Ever since Amal Clooney slipped on those terrible white gloves and graced the Golden Globes with her presence, it’s sort of been open season on her in the tabloids. Do I feel sorry for her? Eh. Not really. She’s a big girl and she knew what she was signing up for when she started this mess with George Clooney. Which is why it’s strange to read this UK tabloid story – their sources claim Amal is “struggling” with her fame and finding the adjustment to married life and public life really difficult.
Amal Clooney apparently still feels nervous when venturing out in public with husband George. George is no stranger to fame having been in the spotlight since the mid-90s, but Amal is apparently struggling with the constant speculation surrounding their relationship.
“This is meant to be a really exciting time for her and George – of course they’re adjusting to married life and finding their feet a bit, but it feels like everybody is waiting for them to slip up – and, apparently, split up, too!” a close pal told British magazine Look.
“George is laidback and he feels at home on the red carpet. But for Amal, I think it must be a bit of a shock. Sure, she’s done it a few times now, but I know she stills gets nervous. The problem is that when you’re worried, it’s hard to smile and look happy all the time.”
George paid a heart-warming tribute to his wife when he took to the stage at the Globes in January, collecting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. He gushed that he “couldn’t be prouder” to be her husband. Unfortunately for Amal, she was caught off guard when the camera turned to her chatting to Bill Murray, giving the impression she wasn’t listening.
“It’s really unfortunate that the cameras panned to Amal at that moment. It was the first time all night when she’d started to relax. And now it’s prompted all these rumours. No wonder she was snapped looking tense again later that night,” the pal sighed.
I honestly don’t get “nervous” or “struggling” from Amal whatsoever. She’s never seemed like that at all. She always seemed to revel in the attention. Is she still learning how to walk a carpet and all of that? Sure. And there is a learning curve, and she’s doing pretty well (excluding the gloves). But here’s what I think it dead-on about this tabloid story: Amal thought she and George would be able to adjust to married life together, just the two of them, and they would start to build a new life together. But George thought she would just be like all of her other girlfriends, that she would change everything to suit him, that they would vacation with his friends, that she would fit into his life. I think that’s what she’s struggling with.
Oh, and you know how Amal and her firm were hired to represent Greece in the attempt to get the “Elgin Marbles” back from the British Museum? Well, the Daily Mail says the new Greek government is looking to change or tweak their strategy and that may include firing Amal and the Doughty Street legal team. Because they’re charging a fortune.
Photos courtesy of WENN, PCN.
At the Globes she seemed nervous and awkward rather than stuck up.
I got that impression too.
On a shallow note, she is such a beautiful woman.
I agree, she seemed like a fish out of water.
She’s just surprised she got bad headlines after the Globes.
I guess ßhe’s finding out George’s PR machine can’t control everything.
She looks so gaunt, not attractive.
Omg you really have it in for her don’t you. All your comments sound so angry at her? its baffling.
All I need to see are the pictures of her getting into and out of the car during their wedding weekend and I see a person who is eating the attention up.
oh please, it was her wedding! I know shy, low key people who had the biggest weddings i´ve ever seen. And Amal is lebanese… they celebrate weddings big!
Thank you! I just posted the same thing!
Eating the attention up? It was her wedding day! What bride wouldn’t be smiling and showing off a little bit? As for the red carpet, she probably would rather be somewhere else but she is being supportive to her husband. She’s not showy at all yet people seem bound and determined to make negative comments about the fact that yes, she does breathe in and out and she has lips that smile. The poor woman can’t win.
What’s wrong with her eating up the attention? Isn’t it great for the world to admire you, think you’re gorgeous/smart/unique, and have a handsome, successful husband by your side? Glamour must be hard for a lawyer to come by. Everyone needs to stop with the criticism, like loving attention is something beneath them. Attention is great, especially when it’s your big day.
And this website needs to stop mentioning the gloves. It’s petty. For people who get worked up over silly starlets incorrectly defining feminism (as you should!), you should also just laugh of peoples’ fashion faux pas instead of bringing it up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It’s not a crime against humanity.
Totally agree with you. It was weeks ago, and whether you liked the gloves or not, what is the big deal?? If someone else would repeatedly mentioned other women’s outfits in a consistent negative way, we’d be labeled haters.
And for the commenter who mentioned that Amal wore a red coat through Heathrow… seriously?? I have several red coats and one purple jacket. I hate black and try to wear bold colours (I have dark hair and eyes like Amal). Does that mean I seek the limelight? Only as much as each of us dresses to look good!
There is nothing wrong with enjoying the attention, and I agree I don’t think it bothers her at all. In this case I think it means this story is total bs.
She’s in an impossible situation. If she didn’t smile and dressed differently, she would be called smug, she smiles and dresses for herself and is considered fame hungry. I agree that marrying a movie star should clue one in on the microscope of celebrity, but how could you really know until you’re in it? I think her brain is the most interesting thing about her. And her hair. Love her hair!
