Samantha Brick is now a global “celebrity”. All because of being an arrogant, delusional dumbass. Brick wrote an essay in the Daily Mail two days ago in which she claimed that her extreme and overwhelming beauty has caused her so much suffering at the hands of petty, jealous (and older) women who fear her gorgeousness. You can read my highlights from the piece here. Brick then followed up that article after she was soundly slammed right and left. Brick claimed, “If Brad Pitt were to say: ‘Yes, I’m a good-looking fella,’ then the world would nod sagely in agreement. But if Angelina Jolie uttered something along those lines, she’d be subject to the same foaming-at-the-mouth onslaught hurled at me yesterday.” Beyond comparing herself to Angelina (FAIL), Brick is sort-of right: if Angelina (or Brad, for that matter) had said those things, she would be slammed – for being delusional, arrogant and for having a contemptible outlook on life.
Anyway, Brick sat down for an interview on ITV’s morning show, and this interview is a GEM. First, the gentleman and lady (Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford) interviewing Brick are absolutely hilarious and on-target. But there’s also a professional psychiatrist there too, and she makes excellent points about Brick’s fallacy-filled essay:
I think the best points were made regarding Brick’s arrogance, and there‘s a huge LMAO moment around the 6-minute mark. There’s a difference between being a self-confidant woman and being an arrogant, superior, self-pitying piece of work. Whenever Brick’s intellectual arguments are questioned, she falls back into her comfort zone of “Everyone hates me because I’m gorgeous.” When given the last word, Brick says: “This whole experience has proven my thesis… Women do not like attractive women. This is proven by the thousands of vile messages on my personal email account, on Twitter, and on my telephone answer machine.” You can read more quotes from the interview here, but really, that video clip is worth a watch.
Photos courtesy of The Mail, Screencaps from video.
Well we all knew she would take the back lash as proof of her hypothesis.
But the simple truth is, Brad Pitt is attractive. Angelina Jolie is attractive. This broad is not. She is average at best.
I wanted to comment yesterday but never got around to it. In all honesty, I have been envious of women more attractive than me (and no, I am not ugly myslef). I never hated them for it though. And if they were nice people, I certainly didn’t hold their looks against them. She’s also missing the point that women are not going to be jealous of good-looking men. I mean, why WOULD they be? That’s just stupid.
Exactly! Who hasn’t been jealous of someone else’s looks, or their hair or boobs or whatever? But hating someone for it? Uh, no.
Unless she’s just terrible in social situations, and whenever a friend says something like “oh I wish I had your legs, I hate you”, she takes it seriously? Either way this bitch needs to get over herself. She’s not all that attractive, and she really needs to realise that personality plays a big part in attraction, and hers is a major turn off.
OMG! You may be right. She doesn’t speak “woman”! LOL! She doesn’t know that “I hate you!” is the highest compliment you can get from another woman. It’s all in the tone.
Why would a woman tell another woman she really hated her? I have better words for that, actually I just avoid women I don’t like.
Can you imagine a man wasting his time writing an article about how other dudes have thwarted and tormented him his whole life because he’s tall and buff? We hate Samantha Brick because she stoops to the very sterotype of women that she claims has ruined her life: that of the sniping, complaining, overly emotional gal who can’t get along with her own gender. Most of us aren’t like that, Sam, but you certainly are. Get a good therapist to help you work out your issues because you’re nothing less than a garden variety narcissist and misogynist. You’ve imagined and embellished the reactions/treatment you get from both men and women.
Well said, leelee.
i’ve actually met two dudes like that and made excessive fun of them. however they didn’t claim that they were hated for their incredibly handsome and fit looks, they were complaining (and really believing) that they were admired too much. one was saying that it hurts that people are only befriending him because he was so good looking, young and buff (lmao) the other, on another occassion, claimed that whenever he takes a walk outdoors everybody kept staring at him and looking at him way too much and only because he was so astonishingly handsome. i’m not even joking. the second dude was mocked a lot by other dudes. i’m sure they weren’t man-haters lol
I’m not jealous of anyone else’s looks. I could get off my ass and work out. Women who annoy me are the ones who blatantly use their sexuality to get stuff (as opposed to subtly) and “only have guy friends” I bet she’s one of those.
I have news for her, most decent looking women get free drinks and whatnot.
The fact is she is jealous of the camaraderie between other women – even the ones who look like supermodels (I have a friend like that).
I have a friend whose 13 yo daughter is so obnoxious, hypersensitive, and desperate that she has sadly become a social pariah. Instead of getting the girl some counseling, my friend unfortunately tells her that the reason other girls don’t want to be her friend is because they are jealous of how pretty she is. The girl is not exceptionally attractive, but that’s not the point. The point is her mom is unwittingly setting the kid up to never like or trust other girls; she’s making all females & their alleged jealousy the culprit of the girl’s misery instead of dealing with her daughter’s obnoxious, me-me-me behavior. Wonder if Samantha Brick’s mom told her the same thing or if Brickenstein just came up with her gal-hating theory with her own cobbled-together monster mind.
Is it Courtney Stodden?
Lol, no, it’s not Courtney Stodden! But some of us have remarked that our friend is going to turn her daughter into another Stodden-stein if she keeps focusing on her supposed blinding, jealousy-inducing beauty. For example, the girl is only 13 yet dresses like she’s 21..and my friend got her a slutty outfit called “Jail Bait”last Halloween.
call child protective services on that one.
@leelee, my friend’s 16 year old daughter is exactly the same. No internal filter, says and does what she wants, dresses like a prostitot and had to drop out of school because everyone was “jealous.” I’m sure it had NOTHING to do with her sleeping with 8 of the girls boyfriends (and talking trash on them).
No, If Angelina Jolie said she’s beautiful, everyone would agree because SHE IS beautiful. This woman looks like a troll.
Word. Someone sold this chick a worthless bag of beans.
I want her mirror though!
LOL paola!
Haha someone needs to market a Samantha Brick mirror immediately. Or make a spoof of her convo with the queen in Snow White.
I said it yesterday, and I will say it again, she looks like John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter. We all know how beautiful she is!
Ohhhh! That is mean. Reille (sp) looks like the slightly classier version of my white-trash, ooh a guy, time to spread ’em apartment manager. Oh wait, Reille did spread ’em.
Yes, a troll that knows just what she’s doing, garnering interest in her next move, fugly media whore
Samantha Brick seems arrogant and delusional but I wouldn’t call her a troll! It’s funny to me that so many people are saying this lady is ugly or unattractive. Objectively she’s an attractive 41 year old woman-not beautiful but attractive.
She may not have intended to be a troll, but I assure you the Daily Mail did. It’s no coincidence that it hires plenty of female journalists…to talk trash about their own gender and feed us all the line that women should stay home and focus on fashion rather than world affairs…
The daily mail knows exactly how to garner controversy in pitting women against each other to ‘prove’ we’re catty. This is an interesting article at Jezebel on precisely that:
http://jezebel.com/5898848/yes-samantha-brick-is-obnoxious-but-the-daily-mail-is-trolling-us-all
There are so many comments like this on every article about this woman, and while I don’t agree with Brick’s thesis, I completely understand how she would think that these types of responses have proven it. We are all behaving in a very ugly manner about it.
She’s not a supermodel, but she’s not a hideous troll either. And I agree with the psychologist in this clip that having some self-confidence is a great thing and it would be lovely if more women were more confident. But most people have a sense of decorum and don’t assume that everyone who dislikes them does so because they’re jealous. Ms. Brick clearly lacks some social skills and I suspect she is projecting her insecurities about her lack of female friendships onto the entire female population instead of looking at herself and trying to figure out what it might be about her personality that is putting people off. That’s the issue I see with this whole deal, not whether or not she’s delusional about her appearance.
My sentiments exactly.
Hear hear. It’s bad enough that plenty of reasonable discussion about this whole thing has gotten drowned out by ‘buuuut I would never give her one!!1!1’ and ‘OMG I’m like a woman and like I don’t think she’s like all that’… and that Ms Brick perhaps chooses not to notice the comments that don’t tally with her view that people are envious or jealous of her. And that not all of the vicious comments come from women, as if only women could be mean to women. Which is what the Mail seems to think…
I’m being a bit Captain Obvious here. This woman is not the slightest bit attractive, inside or out. She’s not qualified to discuss what being beautiful means. Hope she enjoys her 5 mins of dellusional fame. She’ll get nothing more out of this nonsense.
While beauty is somewhat subjective, I say with much confidence that the majority of women and men would NOT find this woman attractive. While she is average looking, her obnoxious, delusional overconfidence, her grating social skills, and her obvious lack of intelligence take away from her average looks. I don’t think I’m alone when I say that I find her ugly inside and out.
She talks about beautiful women and the appreciation of such beauty by men like it is a rare thing. The world is filled with beautiful women, and men who appreciate anything female. Regardless of their beauty, confident adult women don’t hate other women for their looks, with the exception of school girls.
It’s ironic because instead of being jealous, I pity this pathetic woman just as I do any (adult) woman who thinks beauty is the be all and end all.
She is so not gorgeous. This whole thing has given me immense pleasure over the last couple of days though!
I think there is a typo here though, But there’s also a professional psychitrist <<<<psychiatrist?
The psychologist is way prettier (and smarter as it seems) than that delusional Samantha woman.
Oh, is that it (I haven’t been able to watch the clip yet due to work) – I thought Miz Brickhead had gotten a much-needed makeover.
But I note that she’s at least gotten bangs to cover her giant nine-head. Maybe she wasn’t just perfect before after all if she changed something? geesh.
Okay now that I’ve watched it, I can only say to her: Shut Up. The more you say, the more arrogant you are shown to be. Just Shut Up. Stay in your delusional world where you flirt your ass off with older men and that makes you feel superior to everyone.
The woman completely lacks perspective, it seems.
@Kola, Agreed. I wonder if they purposefully picked a psychologist that made her look like a dog in comparison. If so, brilliant move!
It wouldn’t be difficult to show her up.
my dog takes offense to this. he’s very cute, waaay cuter than this woman. haha
yeah and she seems like a great psychologist! she made all her points without bringing Brick down, in a positive and constructive way. she stopped Eamonn from going too far with the mockery, because she realized that Brick had a fragile and delusional ego. maybe the delusion of “i’m so beautiful” is all that Brick is holding onto. The Psychologist also acknowledged that she looks good and is aware of it when she said “i have never felt mistreated by other women because of my looks”. and nobody seems to mind when The Psychologist says that, because she is not only pretty, but also doesn’t flaunt it and isn’t arrogant/belligerent about it. Brick has yet to get a clue from that
I love this girl.
Her level of delusional belief in her great beauty… is higher than Lohan’s belief she is going to win a Oscar.
Sadly, though I could not see her great beauty. Since all I could stare at were how awful her teeth looked.
And not her bulbous nose? lol 😀
Me too, Hautie.
You hit the nail on the head. I am loving every second of this, too, but for all the wrong reasons….
Part of me still thinks this is completely orchestrated, though. I just cannot bring myself to believe that this person really and truly exists. I’d rather think that she walked out of the studio, grabbed a beer, and had a good laugh with her friends as they just watched the insanity unfold.
I’d so like to think that…..
“I’d rather think that she walked out of the studio, grabbed a beer, and had a good laugh with her friends as they just watched the insanity unfold.”
Now THAT would be a woman of confidence. And THAT would be a woman I’d be jealous of :^)
It’s the nose. Oh and that awful matte fuchsia lipstick. I also have extra dislike for anyone that makes me type out F U C H S I A. I never get it right.
Does fuchsia make teeth to look yellow?
Also the 51 year old host is more attractive.
I keep wondering if she thinks the psychologist is a dog because she’s not a tall (bottle) blonde.
