For months now, we’ve been witnessing LeAnn Rimes trying to remake herself into the biggest Christmas Star that ever was, and you know who I inevitably think of? Mariah Carey. Mariah is the queen of Christmas, I’m sorry. I don’t even listen to Mariah’s Christmas music, but I still think she should hold the Queen of Christmas title. She earned it. She’s been singing Christmas songs for decades. LeAnn Rimes is a famewhore-come-lately to the Christmas music scene.
Anyway, the above Instagram is LeAnn’s family Christmas card. Not content to simply do a Christmas card with herself and her husband, she just has to claim her step-sons as her own, and include them in her “family Christmas card.” Not only did she make Eddie and the boys do tacky “Olan Mills” poses, but she used the Instagram to shill for her Christmas EP!!! That’s what the hashtags are for, especially #TODAYischristmas. That’s her “single.” Welcome, Bonus Boys, you must help your unhinged stepmother shill for her Christmas EP. Speaking of, she’s also been bragging about her Bonus Boys in nearly every interview. Did you know that LeAnn and Eddie have the boys for Christmas this year? LeAnn will repeatedly tell you about it.
Singer LeAnn Rimes finds Christmas even sweeter when her husband’s children are involved, and hopes they’ll stay kids for as long as possible. The 33-year-old star will be celebrating the festive season with her spouse Eddie Cibrian and his offspring Mason, 12, and eight-year-old Jake, from his marriage to Brandi Glanville. LeAnn loves every minute of having the youngsters round on Christmas Day, even if she is more excited about some parts than they are.
“It’s great. Having kids makes it only sweeter,” LeAnn smiled to Smashing Interviews Magazine when quizzed on how she’ll be spending the special day. “They’re eight and 12, so we’re trying to keep them kids as long as possible. The oldest, of course, does not believe in Santa Claus pretty much anymore. The eight-year-old is questioning, but we’re still trying to keep him knowing for sure if there is a Santa Claus. It’s awesome just having them around.”
Mason and Jake come round in the morning every other year, so LeAnn and Eddie have breakfast in bed on the times it’s just the two of them. It’s a stark difference when the boys are present, as their day begins at 5:30am, with wrapping paper all over the place.
Is this tacky? To not only claim her stepsons as her own, but to claim their stories, their childhood memories, their Christmases as her own, for her own career purposes? I find it gross. While Brandi isn’t my favorite person – and God knows Brandi can stick up for herself – I’m reminded of just how much bulls—t Brandi has to put up with from LeAnn on a regular basis.
Photos courtesy of WENN, LeAnn’s Instagram.
If you have to point out that it is an ugly Christmas sweater/Olan Mills setup in your card message, you failed. Did she think everyone would think it was real?
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What I find sad about her ‘family’ Xmas card is the way she distance the boys from Eddie. Its usually LeAnn clinging to Eddie and the kids a foot away. She did this with a Xmas ornament. There were four mittens with their names on it. LeAnn mittens were next to eddies while the boys mittens were off to the left together.
If you so family take pictures of the boys with their father. Alone. Then with you in the background.
THIS.
This is just a tacky, half assed attempt. As I said down thread – I was editing photos in photoshop better than that at 12. Seriously.
The only photo that looks really Olan Mills style is the one with the younger boy posing with hand on chin. The other kid is just smiling – probably grabbed from an existing photo of him, and the photo of Eddie and Leann isn’t Olan Mills either – it’s just a photo of two people standing together.
She had the opportunity to make this a really cheesy on purpose card – and either attempted it herself, and is proud of her failed attempt, or she had someone who had no business being paid make it for her.
I’m sure the boys love being around LeAnn on Christmas as she probably spends a ton of money trying to buy their love. Just like she does with their dad.
Yes, the card is tacky, but everything this beast does is tacky. My first thought when I saw the card was that she couldn’t get them all to pose together with her. I am no fan of Brandi’s either, but I give her a lot of credit for putting up with LeAnn’s constant need to use her kids for attention.
What I thought. She had to photoshop them into the picture. She’s so desperate. I have no words for her. Must be hard to deal with her as the mother of the boys.
WORST. PHOTOSHOP JOB. EVER.
It’s just the style of card. Brandy has repeatedly said how much her boys love LeeAnne and that she is good to them. She’s just completely evil to her and essentially stole her family since she’s rich and Brandy wouldn’t take him back.
It’s just the style of card. Brandy has repeatedly said how much her boys love LeeAnne and that she is good to them. She’s just completely evil to her and essentially stole her family since she’s rich and Brandy wouldn’t take him back.
There’s also a point when even children loose interest in this sort of thing. They’re getting older and do have lives of their that might not include her agenda. I wonder if she even asks if they want to do these cards. And eddie’s been looking a hundred different kind of pissed with her one woman Xmas campaign.
Everyone just looks exhausted by her. When is enough is enough with her?
I believe she couldn’t get the kids together to pose as a whole family because they are finally getting wind of how much of a b**** she is. She is just being tolerated by now. $1000.00 says she will read these comments and she’ll go into her archive of photos and start posting TONS of ones with her and the kids to show how much they love her.
Brandi is close to sainthood by now for the amount of crazy she no undoubtedly puts up without killing anyone! I mean Leann is pushing it way over the line! That deadbeat Eddie needs to take his balls out of Leann’s fringed purse and do something!!
Old has been D list actor Ed looks absolutely miserable in these pictures.
Karma Baby.
I love how old and miserable Ed looks. He definitely did not get the life he thought he would end up with when he married Looney.
He really does look 100% over it.
I honestly can’t believe they are still married. Kudos to them and I wish them well. But also I can’t believe it.
She still has money, right?!
Yes but it has to be about more than that now. A real man can only do that for so long without being totally disgusted with himself. I think Eddie is really trying
Eddie really isn’t trying. Eddie “stays”(based on Leann’s late night and early tweets, Eddie and Leann part ways once the staged photo-op is over ) because Leann supplies him with women, employs his friends and parents, hosts parties for his friends, takes him and his friends on vacations, and based on the photo that someone posted on Thanksgiving morning, Eddie likes to gamble and many of Leann’s concerts are in casinos.
@why? You really think Leann supplies Ed with women? For what exactly?
It’s no secret Leann has brought other women into their bedroom. He cheats. I think Leann thinks she can hold this off if she monitors it, but he’s probably going out on his own.
I have no idea if she does but It would comes as no surprise. The boys Are older with one even dating. He’s going to want to spend time with girls and friend. The little one just seems to see her as goofy. I’m sure they care for her but she seems to want to keep her loved ones in a bird cage of sorts. Why is she unable to see how stifling she can be.
How about singing a Xmas song to your sick parents when you’re making the TV rounds. I never heard her say’ My parent had health problems this year and it makes one think how fragile life can be so I dedicate this Xmas CD to them with hope of them getting better’. Nope.
@FLORC – I wouldn’t be at all suprised if Ed cheats on Leann but saying that she actually brings women into their bedroom (and that it’s no secret) considering the short leash she has him on, I highly doubt it.
Is there some kind of proof of this ‘secret’?
Leann doesn’t have Eddie on a short leash. There are people who have tweeted that Eddie was at airports(Leann said that Eddie was sick in bed with a stomach bug) and the mall(Leann was in London and she said she was face timing with Eddie, but Eddie was at the mall because someone posted a video of him). when Leann is saying that he is at home watching his kids or face timing with her. Where was Eddie at 3 am on Thanksgiving morning?Leann lead everyone to believe that he was with her, but according to a photo that someone posted on their IG account, Eddie was gambling and drinking. On Eddie’s custody day he isn’t home with his kids because K will tweet to Leann or Brandi about how much fun Jake is having at her house.