I guess she’s finding out Hollywood and Entertainment PR machines paid for by Clooney won’t make the public like her or admire her or think she is beautiful if they don’t.
If she can’t take the heat of one Redcarpet event and appearance at an award show, then she won’t last with George….or maybe it’s not meant to last and all of these stories will be rolled out for about two years until we hear of a Split.
Not buying the Pr around this woman.
Kaya, well said, and thank you for saying it!
If she’s smiling she’s *loves attention,* if she’s not smiling and happy it’ll be a sign of either (1) an attitude problem or (2) trouble in paradise already. She can’t win.
She loved the Attention, probably only when the headlines were all Glowing.
Amal is finding out a Paid PR machine can’t control everything and some negative headlines still slip out.
Is it just me or do George & Amal look like they could be siblings?
and nervous/struggling! Lol.. b*tch please, you adore the attention and designer gowns.
Someone who hates the attention doesn’t walk through Heathrow wearing a bright red leather jacket.
I’ve walked through Heathrow in a bright green jacket and I’m actually somewhat introverted….what’s that got to do with anything? Is she supposed to dress in fatigues? All black? Wear a false nose and wig? She looks great, professional and stylish.
You’ve walked through an airport in a thousand of dollars Versace red leather coat with perfectly blown out hair? The point of these comments is the story is not true. She doesn’t mind the attention, and tries to look her best when she is going to photographed.
Not sure what the argument against this would be, either she is an intelligent woman who understood that when she married George Clooney a very famous bachelor who gets a lot attention that she would be photographed quite a bit and her life would change, or she is really not very smart and didn’t realize the attention. I think she is smart and understood full well what being Mrs. Clooney entails, and she tries to look her best. She may be overdoing it a bit, but it happens.
Not sure if I agree with Kaiser about the she thought George and her could adjust to marriage together part. For some reason, I think she is smarter than that too, and realized exactly what she got into eyes wide open.
If you are a celebrity who doesn’t want the paps to follow you, then no, you would not wear that particular ensemble/hair/matching lips. Wearing color doesn’t mean she’s a famewhore. But wearing that coat at the airport (pap havens) actually ensured that no one could possibly miss her…which one would have to assume is what she wanted. She’s a highly educated, savvy woman who knows exactly what she is doing.
Exactly.
I think Amal LOVES the Attention, what she seems to be squirming about is the Negative headlines after the Globe attendance.
She made her bed and the headlines are only going to get worse.
Oh my God, are you guys serious? Great, Amal realized there’s good press and bad press. I mean, it wouldn’t be news to an INTERNATIONAL LAWYER, right?
“She made her bed”? It’s like she made a mistake in marrying Clooney and now she, according to half the commentators here, needs to be punished for it.
Guys, stop being so Darth Vader-y.
I don’t really get the criticism against Amal. She is a very accomplished woman. I admire lawyers – they actually do study hard. She seems like a very intelligent person blessed with good looks too. I find her looks intriguing rather than classically beautiful but she looks great in some photos. She might like the attention some day and some days not really just like a normal person. When I walk out of my flat looking (and feeling) especially great I would smile at paps like crazy.
“I think Amal LOVES the Attention, what she seems to be squirming about is the Negative headlines after the Globe attendance. She made her bed and the headlines are only going to get worse.”
And so the PR strategy changes. Per my experience with trial lawyers they aren’t exactly the type that has difficulty dealing with attention. We’re not buying it Amal. It must be difficult dealing with the designer clothes, continual vacations etc.
Who the hell did she think she was marrying, This could have all been avoided if she would have read about George on Celebitchy. Just sayin’.
Pictures/photographs don’t tell us the person’s total personality.
Agree. I’m photographed quite a lot (not any kind of celebrity, just do a lot of public speaking/lead groups) and I come off as extremely confident in images when I’m actually a bit of an awkward mess. Apparently ‘desperately trying to keep it together and distract with big gestures’ reads as in control and powerful in still images. I also come across as a bit haughty/stuck-up because my nose is often high in the air as I’m trying to avoid eye contact while still looking in the general direction of my audience.
My boss comes off as intense and possibly a bit mean/angry in pictures when in real life he’s the gentlest, sweetest, mushiest person I’ve ever met. He just has a face and body language that in still images suggest a radically different personality type.
Her eyebrows are SO strong and she’d look so much better with a lighter brown shade and more natural shape.
I know it’s a pain in the ass to bleach dark eyebrows but she would look so much better.
As a person of Arab descent I disagree. We love our brows. Playing up the eye area is a thing. How would you feel if I told you that your weak and barely there brows needed some dye and rogaine? Wouldn’t you feel like I was saying “you’re flat chested and need implants?”
