I'm not doubting you, but am I missing some information? The article says her parents are a psychiatrist and a therapist. Well-paid professions, yes, and no doubt "upper middle-class," but I wouldn't imagine they're rich enough to have true "trust fund babies" with oodles of play money (especially after paying for her…

I lost a tanning-bed addicted to friend to melanoma when she was in her early 20s, so this is very personal for me. It started between her toes, so she didn't see it until it was too late. I am apparently offensively pale (in LA, pale = Gollum) but I don't care. I could not believe how many people asked me how I was…

Yes! There are benefits to being pale and taking care of your skin. I'm 28 and ALWAYS get carded, and at least a dozen times I've still been denied alcohol because "I might have believed 21, but no way you're older than that." Hooray for sun-free! Well, sunscreen and getting your vitamin D from a pill.

True that. I'm not sure what "not rich" is at an exclusive Massachusetts boarding school... you only had ONE pony?

I'm really, really impressed with the variety of books available for young kids now. I went looking for a book about separated families to send home to my friend in Australia, because his daughter has just started kindergarten and was upset when kids asked why her mummy and daddy didn't live together. She didn't…

You just made me spit out my rice krispies! Well done :) I do remember being very surprised on yet another Cat Marnell post when someone said they knew her from Massachusetts (at the boarding school, I guess, so that checks out) and remembered her as definitely not rich, not cool, and not "connected," so they couldn't…

I worked as a ghostwriter. Once I got a call from a friend back in my home town asking for advice on an exorcism. Yep, somehow a game of "telephone" had turned ghostwriter into ghost hunter. I still wish I'd gone with it.

Is she really wealthy and well-connected? Her parents are a psychiatrist and therapist in Maryland. Upper-middle-class maybe, but I'd hardly assume wealthy... and it seems she made most of her "connections" herself. And the paying her rent through college plus a $100o per month "allowance" is not that extreme in the…

It's 100% a woman thing. I think we can "have it all," just probably not all at once. I had a high-flying career that I found very satisfying, now I'm home with a baby and finding that pretty amazing too. I plan to stay-at-home.. I know it's purely x=1, but the kids I knew growing up who got into serious trouble…

I don't believe he is, and as I said in a post that disappeared somehow (new comment system? crappy post? I don't know) I actually know him fairly well socially. This is not meant as a humble-brag, just relevant information as to my sources. What I DID say in my post is that he spends almost his entire life around…

I've seen him at a few panel discussions (I'm a journalist, not a crazy fan) and the guy is clearly a bit weird. It's clearly known by his coworkers that he's a bit weird, and stoned a lot. It seemed pretty innocent and cute to me, but yeah... not quite "normal." And all the jokes were about how he never got any girls…

Call this humble-bragging if you want, but I think and hope it's relevant. I know LL (or "Todd Smith," as he prefers to be called) quite well socially. He's a lovely, humble, caring person. He is also surrounded by 90% white people everywhere he goes (I've been on his set a few times, where like all TV sets, they…