There are photos of Leann and Lizzy making out on a balcony while Eddie and Dave watch. There is a woman on twitter, Leann calls her her friend, who posts photos of herself posing with Eddie. There is another woman on twitter who also poses with Eddie alot. Why else would he go with Leann 2 years in a row to the Miami Bikini show? In 2014 he was backstage taking photos with one of the models. Leann supplies Eddie with women. Do you really think that Eddie is behaving himself around all thsoe women who appear at every party that Leann throws for Eddie?
@why – I didn’t say Ed behaves himself. I do believe he cheats on her but i really doubt Leann supplies him with women. Kissing another woman in front of Ed & his friends is not the same thing as bringing them into his bedroom. I think he’s quite capable of finding his own women.
It’s weird and kinda creepy how much you think you know about these 2 and their marriage.
@why
You would think LeAnn would tell K to keep a low profile when the boys are over. Even Brandi noticed saying K should be getting child support for looking after the boys.
And KK let it out the bag that she watches the boys when she went on Brandi’s time line to just see what was going on with the boys because she miss them they’re not around.
What you’re take on KK following Brandi after the in and out burger incident?
Leanne supports eddies parents. He cannot afford to support them if he was on his own. Even child support does not keep him to leanne because he could work some place and make $1000/month. He cannot make enough to pay his parents house upkeep. Leanne pays!
@Byte Me it is a bit, isn’t it?
Yes, and it borders on stalking.
Eh. Pretending this isn’t LeAnn, I think it’s probably normal for a stepmom to feature her stepkids on a Christmas card. And, to be fair, she only used the hashtag on her instagram post, not on the actual card.
(ok, I’m done being nice for the day!)
Yes, it is normal. Because it’s not just HER card. It’s their family card. I would never leave my stepson out of our family card. That would be insane. Neither do I leave myself out for the same reason. This is a pretty ridiculous thing for people to jump on and I’m glad you appreciate that.
It’s also normal and fine for her to talk about the difference in their Christmases. Whether people like it or not stepparents actually do become part of Christmas celebrations. Would people rather have us pretend the kids aren’t there? Absent ourselves? Insist only the mothers or single parent have the kids for holidays? I mean really the stories and threads on her are just going too far in criticizing.
Thanks– this is always something that kind of irks me in the back of my head. I do think it is tacky for Leann to use her family to shill her Christmas single, and I can also imagine it would be so painful to the boys’ mom to see her kids all over the media with the woman for whom her husband left her. It would be for me, and I really don’t care for Brandi, but I can give her that much.
However, I don’t see anything wrong with them putting the boys on their Christmas card. I admit there might be some other motivations for Leann talking so much about her stepsons, but on the whole I think I’d rather she love the kids and welcome them into her family than not! Think about the other extreme and how Caitlyn and Kris Jenner pretty much ignored Caitlyn’s kids from her previous marriages. They’re a family! They are Eddie’s kids as much as they are Brandi’s. Why does he not have the right to have his sons on his family Christmas card? I’m not saying Leann is entirely on the side of the angels, but I’m sorry– I can’t hate her for this. It’s better that kids have more people to love them and claim them than fewer. If her “love” for them is not sincere, they’ll pick up on that, but so far I haven’t seen signs of that. But at this point, they’ve all been together for years, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they do feel like a family.
ETA I feel we are completely justified in judging the card’s tackiness though
Totally agree Amy and I’ve had the same issue with the other Jenner kids too. It really bothered me too. I can’t imagine marrying my husband and not loving his son as family, he’s part of him. Now this also means I act respectfully towards SS’s mom, out of love for SS. But that certainly doesn’t include pretending her son doesn’t exist in my life. And it’s taken a few years but I think we’re in a pretty good place. When she had a minor surgery I helped SS get flowers for her and offered to pick her up. When I recently had a pregnancy she congratulated me and now that I’ve miscarried she offered help. It’s good for SS to feel part of both households and that both households support his life in both places. He knows he’s loved and everyone is okay.
I agree putting the whole family on Christmas cards is normal. What is not normal is how obsessively she exploits them for promotional purposes. It’s just creepy at this point that their parents aren’t putting them out there nonstop, aren’t talking about them nonstop, aren’t telling the world everything about them, but a stepmom won’t shut up about them.
She’s doing promotions for her music and only speaking about other people’s kids. Barely a mention of the music. There are a lot of stepmoms in the entertainment industry. No one acts like this. It’s not normal. It’s overstepping so many boundaries.
As a parent, it would be weird as hell to me to constantly see stories about my kids like this. You’re standing in line at the grocery, open a mag…oh, look, a full page spread and interview about my kids again, and it’s not even from their dad.
And sorry, the answer to she oversteps her boundaries isn’t , ‘well at least she doesn’t hate them and ignore them!’ There is a middle area you know. Hating them isn’t only option to not overstepping boundaries or having good taste.
@ claire – completely! agree.
Claire of course it’s not but I do think it’s really gone overboard with the stepparent bashing here. I’m not on any of the social media sites because I find it all tacky. But, most people don’t and have much higher tolerances for what is acceptable to share/post. SS’s mom recently had a BF for a few months. We were never introduced but we knew he spent a lot of time with SS and we constantly heard complaints from friends and family that this guy was all over her media with SS and that SS was on his too. That’s her lifestyle, not ours. We only cared that SS was okay when it was over and his mom was handling it well. I get people saying Eddie tried to police Brandi and isn’t doing it himself but that’s so common in divorce. At some point one or more of you have to step back and just try to start accepting how things are and only fight the big stuff.
Paleokifaru, like I said, I don’t see anything wrong with family Christmas cards.
I would just say that it’s important to remember that people are well aware of how she exploits them, that she is a hindrance to coparenting, that her attitude, straight from her, is that she does what she wants and when people tell her no, she will go further, and this includes exibiting any boundaries or empathy for the situation she is in and who she hurts, and that she exaggerates how much parenting she does. (sorry, but you’re not helping a stepkid with homework if you’ve been obsessively tweeting every 60 seconds with your cadre of weirdo fans on Twitter for the last 3 hours). Then you’ve also got her putting out her ridiculous daily affirmations, and nonstop complimenting herself on how positive and nice she is, and how far she goes to foster a relationship with their mom. But doing stuff like deleting negative comments about herself on IG, but leaving up all the nasty ones her fans write about those kids’ mom, spending an entire season of a reality show obsessing over their mom and tearing her down, laughing and encouraging her fans to attack their mom.
She’s fake. She’s a sh*t person. People’s reactions here are towards that and yeah, they should be more careful not blanket generalizing stepmoms. They’re not all crazy, just like all moms aren’t crazy, despite what most stepmom mags and blogs say.
You’re absolutely right, Claire, that there is a middle ground that is better than either extreme. I didn’t intend to imply otherwise.
I know many step-parents and they do not include their stepchildren on a card (they usually don’t do family cards at all – who does still do Christmas cards these days?) nor do they talk about their stepchildren. In fact, they do not mention their stepchildren at all on social media, because they feel it would be inappropriate and disrespectful to the mother. Really, there is no need to mention step kids. It is completely unnecessary.
