C-Lion
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Has she got divorced again ? She divorced in her early thirties I think then she got married again and had another child in her late forties.Not directly related to the TSV obviously, but did you see the long article this week about Liz Earle (the person), promoting her new book about how she re-invented herself in her 50s? Reading about the routines she follows and, sorry to say, her self-indulgent lifestyle, it’s so far removed from probably most people’s daily lives (including my own), you just despair. It’s all this hippy, communing with the Earth sort of thing, throwing open windows, drinking salty water, this and that supplement, tongue-scraping, balancing on one leg, sleep rituals, early morning dips in her garden pond (breaking the ice on top if necessary) then “warming by the stove of her shepherd’s hut”. At 60 years of age and divorced from the kids’ father, she now has a new man in his early 40s - good luck with that.
Sorry to be so scathing. I suppose I should just admire her for what she’s achieved but I can’t stand this sort of smug “guidance” handed down to others on how to have the perfect life (at least as it’s portrayed) from people in a privileged, usually moneyed, position, however hard they’ve worked for it.
To be fair Liz has always had a bit of a smugness about her. I think her and her Co founder friend just tapped into a niche that was there in the early 1990’s and sized on it. Would they be so successful today with their rage? I would say that they would have had a hard job breaking through.
I recall Deborah Meaden on Dragon’s Den saying to a potential entrepreneur that the skincare market is heavily saturated. She was in the right place at the right time and broke lucky! I still love C&P though