YOU magazine - Wanting a baby when your marriage is in crisis ?

[RachD]

Has anyone seen the columnist - can't remember what her name is,
She writes for the Mail on Sunday, YOU magazine, on the back page.

The topic is her marriage.
I know I shouldn't care, but I read her page every week, without fail.
And it makes me really sad because I don't think her husband treats her well at all.
Yet she talks about having a baby.
Surely this is not wise.

Do other feel sorry for her, or is it just me being silly.

Do lots of people deliberatly have a baby even though their marriage is in crisis ?

What do you think ?

The thing is, those columns are so compulsive. One returns, agog, as to an unfinished packet of chocolate digestives.

(While fuming, of course, that nobody pays me large amounts to produce drivel. I am excellent at drivel, dammit. I can drivel for ages. Just ask any Mumsnetter.)

she wrote that highly irritating wedding column in the guardian saturday magazine a few years ago didn't she? .

Did she? Oh yes, wasn't she agonising over her marriage to her quite extraordinarily mismatched (and quite attractive, ahem) bloke?

yep, a lot younger than her. and indeed cuter. i think they live near here...

I just googled her and read the advance synopsis of her book

Yes, the herbs! My god. I have been known to shout at the page, and the ridiculous cartoons of her husband levitating (or something).

She must be doing something right - it is utterly riveting (in a pointless, cheap sort of way).

Nooooo! A book? Not about her marriage, surely? Say it ain't so.

I'll have to buy it.

I know. Enviably so

it ain't so

I lied.

She got dumped on Millennium Eve? Huh. I got dumped, by long-distance phone call, on the Christmas Eve of 1999.

"...an hilarious and often heartbreakingly honest account..."

Gaaaah! Straight from The Little Book of Blurb-Writer's Cliches...

Dear lord - not a book too..

Great idea on the herb front to do it secretly from dh, and then write about it nationally. He's never going to find out about that one is he?!

Mother inferior, thats terrible.
Whereas thats too good for her !!

Oooh, don't worry about me, I took up with DP the day after Boxing Day

Good god, a book, I don't believe it.

I'm sure we can come up with a better title, for her book, for her.

"How to divorce, before you're married" ???

Mi, now's that's cool !!!

oh for god's sake

It just gets worse doesn't it. I mean "The worst part, or the best part, I don't know, is that having a weekly deadline crystallises things; I will often force an issue, push him for an answer, because I have a deadline. "

Managing your relationship to fit with your column - no wonder it's all gone wrong

She seems to exist solely in order to write about it.
I feel a bit frightened for her, I'm ashamed to admit.

Yes, that last article struck me as more than slightly bizarre - it had tipped from the uncomfortably-confessional to the, well, off-balance.

Am glad I am not the only one who buys the MOS only to dive staright in to my YOU mag and goes straight to back page!
I was tres but now I feel I found my clique!

She has always struck me as extremely childish,self centred and vain but then is she portraying a kind of Desperate Housewife kind of character that really isn't her and is making the whole thing up as she goes along???
Have often felt compelled to email her and ask her what the hell she thinks she is achieving airing her dirty knicks in public?

Anyone read todays ?
Apparently she has gone off her husband.
Yeah right.
That is self defence talking.
She would give up her right arm, or even her jimmy choo collection, if he told her he loved her.
Because he hasn't she's now starting the 'well, I don't want him line'.

How much of this bollocks, does she expect jo-public, to swallow ?

just read the book. DREADFUL.