• Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    She does that insufferable lib class tourist thing of acting like being poor is actually more “real” than having wealth and ignores the hardships alongside it

    It’s weird that she does that since it’s my understanding that she was very poor for some periods of her life. I know I’ve heard it said she and her two kids lived out of a car for a time before writing HP. Maybe that was very brief/temporary? Or a lie? Or maybe she was distancing herself from her own experience of poverty? I don’t know, I could look it up but it’s not worth it.

    • WALLTHERICH [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      iirc she/the media pushed that narrative but she comes from wealth and was never actually struggling

      could be wrong but that's what i remember reading somewhere

    • ValiumAnarchist [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      She went to one of the most expensive and prestigious private girls schools in the UK. She wrote the majority of HP1 at her brother in laws coffee shop and he owned like 8 of them. Wealthy family, comes from wealth, exaggerated her “struggle” massively. IIRC her ex said the “living out of her car” thing was literally that she spent a single night in a car with her kids after the relationship fell apart before she moved in with family.

      • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        IIRC her ex said the “living out of her car” thing was literally that she spent a single night in a car with her kids after the relationship fell apart before she moved in with family.

        Ah, that makes more sense.