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She’s engaged?!

I just cannot get over if- Never seen someone do such a 180! From single never had a boyfriend, very immature and living at home to married overnight! And to not talk about any of it! It’s bizarre. I used to like her food comparison videos she did with her dad. And then I came on here to find out she had kept it secret that they are OTT Christian, and then that she had suddenly got married! I mean wtf. Someone who keeps all of that from their channel cannot be genuine imo

I feel like she’s totally angling for a gifted honeymoon and it’s so tacky. She keeps bringing up that she needs to book a honeymoon. She also keeps dropping hints about wanting to go somewhere warm with beaches. Recently she asked followers what they thought about Mauritius in June/August because everything she read said the weather wasn’t great there. What would her followers have to tell her that years of meteorological data couldn’t? To me it came across as “I want a Mauritius honeymoon, who is gonna sponsor me?”. She won’t share any details about the wedding (absolutely fine with me, not saying she should) but keeps bringing up the honeymoon and what she wants for it. I used to love following her because she was so refreshingly normal and didn’t seem to be into YouTube for the money. Now she’s just morphing into another grabby influencer with an added layer of weird church stuff…

I seriously cannot fathom how she used to be a girl who used to get severely home sick and now she’s suddenly married and having a baby? Romper is going to be severely jealous

I seriously don't get her?? The insta story about her wanting to go to their neighbours houses and ask for bananas that are going off? I mean pop off girl zero waste and all that but either she's just incredibly peculiar (much more so than she used to come across) or incredibly bored and lonely? And what the hell is up with that sad lasagna?? Didn't she use to cook dinner for her family on a daily basis? AND not being able to afford things is another major one? Did she spend all her money on the house and is now on breadline? And talking about missing school THAT often?
Such a massive mistake getting married and jumping into adult life that drastically, she's defo one of those people who need to ease into it (I was the same!!) Go uni, share flats, make out with strangers, go a bit feral, then start maturing and start settling down with a big girl job and a long term partner. Maybe I'm just in my own bubble with this and I'm aware every single persons experience with adulthood is vastly different from one another but at this point Grace just feels like a child in an adult body She's isolated again! Same as she was at her parents, just sheltered and isolated when she's got so much more to give and take from life

I cannot stand this, she so often makes reference to “not great” service, but never provides any reason why it wasn’t great! Did you wait a long time for someone to take your order? Did they not know the menu well? Did they keep forgetting to refill your water? I suspect you’re all right and she will decide something is bad service if they didn’t flirt with her and make her feel special.

She also doesn’t give any context about the food “not living up” to its usual. WHY didn’t it live up?? You’ve built a platform on food, talk about it! Were the sandwiches soggy? Were the cakes dry?

ALSO - if there was something wrong with the food, and she didn’t first bring it up with the staff to give them an opportunity to fix it, then all her complaints are invalid.

I've said it before, she needs to divorce him, fuck her whole crazy family off and go and travel the world solo for a few years. Find herself and actually live for once.

OK NO WAIT GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT! It looks like the church website is just poorly set up. Seems like they have a blog post they originally created in February 2022 for registry information, then they update it every month with the most recent christenings & weddings. So they did in fact get married in June 2023 and not February 2022. Phew I was freaking out for a second there

I remember Grace talking about wanting to move to New York for a year and I feel like that would’ve been so good for her. She could’ve tried lots of different food, found new friends and experiences.

I remember her saying she wanted a tiny home and a dog.

I remember her dream of being a host for a children’s TV program.

I remember she wanted goats and chickens on her own little farm.

She was such a ray of sunshine that it made me want to see the fun in life. But I think the combo of peer pressure (every girl is “supposed” to have a boyfriend or you’re weird) and family pressure (a good Christian girl gets married and has babies) made her rush into a relationship with a guy she felt lukewarm about and now she’s in a suburban house, wife and mum and that’s it.

It feels like she wasn’t given to chance to explore herself and her dreams. Maybe if she’d been left to live her life she would’ve met a guy organically and would’ve had a better connection and similar visions for life.

Anyway, it all makes me sad for her.
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I will also say that it genuinely makes me uncomfortable thinking of Grace being pressured into a sexual situation because that’s what’s expected of her.

She seemed quite behind her peers sexually (nothing wrong with that) so it went from “I’ve never held a guys hand” to having full penetration on your wedding night because that’s what a Christian wife does.

It makes me feel so sad because I can imagine the women in her church telling her to push through the pain and all that.

