Columnist Who Claims Women Hate Her Because She Is ‘Too Beautiful’ Reacts To Angry Backlash
April 4 2012, Published 9:30 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
A columnist who complained that her beauty made people “hate her” has learned that having the world think you are arrogant is much, much worse!
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Samantha Brick wrote an article for the MailOnline website describing her life as a series of incidents where she’s showered with champagne and cocktails in bars, bunches of flowers from men in the street, cab fares paid and free train tickets, all because of her self-described good looks.
“I’m not smug and I’m no flirt, yet over the years I’ve been dropped by countless friends who felt threatened if I was merely in the presence of their other halves. If their partners dared to actually talk to me, a sudden chill would descend on the room,” she claimed.
The former TV executive is now facing a phenomenal backlash from readers around the globe who don’t think she’s all that hot, including many who believe she is suffering from an out-of-control ego and a narcissistic personality.
“The past 24 hours have been, to be blunt, among the most horrendous of my life. But then, the 4,510 (at the time of writing) people who have left comments on Mail Online, and the thousands who have done the same on Twitter, would probably say that it's all my own fault,” moaned the 41-year-old blonde, who was born in Birmingham, England and now lives in the south of France with her husband, Pascal Brick, and her step son.
The British writer said she knew the article would provoke debate but she was woefully unprepared for the bombardment of negative comments and “bile” that flooded into her inbox, including one woman on Twitter who declared, “Samantha Brick should be bricked to death.”
“Other people who don't know me have queued up to call me ugly, stupid, a b****,” she revealed on Wednesday. “I've had malicious mail from everyone from Swedish crime writers to bored housewives asking me what planet I'm on for daring to write such a feature.”
Despite thousands of people pointing out