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Our nosy culture has produced the newest type of overnight celebrity: the adulteress. In America today, you can become famous fast if you help destroy the right marriage, then air the dirty details to every media outlet willing to talk to you.
The most recent case, which started in Orlando, is of Tiger Woods and his many mistresses. I don’t really care for golf or all the waitresses and bartenders that Woods managed to seduce. I did enjoy the rumors of his wife possibly beating him with his own golf club, though.
Instead, the highly publicized affair between Rielle Hunter and John Edwards is the one I find most nauseating. It is not so much the affair part that bothers me. Politicians cheating on their spouses is nothing new. Kennedy and Clinton both did it, and the nation still loved them.
What bothers me is that Hunter does not have the decency to go away. She has no shame. Hunter helped kill Edwards’ political career and his marriage of more than 30 years, the least she can do is disappear from the public eye.
Instead she posed seductively for GQ with her child across her stomach. Not only did she think it was best to pose like the mistress she is, but Hunter assumed that good parenting involves dragging your child through the mess, too. Clearly she is using the love child as a means to more attention, but she didn’t need to stick the poor toddler in the pictures.
The photos where she doesn’t have her child also don’t include her pants. Hunter is posed on a bed with stuffed animals and is wearing only a men’s dress shirt and pearls. I suppose I should be glad she’s not trying to hide who she really is — a terrible person. The image she portrays to America with this exposé titled, “Hello, America, My Name Is Rielle Hunter,” does fit with her behavior. I guess I shouldn’t expect anything different from Hunter. After all, her first words to Edwards were “you’re so hot.”
The most annoying part of this entire scandal now is her reported upset over the photos. Hunter is claiming that she never thought GQ would run the racy photos and is saying she thought they’d only use head shots. Edwards did a better job fooling the nation into thinking that the child was not his than this woman is doing with her tearful call to Barbara Walters claiming she knew nothing about the racy photos.
One look at the pictures and you will not be confused about what her thought process was while being photographed. GQ can confirm how well informed Miss Marriage Ruiner was, too, since they posted a video of the photoshoot. In the video the photographer shows the pantless Hunter the pictures, and she does not protest.
Furthermore, she is a videographer. She makes a living shooting and editing images and video and expects the general public to believe GQ tricked her.
Hopefully Hunter’s actions, or should I say poses, will bring her some shame. Clearly destroying a man’s marriage, family and career did not.
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