I also think what a lot of people do not stop to think and realise is that there is a HUGE difference between a woman who becomes your children’s stepmother the right way ie after separation/divorce, and women like Leann who had an affair with a married man, broke up a home, took the man then usurped the victim’s (wife’s) kids as her own and flaunted it and taunted the mother. HOW you come into the kids relationship – MATTERS!
+1000!!!!!!
I’m not sure where you live but everyone I know in the US does family Christmas cards. My husband was sending them with just him and SS before we got married and then I was included because I am family. I’m actually not on social media but I think it’s perfectly acceptable to speak to friends and family about my life which includes my stepson. We have him 50% of the time and we are family to each other. I’d think it would be more worrying if I ignored him or pretended he didn’t exist as you suggest. But family is important to me and I wanted to ensure he felt at home and loved with me here now. We are also trying to grow our family and it’s important he feel a part of that too. But what do I know? I’m just a step mom.
I agree with you, Paleo
What would you have LeAnn do? Ignore them? She can’t win whatever she does. I’d rather see her include the kids & not exclude them regardless how her relationship with Eddie began. I think it’s time to move on…Brandi has.
Pretty much everyone I know does a
Christmas card. I can immediately think of two families that include stepchildren.
Leanne has been in their lives for several years now. She is a big part of their lives and I think she probably sincerely cares about them. I’m not a Leanne fan but she seems like a good stepmom. I would be uncomfortable if the woman my child spent 50% of her time with didn’t treat her like her own child
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I personally wouldnt expect a step mom to never refer to her spouses kids in ordinary conversation particularly in unavoidable circumstances. Social media and tv interviews are not unavoidable circumstances though. Lots of celebrities choose not discuss their biological kids with millions of complete strangers. Nobody thinks any less of them for doing so. Many others wont discuss their step kids holiday plans because it does hurt the other biological parent to be be missing major days and hearing about it along with millions of voyeurs. I mean, I’ve never heard Alicia Keys accused of being an evil step mum because she doesnt rabbit on about Mashonda and Swizz beats kid. Granted Alicia doesnt rant about her own biological kids either. Its almost like she doesnt need to use them for her image…..
Face it, Leann uses those boys for PR. She thinks it softens her image to be seen as close with the kids whose family she helped to rip apart. If this was genuine affection, trust me it wouldnt be played out on her twitter, instagram or interviews. As a bonus, she gets to needle their mummy which she just loves to do. As for the xmas card, if I were a celebrity with a very public falling out with their mother over boundaries, I probably wouldnt even do a family xmas card. It wont kill you to have a more generic christmas image. I certainly wouldnt release the family xmas card to the media. Christmas isnt an opportunity to play out such a long standing dispute in the public.
How about we just agree that LeAnn Rimes isn’t going to be the example we use of healthy step parenting?
Under normal circumstances, it would be weird as hell to not include step children in a family photo or Christmas card. They may not be related by blood, but blood isn’t the sole defining element of family.
It takes two to wreck a home. Eddie is as culpable as Leanne, if not slightly more so, for the demise of he and Brandi’s marriage.
The fact is that for all parties involved, this drama should be over. It’s been years. What’s sad is the clinging and inability to just let it go.
I get it Red and Bridget and I think there’s plenty she has and does wrong. BUT I also think this is a pretty great case study in how to continue the divorce pain. You find all the things you can legitimately pick on and cry foul about and you do it so often that you can’t ever look for the neutral or good and accept that. When you only find fault in everything with the other household, you’re never going to create a respectful environment where your kids feel it’s okay to be happy and loved in both places.
As much as Leann drives me insane – she did not break up the family, @Tarsha. She broke up her own marriage, yes. EDDIE broke up his family, for her.
I loathe when men are treated like mindless robots.
Paleo, family Christmas cards were a novelty for awhile, but then people went back to the pack of 10 or 25 odd variety of Christmas cards for $2. Though most people nowadays email rather than send cards, some even do online animated cards. No one I know really sends snail mail cards much these days.
She broke up the family because when eddie broke up with leanne she kept pursuing him. Secretly meeting him and taping it then releasing to the public. Brandi publicly humiliated so she threw eddie out. Eddie said leanne was a speed bump in his marriage and he wanted to stay married. Leanne moved into eddies neighborhood and would show up at the Laker games he would attend. When the marriage breaks up because of these thing, you officially broke up a marriage!
The answer is this: you include the kids without saying pointedly “The Cibrian Family”. Why not simply sign it with names, as most do? The pictures are being used in a business purpose as well, after EC stopped the boys from appearing on a show their mother was on. He and LR used the boys’ images on their show, and they use them in promotional work. Not to mention, LR recently referred to the boys as “our little one” and “our eldest son” on Twitter. She is not your typical stepmother; she is a narcissist who, if she can’t control the situation, tries to control the emotions.
I don’t feature my stepkids on our family Xmas card, because I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes are overstep my bounds. I take a picture of our cats, put a cute message, and sign with The XXXXXX Family.
But did your husband do a card with just him and the kids before? If he didn’t then I get your hesitation a bit. For us it would have made it seem like our marriage was something to be uncomfortable about. And it shouldn’t be. Was it awkward with his ex for a long time? Sure. While we were dating and married. And I had nothing to do with their divorce. No matter what that’s always awkward. I’m not single white femaling anyone but doesn’t it always feel a teensy bit that way to you and the ex when you become the wife? I think that’s a normal awkwardness that you all just work through for the kids. There’s going to be bumps but if you love the kids then eventually things get a bit smoother.
@Paleo – correct, he never did a card before. If that’s something that’s always been done in your family, then I totally get it. But my husband and his ex have a touchy relationship at times, so I find that in our situation it’s best if I stay more in the background so there’s less reason for her to be upset about anything. I started dating him when his kids were very young (they’d already broken up), I’ve been around for 10 years, but she still refers to me to my husband as ‘your wife’ instead of my name.
It really does seem like the kids love Leann and vice versa, but sometimes I use her as a case study of how to NOT act as a stepmom. The last thing I need to do is continually aggravate their mom, that will do my husband no favors.
Oh definitely. I use it as a case study a lot. Including one on why you can’t just find fault with absolutely everything. It just doesn’t do anyone any good and keeps up the disrespect and hostility.
10 years? And it’s still really bad or does it come in waves? Sounds like you’ve figured out how to keep your sanity in it.
Definitely comes in waves. Usually around the holidays! So far so good – fingers crossed we are moving on to a new level of acceptance and maturity.
Smart move. Or a card with Xmas and put everyone name on the inside. There’s a way to do it but with class.
Yeah holidays and birthdays can be tough. We definitely have problems in waves too. But I figure if even if it’s 1.1 forward and 1 back at least we’re still slowly moving forward. The big family moments aren’t going to disappear even after the kid is 18 so we have to try to make sure they can feel comfortable with their choices and happy in both households later. I sure hope this season is better for you and yours than the previous ones and that everyone is increasingly comfortable!
I agree, I don’t have any problem with a stepmom including her stepkids on a family card. She isn’t their mother, but they are family.
I get that LeAnn Rimes doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt in this area, but I have a hard time finding fault in including the kids on a family card.
God knows I am no LeAnn supporter or excuser, but I don’t think including the boys on their family card is out of line and I saw nothing on the card or in what she said in her interview that she claims they are her’s.
Most of us can’t stand this insane nube, but I don’t know any blended family that doesn’t include all the kids in their family photos because to exclude them would be hurtful and drum up alot more hate than including them. There are plenty of things to fault crazy wee wee for but this isn’t one of them. Now, if she makes Christmas cookies in the shape of peens or the two of them in a sexual position, we can shred her in the gossip blogs.
