To think Tamara Ecclestone is the luckiest woman alive

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2 healthy and happy children, adoring husband, lovely relationship with sister, health, all the money in the world. I follow her on instagram and she seems like a lovely mum.

Only slightly jealous that she's constantly taking her children all around the world during school holidays and always going to lovely places constantly. I do wonder why she posts on instagram so much though, surely, it's not like she needs the instagram advertising revenue.

Is she the luckiest woman humanity has ever seen?

oh god, I would LOVE to be rich

But not her life

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"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.

That was Petra

Fait play to her. May as well enjoy it!

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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