To think Tamara Ecclestone is the luckiest woman alive

[plumcake2924]

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?

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 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?

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

And the children must live in a gilded cage

This
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!

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.

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..

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.)

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.

what Jo Wheatley's husband?

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 😂

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

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.

Wow!
’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.[6] In 2013, Ketterman was found guilty of attempting to blackmail her for $200,000 and sentenced to four years in prison.’

And her mum:
‘In December 2019, she put her Chelsea mansion up for sale for more than £100m after daughter Tamara's home in Kensington Palace Gardens was raided and jewels worth £50m were stolen.’

Does acting all superior to other people online make you feel better about yourself, out of interest?

There are many well-known women with all of that plus undoubtedly successful careers (e.g. Margot Robbie) if you want to be jealous. Why specifically Tamara (with questionable father and we really don't know what is going on behind the closed doors. Why does she need an IG anyway - she is not a public person?)?

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.

This sums up my attitude to those who follow influencers/socialites on social media! Better off living your own life, and finding your own happiness, because you won't find anything meaningful through looking at what a famous person is promoting this week.

@plumcake2924

its all subjective

I have friends who would be mortified at the very thought of having two kids so to them tamara is not lucky in the slightest

AIBU, I'm going in for surgery on Thurs, iv Friends who just turn up unannounced. Iv asked them not to do this it's ignored. Fast forward, iv 10 month old pup so asked only to visit after op if partner or older kids are home, I can't leave door unlocked incase someone opens it and pup runs out, he's a hound, I can't run after him, also when they come round I'm never out kitchen,coffees, drinks, snacks, sorting stuff for their young kids.