I think she saves the food porn for the birthday cakes.
What’s out of line is using the pictures in a business sense, writing The Cibrian Family on the card (you can’t just use the names, which most people do anyway?), and then referring the the boys as “our eldest” and “our little one” on twitter recently.
yup, agree regarding it normal having step kids in the family photo.
I agree! They are Eddie’s kids! He can’t have his own kids on his Christmas card? Plus, LeAnne’s stepsons ARE a part of her family. The card is weird but it’s not weird to feature all the family members.
If this was a family card, why did she put the name of her Album in hashtags and why was she giving out this card to her fans who bought a candle? This Christmas card serves 3 purposes:
Promote her Christmas album
Taunt Brandi
Keep Leann’s name in the headlines because she can’t do it on her own
This card wasn’t about family. If Leann was all about family, she would make Eddie get a job instead of posting photos bragging about how he is on tour with her.
Exactly, it’s the intention behind the action that is important.
The fact is that people know Mason’s and Jake’s names as a directly result of LeAnn’s constant exploitation of them.
LeAnn, has an In Touch article that has a huge title banner about already feeling like a mom and insulting Brandi saying that she’s the cool mom. Well, yeah, because she isn’t a mom who is disciplining her kids. So it’s easy to be cool one.
But either way it’s a slam against Brandi, yet again, while claiming those boys as hers, yet again. Even a window in the same article says “LeAnn and her boys.”
There is another article I think in a Miami online mag where she’s taking more shots at Brandi while exploiting Brandi boys for good press. Never mind this CD pr tour, as you already posted, is in fact the Mason and Jake tour.
There is no good will from her. This card isn’t some innocent, loving act, that is nitpicked needlessly. This has been years of this stuff and there is no separating it from the statements in interviews, SWF, passive-aggressive tweets, quotes, her constant victim act, etc, etc.
If LeAnn had been respectful all these years and simply put out a Christmas card it would be one thing. But even during this Xmas CD/Mason and Jake tour, she was constantly discussing their first xmas together and did a collage of all those pics. The same pics were posted years ago with the sole intention of hurting Brandi. Put up again, because tv interviewers were prompted to ask the same questions about that first Xmas. Ugh… and they all asked!
Intention matters and LeAnn’s intentions have never been pure.
Children really want discipline. They don’t feel right inside them having a cool mom. The formula for child rearing, is if you care you will discipline the child. It takes time and energy to do this, so when you do, the child feels loved and valued. Cool step moms do nothing for a child. Can leanne actually be defined as a cool mom? She seems looney!
Thank you for saying that. I’m a stepmom and if we did a Christmas photo I would definitely include my step kids. It would be so weird not to. I’d hate to think people would criticize me for that. I’m not their mother and I am very respectful of that, but we are family.
I know he is a douchbag but he really was good looking now he is just a douchbag he always now looks drained she has sapped the life out of him oh well he chose it he is aging badly not like fine wine
He looks old, slovenly and like he’s given up. He doesn’t even help her with the luggage. He rarely smiles and when he does, alcohol is involved or he’s with a group. When you marry for money, you earn every penny.
Yep. He is getting what he deserves.
Maybe next year they can have Brandi over for Christmas. They can put Eddie in the middle of the bed with Leeann on one side and Brandi on the other with the boys at the foot of the bed like little dogs. That would be so cute!! Oh, with Leeann’s Christmas EP yodeling in the background, of course.
She could have another font cake made for the occasion.
lol. Took me a while to realize the typo. I think you mean fondant.
Regarding the Queen of Christmas title: Around Nashville, that title would go to Amy Grant or Martina McBride. She isn’t even the Queen of Country Christmas conversation.
And parading around the step kids as her own, despite the fact the entire relationship was born from an affair with a very married man, who she knew had kids …. Well, as Taylor says, there’s a special place in hell for women like that.
Martina McBride definitely holds the title for Country Queen of Christmas. She was doing Christmas concerts decades ago.
Martina McBride is a goddess when it comes to Christmas music. That voice… I just adore her!
I don’t understand why it’s wrong for her to claim her stepchildren?
She isn’t claiming her stepchildren, she is taunting Brandi.
Eddie said in court documents(he accused Brandi of setting up staged photo-ops with Jake and Mason) that he doesn’t want his kids exposed to any type of public exposure.People seem to forget that it was Eddie, in an attempt to hurt Brandi, who set up the standard. For an expensive vacation and gift, he is willing to change his mind. Why shouldn’t Leann be held to the same standard that Eddie placed on Brandi?
If Leann is taunting Brandi, I’m sure she’s grateful. This thread is slanting back to poor Brandi, like it used to be. Not much mention of: Brandi’s complaints that a suicide inconvenienced her, outing her sister’s molestation and complaining that she wasn’t molested as well, teaching her middle schooler to grill his dates regarding their virginity status, wondering drunkenly with her tampon string exposed, slapping a co-worker in the face, and throwing wine in a co-workers face. I’m assuming she’ll be sending a thank you card to Leann.
No, that claws come out for Brandi too. Its just a good day. The Brandi threads are brutal.
There is nothing wrong with step-parents treating kids as their own as long as there is a healthy respect level for the real parent. LeAnn is a narcissist who has trotted these children out in front of the paps for 5 years now, posting about them constantly on social media in spite of their mother’s repeated requests for her not to. Eddie could have put a stop to all of this years ago, but has preferred to sit back and watch his current wife and ex-wife trash each other all over social media. I guess it’s not worth it to him to do right by his kids if it’s going to cost him his allowance.
If people don’t like it on social media then fine, although I think there’s unfortunately not a lot of standards in that area anyway and biological parents are oversharing too. However, I do think it’s silly to act like they shouldn’t have a Christmas card together and that they are not part of each others holidays and lives. They are. That’s what happens in blended families. Call her out on the egregious and inappropriate behavior but really this isn’t it.
And they are Eddie’s kids, too! Now granted, maybe he’s not as involved with the Christmas card thing, but he might be, and anyway it’s his card too.
She does not have a blended family with Eddie.
You can call it whatever you want Nick. She’s not biologically related to the children but she is their family now.
She may be their stepparent, but the way she became one is by interfering in their parents’ marriage. You have to be a bit more delicate than LR wants to be, but she considers it a contest she won. To then have an entire show dedicated to bashing the kids’ mother, using the kids in interviews and promotional work, calling the kids “our kids” on twitter (you can find this easily; she just did it this week), and signing cards The Cibrian Family as though they didn’t have a mother is not good coparenting or stepparenting.
Most step parents are low on the radar. They are relaxed with their new family. LeAnn seems to need a banner with a marching band. Its not that she does not love them, but every thing is over done.
And LeAnn has a family. Her parents went through major surgery this year. Her step dad had a major surgery like the mom and dad. She has a play sister with a child under three. She only mentioned her families’ illness to garner sympathy until people questions why she not at the hospital.
What’s a play sister? I’ve never heard that term before.
Leann is very miserable being married to Eddie(he won’t go anywhere with Leann unless his sidekick Kiki C is there with him), her Christmas album isn’t selling as well as she is claiming(sold 2,000 it’s first week and never made it onto the Top 100 songs or albums charts), and the Christmas tour that she hyped up for months lasted less than 3 weeks, so what’s the only thing that Leann has left? Mason and Jake, fake pregnancy rumors, and Brandi.
