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Jennifer Lawrence is getting married to her artist fiance and just published a wedding registry this week. Unlike most registries where you purchase the item and bring it to the wedding or ship it to them, these items are just suggestions she’s making for others. To start, if anyone thinks she uses $30 flower pots or a $30 food processor when she’s worth $130 million, I’d have to ask you to turn your head and pay us no attention while we laugh. Piers Morgan ripped her a new one calling the whole thing tacky. He said, “In the old days you’d have the mystique around Hollywood glamour, now it’s all like, ‘Oh here’s Jennifer Lawrence, she likes an espresso maker, a marble rolling pin and a ninja multi-cooker. A joy of cooking book… It’s like the Generation Game.”
He added as a piece of advice to Lawrence, ‘You know what Jennifer, it’s all a bit tacky love. Seriously, you’re a great actress, you’ve made brilliant movies and a few turkeys, this is not a good look seriously. Putting out your cheap and cheerful wedding list on Amazon. Seriously. Not a good look.”
Then there was Wendy Williams today who addressed it and agreed. Also note that she’s 29 years old and as a rule of thumb said no one over 30 should be expecting gifts because you can afford your own $30 food processor. I’m not a fan of wish lists but to each their own. I’m not married so if they have a wedding wish list they’re already a step ahead of me so who am I to judge? (I rewrote this section by the way. I’m just going to report and mind my business.) But as for the whole wish list thing, I say let people give you what they want and if you don’t like it, get rid of it. But I still have to go back to the fact that this list is a suggestion for other people. Even I don’t want some of what’s on that list, even if recommended by a celebrity. If a food processor is $30, I promise it’s no good and I don’t want it. Come on Jen. Stop playing with us.
And the biggest problem with this is that it comes across as inauthentic. As pointed out by a Business Insider writer, this looks like her assistant wrote it. She cooks ramen noodles for Christ’s sake so the line about how fun it is to cook for two is just laughable. But if all of this seems just a little baffling, leaving you wondering why, she states at the very bottom that she is “happy to make a donation to the Amazon Conservation.” While this made up list that we are certain she had absolutely nothing to do with but just put her name on might be a shameless self-promoting check on her part, it still beats Amazon furnishing a dorm room for Lori Loughlin’s daughter who has gone online to say she didn’t even want to be in college and just signed up for the parties. And well, you know how that story ended.
We would also add that if the objective here is to let people in on Lawrence’s life, there are much simpler ways of doing that. She could start by creating a Twitter account. As of now she has no social media. That’s quite interesting for a woman still in her 20s. But then you’d have to remember she was hacked and had her nudes all over the internet some time ago and it kind of scarred her regarding the whole social media thing. But if she wanted to give a glimpse of her life, that’s a much more believable and simpler way to do so. Have a staffer manage an Instagram page for you. You don’t even have to use it. Let them take the pics and post thing. Just saying. But not this.