Different ethnicities consider different body parts their best feature. Embrace the difference. I love my brows as do my peers.
I myself have an appointment for brow dye in a week or so. And my dermatologist suggested Latisse for ’em. Sigh. (FYI–the Latisse didn’t work a bit on my brows, but it truly does work on lashes!)
I presume that Greece are dropping it because a) it’s broke, and b) the BM isn’t giving up their ill-gotten gains anytime soon. Greece needs to place its focus elsewhere right now.
So true. A friend from college is living in Greece and the stories she tells about the country’s financial crisis are frightening.
I was in Greece right before they joined the EU and I didn’t meet a single person that was for it. Everything they feared that would happen to the country if they joined seems to have come true.
Lilacflowers – please share some?
I was thinking the same thing. I understand history is important, but considering the the humongous other pressures the country has, it’s like it’s wringing its hands over a couple of trinkets.
I think Greece is planning to default on their bail out loans. I would think the Elgin Marbles are a low priority if they pull a bone headed move like that.
A Greek here.
Truth is that other European countries are in a deeper dept than Greece. My country is not as powerful as they are and has no strong industry, so they choose to make it the “experiment” and the “black sheep” of the Eurozone in purpose to create a financial crisis and affect negatively the Euro currency,with the help of our previous (Right) government of course.
These days there is so much propaganda here from the previous government,their partners who wanted them to be elected in order to continue the previous policy that killed financially the Greek citizens,and also the press that they controlled all these years but we should stay focused and leave behind fear.
I wish better days are coming.
@Greek Chic–
You make me want to just hug an entire country!
@TotallyBiased thanks for your support.
People should not believe everything they hear or read.There are so many financial intererests playing.The crisis has a purpose, to destroy financially the weaker countries of the Eurozone.Greece was the first target.Greek people are not lazy or corrupt as they want to portay them, but our politicians are for sure.The bad thing is that as Greece is not strong,we have a little strong from other countries.I hope with our new goverment things will change.
Hugs to you too!
*little support
interesting! at least Greece’s problem is a financial one and solvable with time
T.Fanty: not ‘ill-gotten’ at the time. Lord Elgin got the appropriate permits (firmans).
Hazal that’s not true. The firmans don’t have the Soultan’s signature not an official stamp nor the usual invocation to the god, and without them Elgin and the British Museum have no legal proof of ownership.
That’s a controversial subject and Elgin is accused of vandalism and looting, but even if his permits were legal the marbles belong to Greece and we should bring them back. Do you how how it feels to see part of your history with missing pieces?
She’ll get used to it. I’m not overly worried.
I see her in clothes that make her noticeable. She’s married to one of the most famous guys in Hollywood,there’s no way she could have expected to blend in with everyone else
I don’t think she is terribly shy by nature and I’m sure she is used to having attention on her for arguing cases. But being on a red carpet that is being filmed live, with hundreds of blogs dedicated to analyzing and ripping apart your fashion choices, and this being essentially her first big Hollywood “event”, I find it totally believable that she is nervous.
This. She must know by now she is going to be ridiculed online for the rest of her life with regard to what she’s wearing and how she looks on the red carpet (and in other non-work related settings). The poor woman; no matter how brilliant she is, it won’t help her any in the entertainment/gossip industrial complex… unless she’s given the opportunity to display her public speaking chops.
I am really meh about her, what I don’t understand is all the hate she gets.
Okay, they need to just stop this. It won’t help.
Seriously? There are struggling artists with important messages who may never be heard and probably deserve to be walking the red carpet way more than Clooney, and we’re supposed to be all concerned about the awkwardness of his spoiled, shallow, anorexic, rich-girl wife who signed a lucrative contract to be his n-th beard for a couple of years.
Well Said.
+10000
Exactly Santolina – now the fabric of her inflated career cloak is tearing and people haven’t taken to her for her conspicuous love of the cameras (a Pap even admitted he got an Amal approved ‘walk’ schedule) it’s new phase of the “narrative” ‘Amal the Shy’.
They are in quick turnaround on re-packaging her for the desired branding again. Not helped by, despite media attempts to turn her attitude at the GGs into a “she has more serious concerns” plus, George needs to sell her to HW too and her approach has already caused some to say she’s getting a little too ahead of herself in her expectations as a “celeb”.
I just find it bizarre some are hook, line, and sinker based on her Wiki being given a polish prior to her GF roll-out last year. And few question where, other than Clooney approved sanitisation, her online footprint and personal background has gone. I appreciate we’re all desperate for a sound career woman to be given media cover for us to admire and aspire – she is not it. She has accomplishment BUT nowhere close to as being portrayed and that is undermined by her hunger for the shallow footlights and cameras. Being falsely offered a woman to admire is more insulting than having a lack of such women given proper recognition by the media in the first place.