Earlier this year(or was it last year) Darrell tweeted that Leann was going to experience a paradigm shift. Where was it? All she did was go on a “Boom I got your kids” tour. She talked more about Mason and Jake during her album promotion than she did for the promotion for her reality show and with every year she spends with Eddie, the Mason and Jake campaign is going to get worse.
Her Mason and Jake tour was extremely disgusting. It’s extremely disgusting that tabloids and talk shows aided her in this hurtful campaign to completely take over another woman’s life. How can Leann say that she is happy being who she is when her entire promotion for her Christmas Album was Mason and Jake? Leann is cruel and she takes pleasure in letting Brandi know that she won her family.
What about Eddie? This man won’t work, but he spent 2 weeks on tour with Leann. Eddie wouldn’t allow Brandi to have his kids on RHOBH, but he splashed their faces on VH1 for their reality tv show and then allowed Leann to use them to promote her Christmas album and tour. What type of father does this? What type of man hands over his kids like this so that he and his friends can get expensive vacations and gifts? Leann spent 3 weeks of her tour bragging about how Eddie was on tour with her, but if she loved Jake and Mason, she would have made sure that Eddie was working and not taking photos of Eddie to prove that he loves her more than he loves his kids.
Over the weekend, Brandi tweeted that she took her sons to see Star Wars, not to be one upped by Brandi, Leann put on a Star Wars sweater without any pants(copying a photo that Brandi posted from her modeling days when she was pregnant), paid 3 blogs to write glowing articles about her “legs”, and lied and said she bought it for her stepson. Leann’s single white femaling of Brandi has gotten worse this year. Some people also pointed out that Leann was coping a photo that Brandi posted on her instagram from her modeling days. Leann posted a quote about accepting herself and then she runs to Brandi’s instagram account to copy poses and photos. Where was Eddie when all this was going on? With Kiki who goes everywhere with Leann and Eddie? In the casino gambling? With a waitress?
Her single white femaling isn’t just focused on Brandi. It’s any woman who comes in contact with Eddie.
Remember that model whose hairstyle(slicked back)Leann copied while she was in New York doing interviews? Leann copied that dress too. The model did a photoshoot in a polka dot dress and then weeks later, Leann shows up in a similar dress.
What about Leann’s sudden love of chalkboard? Eddie spent 3 days working on Monica Potter’s pilot and now Leann is taking ideas from Monica’s website and incorporating them into her life like it was always her story.
How can Leann brag about how much Eddie loves her, when she from day to day she has to become a different woman to make him even look her way?
Brandi tweeted that her son gave her a present and that a teacher from his school gave her a present, how long before Leann copies that tweet?
Look, I get it. The mistress aided in the break-up of a f***ed up marriage. And the pictures, tweets, and “I love Eddie and we are happy” declarations can be annoying. However, Brandi is ratchet and displays EQUALLY annoying /disturbing behavior on her podcasts , books, IG, and RHOBH.
What most of the women posting are missing is that IF Eddie had enough respect during and AFTER his marriage for Brandi as a person with feelings none of what you see could ever occur.
Ten years from now are you still going to say that the ONLY reason he is with LeAnne is for the money? He did not HAVE to marry her and he did. You do not know what Eddie is sharing with his wife LeAnne about his ex-wife that makes her feel so comfortable. It is clear — and this has been consistent behavior with no let up at all– that Eddie prefers his life with LeAnne AND his two sons together.
Waiting , hoping and wishing for a break-up for the purposes of revenge and vindication does nothing for you… UNLESS you are not happy. Brandi is a messy woman who had a messy marriage….The last affair was NOT the only affair, it was simply the last affair that ended the marriage. Brandi should want more for herself and more out of a man. It seems Brandi gave away her power in her marriage and has not owned up to it yet. The way Eddie left said a mountain of how he valued her as a person, wife and mother. The fact that we can name at least two of his mistresses tells you how blatant he was with his affairs and how often he was not emotionally available to Brandi while married.
I think Eddie likes the power. He’s lazy and a douchebro. You can see by things he says in interviews to and about Leann, and how Brandi has described things, that he is one of those guys that subtly sneaks in disapproval in his language to them. It keeps them on their toes, eager to please, seeking his approval. He seems like he’s emotionally abusive to me in that regard, and he picks women that are a bit nutty already. He was with Brandi for 13 years. I can only imagine, as insane as Leann is now and has been even before him, that she’ll be next level after that long of a time with him, if they make it that far.
Based on the pictures above he’s not emotionally available to his current wife Leann and we’re seeing more & more of these same pictures where he has simply checked out of this marriage.
After watching snippets of their ‘scriptality’ show, he came across just as @claire describes.
Though she says he’s ‘hot’, all I see is a steaming pile of manure. A costly one at that.
Why do your posts sound like the same posts that AAA is always writing?
“that Eddie prefers his life with LeAnne AND his two sons together. ”
Well ya, because she does everything and pays for everything. He doesn’t have to get off his ass or spend a nickel.
@Josephina It’s weird how much some people want them to break up
@ Klein-
I see it as this is his second marriage. And it seems to be working out for them.
They are together because they want to be together. And they were willing to end TWO marriages to get there.
It does not burn my toast that LeAnne and Eddie are together. Their beginning was sloppy and distasteful. However, think about the way Dean moved on and then think about the way Brandi handled things.
Brandi is not the first housewife to face divorce. Her financial situation with Eddie was not healthy and still is not healthy.
The pictures are more of the same pics that we have seen- her and Eddie, and his boys.
@Josephina,
+1000!
@why?,
Oftentimes multiple people will look at available information and draw the same/similar conclusions, we all can’t be as “unique” as you. 😉
Doesn’t matter why the marriage ended, and Brandi seems to have moved on from him. Brandi has said a number of times that you have to learn to be self reliant, that she wasn’t, that she let herself be a trophy wife for years. What matters at this point is that she still uses those boys against their own mother. Everyone writes Love… and the family members’ names after it on their holiday cards. LR writes THE CIBRIAN FAMILY, not only in caps, but in bold letters. She uses the kids’ images for professional gain. She calls the kids her kids or our kids on twitter, and this has gone on since the affair. Brandi is no angel, but it takes a lot to deal with someone trying to co-opt your kids day after day for years on end, and then be told she is the one not moving on. I remember when EC first moved in with her, and she and her producer were writing how they were gong to teach those boys about what was really going on and what their mother was on twitter. As though those boys were a possession that had been shifted over. And if Brandi’s marriage was a messy one, then what was Leann’s marriage? The guy was as calm as they come.
I don’t understand why she won’t drop off the radar long enough to develop some really good music. A decade or more ago, she had some halfway decent tunes.
It just seems like what she does now is toss something together that seems half-baked at best.
She has/had such talent as a youngster. It’s too bad that promise hasn’t yet been as fulfilled in adulthood as it might have been
My theory? She does not have the money or a label to be able to write/produce songs in a studio. Albums take a long time to create, she does not have the money to drop off the radar. I really think it is as simple as that. Also, I don’t think she can produce anything special at this point even if she had the opportunity.
I think she keeps throwing sh*t at the wall to see what sticks because of what Nick said. They don’t have a lot of money, Eddie doesn’t work, she has no label, etc. They’re trying everything to find her a niche, because she refuses to give up the idea that she’s relevant, despite every sign telling her how irrelevant she is for a good decade now.
Yup – completely agree. She is just trying to keep income rolling in in whatever ways she can. Must be a very stressful way to live. What I don’t get in all of this is how/why D Brown is still with her. Is he not successful on his own?
