So, whom does she marry? ARNOLD SHWARZENEGGER: former Austrian weight lifter and porn star, current actor and real estate magnate and Big Deal International Movie Star. ( He was said to be ENORMOUSLY well endowed.) Seriously,I read that bit many times before this all started). Plus, how could he not have been a little bit Nazi?
So, Devout Catholic and Good Girl, Our Maria, marries him, and he decides to run for Governor as a Republican. She gives up her reporting work because it " wouldn't
be appropriate while he was in politics," and has four children with him.
She begins to run a terrific Women's Conference every year, and is very close to Oprah!
That, in itself is a great asset. Besides being fun, Big O can certainly help her career comeback.. I see a series for her on Oprah's new, largely unwatched TV channel, OWN.
Always there are rumours about Arnold " groping" women and why not, that's what movie sets are for. He admitted to the groping years ago, but said everyone did it.
Years go by, there is , of course, a "faithful" housekeeper/ family retainer who is fairly blowsy looking but probably passionate. ( people like this always keep good help).
And someone seduces someone else. Naturally, he wouldn't deign to use protection, and she may well have been afraid to demand that he do, so there is a child. There is always a child.
This little boy is born two weeks before Maria's last son is born.
The maid stays another ten years, doing the laundry, cleaning, and cooking for the four children, and then she retires, is given severence and secret child support and a house is bought for her and what they call the " Love Child" in Bakersfield for $230,000. Hardly love, wouldn't you say? Have you ever been to Bakersfield?
Just before leaving the Governorship ( at which he did a TERRIBLE job), The Governor and Maria buy property just up the road from us. We see the Governor's car, the security. he appears at the Santa Barbara Athletic Club quite frequently. Everyone thinks it is pretty cool: they'll be neighbors. But, it seems now, that like Al and Tipper, they will not both live there. I can't imagine SHE would want to live on the road to Ojai as lovely as it is - so will they sell it, or will he use it for weekend assignations?. Or, on the other hand, perhaps she would like to have a weekend place near Oprah! We better tell her that the Albertson's in Carpinteria has become bagless!!
After he left office, he told Ave Maria about the housekeeper's baby. Apparently the kid is the spitting image of our hero. ( Maria was dining with Oprah when he phoned her - wouldn't you love your life's traumas to happen with Oprah at your side?)
MARIA FREAKED and left for a Beverly Hills hotel. Good Girl!!
Never mind that No Divorce thing preached by the Catholic Church - everyone has her limits.
Groping is one thing - your spouse's baby, conceived in YOUR bed with the housekeeper, running around your house playing with your kids is quite another.
So why is this interesting? She had everything before she had him: she is beautiful, bright, moneyed and energetic. She could have married lots of men who might have treated her as she deserved to be treated.
But she must have loved him. it cannot have been for power, can it? She already had a family to whom power had been part of life for generations. Real Power. Lasting power. Of course, many of the Kennedy men cheated,( while the women wore mantilas and said their rosaries), but her dad seemed like a lovely man.
So, let's assume she loved Arnie at one point in time. She gave up a lot for him - and he made fun of her weight. ( She became thinner and thiner), and then he screws around with the maid who is pretty chunky. The cheating went on apparently even during the day, in HER OWN bed): a guy likes a woman with a little flesh on her bones who doesn't want to disscuss policy questions as pillow talk.
Plus why pay for a hotel and drag your security guys into it? So convenient.
I hope the housekeeper changed the sheets when they were done. Imagine poor Maria getting the wet spot.
I hope Maria is Done, and that their kids will be OK at some point.
So he destroyed a family to get laid. Happens. Or, and this is where it gets interesting: is it sheer hubris that allows these guys to screw anyone they wish, WITHOUT contraception, and just go one making speeches and telling others how to live their lives?
Yes, it is the latter. ( see the former head of the International Monetary Fund currently in jail for rape). Another maid, this one from Africa - raped in a hotel suite she was trying to clean. But there is no cleaning up the mess these guys make, is there?
Unlss you are all sick of this story already, please comment and tell me what you think about it.
i am eager to know what makes otherwise intelligent( arnold, strauss-kahn, spitser, tiger, etc) men take such big risks. are they simply preying on weak, powerless women for physical gratification? or is his wife unavailable any longer at home. i once desired a relationship with a CEO, but was told that he had to account for every waking moment with either his secretary or his wife!
ReplyDeleteI think they do it beucase they think they can get away with it. It has less to do with sex than with power, but still plenty to do with sex - sex the way they want it ,and when they want it and HOW they want it. ( See elliot with the hooker being " rough") I doubt he would have ben rough with his beautiful wife who is STILL THERE!
ReplyDeleteHubris is the word, Power is the reason and having a penis is , after all these years, ever the admission ticket!
my shrink says that these swell guys suffer from "malignant narcisism'. look it up!
ReplyDeleteSadly, anonymous, I don't need to look it up - I have lived it with my first boss when i was 22. And I've met creatures ( they are not human) with the condition since. Narcissism is not curable by any kind of therapy or meds as it is a character disorder. I think you and your shrink are right.
ReplyDeleteBut it does seem to help it along to be rich and famous and the boss, doesn't it?? or, is what we hear of as abuse and molestation and wife beating and locking kids in closets etc, the same thing for people who don't have a maid of a hotel suite and just grab whomever crosses their path in the den in front of the wide screen?
Good one...they just think they're 'invincible' - the rules do not apply to them. He will be sad and lonely - maybe...his children will not forgive him, they may not become estranged - but they will always remember how he threw away their family. Good Maria's parents weren't around to hear/see this.
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