Here is what I am thinking today. I think that Maria Shriver knew about the love child. Heck she probably thinks there are lots of other ones out there too. I think she was willing to live with the knowledge of the kid and let the housekeeper keep working for the couple until Arnold's term as Governor ended. I think she must have known. You can't not know what the Daily Mail reported seven years ago. She must have known. I think when the LA Times said they were going to make it public, that she felt she had to go and she did it on her own terms.
I think she was ready and Maria deserves something for putting up with his obnoxious crap for all these years. To get a People cover and appear on the last episode of Oprah all within a few days of this happening means Maria was ready and Maria wanted a fresh start to do what she wanted. She has now hired a divorce attorney, but I wonder if the couple will actually follow through and get divorced.
I hope there's no pre-nup and she terminates his life savings.
ReplyDeleteGad, I would hope she goes through it. The "poor mistreated wife" sympathy vote will wane if she stays in the marriage.
ReplyDeleteAn investigation may be underway with Arnold's dealings doing this time. She knew that the aforementioned is a possibility.
ReplyDeleteThere's no turning back for her. Although she is wealthy, I hope she gets some of his cheddar!
Oh yes she's going to divorce that creep. She was preggers at the same time as the maid was. My friend worked as an extra on the set of a movie with Arnold one time. He said to her as she walked by. Do you want to do a 70 with me? She said, what's a 70?...he said it's just above a 69. He's a total PIG!!!!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, if you knew, wouldn't you at least get rid of the maid? It would be one thing to know, and another to have to SEE HER EVERY DAY. I don't think she did.
ReplyDeleteJust read an article about him on Gawker, I think....what a pig. But, i guess that should surprise noone...
ReplyDeleteI think Maria knew, just like I believed that Elin always knew what Tiger was up to. By all accounts, the kid looks just like Arnold, so how could she not have known. My sympathy at this point is with the kids - all five of them, but probably the poor little boy the most. His life must be hell right now.
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ReplyDeleteYeah she deserves something. A swift kick to the head. I don't feel sympathy if she knew it this whole time and made herself miserable for his political career. If she didn't, time to take off the blinders. She had to have known SOMETHING.
ReplyDeleteMacVixen, that makes sense. I also totally agree about Elin.
ReplyDeleteNo way she knew. Read the latest about the maid wearing her jewelry! Let me tell you, one bitch steps near my jewelry and hands will be cut off!! She did not know. She had FOUR kids to look after. She should do this and monitor her husband 24/7? No, she did not know.
ReplyDeleteHow can you not know? And I don't mean fact, I mean intuition.
ReplyDeleteya well those Kennedy's like to stand by their man. no sympathy.
ReplyDeleteThey actually have a picture of the kid on BlindGossip from yesterday. Not sure how I feel about that, but anyway.....the kid is a DEAD RINGER for Schwarzenegger.
ReplyDeleteOver the last couple of years I had thought about how skinny and wrinkled she had gotten and Ted C. even wrote something along those lines too. I know the Kennedy ladies tend to wrinkle badly, but, I just wonder if the pounds fell off and the wrinkles got deeper when she had to handle this stress. If she did know, it sucks that she went on Oprah proclaiming she was not bred to look the other way when a man cheats.
ReplyDeleteI think this deal is going to get a whole lot messier before it's all ovuh.
I don't think she knew for sure, the other woman was married at the time and sometimes you cannot see what is right in front of you. because you are protecting yourself and you don't want to see it. especially since the other one was pregnant at the same time!
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ReplyDeleteAgain, by no means vindication, however it does offer explanation.
This is also her way of cashing out every penny of political capital she's invested in Ah-nald over the years.
The timing is convenient, now that he's no longer in government, however I'm having my doubts about how an investigation might play out.
As for divorce, she'll take him to the cleaners, he'll pay willingly, she'll go on to become a major player either in journalism or politics and he'll resume his movie career although it's probably going to be rougher to be in front of the camera.