Gah! As I said yesterday, she has narcissistic personality disorder. That’s why there’s a psychiatrist (correct spelling, CB) present. NPD is one of the hardest mental health disorders to treat. It can be quite hilarious, though 🙂
Hahahaha! Good perspective! Next time I have to deal with an NPD (God forbid) I will remind myself that they can be very entertaining, if you just detach from it!
Oh, absolutely! :3
I agree. I was thinking NPD while listening to her. I actually find her rather homely.
And yet you find Chelsea Handler and her BFF huge stunners. Amazing. lol
lol Camille… roflol
NPD stems from deep insecurity, so painful that the illusion of superiority has to be projected at ALL times to save from crumbling. I don’t know if Ms Brick has any technical delusion in a psychiatric sense (and, not being her psychiatrist, not really my position to judge, especially on so little information), but I did have a now ex-friend who I’m convinced was NPD, so I really hope that’s not the case.
My unpleasant individual started to constantly big herself up to a degree that was actually comical because she was sincere when she said ‘But I’m just the best so everyone can make exceptions for ME’. Hypocrisy was something she boasted about: she deserved to have her own standards for everything. She thought, thinking herself the kingpin of every social circle you introduced her to (even if they were YOUR friends), and would not hesitate to spend all her time talking to those friends instead. She became incredibly manipulative, a compulsive liar who liked to boast about how nobody ever saw the real her.
She enjoyed taking everything out passive-aggressively on her friends (who had done nothing wrong) for every percieved slight (like not texting back, or not being able to attend a meetup on a set day, not picking her preferred film etc) and would boast about how mean she was being to other friends (thinking they would be too afraid to report those words).
I only managed to see her for who she really was because of the arrogance she displayed in boasting of her cruelty. Oh yes, and defaming people not only to her friends, but to mutual friends, their own friends, and even their family.
Come to think of it, she was obsessed with garnering attention from strangers, trying to flirt for freebies whenever she could and boasting of it afterwards. Although obsessed with meeting up with close friends, she was cold and distant to their actual lives. Oh, and she would use anything you ever told her against you but declare that you can’t criticise her for anything, ever. When I took issue with some outrageous behaviour of hers, she responded not with concern at possibly losing a long friendship, but disdain and anger that I didn’t cave in and move on already. Apologies not in her vocabulary, it was her way or the highway.
She would belittle friends with insults dressed up as ‘jokes’ and passive-agressive comments, then if someone snapped she would tell everyone else that person started it, that THEY had offended HER. In short, even if she tries to crush you, she tries her best to make out that SHE’s the victim, bending the truth or flat out lying. I escaped that madness, but I still know plenty of people who haven’t seen that side, and won’t until she turns her ire to them.
I sincerely hope Ms Brick is nothing like her. Really, and genuinely, I do. I also hope that anyone with the misfortune to get closely involved with someone with NPD makes the decision to leave. Quickly, and finally. Don’t go back, don’t let others argue their case: they have no idea what that person is really like.
Oh yes, and I forgot to say, when she had issues with arguments with particular women, she was very quick to play the ‘I just don’t understand women!’ card up to the max, and run to male friends bitching about how women hate her. Pfft. As if arguing with 2 women negates the fact you ARE one (and know hundreds more!). If you don’t understand your own gender you have to be pretty clueless.
sounds like lindsay lohan. her way or the highway… people just give her things for free because she’s famous/beautiful/whatever.
and she only gets in trouble because jealous people are out to get her.
lilo has company now, how nice. we should lock these two up in a room together, just to see what happens.
Watch…next she will get a reality show.
and when no one watches, it will be due to her utter gorgeousness
Hate to admit it, but I’d watch that reality show. It would be revitting just like ITV interview.
Please Donald, put her on the next “Celebrity Apprentice”!
I’m with you, Brin. A good title for the show would be “15 Minutes.” Seriously, if you want to get global notice it seems that all you have to do is find a hot button topic and start typing. I might give it a try myself. Let’s see….My nose is perfect. Honest to God. I actually went with a friend of mine to her plastic surgeon and she said,”I want that.” pointing to my nose. I’ve had other plastic surgeons tell me my nose is perfect. Guys love my nose and I always get complimented about it. I don’t know a single one of you, but I know without a doubt that you would kill to have a nose like mine. My nose is so beautiful, it makes me not mind my big horse teeth…can I be famous now?
I’m so upset that I can’t watch the video at work because this would be so much fun to watch.
Its not even that she’s an ugly person. She has nice eyes and isn’t obese. But she has a crooked chin, bad teeth, limp hair, and a belly. I would never say these things about someone who wasn’t going on and on about how gorgeous they are. I try hard not to body snark because I’m not a supermodel by any means (and even if I were, I wouldn’t body snark). But honey, you are not what you think you are.
I’m pretty upset that I can’t watch this video at work either.
You forgot the pugilistic nose. For me that is the worst.
Maybe the reason these ‘encounters’ happen to her such as buying her champgane is because they feel sorry for her. Shaking their head at how ugly she is. i know people may look at her and be like damn!! she is sooo busted letme give her something to make her feel great bout herself. She looks like a turkey!
Years of pity have done this to her
No, I think it’s because she projects a persona that says she would jump on it if only she had the chance. You don’t have to be good looking for that.
That is too funny !! And so true !
This woman is extraordinarily average looking. If this was Giselle’s essay, no one would blink an eye.
Except Gisele, and presumably most other beautiful, successful women, would have too much intelligence to write it.
Paulina Porizkova wrote an essay on what it’s like to be no longer a spring chicken, and how people treat her differently. It’s both fairly touching and hilarious and is worth googling.
I really haven’t seen too much backlash against beautiful women in real life. If anything, they are almost always very popular.
I gotta say I think it sounds exactly like something Gisele would say.
@bluhare, ITA. Giselle would say something like that.
Honestly, I think if any famous beauty wrote something as arrogant as Mrs. Brick’s article, they would also receive a lot of backlash. No one feels sorry for some one that says their life is difficult because they are so beautiful. Because Samantha Brick is so plain looking, she receives backlash plus ridicule. I don’t feel sorry for her, I’ve read her other articles on daily mail and have come to the realization that she throws herself at every male, married or not. She herself states she ignores friends to pursue men in power (google samantha brick i use my sex appeal to get ahead). Now she’s older, not receiving the attention from men and thinks all her former friends reject her for her beauty.
i would watch this, but i am too beautiful to look at ugly people. hahahaha!
Don’t you hate that? Our eyeballs are too gorgeous to look at ugly people. They make our eyes shatter.
I’ll bet that pretty psychologist has gotten a lot more free drinks in bars than Ms.(Thick as a)Brick ever has
The only thing she has proven is that nobody likes arrogant people. On her analogy about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – what she got wrong is that if Brad Pitt would start going to interviews telling people how good looking he is – everybody would also tell him to f*ck himself!
So true! Frankly, I’ve had a lot of the same experiences this lady is claiming as a result of being quite pretty myself but I would never PUBLICLY STATE THAT.
Her article was just obnoxious.
so true. people regardless of gender would make fun of him too. it’s not just women who dislike arrogance. my husband dislikes women who go “oh i am so beautiful” and stuff. it doesn’t matter if the woman is beautiful or not. he says that there is real beauty in humility and not arrogance. no argument there. and to think Brick looks below-average…
i think the reaction to what this woman wrote is the most interesting part of the story.
obviously, she has hit a nerve. maybe there is some truth to what she is saying, or people would not be so outraged.
Sadly the cattie comments from women – like the ones people have wrote here… kind of proof her point. Why do people immediately start criticizing what she looks like – that is not the point. Beauty is subjective for the most part – and this woman is not ugly or bad looking. Probably in Paris she wouldnt turn heads, but I am sure in the little French town where she lives she must be knock-out! And good for her if that is the case! The problem with her article was her arrogance, not whether she described her beauty appropriately.
I think her extraordinarily average looks DO illustrate her delusions…that’s why people are pointing them out. Yes, a lot of the comments are catty, but Ms. Brick has invited the criticism with her articles praising her great beauty.
I beyond agree with your comment. I’m distressed by how many “she isn’t even good looking” comments people have been making. If she looked like a supermodel, wouldn’t her claims be just as narcissistic?
I completely agree. I’ve pondered this for a few days and came up with my own conclusion. Beautiful women are expected to hold a certain amount of humility and modesty about their looks, because, as studies show, they have an “easier life” by comparison. They are not to complain about jealousy issues regarding friends, co-workers,etc or being treated unfairly because of their beauty. This is not to say I think Brick falls into this category, but it nevertheless is a real issue women face.
Absolutely. It isn’t about her attractiveness at all. And she is pretty, nothing special, though, really. The point is that ANYONE who thinks this way is setting themselves up to come up against a good bit of bile because of her arrogance, and also because she is basically saying that she is better than everyone and ALSO that she is better looking than most people, which whether true or not is off-putting.
I don’t think they really prove her point. Cattiness is usually motivated by actual jealousy or the need for drama, not a reaction to someone’s ego.
Back in the day I knew someone like this woman. We would walk into bars or clubs together and men would be falling over themselves buying her (us–haha!) drinks. The issue is “attractiveness” and my friend certainly had it although by “beauty” standards many could have found fault with her physical description. I believe what she’s saying. It’s not just about looks but about “airs” and undoubtedly luck. More power to her for calling women out on their jealousy and competitiveness. And what is more, how low of us all to be so caught up in the attention of men! I haven’t seen a worthy feminist article like this in a loooooooooong time. How many women feel they have to compensate for their attractiveness in order to compensate for the female wolf-pack?
Why do we criticize what she looks like? Because she has claimed she holds an outward beauty that causes people to act a certain way around her. For the most part beauty is subjective but there are also studies proving almost universal traits that ‘beauties’ have that draw fellow humans to them, even if only to look.
If she didn’t have some level of NPD she may have realised some of her attractiveness is the self confidence she so obviously projects. Alas like many “beauties” before her, she was beautiful until she opened her mouth (or in this case wrote an essay for the public forum).
Except plenty of the comments bashing her are coming from MEN, too. I’ve seen just as many comments/tweets/etc about this from men, but everyone’s taking it as proof that women care catty bitches. uh, I think people in general just aren’t fond of delusional, arrogant aholes.
If a person is making the argument that someone is delusional they are going to refer back to what exactly that person is delusional about. This pathetic woman has made the claim that she is irrefutably beautiful. Many of us don’t agree, and are giving specific examples of what part of her “beauty” we find unattractive, and those are valid comments.
Another point of argument, women who make catty comments are jealous. Isn’t that somewhat of a generalization? Some of us still indulge privately in mean girl gossip on occasion. As long as no one is getting hurt by one’s private comments, there should be no issue.
I think that there is a small amount of truth. Some women are jealous of younger prettier women… but not all women are. That is what angers me about this twit. She sits there with two intelligent women who tell her exactly what they found offensive about the article, but no, she knows what they are thinking better than they do themselves. There can’t be any other reason for their dislike than her beauty. It really beggars belief and shows her to be arrogant in the extreme.
^^^ this.
I love your name, Gin Genie. 🙂
It’s the arrogance, stop there. Let’s not go bestowing any victim status on her because she’s said something that can be ‘yeah, kind of true’ if her statements are taken to their logical conclusion.
She has written all women into a corner by deciding and broadcasting our reactions long before she ever hit the ‘Submit’ button. Overwhelming negative backlash means all women are jealous and contemptible and are fueled by hatred and hormones. Not much response? That could only mean silent agreement. ‘I’m beautiful dammit, see how the world doesn’t contest this?’ Lots of support? ‘The sisterhood has redeemed itself through never contesting my claims.’ It’s a no-win for anyone who isn’t her.