I’ll add another possibility to the mix, which is thirst for attention. If she could financially afford to step away and develop a really good song/album, could she go without social media and interviews for more than a few months?
@Nick–I question Brown’s influence in the music industry! And being known as Sleazeann’s “bestie” certainly can’t help him! He did call in some favors to get Sleazey some gigs but her “zooming career” is actually swirling down the toilet!
Oh God! Now you’ve got me thinking she’s going to roll out the ole’ “lifestyle” shilling thing. Please No.
I am not a fan of hers, but I don’t see the big deal. I’ve done it, my older step-son’s mother did it, and I appreciated him not being left out when she did. This really isn’t something I can hate on her for; to me, it’d be mean if she left them out.
I don’t see anything wrong with having a “family” xmas card? I would think it weird if she didn’t include the boys! She is their stepmother and from all accounts, interested in helping them grow to adulthood. Can’t fault that.
Whenever I see pictures of Leann the first thing I see is those flaring nostrils and unwashed and greasy looking hair. If she talks so much about the boys being around and love spending quality time with them – then wouldnt that make you want to have a child of your own Leann???
She glorifies about how much she loves her stepsons you would like you would do all you can to have one of your own but we all know and she knows Eddie doesnt want anymore and or is snipped but she down plays it like she has fertility issues.
Her new thing is to say that Ed is begging for them and she wants to wait. lol. Oh, and doing interviews saying the tabs make up lies about her wanting a kid or wanting a girl, despite all the press and tv show she herself has put out, that they got those quotes from. She’s legit insane.
How about the picture she put up looking at her on stage. Then wrote how Eddie loves her. Pretty much the next day there were pictures of him walking in front of her while she talks and he ignores her. She was pulling all the luggage by the way.
Just like Romeo and Juliet.
I do not believe she has true love for those boys. She buys their love and they like the gifts. Seeing she is so disturbed, she believes that if they so much as smile at her they are so in love with her as a step mother that nothing else matters.
Totally not a Leeann Rimes fan but I have no problem with claiming her stepsons as family. Many parents love their step children as their own and rightfully so. They are family, regardless of biology or parenting.
Says proud aunt to three step children
I think – personally – my issue with the card is that it’s hideous. It looks like she had a 12 year old photoshop it. Hell, I was better with photoshop than that when I was 12.
The only other thing I find a bit OTP is that the boys are SO front and center. It’s her family card, and she’s shoving those kids to the front like “MY family. Look at MY boys” with her and Eddie in the center. Honestly, if the card was just a photo of them all together in the snow, or doing some sort of family activity, or whatever people put on Xmas cards, it wouldn’t be NEARLY as bad. But the card is hideous, and the push of the boys to the forefront, and the fact that it seems like she created a collage to put it together from 3 photos instead of just having a set of photos taken at the same time – for the card – makes it kind of weird and desperate looking.
I get a photo of my best friends kids (1 Bio, and 2 Step kids) every Christmas. And I love it. Because they’re part of her family now. But it’s never a shoved in your face “LOOK AT MY KIDS” kind of situation.
It’s definitely tacky. Good taste isn’t exactly what she’s known for.😉
We always do a collage and try to make sure there’s some all together and some that highlight a special time with Dad or an accomplishment. But we’re also not trying for anything stylized.
I wonder if the people who don’t think the christmas card is a big deal know the entire SWF ways of Leann Rimes. The stalking of Eddie prior his divorce, the taunting of Brandi, the inappropriate birthday cakes, the constant talking about the boys etc etc. Whereas the people who know these details are much quicker to say that the card is another lame attempt to exploit the boys.
This x 1,000
This is not simply a case of a step mom putting out a sweet family Christmas card. I don’t even believe this has anything to do with promotion for that thing she is calling a “tour”. It’s just her latest attempt to hurt Brandi. Everything she does and says is a calculated attempt to hurt Brandi. She’s a very sick woman.
I don’t think she does this stuff to hurt Brandi. Maybe back in the day, that was her MO. But now, I think she does it to make herself look like Miss Molly Homemaker. I think something is up with her not having kids of her own – she’s infertile, Eddie got snipped, she’s on prescription drugs and should not get pregnant while on them, something…or she’d have been pregnant a long time ago. I think the “boys” are the only thing she has to play up the family image and try to be relatable to the minivan crowd.
I agree. I think all roads leads back to Eddie and how to keep him from loosing interest.
@funcakes – I think Eddie lost interest in Leann several years ago and he only married her because he ran out of options and needed a woman with money to support him & his boys and Leann was happy to do so.
Eddie married leanne because she had connections in hollywood, and money combined, he thought he would be rich and famous. Looney leanne ruined all his leads with her immature antics, and they were both black balled in hollywood. Someone posted before that eddie goes on tour with leanne to make sure she doesn’t cancel. They need the money!
I really don’t think LeAnn gives a crap about music. She has no musical passion or work ethic. She’s a lazy sod with a very good voice married to another lazy sod. LeAnn knows her only outlet is drudging around with Eddie giving two bit performances. What else would she do???????????? Work at a bank.
PS-Can you imagine going into a bank and telling LeAnn you want to cash a check? Yikes!!!!!!
I don’t think she does either. The majority of her career is being a cover singer. She doesn’t seem very fresh in general. She’s very dated. Most of what she claims as being a new thing that she has done, has been done multiple times before. And she always is about a year or two late in discovering new-to-her singers, meanwhile these people have totally been on everyone else’s radar for a long time. She doesn’t take vocal lessons, music lessons…nothing. I can think of two concerts she’s mentioned going to in the last 5-6 years. One was during the affair, to show Brandi she still was boinking Eddie. The other was when she went to David Gray to beg him to let her sing at one of his shows. She doesn’t promote her opening acts. She only performs for one hour at all her gigs and talks a ton of that time. I don’t think of her as an artist or music-focused person at all.
LeAnn probably thought by now she would be living off the royalties of all her songs. But even her husband said she was clueless about finances. I sure at one time if she bought a nice home and spent her money wisely she could have lived quite comfortably.
It all came too easy for her and she didn’t have the right guidance and proper appreciation. I remember when she first got famous. She released her album when she was 14 or something. She was basically seen as a prodigy. But I think she just wants to validation as a lovable, hot piece rather than a talented and successful singer. Priorities.
She certainly puts the ‘Ho in Ho Ho Ho.
the kids look like they were photoshopped into the picture
As the kids get older, it is getting harder for Leann to manipulate them into being props for her photos. When they were young, it was easy to “buy” their love with gifts, trips, eager to please them no matter what” actions. As they get older and realize what she has done to their mom in the past, and see her true selfish “me me me, all about me” personality, she’s gonna get a real slap of reality. I don’t think her narcissistic personality will be able to handle the kids normal rebellious stages. Moody teens are totally different than cuddly toddlers. She already makes passive-aggressive jabs at Mason.
She is desperately trying to reinvent herself through what she portrays as a love like no other marriage and the best stepmom ever. It’s not any one thing she does, it’s the totality of it all. The Christmas card pic would be fine if it just went quietly to friends. She has to make sure it’s splashed all over media. Eddie’s looks have faded and he is the same douche he was when married to Brandi, he just doesn’t have the same
opportunities he did then as a young
hunk actor. Guys like him don’t change
for any woman. They just get old and wore out.
This. And she still clings to him like shit to a blanket like he’s some prize. Not.