Look for him to do more producing and directing than acting.
Ok... the crystal ball is getting cloudy and I'm off to find the Windex.
@califblondy
ReplyDeleteShe did not say that on Oprah?! Did she fall and bump her head? Not bred to look the other way when a man cheats, my foot.
I think the more the kid looked like Arnold the more he wanted to get the maid out of the house.
ReplyDeleteMaria gave up a lot to support Arnold as a (horrible) Govenor.
Look at the thanks she got.
I believe she didn't know from the start, but learned that at some point. What's so strange about maid having a baby with her husband? And as for resemblance... You can always say that though baby doesn't look like his father, some part of his face looks just like some relative's childhood photos. You also don't show your new born baby to your employer.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how her knowing about it somehow makes her less deserving of sympathy. I think she's having a shitty time and trying to figure out what's going to be best for her children at this point. Getting divorced while he was still governor would have put even more pressure on the kids...
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is that the cheating is one thing. Yes, I think she knew Ahnold was a dog. Did she know he was breeding with the help? No. I don't believe she knew that. Do you really think she knew he was breeding with the help? And the help was crawling into her bed every morning to play with Arnold? No, I don't think she knew that at all.
ReplyDeleteEven if she knew, and there's no way she knew the depth of his depravity, but even if she did - she's still the victim, people!!! Maybe she was in denial, maybe she thought he'd stop if he became governor, maybe she really loved him, maybe maybe maybe. We don't know. What we do know? He was married, and screwed everything he could, and the fact it's taken this long to come out is astounding.
ReplyDeletewomen know when they want to know. i'm sure everyone's known someone in this situation or been there themselves. you handle it when you can---and before that you don't.
ReplyDeleteWho cares if she knew? Her husband is a fellow celebrity, and she knew this would be big news. She probably waited until an ideal time to initiate a split. And really, she's been nothing but classy since the news broke out. I'm just not sure what people expect her to say or confirm, but she certainly doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
ReplyDeleteI find it sad that people are tossing away Arnold's cheating by saying things like, "well, she's a Kennedy, so she should be used to philandering." He's NOT a Kennedy, and HE did the cheating, so I don't understand why ANY blame is being flung Maria's way. HE deserves to feel humiliated, NOT her.
People, she is not going to take him to the cleaners. She is going to tie his money up for her other 4 kids, and leave the little monkey boy that looks just like him out in the cold.
ReplyDeleteDo you see how this goes? She's not going to let her 4 children suffer because of this.
"the little monkey boy"
ReplyDeleteOh, okay. I get it. I mean, heck, why NOT call the kid names? I mean, he's illegitimate AND biracial, so open season, right?
I am not even going to judge Maria. No one ever really knows what is going on beind closed doors.
ReplyDeleteI do feel for all of the children. It can't be easy finding out you have another sibling or see the distruction of your family.
As for Arnold.. there are no words.. :( And I think if I try to even wrap my head around the "whys" my head will explode.
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oh for christsake. now they're actually trying to blame arnold's wandering dick on steroids.
ReplyDeletei'm with ida all the way. stop picking on this innocent child. that's really reprehensible. and keep it straight who's the bad guy here. it's NOT her and her being a 'kennedy' doesn't have a thing to do with it.
WTF do you mean by "little monkey boy". How rude. If nothing else this child isn't to blame. Go away with your disgusting shite
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ReplyDelete"monkey boy"?? Wow Jamie's Girl. You've said some racist shit here before, but that one's a doozy, even for you.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually surprised that she stopped at "Monkey Boy" and didn't go on to calling Maria Shriver a "whore" or "tramp".
ReplyDeleteWhy call the kid a monkey boy when he has no idea what's going on until now.
ReplyDeleteDon't pick on kids.