Crap, comment fail
Take the example of the woman and her dog (I think, I wasn’t paying THAT much attention). So, this is a person who she ostensibly knows and this person’s demeanor changed drastically and quickly. There are so many things to consider if trying to figure out what’s happening. Maybe she was distracted, maybe she was going through some rough business of her own and wasn’t up to socializing. It could have been ANYTHING that caused this, but what does Ms. Brick do? She defaults to, ‘Oh, she’s jealous. Well, I’d better not follow up with her to see if something is wrong, if I’ve done something, or there’s some situation in her life that warrants me having to be a different kind, or better friend. I wouldn’t ask people around her if she’s okay or if there’s something I can do FOR HER, because sustaining relationships with women means chastising or stonewalling them when they haven’t prostrated themselves in front of me to a degree that is to my liking. Having relationships with people who aren’t talking mirrors designed to just fluff up your ego takes more work.
i disagree. i’ve also known very beautiful, model-gorgeous girls and guys irl who were not arrogant about it in the least-and nobody treated them differently. they blended in just like anybody else would. and no doors opened to them because of their looks, at least none that i know of. their beauty was neither a blessing nor a curse. i guess because they actually possessed brains and weren’t arrogant/passive aggressive about having good looks by happenstance.
It’s about her tone (not what she says, but how she’s saying it). The only person I know who wasn’t annoyed by this article is my SIL who also seems to have NPD.
I don’t think the reactions proove her point at all. I believe people are just trying to bring her back down to earth.
Hell yes, she’s hit a nerve because she’s proclaiming that “women”, ostentibly ALL women, hate other women simply because they’re pretty! BS. Nobody likes conceited people, and her adamantly hammering her point, only shows she is delusionally stuck up, and while the psychologist and interviewer are trying to steer her in another direction, she remains as obtuse as a Brick wall. has absolutely NOTHING to do with beauty.
And any woman who hates another just because they are pretty? Has a screw loose. I guarantee that is not the norm, as she is vainly trying to prove.
When I was younger I had women dislike me before even knowing me bases on my looks. (as most are now my friends having gotten to know me and discover for themselves I was in no way conceited…)The big difference, though I portrayed Barbie for a major retailer, modeled, & did pageants my own self esteem was lacking. All I saw in the mirror was the young girl who was constantly beaten while growing up because her father was repeating a vicious cycle. I wouldn’t say I am ugly now, but my health & meds have done a number and I can’t hate on another woman. No one knows the real scars a person carries. My quiet nervous chatter & need to keep others at bay so they did not know my family secret gave quite a few that misinterpretation that I was arrogant…far from it. I am just thankful those who saw past their original opinion liked what they saw & have been thru so much w/ me over the years. The difference between this woman & myself…It would never have occurred to me to say such a thing. My heart broke whenever my looks were brought into why someone didn’t like me… But again had to keep that family secret…
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When I was younger I had women dislike me before even knowing me based on my looks. (as most are now my friends having gotten to know me and discover for themselves I was in no way conceited…). The big difference, (though I portrayed Barbie for a major retailer, modeled, & did pageants) my own self esteem was lacking. I was constantly hit on (by men) and left more than one job due to a boss trying (one succeeding) to sexually assault me (though that has more to do w/ power over a woman). However, I never saw a beautiful woman starring back at me in the mirror! No matter how many times I was told. All I saw in the mirror was the young girl who was constantly beaten while from the age of 4 thru 23 because her father was an repeating a vicious cycle. I wouldn’t say I am ugly now, but my health & meds have done a number. Having gone thru all I have I can not hate on another who claims to have this problem…but I wonder what is behind her saying those things to the world. No one knows the real scars a person carries and beauty means different things to different people. My quiet nervous chatter & need to keep others at bay so they did not know my family secret gave quite a few that misinterpretation
that I was arrogant…far from it. I am just thankful those who saw past their original opinion liked what they saw & have been thru so much w/ me over the years. The
difference between this woman & myself…It would never have occurred to me to say such a thing. My heart broke whenever my looks were brought into why someone didn’t like me before giving me a chance. But, again had to keep
that family secret… I look at my photos from 20 yrs ago..even 8 to 10 yrs ago and now see a beautiful woman, but I see the mistaken twinkle is held back tears & the huge smile is a frozen mask…. If the woman then could meet the woman I am today (w/o all the health issues though I had
those since childhood)…the bosses & Dr. That took advantage of me would have paid w/ the loss of their careers and I don’t think people would have had misconceived ideas regarding me. I would have been more outgoing & not so guarded & have such a lack of self esteem thinking I wasn’t good enough…. Maybe somewhere in her skeletal closet she has scars….
Let’s face it; most people when they meet with negativity, the initial thought would be either that it was something they did or said or that the other person is having a bad day or whatever. You do have to be quite arrogant to react the way she does.
She is also unwilling to even for a second ponder if it might be something else than her ‘beauty’ that other women react to. No, it MUST be jealousy.
That total inability to so much as look at something from a different angle says a lot about the kind of personality she has, regardless of what she looks like.
yeah, i think that a BIG part of the reactions is her narcissism, arrogance and the fact that she accuses other women for disliking her for a reason i am sure is not why they dislike her. i have been a woman for over 36 years now and have observed my kind in all sorts of situations – i have never seen women react negatively to a pretty or beautiful woman IF this woman wasn’t also an arrogant biatch, treated everyone else like dirt, or heavily flirted with men in front of their women. but, of course, all kinds of women can engage in this behavior, not only the pretty ones. and then no one will like them. 🙂
she reminds me of this woman i used to casually know. she would sleep or try to sleep with other women’s boyfriends and then be upset and tell people (mostly men) that women don’t like her and don’t trust her BECAUSE SHE’S SO ATTRACTIVE. in reality, it had nothing to do with being attractive, but i guess she had to justify her lack of friends somehow?
I disagree. She has put her looks up for judgment by declaring herself so beautiful that other women are jealous and hate her. Beauty shows itself, there is no need to declare it as an excuse to wage war on “The Sisterhood.”
If I walk around saying I’m amazingly brilliant, other than sounding like an arrogant ass, I have placed myself in a position to allow the critique of my self-declared intelligence. I’ve invited reaction.
When you invite reaction you better damn well live up to the expectation. The fault is her own, not society’s.
A very good point, and the reason for the backlash. If you proclaim something you’re putting it out there for dissection.
and the bigger/more unrealistic the claim, the greater the backlash. good point
Oh boy-so I was a model from 14-22, I’m now 37 btw. I was never anything big time but landed a cover of Sassy Magazine (it was such a classic, its no longer in publication lol) and Benneton ad, then quit because I never reached a good height and wanted to eat.
Sure there were women who were catty or judged me, but that happens no matter HOW YOU LOOK. If you put an energy out that screams you’re above it or appear to be that way, you’re going to get bitch stares and side-eyes. I was incredibly insecure so I was very quiet and waited for someone to want to talk to me in fear of rejection. Many times this over-flowed into I was stuck up.
The story she told about being at the wedding and the photo probably did happen after she flirted with every man there including the taken ones and then went on about how amazing beautiful she is. No matter how you slice it, women will call out the BS after they’ve seen and heard enough. She might be cute, but in no way is she hot enough to warrant women yelling about how she is in the middle of the photo. Maybe they wanted to stand next to the groom and it wasn’t about her at all? She is seriously narcissitic!
I think the “outrage” (of which there is very little, there is far more suspended disbelief) is more due to the level of narcissism displayed by this woman. So many of her displayed personality traits are unattractive and unappealing and could ostensibly account for the dislike people feel towards her. But since she is unable to accept or perceive the negative exhibited traits, she has to find an outward reason for the dislike. It’s so much easier to find an external reason why one is unlikeable than it is to look internally.
Women can be catty, as can men. Both can be jealous or envious, and take that out. Or, they might take issue at what what they perceive is a falsehood, and remonstrate against that. People contradicting her aren’t necessarily jealous, and it’s sexist to say they are. Would we assume if a man said it was arrogant of another man to whine about how hard a life he had because he was good-looking, that the critic was just being catty? Would we dismiss his criticism of the commentator’s points so easily as being purely down to spite? She may be a victim of some women, but we do women an equal disservice if we label them all jealous.
Unfortunately, society has taught us to judge women on their looks, much more harshly than we do men, and and make that a major part of how we judge the entire person. So a lot of people can’t help mentioning a woman’s looks regardless of what she’s commentating on. As such, it’s best to avoid commenting on them altogether: whether any woman in the media makes you hot under the collar or looks better or worse than you is irrelevant to most arguments.
It’s not just attractive women who are dissuaded from saying they are attractive: boasting about ANYTHING is generally seen as bad form, whether it’s money, success, brains, beauty, the bedroom, whatever. It is not a trait that we admire in those around us, whether they have anything to boast about or not. In part because it actually encourages jealousy, and in part because it can make you look delusional if you don’t have that much to boast about. It’s simply unpleasant.
That said, I do see why people pile on in her case. I’ve avoided commenting on her looks so far, but the point is that she’s average of face and build, and as people point out, having blonde hair or blue eyes or being slim by itself does not make you a stunner. Which is fine, lots of people are average and look perfectly lovely, and I’m not saying anybody should criticise her appearance, she’s no better or worse than most of us. But if someone voices this opinion, it’s not necessarily tearing her down, nor does it reflect what we look like. Maybe we look worse, maybe we look better, it is kinda irrelevant. As is whether ‘we would’ (if you know what I mean). What is relevant is that she claims her beauty is extreme enough to prompt rather markedly different treatment from everyone else. To which most people answer that she doesn’t appear that markedly different. And neither does the attention she describes.
Just… no
It’s partly comical and partly sad. And yes the psychologist is much prettier IMO and I like her much more Imagine that.
If I had a third of whatever it is she has, I would have already won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, a Tony, been voted number one in People magazines 100 most beautiful people, and just for sh-ts and giggles, posed for Playboy! And won, of course. This woman is delusional, period.
It must be nice to have such a HIGH self-esteem . 😀
“You have *high* self-esteem, right?”
Does she happen to live in the French countryside? She said that a gazillion times.
ZOMG! Im so glad someone else noticed that! I live in the french country side. Well my husband and I live in the french countryside. In the french countryside. Thats not been my experience in the french countryside….WE GET IT!
This whole thing is hilarious. The 6 minute mark in the video basically sums it up for me.
Poor french people 😉
poor countryside.
hahaha!
I live in the United States countryside.
Why are all the stories on this woman turning into people hating on her looks? The backlash against photos of Brick pretty much proves her article’s point that society is obsessed with beauty and will turn over benefits on the pretty and mete out punishments on the less attractive!
I don’t think she’s delusional, first of all. Most “attractive” women whom other women “hate” are pretty basic-looking women who are really into flirting, dressing up, and noticing instances of jealousy of other women. You don’t really have to be that pretty to get male attention or to attract haters, to be honest. Being passable and confident is all it takes. A lot of the backlash is breaking down to: how dare a woman who is not gorgeous be confident? What a double-standard, given that we tolerate ugly men thinking they’re G*d’s gift to women every day!
Besides, she’s not ugly. I imagine in person, in day to day life, she might be one of the more attractive people around. No, she’s not a 20 year old airbrushed model, which seems to be the standard every woman in the public eye is up against. But she was not talking about her experience in the public eye, she was talking about her experience in real life. A confident woman who dresses up and flirts sometimes can be considered very attractive in real life, the prettiest woman at the office, even.
I’m not defending Brick, because she seems like a horrible person who really thinks she’s better than people who are less attractive than she is. I’m just saying, if you hate on her looks you’re missing the point. You’re not disagreeing with her, if that’s your goal. And by “you” I mean a general statement on how this story is being addressed by “people on the internet” not a personal attack on anyone here. 🙂
I think the comments against her have been harsh and a bit sexist but that doesn’t make her right. She seems like the type that seeks to demean other women and flirt with men because she likes the attention then is upset that her friends scatter.