Considering the way he looks when she latches on to him in most pictures these days, she probably smells like it as well. Let’s not forget her “episode” at the fashion show a couple years back. She’s not one to keep her bodily functions in check.
So true. Eddie’s expression does not match her happily ever after. For the past several month he has not been able to stomach the Xmas promotion.
My favorite is when she went to the doctors office. She opened the car door and slammed it. She was pissed and covered her face. Meanwhile was Smiling as he drove away.
Then the last couple of weeks eddie is obviously pissed and leann is smiling like a Waco. Jj has the recent pictures of him looking like he had enough.
I’m embarrassed for them. They deserve each other. Ugh. Hitherto unexplored realms of tacky. Home-wrecking ho!!
Strange. Why is this thread suddenly filled with a bunch of posters defending Leann’s happy family Christmas card and exploitation of Brandi’s son’s? Why does she make it so obvious that she is sending her fans here to post?
Why are you always so suspicious ?? The woman actually does have a handful of fans.
On other sites Leann is getting slammed for this Christmas card. When you see this many people supporting Leann’s Christmas card, when it’s getting slammed on other sites, it makes you wonder what is really going on.
One of Leann’s fans who posts here has been on other sites using my name to make nice comments about Leann, so if that person is bold enough to go to other sites and use my name, then what other things will he do here?
@why, I don’t think it’s too abnormal. People were making blanket generalizations about stepmoms in general, and being a stepparent is a pretty common thing so of course some people are going to take that personally and provide another perspective.
And whole family cards, including steps, is pretty normal.
No one is paying me anything. I’m just tired of stepparents being slammed for every little thing. Do I think she’s usually in the right? No. But I’m not going to drag her through the mud for a family Christmas card. They’re a family. No matter how that happened.
There are loads of awesome stepparents. She isn’t one. She is inappropriate around the kids (she recently put out a picture of herself wearing Mason’s sweater with nothing under it- he’s not an adult or a boyfriend!) and has been for years. She uses the boys for financial gain by using them in promotional work. She ripped their mother apart on a reality show she created. She insults her on social media and recently referred to the kids as “our little one” and “our eldest son” on her twitter account. She’s a spiteful narcissist who’s using someone’s children to hurt her. That’s not being a good stepmother. This is not someone who is trying to work with the kids’ mother; just her calling their mother their bio mother and herself the stepmother shows that she feels she’s in competition with their mother. And EC sucks for encouraging this. Since they can’t control Brandi, they try to control her emotions. They’re evil.
you always say this so it must just be the case that in a group of people commenting, not all will share your view. Nothing odd about that
People have every right to sympathize with LeAnn. But there’s sympathizing and confusing your own situation to someone else. There’s alot of people commenting that they’re a step parent and there LeAnn has the right to do this or that with the boys.
There’s a big difference between a regular every day person and LeAnn. You really have to read through the archives of celebitchy to see why people are suspicious of every aspect of her life.
A regular step parent goes through family life with little fanfare. LeAnn needs a parade wherever she goes. It not just the boys but EVERYTHING.
I have read all the archives and I’ve been in the discussion. I don’t think anyone needs to tear down Leann to build up Brandi or the reverse and I don’t think everything each of them does is villain or saint worthy. This is how bickering in divorce gets drawn out, by creating 100% villains. It’s silly and not helpful. I just think it’s a really bad mindset to get into so I’m commenting.
Look, I hate this tacky lady, but YES, she can have her stepsons on her Christmas card. Her husband is her family. Thos are his children. It would be weirder NOT to have them, by far. In fact, the photoas of them being seperated, not all taken at the same time–THAT is the uncomfortable part.
But yes. Stepmothers are allowed to be on the same xmas card as their stepchildren. My word.
Not when Eddie stated in court documents that he didn’t want his kids exposed to ANY TYPE of public exposure and that Christmas Card wasn’t a family Christmas card it was solely done to promote her album which is why she put the title of her album in hashtags, wasn’t that the same card she was sending to her fans when they bought of those chalkboard candles?
Yes, it’s being used as promotional materials. I don’t think Ed cares about their privacy. He clearly cosigns her exploiting them and using them commercially nonstop. He just wanted to stick it to Brandi and ensure that a limited view of her life was shown on RHOBH.
And since Ed is not working its hard to tell the breadwinner what you’re going to do or not do.
It’s a shame what LeAnn did to her career with the whole Eddie/Brandi situation. Whole thing is sad in my opinion. If she and Eddie simply STFU about it, she would not get the crap that she gets today, like this. No, it’s not that big of a deal that she put her step-sons on her family Xmas card, not at all….it’s simply putting that into the context of what she and Eddie have done for years. Look at every interview LeAnn has done since the affair/divorce/re-marriage. She paints herself a victim, and I get tired of hearing about it. No one really gives Angelina/Brad Pitt this kind of shit, and the parallels of those two scenarios are at least similar. Too bad she did not have better management at the time to tell her to get off Twitter, simply keep her mouth shut and let the whole thing blow over. She didn’t.
Brad & Angelina handled their situation with class. You didn’t see Angelina with numerous twitter accounts attacking Jennifer and acting like she was the victim. Totally different situation.
Exactly. I don’t even know if Brad and Angelina have Twitter accounts. Doubt they do. They said nothing and people got over it. Clearly it was for the best. LeAnn should have just shut up. Her ex-husband (Dean I think?) finally spoke out a bit ago and I remember reading that interview. He was very honest with his own culpability in the relationship saying he became too many things, LeAnn’s husband, father figure, manager, etc. He also talked about being blind sighted by the affair and how she basically committed a sort of career suicide. He was right.
I’m sure she had a team of people to help protect her image. Leann had peoples but she did what she wanted. Then she handled stories herself which made matters worse.
Because Brad and Angelina actually really fell in love. Leanne acts the way she does, hurting Brandi, hanging on eddie, because they did not really fall in love.
Definitely not a fan of Leanne but i guess it would be weird if she didn’t include the boys in her ‘family’ Christmas card. I can do without her talking in detail what the boys do or don’t do during the holidays though.
Maybe Im stiff, but I would never, EVER use the word fruitcake remotely near my family or ever, above all, in reference to someone elses children.
Maybe this is supposed to be a joke to lighten the situation– but actually it just emphasized how off she is, to do that…. its just… wrong, to me.
I wonder how these boys feel having their faces plastered all over the internet with “Not your typical holiday fruitcakes” written under it. I work with kids this age, they are probably going to be teased about this mercilessly.
There’s someone on this thread defending LeAnn vigorously. If you’re a regular reader of this site people would know why people are so suspicious of her agendas which leads me to think :
LeAnn is here
DB is here
KK is here
One of here favorite blogger is putting together a little book about LeAnn. And she promise to keep it real. Pulls one of LeAnn’s ex family members has unlocked their account and has confirmed things we already knew about LeAnn.
which poster do you mean? because I don’t see it.
Feel free to look me up. I’ve been commenting awhile. You’ll also find me on Rutherford threads and some of the royal ones. You can also find me on The Fug Girls site. I think it’s strange that there’s always a few in these threads claiming people are being paid. I don’t get the paranoia.
Their are a lot of people on this thread that this may apply to yet you’re the only one to make this assumption, in a hostile manner,without evidence. In future, if it does not apply the best choice is to ignore it
I’m sorry if you feel it was hostile as it certainly wasn’t the intention. But I have found that this kind of comment is often found on the Leann and Brandi threads and it’s a bit off putting to a lot of posters. I thought this site was for friendly dialogue and the accusations when people disagree seem unnecessary. Just my opinion.
