The painstakingly careful image construct of good guy, family man Tiger Woods has just imploded with rocking reverberations. Like a birthday party pinata meeting stick wielding sugar starved preshoolers, the pro golfing kitty cat, known for his pars and birdies, is now using a few of his privileged nine lives trying to contain a worldwide media melt. From professional sports pundits and gleeful gossips, to the nail gnawing of his anxiety ridden inner circle reaching for their super sized ativan armor, the Tiger saga is splayed large as we find out this tour de force golfing feline is one dirty dog.
As the assorted cocktail waitresses, reality star wannabes and pseudo models dust off their knees and crawl out into the harsh glare of the media spotlight, with hands held high, they are looking for a pay day. With a smile on their faces, TMZ stars gleaming in their eyes and extra zeros landing in their bank accounts, these women are high priced call girl celebutantes. They are sharing their saved voice messages and intimate sex texts amidst all the electronic froth and chum of a Tiger Tsunami.
So now word is Mrs Tiger Woods, his beatific blonde Scandinavian born beauty, his smiling supportive spouse and mother of his children, is playing hardball. As Tiger makes public and private amends for tripping over his pieces of tail and atone for his trashy tabloid transgressions, word is Elin Woods is reopening her prenup and looking to get some serious green.
What is the going rate for an angry woman scorned you ask? Some media reports suggest an immediate five million US is being placed in her solo controlled bank account along with a reup on the prenup of upwards of $80 million. A serious cash infusion from her previous prenup, this one is rewritten so she will stick around for two more years, hand holding hubby and playing media nice, the dutiful wife standing by her man during his very public mea culpa. Her hubby, the player, out there swinging like he is single, earned over an estimated $100 million last year in endorsement deals alone. Dwarfing his actual golf winnings which added another $11 million to the Tiger kitty. Earning over $112 for the year. Serious bucks are required to ensure she will hold off on screaming fore and kick his cheating ass to the curb.
Is that enough for Elin? Should she stay? Save a marriage and endure the public pity party or cut her losses and walk away? Walk away with her two children, a toddler and an infant, a broken marriage and a broken heart? Or swallow the bitter betrayal resign the contract and stay? Should she stick around and make her dutiful Oprah appearance on Tiger's upcoming apology tour or end it now?
As the fabricated facade of another fairy tale marriage evaporates into ether it is evident from the many published pictures of happier times, Elin Woods is very pretty. And I think pretty smart. Right now he needs her, the declawed adulterous athlete, he needs his pretty wife by his side, to get him out of the rough he's landed them all in. He needs her help to repair his tattered and torn public image, to save his family, his brand and his 100 million yearly take in endorsement deals. She now has the power to decide when and if to end it. More importantly, on her terms. To walk away or to stay. The pretty blonde, stay at home dutiful wife, is the one with the driver firmly in hand. It's impressive to watch the Power of Pretty at play, as Elin Woods proves with the art of renegotiation she is a master in her own right.
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Elin is definitely attractive, but Tiger isn't. His money and celebrity attracted his conquests. That his endorsements so far continue, speaks to a sad aspect of this situation which has become too prevalent and that is the acceptance of bad boy (and girl) celebrities being expected to conduct themselves in such an unattractive manner. Tiger is a liar, a cheat, unethical and has treated his wife and children and mother shamefully. His behavior transcends into his celebrity-dom.
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