| I seriously envy all kept women. They have | | | | they're the right friends. However, most of |
| well manicured nails, elaborate hair styles, | | | | them have held previous jobs like actresses, |
| flashy cars, designer outfits and just about | | | | flight attendants, models, TV presenters and |
| any thing else that they want. The weird | | | | ex-beauty queens. Hmmm, I've never done any |
| thing though, is that these women dont have | | | | of that. |
| to work a day in their lives, they have | | | | |
| husbands who are so affluent that the luxury | | | | I wish that could be me, instead, I get it |
| lifestyle is inevitable. Most kept women | | | | the hard way. I have to go to law school for |
| marry wealthy businessmen, plastic surgeons, | | | | 5 years, which entails a lot of stress and |
| rich lawyers, CEOs and Executives.They pass | | | | depression(my undiagnosed disease), then once |
| the time by shopping, joining book groups and | | | | I become a lawyer, I have to bill for the |
| doing charity work. But most of all they are | | | | entire day, leaving no time for family and |
| absolutely, positively, avidly, and | | | | friends, just so I can get a decent check at |
| obsessively devoted to their children. They | | | | the end of the month. Its sort of unfair. I |
| run the PTA as if it's the FBI. They're | | | | wonder if I'm pretty enough to be a trophy |
| constantly after the school board - and the | | | | wife? Probably not, since most of the |
| teachers - to make the curriculum more | | | | Jamaican trophy wives are very light skinned |
| difficult, so their daughters can grow up to | | | | and are from a race that is far from black. |
| be kept women too. They organize talent shows | | | | Did I mention to you bloggers than being |
| after school, they run girl scout groups, | | | | black in Jamaica is considered a genetic |
| they agonize over their kids' unpopularity, | | | | curse? Well it is, anyway...I have always |
| and then when the kid actually gets some | | | | wondered about trophy wives. Are they |
| friends, they agonize over whether or not | | | | Stepford Wives? |