Oh and to prove a point that a beautiful woman CAN in fact be a good friend. Angelina Jolie was her BFF Holly’s bridesmaid.
http://joliepittnews.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/angelina-jolie-as-a-bridesmaid/
There is a LOT of difference between confidence and arrogance. Confidence is, “Hey, I look good and feel good. I don’t give two sh*ts if I don’t meet someone else’s standard of beauty.”
But THIS is…I don’t even know. She is ascribing pettiness and jealousy to EVERY woman in the world. Or at least every woman she has ever met. Her “confidence” involves tearing other women down. According to her other women are: 1. not beautiful, 2. obsessed with appearance, 3. insecure, 4. jealous, 5. petty. Every failing in her life is due to another woman’s jealousy – not her lack of skills, or her personality.
Wahey! The soundest opinion on this yet!
Totally agree with you!
I think all that is is people now taking the piss on her drivel and it’s meant jokingly. Believe, me, it proves NOTHING.
Brick has a good speaking voice, articulate. I agree with beautiful women being envied. My best friend in university was stunningly beautiful, and I was her only close female friend. Other girls Hated her. Threatened to chop her long wavy hair when she was sleeping! Said she had “a nose job & a boob job, was a slut..cruel and untrue. And she was so witty & damn funny. We would laugh so hard, we would cry. She has a university degree as well. Her Mum was a lovely lady, a Russian immigrant who wanted her daughter to be independent & educated. Beauty can manifest dangerous jealousy among women. I very seldom see a “sisterhood”, unless I am watching Oprah reruns. (Her comes the backlash). Brick radiates confidence, but she is far from gorgeous.
I think it’s unfair to paint ALL women with the same brush. Not every woman has been driven to lash out at very attractive women just because they are very attractive. Not all women are that insecure. And that’s what that type of behavior usually stems from. Extreme insecurity. I’m not going to say I’ve never felt that twinge of jealousy when encountering a particularly attractive woman, I think that’s normal. But I’d never hold a woman’s (or man’s) looks against them. Who has the time or energy for that?
Being envious of somebody who is actually beautiful does not equate to hatred, unless you’re mentally unstable with pretty big issues yourself.
And pretty is as pretty DOES, not as pretty looks. It appears her insides are not very pretty, they are very haughty, as shown in this clip and in her articles.
I think I have found my new girl crush… U go Sam
Why don’t they hold up pictures of hotter celebrities than this broad and ask her if she doesn’t like them bc they’re more attractive? I don’t get it. If her ‘theory’ is accurate, that must also mean she practices what she preaches and hates women who are prettier than her..
I don’t know, I think this shows how messed up society’s beauty standards are – she’s not a knock-out but I think she should be allowed to think she’s beautiful, not be ridiculed for it. I get that her article was super arrogant and people probably don’t like her because of her attitude, but had there been no picture or had it been accompanied by a picture of a supermodel, people wouldn’t be going out of their way to make her feel like a fool (even though the article on it’s own is pretty hilarious). In her mind, in her circle, she’s beautiful. Give her that at least. It comes across that people don’t think she deserves to think she is beautiful. I’m sure her looks aren’t responsible for how she’s treated any more than the rest of the general public but if she’s confident (even with her bad teeth and whatever else people have been saying about her) why should we hate on that?
This girl is laughing all the way to the bank.
I’m in Europe and I read this story early in the morning before it went viral. I was shocked at what she wrote. I didn’t write a nasty comment about her looks. I just kept thinking ‘how arrogant is this woman’? I don’t agree with people saying she has proved her point. No she hasn’t. She has presented herself so negatively and is now seen as an ugly arrogant person. Looks aside it’s her personality that is repelling readers.
Delusional sense of self. After seeing the pictures of her and her husband in camouflage holding a hunting rifle, I’m convinced this is a play to get some kind of reality show.
Haha- there are about three true things to her statements. Women are TOTALLY biased against more beautiful women. But Brick is the worst possible spokeswoman for this concept. She’s pretty, sure. I wouldn’t buy her a bottle of champagne or anything (what did the guys buying you drinks look like, hon?). Maybe she has Unicorn Charisma in person that makes people all tingly and her come across as irresistible? Or maybe a chill falls over the room because she comes across as certifiably insane?
I was thinking about that this morning, the guys who sent her drinks must have been hammered – Britain is known as an extreme drinking culture so maybe all those drunk bastards see is blond wig, decent body, why not?
Honestly, she looks better in the video than in the photos. But, at the end of the day, this is such a non-story to me.
Women aren’t responding negatively to her appearance, they’re responding to her solipsism.
One of my good friends is drop-dead gorgeous, yet women (and men) *love* her. People tend to think more highly of attractive people, not less, unless there’s some unfortunate personality trait at work.
You are right and just look at Jessica Alba. Outwardly she is gorgeous but none of us on here can stand her because of her arrogance in thinking she can actually act and her dim mind.
Let’s add Jessica Biel to the list.
Who was slammed for making the comment “she doesn’t get acting roles because of her beauty”.
How about you don’t get roles because you can’t act and you’re boring.
Yes to everything you said.
“Samantha Brick is now a global “celebrity”. All because of being an arrogant, delusional dumbass.”
Following in the foot steps of greatness; Kim K, Lindsay Lohan, and LeAnn Rimes.
It works. people have real opinions about this troll journalist. Daily Fail does this all the time with people like liz jones who post about how she is so old and ugly and should of had babies instead of being a feminist…Daily Fail propaganda…but IT WORKS!
I’ve seen both Brad & Angelina asked MANY, MANY times about their looks (sometimes it seems like a set up to try to make them look arrogant). Both Brad & Angelina always give humble, thoughtful responses. My favorite response, though, was what Angelina said on 60 Minutes. She told Bob Simon (and he PRESSED her) that “…you can’t take it very seriously- as long as Brad thinks I’m beautiful…I wake up and I want to be a SMARTER person…I feel like that is certainly what I am encouraging my girls to…that if they can make their INSIDE and who they are really, really stunning, then everything falls together. Here is the 3 min clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8sMvL4H3rs
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Angelina Jolie: Her face, her fame
By Overtime Staff Topics Correspondent Candids
When we say here at CBS News that correspondent Bob Simon is one of our most experienced reporters, we are usually talking about his coverage of war, revolution, uprising, crime, and politics. When it came time to interviewing Angelina Jolie – among the most photographed women in the world – Bob tells Overtime he gave some thought to his question about Jolie’s famous face, and even did a bit of research with female friends. His novel question to the actress: “Most women who are beautiful realize it when they’re two or three years old. Did you?” Angelina’s answer, and indeed her entire interview, proves one thing: she’s much more than just a pretty face.
She is much better looking in the video than in her photos it has to be said. She still seems like a bit of a moron though.
I admit to having some coffee run out of my nose at her claim.
This chick is a hoot!!
I grew up with a few ridiculously pretty girlfriends and I can tell you none of them had this attitude and they were far better looking than her.
Usually when someone thinks ppl dont like them b/c of their looks its always their personality. Like having to be the center of attention or something like that, rarely is it ever b/c of their appearance.
Thick as a Brick. I hate to fall back on this insult because I’m part Scottish, but she’s so typically English looking.
She doesn’t understand that it’s her ARROGANCE that is getting attention. Brad Pitt would say, Yeah, I’m hot, and leave it at that. He probably wouldn’t write 95 articles about it.
This article is interesting because I knew nothing about who this lady was and was wondering who the heck is this plain uninteresting girl getting covered on Celebitchy? Then I read this article and had my laugh for the day. She isn’t ugly but she is in no way beautiful. Delusional.
it was the tone of the article that’s caused all this. Anyone who says ‘It seems the only crime I’ve committed is not leaving the house with a bag over my head’ is asking for a verbal beating.
Every single person goes through life with some people not liking them, getting blanked if they wave at someone, a few difficulties at work etc. It takes an idiot to blame all that solely on her looks.
I thought this was a really interesting point: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-thrown-to-wolves
“The [Daily Mail] uses its female writers as Trojan horses to voice its most misogynistic attitudes”
Thanks for the link. Very interesting perspective.
If I read that article and had never, ever seen a picture of her, I still wouldn’t like her. I don’t like HER – as a person. Her looks have nothing to do with it.
“three days ago, no one had ever heard of you.”
Slam, bam, thank you, Eamonn.
God, she’s common as hell. Even he’s like, this is bullshit, when he gets to the random bouquet of flowers. I think she really is delusional.
How long until someone gives this troll a reality show?
I’m all for having good self-esteem but this chick just makes me laugh. She must have a trick mirror or something. Bottom line, she is just not that attractive. She looks like Tanya Harding’s slightly more attractive sister.
Oh this woman is so childish !
I want her to go to the same fortuneteller automate, Tom Hanks met in “Big”. Maybe she’ll act like an adult when she’s 55 or whatever.
Of course she won’t.
I still think this is some sort of charade for a book deal and/or reality show. Really pathetic, but it sill can’t top Teen Bride.
When a woman has no female friends there is clearly something very wrong with her. This woman is nuts. She thinks every other female on earth is jealous of her very average looks. Other women “don’t trust her” around their men. Probably cause she acts flirty and giggly, we all know women who do that, and then they wonder why women don’t care for them.
Maybe it’s because I watched Moomstruck yesterday but…I wanna slap her and say “snap out of it!”
I don’t think anyone is arguing that the beauty privilege doesn’t exist. This woman just clearly wasn’t smart enough to write about it. By the way, if anyone knows any academic articles about the subject, drop me a line.
Start with Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (if you haven’t already) and go from there.
@anon33 – Reading through all the comments, i was thinking of this very book and wondering that perhaps Samantha Brick was trying and failing to write about how beauty affects us much in the same way as that book did.
I don’t give her a pass because all her other articles are about how she uses her feminine charms to get her own way especially at work.
No wonder she has no female friends. Her kind of female is tiresome.
When I read her article, I keep hearing Derek Zoolander: “I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.”
When this story broke, I didn’t even know who Samantha Brick was. So I Googled her and read some of her pieces on the Daily Mail site.
Although Samantha is a very good writer, every article is filled with vapidness, arrogance and delusional opinions of herself and the world around her.
Never once did she connect with me, her reader, on a heartfelt or personal level. Because of this, even when she was describing a situation where she was about to step off a metaphorical cliff, I didn’t want to give her a hand to grasp – I wanted to give her a little shove in the back!
Samantha Brick, we don’t hate you because you’re beautiful. We dislike you because you are a shallow narcissist.
LOL
Well put! Vapid is the right word.
I hate to agree with her on any level but I DO think there is a percentage of women who don’t like attractive women. BUT there is a percentage of women who probably don’t like red meat either. It is not a universal claim that can be made. I work in Hollywood and was an agent alongside 2 other women who were a little thick around the middle and dowdy looking. (I’m a woman as well and no supermodel, but I’m confident in my own skin so I don’t worry about my looks that much.) And when we had models come in for meetings there two could NOT be nice to them and never wanted to represent them, even though they later went on to be some of our biggest moneymaking clients. And I firmly believe it is because they were jealous of them. So I do believe there are those women out there, I just doubt that the is the SOLE reason Ms. Brick has come across many women who don’t like her.
Even in that scenario, I don’t think it is “attractive vs unattractive.” I think that women who are struggling with their weight may resent very slender women when they are smack in the middle of trying to shed the pounds.
Brick, I think, is talking about God-given facial beauty being a curse… which is loathesome.
All of our comments are feeding into Brick`s grand scheme..create a buzz, then be granted a reality tv show. Like the Kardashians. Although I do not think Brick would do a porno video of a dude pissing on her. In my mind no one is more repugnant than Kim K. Or her pimpin~mom Kris.
talk about a BUTTERFACE!