I remember Grace not fully understanding how pregnancy worked and how she only watched PG-13 rom-coms and never talked about being attracted to any men - it gave the vibe of someone not ready to have sex. And given how lukewarm she was towards her husband, I can imagine it being a kinda horrible experience for her that she considers her “duty”.

beatrix246 said:

Just when I thought Grace was growing up she makes a date-a-base of dates she can do with her husband. It screams two 16 year olds out with their boyfriend for the first time. Not a 20 something married couple.

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To me this actually screams long term relationship 10 years into a marriage when you’ve ran out of shit to do so u have to pull up an excel sheet

Couldn’t pay that much attention to the vlog because papa booths massive boxers were just staring straight at me like girl there must’ve been a better background than this

athenlel said:

‘Confetti is made from the flowers Rick has gotten me over the years’ - swear they’ve been together for 5 minutes

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She was on dating apps while poor Rick was getting her flowers
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Her hen do was a sports day / corporate team building session in her garden I don’t even know the girl and even I’d have taken her to a nice afternoon tea

I feel like grace would be naturally be drawn to a fellow Christian …but I wouldn’t Fry my brain trying to find him.

It 100% looks like a baby shower cake for a boy. But hey, if she likes it it doesn't really matter does it.

Cemma25 said:

I do not understand why her house is such a shithole.
They are loaded.
She does nothing.
If she can spend hundreds of pounds on food and ugly clothing why doesn’t she just do up the house and buy some decent furniture??
Honor is weird too, she comes across as so rude. I’m really surprised her and Grace are friends, seems the church cult is the main aspect of all their lives.
She looks so gaunt and ill. Pregnancy takes it out of you, I understand that, but she does not look healthy. Also would it kill her to put on a but of blusher or something?

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I agree with all the house stuff. Given how chronically online she is, she could use tiktok to spruce up the space on a budget for the time being and make a whole lot of content with that.
I think Honor is just the "cool" friend that Grace "looks up" to because she seems more outgoing/confident/not acting like she's 5.

However, let's not tell people to wear makeup.... especially not when pregnancy might cause them to look and feel even more like shit. That's not cool. I'm all for snark but not on that.

With the first guy who’s laid eyes on her?? I remember her going on and on about being single for yeaaaaars and now that she’s got her first boyfriend ever they’re getting married? This is so baffling to me She’s so immature and basically going from one family home to a different one without having to put any work in. I’m not a masochist but truly believe everyone has to go thru shitty flatshares and rent being due before they start living comfortably to gain some emotional and financial maturity. This has me abso screaming

jackolantern said:

Totally admire her for the realness of that text though, it's something that should be talked about and it's a huge thing for someone in the public eye to come out and admit it, might help other new mums feel less alone.

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Absolutely.

The first 8 or so months of my sons life were an absolute shit show for me. I really, really struggled with bonding and quite frankly for those first months if you'd walked into my house and said "I'm going to take him now forever as he's not for you" and walked out with him I'd have shrugged and gone and made a cup of tea. It was hell, I hated every aspect of having a newborn. Couldn't handle him contact napping on me as I wanted to be up doing things, couldn't cope with him being on me in the carrier as I hated the feeling of having him there and couldn't put him down for his naps as he cried and cried if I did which was incredibly overwhelming. Very few people talk about how hard it can be to bond with a baby and there's this false idea that everyone gets a magical "WOW THEY'RE AMAZING AND THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANTED" feeling as soon as they hold their baby for the first time. The only thing that really helped was time and him growing a bit and not needing me constantly.

I spent most of my time at baby groups in those months, so we were out of the house for 3 - 4 hours a day every day, because sitting in my home with him felt so overwhelming and overstimulating I couldn't do anything except cry. At least if I was out of the house I couldn't cry because other people were around and it felt like I belonged in that 'circle' if you see what I mean.

If one person watches that and feels less alone, then great. And if Grace ever reads here, I would love to tell her that it does get better and you do come into your own as a mum, sometimes it just takes a little bit more time.

badlands_life said:

Catching up on this year's gossip (because life, sigh). I thought youse were being dramatic but husband looks SO much older lol. (also such a coincidence that there was a marriage at her local CoE church by her full name and his in 2022?)

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HOW IS EVERYONE JUST SKIPPING OVER THIS?!?! Excellent sleuthing. Hats off to you. I just found it too and what the actual fuck? The Plot Thickens...

oshare said:

Wow I can't believe we are already ready for a new thread! It feels like yesterday I created this one!
Any title suggestions so I can make a new one?

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Begging for freebies while behaving like she’s on cbeebies?

what in the WORLD is this backdrop?? have they just picked up EVERYTHING within a 5 km radius on FB marketplace that people were giving away for free?