@Maja - she called "monkey boy's" mother a whore when the story first came out.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I wonder how much harassment the woman dealt with from the Gropenator.
sorry, I am so tired of this 'women always know' garbage. Really? How do we know? Are we so mentally superior that we just know little Timmy has fallen in the well before Lassie even comes barking up the path? Maria is a mother to four children, who works for many charities, writes fairly regulary, who had a full career going when this child was conceived 14 years ago. I know mothers who do less than her but are so tired all the time from focusing on their children they might just wear the same clothes two days in a row without realizing it.
ReplyDeleteThe LA news channels are all reporting that the Ahnuld didn't even find out he was the father until the child was a toddler. Maybe he told Maria at that point, maybe he didn't. As for the child in 2003, there are conflicting reports that that child was disproven with a DNA test, or that the media let it go and the story died. I personally believe that there are more children out there, probably 2.
He's a snake, plain and simple. I feel sorry for his children, all of them, wherever they may be.
As for the child by the maid, he should not be left out in the cold financially wise for any reason. He did not choose to come into this world.
ReplyDeleteHe's entitled to financial support as Arnold's other kids.
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ReplyDeleteI think we all knew he was a dog, probably even Maria.
ReplyDeleteYou CAN not know though. We often don't see whats right in front of us. I know a woman who had a child with a married friend. The families remained friendly and pretty much everyone knew except the fathers wife. These were not foolish or stupid people and when the wife found out more than 20 years later she was devastated. She never recovered and ended their marriage a few years later.
ita wholeheartedly, maja & Ida.
ReplyDeleteand Jamie'sGirl....it must really, REALLY suck to be you. how vile that you feel the need to cement your racism further by attacking an innocent child. unbelievable.
I think part of her appeal was that she was a Kennedy woman who *would put up with infidelity, forever, and stay with her husband who had political aspirations.* I think she not only knew all along this was a key factor already agreed to or negotiated long before they even got married.
ReplyDeleteOf course it is possible not to know. Having been in that position, it is really frecking easy to believe the person you LOVE and not your head.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, poor kid. This has got to be so hard for him. No reason what so ever to call him names.
Yup knowing it was going massive public is the only reason she split. Those Kennedys have standards ya know!
ReplyDeleteI can believe her not knowing but I don't get sticking it out to help HIS career. She's a better person than I could ever be.
ReplyDeleteAgree that all the kids (and their looks?!?!) should be left out of our commentary.
Nancer - that was a good explanation about not knowing. I also think she will tie up his money for her kids, as well she should. I think the other kid will have a fine lifestyle, provided by Arnold, of course, but nothing compared to Maria's kids. The whole thing is bad for all the kids involved. The depth of the deception to all just amazes me. I could never do it. It would be on my conscience day and night. I don't think I would be able to eat or sleep.
ReplyDeleteI hope the Kennedys are not still teaching their daughters that that is normal behavior by the menfolk.
ReplyDeleteHell to the NO.
Maria knew Arnold wasn't faithful. She did not know he was f*cking that maid, nor got her pregnant AT THE SAME TIME as he got her pregnant. Sorry, NO woman, especially one of means, would stay at that. But, clearly, Maria has suffered in silence over knowing her husband was a philanderer. He told her about the kid several months ago, so yes, she was readying to leave and getting all her ducks in order. When she found out it was going public, she fast tracked (Oprah, People). So what? It's one thing to turn a blind eye to "indescretion;" powerful / celebrity - regular - couples do that all the time. The marriage turns into more of a non-romantic partnership (hi, bill & hilary; will & jada; etc. etc.). Its another to find out your spouse grossly humiliated and betrayed you with the piggy copycat personal employee of YOURS, screwed her in your bed, impregnated her simultaneously as you and supported her, in YOUR home, and in her home and her family for over 10 years. NO living breathing woman would stay for that, especially one of means and especially as a mother to sons and daughters. No, Enty, Maria did not know that. p.s. My heart goes out to the children.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she knew. Maybe Maria didn't see the child very often until recently. How many days of the week do YOU take your kid to work? Unless she was a live-in maid, housekeepers arrive for the day as the family leaves for the day.
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