I am an average looking woman at best (although I am lucky that my husband thinks I’m beautiful 🙂 and I have had men do nice things or say nice things to/for me over the years…never once did I feel it was something to be taken for granted as I feel she is doing…she makes it seem that her experiences were a given because she is so beautiful…that is why she sounds arrogant and the interviewers are correct in calling her out on this…no one likes an arrogant entitled person
Does this woman not own a mirror? Looks like she may have been a cute little girl, but not so much as an adult. LOL
How nice it must be to make a point and if someone disagrees with you, you can claim they prove your point. Her defense is built into her opinion.
Ms. Brick claims she is beautiful and that she is hated by other women because of that. If you come up with a rational argument for why she might be incorrect in her beliefs, she can merely peg you as one of the jealous haters she is referring to. She NEVER has to be wrong. How convenient.
That is basically the definition of narcissism right there.
Agreed. Her circular, and completely flawed, logic always brings her back to her belief that she’s proven her point. She hasn’t.
I think she’s pretty but a total narcissist.
I do like that she’s confident about her looks but she comes off as being really snotty instead of a good mix of high-self esteem and humbleness.
Please tell me this is a prolonged April Fool’s joke!
I’m with you on this.
She’s also admitted that she’s culled from 41 years and condensed it all into 1 article. So it seems she is exaggerating heavily her “reasons” why all women hate her. ugh. 😡
I can’t say enough that women who hate other women they don’t know based on their looks have psychological issues and must be pretty miserable inside.
Usually it pisses me off when people’s reaction to a story is basically “she ain’t all that”, but in this case, I honestly think it’s justified.
This woman’s whole article was about how stunning she was, and how she couldn’t walk down the street without men giving her flowers and champagne like she was some walking Impulse advert, and how women hated her solely for being beautiful. If that’s her thesis, and the first element of it (her stunning beauty) is incorrect, I don’t see any problem in people saying they find her unattractive. Eamonn Holmes seemed to be able to cope with being in her presence without drooling, unless he was cleverly concealing his erection from the cameras, and I notice none of the crew ran into shot to give her roses…
Personally, in polite parlance, I find her well-presented. She takes care of her skin, she dresses nicely…otherwise, meh.
I’m glad for her, or anyone, who is happy with what they see in the mirror. God knows too many of us struggle with our self-image in a negative sense, I wouldn’t want any woman to lose that confidence, but when that confidence manifests itself in shallowness, solipsism and outright misogyny, I think she deserves everything she gets. How dare she assume that all women are jealous of her? How dare she belittle her own gender like that? How can she be so vain as to assume that anyone who has a problem with her is simply jealous of her looks?
Because seriously, they AIN’T all that.
Very well put, Lenore.
I would add that I think she loves being the prize wife to a man ten years her senior, which puts her in a circle with mostly older women. Based on her article and this video, I can’t imagine these women wanting anything to do with her.
Am I the only one who read the article in the Zoolander voice? “It’s so hard to be really, really good looking.”
I’ve always considered myself a pretty attractive woman. I know I’m at least light years better looking than this broad. But I think the best thing that any good looking woman can do is not be a snobby brat about it. Beautiful women should have an air of, “who, me?” Even if you have to force it, humility is the name of the game.
I have never had a pilot buy me a bottle of champagne (and I don’t think she has either). I have, however, had plenty of drinks sent to me by men at bars (never the bartenders; come on, Bricky, they want your cash and don’t give a crap about what you look like!). Let me tell you, if I measured my level of self-worth based on these cocktails, I would be a very miserable woman who is not about to finish a masters.
Is she a grownup former Toddlers & Tiaras contestant by any chance? She seems to have gotten way too much skewed positive reinforcement from possibly a stage mother IMO.
I don’t think that anyone would argue with her thesis. We’ve seen women who are good looking get knocked down several pegs by jealous female co-workers and supervisors. We’ve also seen women like Samantha Brick use those good looks to get ahead which I think is partially where the jealousy comes from. A few pretty women like Samantha Brick give the rest of the honest and hard working women of the world a bad name.
If this article were coming from a place of humility I doubt anyone would have a problem with it. However, I’ve met this type of woman before. She’s 41 and her looks are fading fast, she has narcissistic personality disorder, is in a bad marriage and no real place in life because everyone else in the world figured out long ago the type of person that she is. She tries to shift the blame on her life on to the rest of society and that is merely what she is trying to do. The sad thing is internally her world is coming down upon her but like anyone woth NPD she creates the protective shield (“this only proves my hypothesis”) to protect her own sense of self. People like her should be pitied more than anything else.
She is trying to play the victim card here, which is always unattractive. Maybe she really does get men to pay for things because she feigns being the stereotypical damsel in distress. There are some men who are attracted to the helpless female who needs rescuing.
I have to give her credit for liking what she sees in the mirror instead of seeing big legs, pasty white face, washed-out look, limp hair, eyes that need a lot of makeup, thin lips, flat bone structure, crooked teeth. I see an average-looking woman. She sees a stunning woman. That’s all I give her credit for. Thinking all women are jealous of her, blah, blah, she is a narcissist.
I would love the two hosting this show to have a run at a North American show. They really hit at her hard, didn’t they, none of this kid gloves, butt kissing nonsense that passes as tele-journalism here. Can you imagine them, and not Matt Lauer interviewing Lohan? i loved them, loved the doctor, and think that Ms Brick is a sly imbecile.
My 2 cents..
(1) For those that say she is being judged too harshly based upon her looks, or confidence of…Her “Looks” are the subject matter of her “Feature”. She literally invited discussion by publishing it, so IMO, there is zero wrong with anyone expressing their opinion of her looks. “Beautiful” was in the subject line.
(2) The volume of negative comments she has received in no way proves her theory. She is basically calling women, as a Gender, judgemental before cause..or Prejudice… “Bigots”.
Change the wording slightly and see how it sounds. What if she changed the wording ‘beautiful’, to White, Black, Hispanic, Waitress, Lawyer, Straight, Gay…
Hey, I check the “White” box, on applications and Dr. forms. I am actually White/Cherokee/Swedish. But they don’t have a box for “Beautiful Mutt”.
I am a woman, and based on what she writes and says, I don’t want to know her. Not because it proves her point I am a jealous, prejudice bigot, but because she sounds like trouble to me. Friendship and love lives in our hearts, not our eyes. Accuse me otherwise, and I am not interested in friendship, thanks, I’ll just move on.
Dotty ol attention seeker is havin you on
Well, she looks better in that tv interview.
Remember Arthur Kade, that Zoolander-esque Philly native and self-anointed A-lister and inventor of the Kade scale which rated Angelina Jolie a 7 (you have to be a 9 to merit his attention)? That dude was over the top delusional that he’s hilarious and entertaining, many people think he’s some kind of a performance artist. Samantha Brick isn’t an Arthur Kade. Everything she said was just infuriating. Nothing about her is defensible.
Dayum! I want the “happy pills” she is taking!!! LOL
She is slamming ‘older’ women, but from my POV, she IS an older woman.
She looks to be around my Mom’s age.
Why does she have to be such a bully about age???
I’d like to see her have a conversation with Simon Cowell.
Eeek! Simon would eat her alive! Lol.
lol i can just imagine… *visualizes cowell’s raised eyebrows, lifted hands and haughty voice tone going: “really?!”*
I actually think this woman is quite attractive, and the comments calling her a dog seem more like venom-fueled backlash than reality. She’s no great beauty, but she’s lovely.
That said, I actually feel sorry for her. This level of delusion has to be an actual problem, not just a flight of fancy.
Huge eyeroll to her beauty causing people to spontaneously give her flowers in the street. If you’re going to bullshit people you need to keep it real, however given her view on her looks she’s probably incapable of that.
Sorry iPad issues & keeps saying saved post failed & can’t find my comment on the comment I replied so trying w/o reply button….
When I was younger I had women dislike me before even knowing me based on my looks. (as most are now my friends having gotten to know me and discover for themselves I was in no way conceited…). The big difference, (though I portrayed Barbie for a major retailer, modeled, & did pageants) my own self esteem was lacking. I was constantly hit on (by men) and left more than one job due to a boss trying (one succeeding) to sexually assault me (though that has more to do w/ power over a woman). However, I never saw a beautiful woman starring back at me in the mirror! No matter how many times I was told. All I saw in the mirror was the young girl who was constantly beaten while from the age of 4 thru 23 because her father was an repeating a vicious cycle. I wouldn’t say I am ugly now, but my health & meds have done a number. Having gone thru all I have I can not hate on another who claims to have this problem…but I wonder what is behind her saying those things to the world. No one knows the real scars a person carries and beauty means different things to different people. My quiet nervous chatter & need to keep others at bay so they did not know my family secret gave quite a few that misinterpretation
that I was arrogant…far from it. I am just thankful those who saw past their original opinion liked what they saw & have been thru so much w/ me over the years. The
difference between this woman & myself…It would never have occurred to me to say such a thing. My heart broke whenever my looks were brought into why someone didn’t like me before giving me a chance. But, again had to keep
that family secret… I look at my photos from 20 yrs ago..even 8 to 10 yrs ago and now see a beautiful woman, but I see the mistaken twinkle is held back tears & the huge smile is a frozen mask…. If the woman then could meet the woman I am today (w/o all the health issues though I had
those since childhood)…the bosses & Dr. That took advantage of me would have paid w/ the loss of their careers and I don’t think people would have had misconceived ideas regarding me. I would have been more outgoing & not so guarded & have such a lack of self esteem thinking I wasn’t good enough…. Maybe somewhere in her skeletal closet she has scars….
You know, when you think hey Courtney Stodden and her lizard tongue are hell of a lot better looking than this woman and at least Courtney has a sense of humor…sorta, then there is something wrong with the picture. I think Ms. Bricks personality is what is basically her undoing. She is average at best even if she does live in the french countryside.
This reminds me of Camille Grammar on the first season of RHOBH. She kept going on all the time of how all woman are jealous of her, how she never had girlfriends because they were jealous of her. Talk about eye-rolling. Camille lives in California where there are a ton of gorgeous women and young women. Why women don’t like her was she hangs on everybody’s husband and comes on to them. She toned it down this season after seeing how she looks to people, like a narcissistic predator that craves attention from men, married or not. She had no clue what women were jealous of. Interesting how they all liked her the second season when she was warm to the women and stopped giving the come on to husbands.
And now she’s on TV. Wow. A little self-delusion goes a long way.
She keeps talking about the French people and the french countryside. Does that have something to do with her perceptions of how these men treat her? Are there some social standards there that average guys just live by that might be exasperating her already existing narcissism? Like here in TX, guys will hold open doors, tell me good afternoon, how are you doing etc, even help me load 40 lbs of cat litter into my trunk without being asked. They do it because its part of bein’ with Southern politeness, not because I’m a knockout and they are admiring my beauty under some pretense. But then when my female Yankee cousins come to visit, they are astounded at the amount of attention they get from strangers, especially men. I’ve explained over and over that its more politeness than anything, but they just don’t seem to get it. Occasionally it might be to hit on a girl, but not usually I don’t think. Is part of her problem a cultural thing that she’s just not getting? She makes it sound like its the French dudes that are the ones buying her stuff. I’m not making excuses for her, just wondering.
The DR is totally right, especially about her judgments about other women. Not all women hate her for being decently attractive. Only the very insecure ones. Confident, and reasonably nice women tend to like each other, regardless of physical appearance in my experience. Ive met narcissist pretty girls like her, and they are always the ones with the problem. I’ve met pretty girls who are self depreciating and hard working, and always building up the ones that compare themselves to them. This woman just needs help.
And I don’t think she’s right. Females who earn the title of an adult woman, do not hate based on looks. The petty little girls do. That’s who have been responding to her article. And that’s what she is.
“Females who earn the title of an adult woman, do not hate based on looks. The petty little girls do. That’s who have been responding to her article. And that’s what she is.”