The second you post that you don’t think something Leann did is absolutely horrible and stalkerish you get accused of being her or one of her friends. It’s crazy and exactly what they accuse Leann of being.
@someone yes, it’s weird.
Leanne gives me the creeps. Mariah and ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ forever.
Wow, Eddie Cibrian is quite a catch. He hasn’t worked in a year and pays the minimum child support possible. His first and second wife are the only ones contributing financially, to the care of the children. His boys are being raised part time in a ” mansion” that was bought with his second wife’s money and that is mortgaged to the hilt. He follows her to low rent casino gigs and gambles with her money. He’s seriously one of the most repulsive men ever. Plus he’s aging at light speed and always looks like he hates LeAnn’s guts when photos aren’t staged. LeAnn’s card is tacky, but would not be a big deal if it wasn’t her. Her past and ongoing shenanigans have made people very aware of her intentions. I had an inappropriate step-mother and can say that this will bite LeAnn in the back side big time. There are many amazing, loving, selfless step-parents out there. LeAnn usn’t one of them.
I suspect his creep factor might be why he’s not working? He thinks he’s heart throb material.
Sorry about your step mom. I hope it didn’t do any unwarranted damage to your relationship with your dad. Although I guess he was fine with it?
Eddie does have a real ick factor attached to him now. It has to cost him work. In regards to my step-mther and her behaviour, it caused me to love my Dad, but lose respect for him in a major way, which is unfortunate. He let her create a really toxic situation for all of us, all while she played saint and denied stirring the pot. My step-mother makes LeAnn look like a rank amateur by comparison. I can’t imagine what it would have been like if social media had existed. Thank God it didn’t. Step-parents do have a lot of unfair disdain directed at them. Really in a lot of cases, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. It’s always complicated when kids split time between two homes. Even when it wasn’t the result of an affair and there is no interferring with co-parenting, it’s complicated. It just is what it is. I see what LeAnn is doing and can safely say, she’s in for a nasty reality check in the future. I don’t think she’ll handle it well.
Doesn’t it make you wonder if he’s been offered creep roles but turns them down because he doesn’t think it’s his brand?
Agreed, divorce and co-parenting and stepparenting are always so hard. People find so much fault with all of it and that’s what I have trouble with. A little compassion and trying to see it from else’s side goes so much further than the always negative attitude.
And yeah there are going to be some rude awakenings (I suspect for all parties) as those kids grow up. It’s really rough when you have to see your parents as humans with faults and try to figure out how to handle them. I’m very interested in seeing how this generation of kids handles social media themselves when they’ve been put on display by family their whole lives. Will they become a more private generation or ratchet it up?
Heart throb material? No, not exactly. Usually people take into consideration a persons’ character, along with their physical appearance for an assessment. I think after this whole LeAnn/Eddie/Brandi fiasco, Eddie came out looking pretty damn bad. Believe me, I thought he was hot once…..now? Hell no. He looks smarmy and manipulative. The only people I feel sorry for are those two children. Hope their mother, father and step mother are saving up for the thousands of therapy bills due to those boys seeing their parents/step-mother duke it out on social media. Paging Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Sopranos) or Paul Weston from In Treatment. No, seriously, all those adults behaved, and continue to behave, HORRIBLY.
Oh I agree completely but I wonder if he recognizes it? I’ve a feeling he thinks, or thinks other people think, he’s hot stuff.
One advantage of keeping a low profile (other than occasional photos likely set up or distributed by his current wife) is that he doesn’t get called out as much for his role in this never ending saga.
When the reality show aired, he seemed passive aggressive. He tried to be catty in one interview, but the interviewer ended up throwing his snarky comment and the fact he was doing a reality show right back in his lap. I think he’s coasted through life on his looks and maybe a smidgen of charm. Now the bottom seems to have fallen out of that bucket, so we’ll see how he fares.
Eddie was the pretty jock that was popular and had girls like LeAnn (eager to please)do his homework. Now he’s losing his looks which makes his poor personality shines.
It’s a shame he decided to retire early because who knows what might have happened by now. He could have found a show that lasted a while then made money without having to travel to second rate casinos in a RV.
Extremely creepy how she refers to them as “the oldest” and “the second one.” Did her publicist forget to tell hertheir names?
Leann recently swf’d brandis pics and tweets when she went to “in n out” burger joint and also copied her pregnant modeling pic so yeah you can’t tell me her Xmas family photo is innocent and lacking malicious intent. What surprised me is how no one commented on her recent interview with the miami digital magazine where she’s on the cover. In the interview she says one of her songs was number 2 on the holiday “billboard ” chart which Never happened and she also passively aggressively says “although untruths continue to be told” (referring to Brandi) and she also intimates that she knows this because mason and jake report to her about what lies Brandi tells them. She is subtly insinuating that their loyalty towards Leann may very well surpass their loyalty towards their own mother. I don’t know how to screenshot otherwise I would have posted that part of the interview. I don’t believe Leann has any real genuine affection towards the kids or she would have protected them better and not splashed them all over the media and the fact that she deletes all negative comments about herself on Instagram but leaves the nasty comments about Brandi is so that Mason Can see them and start to believe maybe his mother really is a bad person and Leann is the good one. She is trying to poison mason and jake against their own mother through public adoration of her and villain using of their mother. That’s why she allowed and most likely encouraged mason to follow her Instagram. Leann is truly a sociopath!
That was supposed to say that Leann wants Mason to see all the adoring comments about Leann and all the spiteful and hateful bashing comments about Brandi and her poor mothering. Leann is using Instagram to poison mason against his own mother which is why she leaves the nasty comments about Brandi but deletes the ones about herself. If I was in brandis shoes I would have done whatever it takes to stop this evil sociopath from hurting my kids the way Leann is psychologically damaging jake and mason
Leann needs a restraining order placed on her and take away that d***ed phone of hers so she doesn’t go on social media.
I think that the phone has grown into her hand. She doesn’t even put it in her purse. She holds it like a safety blanket. I guess when your hobbies are SWFing your husband’s ex and tracking his every move, you can’t put it down for even a second. Plus she needs it handy to tweet about her husband’s children. Her social media addiction is really the hugest part of her downfall.
Honest to God, if I have to endure one more “blessed”, “gratitude” holiday post complete with disgusting recipes for cutesy holiday cookies, I’m going to start throwing fruitcakes at peoples heads. When can we go back to pictures of our cats!?
LeAnn Rimes is her own troll. She ‘s tweeting with fans, calling Mason “my eldest son” and Jake ” her littlest one”. She stirs the pot and uses another woman’s kids to do it. That is NOT a loving step-parent. She is a part of the boys lives because she’s married to their Dad, but she doesn’t get to claim ownership of another woman’s children like that. If she and Eddie split, or something happened to him, she would have zero legal right to ever see the boys again. Her motives aren’t in the best interest of those kids at all. She just wants to stick it to the boys real Mother and pretend she’s the best, most beloved step-parent ever. Just like her marriage to her leech of a husband, who looks like he hates her in every non-staged photo, is the most loving, epic romance of all time. It’s all BS. She deserves all the ire directed at her. She could be more respectful, but chooses to be as obnoxious as possible. it would stop if she did, but she never will.
I totally agree with this. Leann will live the rest of her life acting this way. She’ll never change.
I also agree with Deanne, and I would love to slap the Christmas out of the Margaret Rimes. She is pure evil as far as I’m concerned.