+100
Well i live in Greece and i haven’t heard anything about Amal. The new government have more important things to focus on than this story.
Oh give me a break. Struggling with fame who is the one constantly pulling her head up so she can get photographed. Sell it somewhere else sister because no one is buying it here. Has the countdown began for her? anything true about this woman? I wish if a coworker wants to spill it on her they should just come forward. Now that would be interesting. Isn’t she being treated like the female Mel Gibson, I wonder why.
I bet it is. Bless her heart.
Today cdan confirmed the previous item about her pressing for her own show..no surprise at all. Everything is being carefully controlled, I’m sure. This conspicuous coupling has smelled since day one.
I know it may seem bewildering that so many of us here are registering such robust annoyance at Mrs. Clooney . My own dander is up because of the relentless selling of this woman as The Greatest Thing Ever — one who was finally “worthy” of getting a ring put on it by a Cary Grant wannabe with flimsy intellectual pretensions. So worthy that she’s just so above all the HW BS because she’s too busy Championing Human Rights. (Never mind the fact that it hasn’t been made clear whose rights she is promoting other than those of dictators and repressive governments. IF she is even that substantively involved.)
I have to say, after the crazy-ass rollout , I’m still hard pressed to see her as much more than Stacey/Sarah/Elisabetta in a barrister’s robe. Same dumb Cabo photos, same glammed-out red carpet walks, same withering away into anorexic nothingness, same vagueness as to what it is she actually does aside from being the other half of GC.
And now, to counteract all the side-eyeing, we’re being fed more pablum — that she’s insecure and nervous and struggling. Yeah, no……I don’t buy it. If she’s so smart and above it all, why care about Kathy Griffin hating on her gloves or not looking adorably in love on cue during the Globes? And if she is totally up in it and thirsty, well that makes ’em both look bad.
I guess I’m just left with the conclusion that she’s just as famewhorey and shallow as her husband, which means that she just isn’t this monolithic Woman of Substance that they really, really want to sell. I find the whole thing distasteful and disingenuous.
Ah…..I love a good rant in the afternoon….
The measure of a civilsed and democratic society is that everyone has access to justice and the right to a fair trial. This includes those that most citizens would deem to be terrible people – they are still humans and have rights. Barristers (who don’t get to pick and choose cases) are in no way subverting greater ideals of human rights by acting for such clients. In any event I doubt the dictators and repressive governments mantra would stand up to scrutiny as it seems to be a sweeping generalisation based on reports of a couple of her high profile clients.
I don’t understand the hostility for Amal Clooney on this board. Fair enough if people feel such antipathy towards someone they have never met but leave assumptions about her based on her professional life out of it.
I don’t know if “Q scores” are done anymore, but I suspect Amal’s is not good,
There’s still no apparent chemistry between them. Hollywood knows you can’t fake that on the screen; it’s either there or it isn’t. He looks more like a protective uncle, and she looks like a restless teenager who… uh, needs a boyfriend and a cheeseburger.
Hmm, I wonder if her part of their “contract” specifies some sort of calorie restriction.
I don’t thinks she is shy. I have seen other casual pictures of her and they didn’t equal shy.
posing as a couple on a RC comes very naturally to some couples. They just have this thing that radiates. Amal and George have not had many RCs together. They don’t know how to relate to each other on the carpet when the photographers are snapping. They seems awkward and distant. I think the thing to do is ignore the cameras and just focu on each other.
But you are going to have chemistry or not. Some things can’t be faked.
And as I said before I think she really liked all the cameras on her during the wedding. It will be interesting how that helps or hinders her at work.
She’s an accomplished person. I think what went wrong here was Clooney’s PR team went a bit overboard regarding Amal and constantly putting down his previous partners, which is just so disrespectful. It seemed as if he were trying to prove something to Stacy kiebler, he had paparazzi follow his every move with Amal after Stacey Kiebler married. Maybe he rushed into marriage a bit too quickly, just months of dating Amal. The two come from very different worlds, careers overall lifestyles.
I just hope the best for both.
abt her accomplishments – if she is 36 or 35 and is a relative junior in the law firm then it is definitely a bit odd – i think she was put in the elgin marbles issue simply because of the pr that it would bring esp to the main lawyer – and the firm.
the difference between stacy and george and his previous girlfriends was that he always appeared to be more relaxed with them. i am just basing this on photos and interviews which i have seen over time. but somehow with amal and george esp on the gg red carpet – he didnt look comfortable at all he was trying to be but it just came out as him trying too hard to be relaxed – abt amal same impression too – maybe she was just nervous so i guess we need to wait and see and i didnt like her gloves either ( there i said it !) – but more than this is that why did they getmarried in the first place if they are spending time apart – they have been married less than 6 months and hardly are in the same place at the same time. it just seems so off somehow.