That bears repeating. It is sound reasoning.
The people who squawk the loudest degrading this Brick woman are just pronouncing the pettiness in their own personalities which they relate to in Brick. They doth protest too much.
Brick is self-centered, and misguided, but no more offensive than any celebrated Kardashian or Lohan, and for the same childish reasons. Brick is holding up a mirror to the impressionable segment of society whose whose self-esteem is based on external reinforcement, the herd mentality. The backlash to Brick is the sound of these people’s insecurities being exposed – regardless of what ANY of them looks like, including Brick.
Bravisimo!
I know someone whose like this. She is constantly talking about how she would go out to clubs and all the women “hate” on her and are jealous of her. In my head I’m like, well it’s not because of that, it’s because you walk into the club with that face and strut like you are “the shit”. Women pick up on that arrogance and that’s why they don’t like you. There’s a big difference between confidence and arrogance. The most beautiful of women can become ugly when they have a crappy personality to go with it.
Like..Kim Kardashian? ewww.
And another thing…I just realized that when I was looking at the pic again, of the Dr above, that I was kind of staring at her (The Dr.). I was doing that bec she is pretty, and was looking at her hair, how it falls, and her eyes. I do that sometimes with Kim K, looking at her skin color, as I think that is pretty about her. (Although, I can’t stand Kim K, because I have heard her talk, and have watched her). Point is.. I LIKE looking at pretty women, and I LIKE them by default, (like the Dr.), unless they prove otherwise by skanky or ugly words or actions (like Kimmy). So naa, naa, naa… not ALL women are jealous, paranoid creatures. Rant over. lol.
I find this whole thing pretty interesting. This woman has obviously placed a lot of importance on these ‘5-6’ instances (she states in the interview) of men buying her things or complimenting her throughout her 41 years, to the point where she’s blown them up in her mind. The same with the women who dislike her for being ‘younger and beautiful’, when she admits she hangs out with women who are 10 years older than her! I think a lot of attractive women have had similar situations of men buying them a drink or telling them they’re pretty/attractive. I consider myself of medium attractiveness and in the last year I’ve had 5-6 instances of men I don’t know telling me that I am attractive or good-looking (and not trying to hit on me since I was with my boyfriend, and two of them were gay), but I’m not about to write an essay about it or let it go to my head. I just say thanks and carry on. Receiving a compliment is very nice but it’s when you start letting it encompass and take over your view of yourself that you turn into someone like this woman with a super inflated ego. Being humble is a much better trait than being narcissistic – and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
She’s old enough to get that men who buy you things aren’t doing it because they think you’re attractive but because they want to have sex. Highly doubt they did it without the expectations of something.
The only problem I have with her is that she keeps finding blame to put on other people. I find that a negative personality trait.
The idea that pretty people have it harder is such BS. I was a straight-up ugly teenager who eventually grew into a reasonably attractive woman. It is 100000x easier to be considered “pretty.” EVERYONE treats you better, not just people of the opposite gender. When I was “ugly,” I was treated like I was invisible or teased and ridiculed.
Someday this woman might get a clue that people don’t like her because she’s obnoxious, not because she’s “beautiful,” but I doubt it.
I was a late bloomer as well. In my twenties, I was very ill-equipped to handle the attention. Young men would tell me they wanted me to have their children!! Old men would offer to financially support me, if I would go on vacations with them-disgusting. Had men stalking me, forced to file restraining orders. Beauty is definitely power, although I value my intelligence much more. No matter how bloody gorgeous you are, get a good education! Education is much more valuable in old age, when your looks fade & your social value diminishes greatly. Sad but true.
If she didn’t open her mouth, she’d be a perfectly attractive woman, with perhaps somewhat sh-tty dress sense. I know women like her, who talk at great length at how men fawn over them, how all they have to do is open a button on their blouse and get free whatever, how they are constantly told how sexy they are, how amazing, etc etc. Interestingly, in my opinion, the girls I know who say these things have all been average at best, and one is (again in my opinion) downright unattractive. I always wonder if what they say is actually true, or if they are inwardly so stunningly crippled with low self esteem that they bounce the other way almost pathologically?
I notice that too. One “friend” of mine was going on and on, posting to Facebook, stressing about an upcoming job interview because they, the poor IT guys she was meeting with, wouldn’t know how to deal with a pretty, confident woman. Uh, really? Dear, you were passibly cute in high school, but have put on a good deal of weight since then.
Meanwhile, our mutual friend, who is a real knock-out, has always been modest and self-depreciating. When talking about her appearance she is most likely to say something like, “I love this skirt, because it makes me look like I actually have an ass!” (she is tall and thin, with big boobs).
I’ve noticed this as well. The women that talk about how hot they are are, how men hit on them all the time, etc. are usually average looking or averagely attractive.
Somebody needs to tell her that her Daddy was lying to keep from hurting her feelings when she was young…”.She is not the prettiest little girl in the world ”
Didn’t read her essay and don’t want to but sounds to be like she reflecting some of her own inner hidden feelings onto other peoples attitudes.’
She is quite plain has a very weak face…
I have to admit, I am a little fascinated by this woman. Not in a good way. I can’t even put an explanation of how I feel about her into the correct words. I started reading her articles last night. She spent all of her life savings, lost her house, lost her job, her marriage and friends because of an addiction to psychics. Her first husband did treat her like crap, now her current husband dictates her life. Down to the clothes she wears and how much she eats. This lady has so many mental and emotional issues. That she seems to be proud of! I can’t believe The Daily Mail lets her write the craziness that she does. Wait, oh ya, it’s The Daily Mail and I am fascinated by it, so nevermind. 🙂
Interesting, I’m a little more fascinated now too, hearing what you read. I generally like bio’s anyway, everyone’s life is fascinating in its own way. I was also thinking that with all the money from ‘hits’, on DM’s website for this article alone, might have covered her yearly salary… (guessing, since I have no idea what a PT writer might get). Someone recently posted that they heard a rumor that the article had earned 30K at that time of writing. Probably doubled by now, so it would make good business sense to let her write to her beautiful heart’s content.
Ya you have to check out her other articles on The Daily Mail. It looks like her current husband may make a significant income. Their house in France is pretty nice. And I agree, she will most likely make some serious dough from all of this. Her way of thinking just amazes me. The article that cracked me up the most was the one about how her husband will divorce her if she ever gets fat. And the pic that accompanies the article is of her and her husband and her husbands fat belly is hanging over his pants. LMAO
Yeah, Moi, I will read them. I’m lucky enough to be off today, and lazy, so sounds fun. I don’t know if ‘she’ will make great money from the article. I’ll bet she is like the most of us, and gets paid a set wage. But the Daily Mail, who makes money from the hits on the article, they will benefit. I think that is when the
‘No publicity is bad publicity’ things kick in. Might not be great for her, but obviously great for them. Maybe they will give her a bonus check, for her wonderful ‘work’. That will be another bonus to being so beautiful! (sorry, couldn’t resist). I also kinda wondered about her husband. He scared me right away, no kidding! Lol. Was he being funny with the automatic weapon, dry humor? Is it a hobby of his? or a hint…? Is he taking up for her, standing beside her? Or…is he a care-taker, kind of saying ‘yeah, so my wife is a little crazy, but I will blow your head off if you hurt her wittle feelings’. Something about that specific weapon, that outfit, and that pornstache sc-sc-scared me!!! lol.
Again, 152 comments…where are they?
Think it’s hilarious she calls herself beautiful…not my idea of beautiful in any form or fashion. I’d call her attractive and that would be generous of me.
I have a male friend who is VERY attractive. He walks into a room, everyone stares. It’s been that way his whole life. He doesn’t even have a very pleasing personality and I believe it’s because he has relied on his looks forever. Now that he is older, he realizes he doesn’t have many friends, no strong, permanent relationships. I think that’s what’s probably happened to this woman. She has no personality and wants to blame other women for not liking her when really there is no reason to like her. But in the end she’s not that attractive. Weird nose and eyes.
Now, here’s the thing: I really DO believe that she gets all these drinks at bars and flowers etc. But not because she’s so beautiful, but because she’s ok looking. Really beautiful women intimidate men! Average looking women with an ok figure and blond hair are much more likely to get invitations, because men don’t fear them and have the feeling they have a chance with them.
About the hate from other women: I think she merely confuses this with being not liked because she has a unlikeable personality. And other women don’t deal with bullshit as well as men (who want to score)
Kaiser,
I disagree. If Angelina said she was beautiful and her life was so difficult because of her beauty, people would roll their eyes but no one would call her delusional because Angelina Jolie is stunningly, breathtakingly gorgeous. This woman is attractive at best, maybe slightly above average looking.
That 70s Show, Jackie Burkhart, “well if I had to change one thing about me it would have to be that I’m too cute and all other girls are jealous.” {But it rings true when Mila Kunis is saying it.}
She is one of those women that if complimented on how great they look would say, “I know” instead of smiling and saying “Aww,thank you!”
She seemed to imply that a lot of her stories had happened when she was younger. I could see that…she mentioned a few times about herself being 41 and living in the countryside. But, her article implied that all her male offers of flowers, wine, tickets, etc. had been happening all the time. Like it was recent.
priceless. i’ve known quite a few average/meh looking women who thought they were beautiful and hot as hell, but she really thinks she is extremely and overwhelmingly beautiful. i wish she was all that so i could make fun of her for being so shallow. i guess narcissists will see what they want to see-even in a mirror! on another note, bangs are really her friend…
This woman needs therapy. Every person plays a part in any given situation, be it negative or positive, and that includes her. How dense of her to apply the same so-called ‘I’m just too pretty’ logic to every negative situation. It’s obvious that it’s never occurred to her that the world does not revolve around her on a constant basis.
I find it so odd that on the occasion she was walking her dog, and perceived that her neighbor didn’t like her because she didn’t wave or smile back to be so self-centered. Why did she not ask the woman if there was something wrong? For all she knew the woman had just heard her father was in the hospital. I don’t understand this way of thinking. I would say that Samantha is cowardly, not a good friend, takes the easy way out by labeling everyone as ‘jealous’, and never takes responsibility for the role she plays in her own life. She’s like a child! smh
Why didn’t she ask the other woman if something was wrong? Because nothing exists outside of her world. They are ALWAYS thinking about her — loving her, hating her, always about her.
…exactly! This level of neediness for approval from others and self-absorption is childish.
i agree i think she’s bordering on psychosis. i’m not a psychiatrist but any layperson who actually takes time to watch that video-which is pure comedic gold btw- could notice how startled she looks when eamonn questions her delusion of being hot shit. she actually trembles, her smile fades and then she denies/downplays some of the stuff she said, in the end when eamonn makes her confess that she still holds those delusions, she closes her eyes in a self convinced fashion and grins. her life in “rural france” as she constantly likes to remind us, sounds like an unhappy and isolated one. and in the end she basically blames it all on french women and old women (because there are none who fit the description there, dumb move) when she isn’t even -that- young, she’s in her 40’s. 41 isn’t old age but she really shouldn’t talk about the bloom of others fading when she is approaching mid-life herself
Whaaaat? I thought the whole notion of fading beauty only applied to every other human being, not Samantha Brick who will continue to dazzle us with her divine beauty until she’s 102.
i think this response is proving this writer right: they are all so mad at her for thinking shes attractive when she’s been treated better because of her looks. most women have self esteem problems and we say ‘why? you’re great’ then this woman says, ‘yeah I look good’ and the response is ‘how dare you!’ it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
she was treated poorly before writing this article so saying ‘well you walk around saying youre good looking so of course women hate you’ is incorrect.
Imo, I don’t think anybody really cares what she thinks of herself. The point that it grates on other people is when she blames them for not liking her. She has to accept that she can’t be liked by all the people all the time and it isn’t always because of jealousy either. She’s got to get a bigger perspective of how social interaction works.
