I interviewed a woman once whose husband was in iron ore mining and making $20 million over night was no biggie (from "royalties" - isn't it interesting you can get royalties for mining something that's you didn't create or make).
The woman was not a happy woman. She had lots of issues, a possible drug addiction problem, no friends and all her love was invested in her pets. The local press also seemed to vilify her. She seemed like a decent enough woman who had lost the plot a bit because if $20 million isn't a big deal - nothing probably is. Also like many of the very wealthy WOMEN I've met (I worked in Beverly Hills at some point in my youth), she had really bad plastic surgery.
I wonder if its possible for a very rich woman not to carve up her face? Is it because our society values young women and beauty in women? So if you have that sort of money you don't need to think twice about getting a face lift, where as if you're just an average worker you have to really want it to spend that amount of money on cosmetic surgery.
Is it because when you become so successful and wealthy, you become more insecure because you're not sure who your friends are any more. That and what does a person need with so much money? Once you have your basics - a luxury eco-house, white goods, car, wardrobe - everything else is just branded goods to reassure you of your status.
I'm haunted by the faces of the stretched faces of women from Beverly Hills, the sycophants - I worked for a lady who paid some loser musician whose claim to fame was that he had sex with some bald headed Irish singer $10K a month to be her advisor. He was unimpressive, unattractive, smelly (pot smoker) and a pretentious sell out really.
Though he's probably a multi-millionaire now living in some really cool city, surrounded by family, laughing about those whoring days. The woman I hear has an even more stretched off face these days.
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