they are or the image they portray.

But you'll be massively U if you hold yourself up against her as a 'real' person. You have no idea about her internal life, whether she's happy, healthy, what sacrifices have been made.

In addition she's a cog in powerful (but diminishing in power) machine that is the Royal Family..There are expectations and clear rules about how to be and conduct yourself within that system. There is an army of help too (advisors, chefs, trainers, nannies etc etc).

FWIW I think she does an excellent job of appearing very natural and portraying the 'perfect' royal wife image. Others have all that and don't manage it at all! Personally she's not a role model of mine as she has no voice of her own and her image is controlled between tight confines, Kate the mum, photographer, wife.

We will never know what she really has to say.

This isn't an airport, you don't need to announce your departure

My role models have achieved more than being a good wife and mother, but each to their own.

To be fair there are worse things to aspire to than being a good mother. More relevant I think is the fact that obviously no one knows what kind of mother she is, so saying she’s a role model for motherhood is odd.

I have nothing against Kate but I find her wooden, bland, a bit too perfect. She plays her role well but it's very 1950s, look beautiful but say nothing.....I aspire to more than that. The Royal family dont want a strong role model though they just want her to behave herself.

@BlueBookBag

On another note I’m leaving Mumsnet soon. Maybe later on today. Or in the early morning hours.

Like they say, it's not an airport love, you don't need to announce your departure

Good God, no.

I prefer my role models to be allowed to speak, thank you.

You actually think it’s a positive that she has no opinions? Good grief how depressing.

@NoLeafClover it’s a good thing because it means she’s well liked by most people regardless of their own viewpoints, which is good for a public figure

I can see where you're coming from OP. I admire elegance, particularly in older wealthy women. Just so far removed from me!

Re K Middy, she seems so incredibly trapped in that lifestyle, she can never ever leave. That to me is terrifying.
I mean, if it all goes tits up for me here I could fairly easily save a bit of money and move to florida and go work in a hot dog shack. Where as she will always always be stuck raising a frickin future king.

@BlueBookBag

On another note I’m leaving Mumsnet soon. Maybe later on today. Or in the early morning hours.

I would imagine you are 🤣🤣

She's not even a role model for marrying rich. He's rich alright but it comes with a tonne of baggage.

@MusicTeacherSussex

I think you could find MUCH better role models than a gurning, taciturn doll who is perpetuating a long dead monarchy at the top of a toxic class system that excuses sexual predators.

How nasty.

@ZenNudist

She's not even a role model for marrying rich. He's rich alright but it comes with a tonne of baggage.

This 🙈

overbyyer true though

Hi Pippa!

If you're going to be living a life that requires you to be highly visible, on show and representative of a company, family or government - never expressing a view that is even slightly out of step with them - Kate is an excellent role model.

@OverByYer

It may be a bit catty but we’re not talking about the woman next door we are talking about a public figure,

I have nothing against Kate Middleton but the idea that a woman should be celebrated for her ability to wear expensive clothes, smile nicely and keep her mouth shut offends me.

It was catty. But if she really cared about DV against women she'd be down the shelter handing out clothes and cooking up meals on the regular.

Much better to be your authentic self than trying to be like someone else. I think she’s probably very nice (I had a friend who went to school with her who said she was pleasant and hardworking), she seems to be very family orientated and a style icon if that’s your thing. But everything she does, wears and says in public is carefully thought through and choreographed. She is doing a job and does it very well.

It would be unreasonable to offer her up as some kind of universal role model for women. But if you see her as a personal role model, who embodies the attributes that you yourself value, that's absolutely fine.

Today 20:46OverByYer

MusicTeacherSussex

I think you could find MUCH better role models than a gurning, taciturn doll who is perpetuating a long dead monarchy at the top of a toxic class system that excuses sexual predators.

"How nasty."

Which part is nasty? It's all factual apart from the gurning bit, which is subjective

@BlueBookBag

On another note I’m leaving Mumsnet soon. Maybe later on today. Or in the early morning hours.

Ah well, we’d better all make haste and offer our humble lay-person opinions to you pronto with a curtsy m’highness! 😁

@MrsJaneyLloydFoxe

What have I stumbled across here

Yes, all very strange

Bye then.

With regards to Kate, she’s fine. A bit vanilla IMO. I just don’t know what else to say actually.