Pretty smile? Hahahahaha maybe by British standards.
Reporting from Britain – smile still not pretty. x
She is defensive. That is what people don’t like about her; not that she looks like a busted sex-in-the-city wanna be. And BTW, French people generally hate people who aren’t French and also they are frequently hung over. That’s why they don’t wave.
HAHAHAAAAHHAAAHHAAAAA!!! 🙂
Ms Brick works for the Daily Mail – they probably give weekly seminars on how to create controversy to raise circulation. Or, this lady is in serious denial about her interpersonal skills.
I think you’re on to something, Shaz! I can just see the timetable: “We’re starting the morning off with ‘catfighting women; how sexism is all their fault’, followed by ‘Working Witches: is it time we punished mothers who leave their children?’, and then, before lunch,’Sharia: did you know it was running your life?’ and ‘Why women’s rights have just gone TOO far (by a woman)’. Perhaps after lunch ‘Gays, we don’t hate you openly, but we still support everyone who doesn’t support you’ and ‘Britain: our benefits bring all the immigrants to the yard’….I can totally see it happening! Heard the one about the BNP not being racist? Since Poles are white, hating everyone but Anglo-Saxons just got more equal-opportunity! Hurrah! I despair, sometimes. But, reading the Mail is good for two things. Raising your blood pressure in the morning if it’s low, and reminding you there is work still to be done before all people are treated equally.
Brick thinks that ‘beautiful’ means someone is white, tall and blond. And these attributes are ‘superior’, better than other types of looks.
Um, Hitler and the Nazis would agree with her.
I think Brick is a White Supremacist!
have you ever stumbled upon the pile of crap that is the daily mail? all of the articles there support her misogynist, ageist and racially favouring opinions. i didn’t know who she was and when i found out that was an a-ha! moment. now it all makes sense
Depressing fact: my in-laws read the Daily Mail. Whenever I’m over their place, I flip through it, get really angry and red in the face, and then go upstairs and listen to prog rock to calm down.
@ramona oh i know the feeling. my in-laws being quite over the senior-citizen age are a bit racist, a bit ageist-they deny it when questioned about that, but they are from much older ages when people weren’t shunning discrimination as much as we do. it’s annoying anytime when they make a comment that blatantly falls under these categories, i’ve given up as well it’s like they’re subconsciously racist. btw you listen to prog. rock, a sure sign of possessing good taste!
@sup My husband hasn’t exactly FORBIDDEN me to argue with the in-laws over racism, or my particular favourite, homosexuality, but he strongly discourages it because it upsets him. (He agrees with me, but hates confrontation – no idea how he ended up stuck with me!)
I feel like maybe next Sunday roast, we should put your in-laws with my in-laws and you and I can go listen to prog rock and drink red wine!! Deal?
lol that sounds like an excellent idea! we have to arrange webcams for this meeting though, lol i live in eastern europe (turkey). but we should tackle the topic of our favourite older-gay-non white celebs. i propose george takei
And another thing – because I just can’t help myself…
I honestly don’t know a single woman who hasn’t had a drink bought for her by a bartender, or gotten a random flower or had her admission into a gig paid for by a dude in front of her in the queue.
I don’t think it necessarily has anything to do with looks, I think it’s usually chemistry. You’re wearing a Han Solo t-shirt and he’s a Star Wars maniac. You order his favourite type of gin and he overhears. Sure, looks play into it occasionally, but often it’s just happy chance. Damned if I haven’t bought a guy a drink based on his accent alone… ten years later, still best friends. (And never anything more than friends! See? No looks involved!)
In conclusion, thinking you’re the hottest girl in Tijuana just because a dude bought you a Corona is dumb. Maybe he just likes that you’re reading the new Junot Diaz book.
I agree! I know that I’m insecure about my looks but even I had a bartender give me a few drinks for free. I was with one of my female friends who I find to be much more attractive and far more confident than me but he only gave me the free drinks. While it made me feel awesome he did that, I think it had nothing to do with my level of attractiveness but with the fact I was polite, patient, and asked his opinion on a drink. Sure, maybe he found me attractive but beyond the drinks (and they were expensive too), he didn’t flirt with me, give me his number, or talk to me more than any other person there. I’ve had a few other experiences, but the only connection I can make was that I was well-mannered. Sometimes, people do nice things.
On the other hand, I have had the displeasure of being immediately hated by one of my friend’s ex-girlfriends. Do I think it was because I was more attractive than her? No. I think she was extremely insecure and hated that he felt physically comfortable with me to use my shoulder as an arm rest and could talk to each other easily. What did she expect? We’d known each other for over six years and had lived as roommates (both college and grad) for four of those six. Even his mother called her out for being such a jerk to me and told me the girl was doing it because she feared my friend would break up with her for me, even though we both thought of each other as siblings. Insecurity at its best.
Am I the only one who thinks some strange guy giving you flowers on the street is ….weird? It has happened to me, in Toronto, years ago. Some dude thrusts them into my face “pretty flowers for a pretty lady”. No thank you. I’m alone, walking downtown. I’m reasonable attractive, but not mind-blowingly so. Either way, It’s not about that. For me, it was unwanted attention from a strange man. Also, I’m sure he offered them to other (walking alone)women. Don’t know if he ever had any takers, though. Just my two cents.
Bahaha… I love Eamonn Holmes. He’s hilarious! Whenever he interviews someone it’s always with sarcasm, like he’s intetionally mocking them, which in this case was deserved. As his wife, I don’t know if Ruth Langsford ever gets embarrassed.
This woman needs to let other people complete their sentences and ideas before speaking herself. This video KILLED me. I didn’t count the number of times she interrupted the others, but it was actually making me cringe. It’s the height of discourtesy, and a clear display that you have no respect for any opinions other than your own.
Her mother would be ashamed of her.
Yes! It was so uncomfortable how she kept interupting everyone and even her answers were snippy and full of attitude. Very interesting haha
But I noticed even though she’s very plain and a douche, she’s very animating in the eyes. I bet she always eyefcuking men and has backstabbed many female freiends, but its “never” her fault
That interview did her no favors. Sitting there with two (IMO) beautiful women telling her that not only do they not agree with her assessment of all women, but find it offensive, and she didn’t hear a word they said.
I find it telling that she sees no problem with male strangers acting, quite frankly, inappropriate (if the way she recounts her experiences is accurate – there could be a lot she is leaving out). Beyond that, her article about her current husband is incredibly disturbing.
Samantha – As a fellow attractive woman, I in no way resent you. I do, however, feel kind of sorry for you.
She’s very interesting to me, from a psychological and sociological standpoint. She has chosen this delusional coping mechanism for a reason, and it apparently has worked (is working?) for her. My understanding of NPD is that the sufferer experiences a devastating psychological blow or series of blows, and then creates a false self to shield him or herself from the earlier wound(s). Ms. Brick has chosen “beauty” as the ultimate anesthetic, which says something about her environment as well as her emotional stability.
And to rebut any argument that women don’t like pretty women, go to a clothing store with a communal changing room sometime. In very short order you will have several new girlfriends picking out items that flatter you (and you for them) while ooh-ing and ahh-ing over one another’s gorgeous eyes/hair/skin/bottom/shoulders…whatever! You’ll find something wonderful about each other and help play it up. It’s the opposite of the catfighting theory she espouses.
I agree. I think there is possibly a lot more than arrogance going on here.
Yeah, I’m really uncomfortable, at this point. She seems mentally ill, rather than just unpleasant. And the Mail have seemingly pulled a horrible interview with her, illustrated with the most unflattering pics imaginable – really big muffin top and stomach, wrinkly, overweight, bad nose and mouth emphasised. It was nasty, really.
I think this article on the Mail’s attitude to women is interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-thrown-to-wolves
I also agree that my experience has been that women are endlessly supportive of one another, especially when it comes to looks. I have genuinely beautiful friends, and I’m really chuffed for them. It isn’t the main quality they have – they’re good people with sharp minds – but it’s nice that they’re gorgeous, too. I also have a friend who is not at all pretty but thinks she is, and she is such a good person, and so sweet and kind and non-arrogant, that I’m glad she is self-protective in that way. I’ve never heard anyone say a peep about the fact she isn’t pretty (and she did once say she knew she was, in relation to a work event and her boss wanting her to attend. She is not a bad person or a narcissist, just not realistic about her appearance).
Thank you for sharing the link Kate #2. I do agree with the writer’s take on the Daily Mail’s articles by and about women. They do seem to favour publishing articles that have a sensationalist and slyly misogynist slant, enhancing negative aspects of female subjects and/or topics, if not fictionalizing outright.
I’m Team Sisterhood on this one, too. Yes, I think her article was conceited and drippingly misogynistic towards women whilst acting innocent to the fact she admitted she prefers flirting to socialising with women. But, that doesn’t excuse the Mail’s part in this,nor how vicious some of the replies have been; anybody would be hurt by some of the backlash, no matter what their self-image or attractiveness. let’s not prove the Mail’s point right by stooping to personal attack…
so this whole thing started cause her neighbor didn’t wave at her? last weekend, i was walking to the park with my little cousin, i wasn’t paying attention and my neighbor (who i know pretty well, i’ve dogsitted for her on several occasions) drove by and waved, but i wasn’t paying any attention. i only realized my neighbor waved when my sister, who was walking behind me asked me why i didn’t waved back. i felt bad about it, i hope my neighbor didn’t think i was ignoring her. but now i guess that i have to worry that she thinks i hate her…lol.
What I can’t stand is old boilers who think they’re gorgeous. Laughing my ass off right now, delusional old boot ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”
I hope that someone takes that video, and after her most outrageous statements, splices in Inigo Montoya looking puzzled and saying “I don’t think that means what you think it means.”
I think it’s pretty clear that this is not about sisterhood – Samantha clearly doesn’t like women herself and she is putting her feelings onto other women. Everything she writes about men is in flattering terms – charming, pleasant chap etc etc. I think her opinion of her looks is easily explained – she is obviously easily offended and every time someone around her (female obviously) commits a faux pas (such as not waving) she cries on a friends shoulder and the standard response is that they must be jealous. True or not, I think we’ve all said this to a friend at one time or another when we can’t think of anything else to say – I think Samantha Brick may have heard this a time too many!
“Samantha clearly doesn’t like women”
Bingo
Well at least now we all know where that phrase “Dumb as a Brick” came from and why.
LMFAO.
That’s all I’ve got to say.
While I will be the first to admit that this woman is suffering some serious self-delusion (and obvious insecurities about herself)…I have to say, that in my experience, this kind of alienation and hostility also exists within the gay community.
I have had people tell me over the years that they find me attractive (and no, I’m not bragging here) and I think I also have a lot of other qualities going for me as well, not the least of which is always trying to be kind to others and nice to be around. Yet, for years have also been subject to some pretty brutal remarks and petty jealousies by other gay men, most of the time in circumstances where we were in a large group and they were there with their significant others. So in that vein, I can relate to the whole ‘freezing out’ thing that people tend to do if they feel insecure around someone that others may find appealing.
I have also a few friendships over the years, where it turned out the person I thought was a so-called ‘best friend’ was really just being my friend with the hopes of something romantic to happen. In fact, on two occasions the people involved had admitted to me that they couldn’t stand the attention I received when we were out, how they were jealous, etc.
That is NOT something which anyone likes to endure, trust me on that.
So while I agree with everyone else on here that this woman is a narcissistic nutjob, I do agree on ONE level only that this kind of treatment does tend to befall people who are considered attractive by others.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, str8shooter. I agree, people can be petty and jealous, and it does happen for people to be treated negatively because others are insecure. I might have experienced it myself, though it takes thinking long and hard about yourself to realise that maybe it is actually just them.
In your case, people admitted they were insecure and jealous. The problem here is that whilst I’m sure some people have been jealous to her some times (it happens to everyone at some point, I’m sure), she attributes a lot of things to jealousy or attraction rather than first thinking it might be something else. Neighbours blanking her. Not being friends’ bridesmaids. Not getting promoted. The problem isn’t that we think she’s never had a mean comment as a result of her looks, it’s that she appears to attribute every slight in her life to it…
People will jump on any bandwagon, regardless of what the message is, and I think it is pathetic. Why even comment, when your so called insight and opinion has already been established? Most people agree she is “ill”, because they were told that declaring your beauty and claiming others envy it makes you “ill”. Get the f-k outta here! I know people who harbor more sickening thoughts than self pride, like racism, or pedophilia. She’s a narcissistic person, and so are many other people. This is news worthy!?!
I don’t know – I think people are calling her “ill” based on more than just her display of self-pride. As you said, being narcissistic isn’t necessarily rare, but it’s the degree of narcissism here.
Her seeming inability to think of any other reason why someone might not say hello to her, her inability to accept that the negative reactions might be ascribed to anything OTHER than her beauty – that’s what seems to put it over the top and into narcissistic personality disorder. Her staunch reliance that “it’s not my fault, it’s all the unpretty people in the world” is more of the same.
She’s developed a warped sense of reality where everything revolves around her, and the reason for any of her troubles is that she’s beautiful and we’re all just jealous. Seems like NPD to me.
As for the newsworthy aspect of it – well, this is a gossip site. Maybe not quite such serious business as the NEWS news, but always entertaining. 😉
And let us not pretend that other women don’t get pissed off when a girl is hotter or as hot, because often they do. That isn’t to say all women are catty, miniscule, and stupid, because that’s not true. However, if you are a woman, you will have noticed that girls can be really cruel to the pretty girl when she is getting all the attention. Why are people pretending like jealousy isn’t an ongoing issue in concern to appearance? I see all the time, even on this site. Some times it isn’t even a result of a person’s physical beauty, but because of an ability or talent they possess. It is my experience, that people often become envious of those who have achieved great success through their talents or determination. More so, I see that, than envy over mere appearance. People are capable of jealousy over a vast number of reasons. I am stupefied by this woman’s effort to express that idea, because it’s common knowledge. Why write an essay about this? Aren’t there more pressing matters, not to mention more interesting ones too? That being said, she’s entitled to her beliefs, opinions, and chosen expression, despite how delusion people think she is.
Another point; notice how pissed off the therapist is? I have never seen a therapist (I have seen a lot) be more than neutral. The therapist isn’t even being subjective. She’s attacking her and being a c-t. Why not speak nicely to her and break down politely?
the therapist wasn’t attacking her at all quite the contrary she protected her, said that liking your looks is a positive thing and that she supports it. your comments on the other hand are extremely aggressive and defensive of a woman who has made not one but several terribly misguided comments in the past few days. if you are not brick or her friend or somebody who is eerily in the same mindset, i fear you need to contact the therapist as well.
That is the problem right there, that if I don’t agree with you I have a problem. Why can’t I disagree and be of sane mind? Why do I need to agree with you and others who oppose her? Is my opinion invalid, because it doesn’t match yours? You even went as far as to imply I might be a related to her or be her friend.
To be clear, you should have actually read what I said, because I did not say I agreed with her essay. In fact, I said it was a nonsensical thing to publish because it’s a miniscule topic to address in such a fashion.
I would suggest writing blog posts about political matters, health issues and regulations, war, diseases, poverty, foreign relations, etc. The point I was making isn’t that she was entirely wrong. I think most people would agree, that what is offensive is the delivery of her message.
It wasn’t an intelligent analysis, because it was a self serving and self gratifying essay. She wasn’t entirely wrong and it is proven by her harsh responses. Society can respond quite cruelly and without much reason on a lot of different matters.
She wrote an essay stating she is beautiful and that has been her ongoing hassle with women her whole life, not other character flaws, but her looks. That could be a total crook of shit, but neither you or myself, or anyone else can prove her wrong. It may be safe to guess she has enemies because she’s an unlikable person, but it can’t be proven without having experienced that with her firsthand. Why berate this woman for her free speech?
It pisses me off that people get so crudely attacked for free speech. People can politely and respectfully disagree. Nobody has to call her ugly or stupid. We need to respect each other, allow each other to have opinions and be supportive of that, not necessarily the message.
Also, having a therapist doesn’t mean somebody is an unfit member of a society or in a eery mindset. I really feel that is an offensive statement to make.
Honestly the whole bit about Angelina I think would depend on how Angelina worded it – same for Brad. Like, if it came off as snotty, then it wouldn’t really be regarded well. But if it was just along the lines of acknowledging her attractiveness and not really throwing it in peoples faces like this woman has, then it wouldn’t really be much of thing. And this isn’t coming from someone who adores Angelina – she’s grown on me with her charity work and political work, but I’ve never been much of a fan. Maybe a third of her films I’ve enjoyed and I’ve somehow managed to see nearly all of them throughout the years.
Not every woman experiences jealousy in the form of hatred and I’m willing to bet the reason why women don’t like her is more about her personality than her appearance. I wouldn’t want to be a friends with a woman like her either.
Personally, when I see women more attractive than me, I feel awe and jealousy and sometimes I think “I wish I looked that pretty”. But I have not once in my life hated a woman for being more attractive than me – I’d be hating lots of women, lol.
Btw, I really hate that a woman can’t criticize the appearance of another woman without being perceived as jealous. Not everyone is that petty.
Yesterday I thought the whole article was a joke, an Onion-esque fake. But I just watched the video and I actually think she was trying to back off her claims, a lot.
I think the Daily Mail had her run with the assigned topic (and showcased it in a slyly mocking way) and it ended up sounding way more delusional/arrogant than she intended. Now she’s sort of horrified by that, yet still trying to stand by the original article. As the hits keep coming, she doesn’t want to bite the hand that feeds her.
Oddly, I think she’s sort of trapped between what the Daily Mail wanted her to write about and what she really feels. I blame that piece of trash “publication” for manufacturing the whole thing, at her expense.
Yes, I know. I feel sorry for her because the backlash is unduly harsh in many ways, and because the Mail has obviously left her out to dry. All she can do is keep defending what was a ridiculous article that should never have been printed because it was arrogant and grasping at straws. That’s the uncomfortable thing about confessional journalism: women are encouraged to put themselves and their lives up for public scrutiny, often by framing it all in opinions that people can’t help but criticise.
The Mail should (but would never be) ashamed it even ran such a flimsy article.
French women are some of the most beautiful women in the world. I really don’t believe they feel threatened when she walks into the room. The French tend to be introvert rather than extrovert in social situations. Maybe she’s just too much in their social setting? She’s much prettier in the video than her pics. Maybe she has dug herself into a hole and doesn’t know how to climb out of it.
Thick as a brick.
Does anyone know if she is from the French countryside?
Tough one. She never mentions it.
@Isa and @Ruffian9: LOL! A little well-placed sarcasm always lightens the mood.
Why is it so bad that she thinks she is beautiful? BTW, That psychologist is unnecessarily aggressive.
Blah. She’s nuts. I’ve had LOTS of experiences similar to what she’s described. I’ve had lots of free dinners from strangers in restaurants, lots of “I want to do this for you ’cause you have a pretty smile” etc. and let me tell you with all honesty and not a touch of modesty: I am not a particularly attractive woman. Coincidentally, I have had several women who I am now friends with tell me they hated me when they first met me and didn’t like me until they got to know me over time. A nut like Brick takes these two completely unrelated things and mashes them together to say “I’m beautiful and women hate me, so women must hate me because I’m beautiful.” Nope. She’s crazy and I can’t believe she’s so crazy she felt the need to put that out there for the whole world to read.
I think the number of times she mentions the damn countryside gives us a good insight into her personality. She’s awfully braggadocious. That’s why women hate her.
Exactly!
A) there are men out there who like to flirt. There are men out there who like to be polite. The attentions of these two groups should not affect your perception of yourself!
B) We ALL give a first impression. It may well not be true to how we are on closer acquaintance. I’ve variously been told I appear quiet, serious, aloof, or religious on first meeting, and then people discover that’s not really true later on. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people disliked me or thought I was arrogant or something at first. As for looks, I honestly don’t think it would matter after first impressions: nobody picks friends based on their looks (unless you actually fancy them all and just love being friendzoned!) but on their personality and how well you can just have a conversation on them and rely on them in a pinch.
Some of the warmest friendships I’ve formed online and out in the world started after a heated debate or bad impression! Whereas some people seem bearable for 15 minutes, then you realise they are arrogant and conceited, self-centred, competitive to a ridiculous degree, and just looking for sycophants.
Oh exactly. I’ve had guys buy me drinks and give me flowers before. I never thought it was because I’m so beautiful though. It’s either because they’re just trying to be nice or trying to get laid. I actually think men are more likely to approach average looking women than beautiful women because we seem more attainable.
What a delusional, arrogant twit. A neighbor doesn’t wave at her, and she interprets this as jealousy? WTF.
She’s not particularly attractive, and her personality is extremely abrasive.
She’s too beautiful damn it, I just can’t bring myself to watch, read or care anymore about the Brickmeister….she had it coming and she knows it, that be-dazzling minx!
Gawd, she’s a douchette isn’t she? I kinda believe her story though because there’s a Samantha Brick in every highschool or office – that girl who is physically quite the basic bitch to female eyes but who is loud enough and toots her own horn enough that she has a lot of guys fooled into thinking she’s the hot shit.
BTW “pretty” is really NOT the word I’d use to describe her looks. She’s attractive I’d say, but pretty or beautiful she isn’t.
Take your brand of crazy back where you came from, we don’t need it here. We have Leann Rimes for that!
I always grew up with my Mom telling me, “Beauty IS as beauty DOES…” and this woman is NOT beautiful. IMO I find the TV Hostess MUCH more beautiful and the other female guest is MUCH more beautiful (without all the dark eye make-up). I believe this woman is setting herself to find her next husband. She said her present one is 10 years older, so maybe she feels it’s time to trade-in for a newer model…with a younger bunch of friends. I’m not buying this at all…Arrogance is NOT attractive.
I think Jezebel hit the nail on the head. They are trolling us and we are falling big time.
I find this really funny I bet anything its her attitude that turns people off. When I was younger I had a hard time making friends but it was because I was to into my looks. This lady seems to think very highly of herself which is probably why women find it hard to relate she reminds me of me when I was a young teenager. However i was insecure and put out a front to appear that I wasn,t its sad that she is an adult and is like this. =(
Just, no. But what HAS made me ‘jealous’, envious, or catty is when a physically unattractive person is apparently oozing so much charisma that they get all the attention without even trying. I’ve stood with other women and seen this, and wondered WTH, did the the world flip upside down while I wasn’t looking?!
I mean, hideous girls who definitely got a whack with the ugly stick, picked their noses, didn’t care how they dressed, and otherwise weren’t conventionally attractive. But obviously people were attracted to them anyway.
(Turned out they were rich in each case.)
Now this woman, I don’t want to be size-ist, but if she’s 5-11, THAT’S why she sticks out in a crowd. She’s a linebacker!
She SHOULD have written the post from THAT angle: being a horse. Of course she commands attention! (Probably FEAR!) I mean, THERE’S your story, and it doesn’t sound narcissistic. :/
She is not pretty. Looks very average. Why would other women be jelous of her? And why would a guy want a woman who looks like THAT? Most of them want a Jessical Alba type looking girl,not this plain faced woman with a horrible body too. She is 40ish and I think she looks more like 50. I mean look at Sofia Vergara or Kate Bekensile,both are 40 or near it and look better then this piece of trash.
Does she live in a place where theres no other women or tv or internet? Sure looks like it.
My opinion, a brazilian guy: UGLY WOMAN!!