obvs i am very aware that babs chucks question boxes into her stories solely to increase engagement, because she knows the adoring babettes simply cannot resist showing their devotion by responding to her inane, rehashed "what you are doing this weekend?" spiel, despite the fact that she gives absolutely zero fucks how anyone else is spending their weekend, because it doesn't involve HER, but the way she uses the babettes to find basic information for her just so she can sit back and watch netflix and not use her own time or exercise her own fat thumbs to type into google - it genuinely leaves me wondering how babs would function if SM disappeared and she no longer had a bunch of deluded fans to complete such basic "adulting" tasks on her behalf.
like, i get she's lazy and wants the babettes to respond for engagement purposes, but surely no 44 year old - especially one who dedicates a huge chunk of their life to buying clothes - needs "tips" on where to buy a pair of
bleeping jeans! and why is she SHOOKETH at the idea that M&S is an option? it's hardly some "niche", indie brand ffs - she regularly mentions that she buys her tights there! babs, if you want some jeggings, simply grasp the "adulting" concept of using google, and maybe order yourself both a size 20 AND a 22 and keep the size that actually fits you comfortably. or just wear the dresses you supposedly love and stop trying to wear clothes you don't like or that don't feel comfortable solely for the sake of content an spending money! what happened to her multiple resolutions to be the "HERest HER" and not changing herself to fit with the world's expectations? or maybe her therapist finally stood up to her and told her to reign it in because the HERest HER is an absolutely terrible person - especially when she's clearly been hinting at the fact that steve is gonna divorce her, which she seems to have totally missed! wait til she's caught up on her, and that therapist will suddenly become a victim of the delete boundaries that she has supposedly encouraged babs to enforce, and will promptly be sacked!
and while it blows HER mind that she may be a larger size in jeggings than the huge, baggy, sack-like "frocks" that she ties around get gunt with a belt, nobody else - including steve, evidently! - is even remotely shooketh, literally because it isn't possible to be the exact same clothes size in
everything, regardless of style, brand etc etc, unless - as in babs' case - you wear dresses which often look too small, because they are and the ones that you can't physically squeeze yourself into, you simply hoard in th eback of your wardrobe rather than simply accepting you need a larger size, returning it and purchasing said "dresses of dreams" in the correct size. but hey, that just isn't possible when you base your entire worth on your clothes size. guaranteed that when babs films a reel trying on her new jeggings, she'll make a point of reminding everyone to size up if they have a "mum tum" - just like she makes a point of highlighting that you need to size down in belts if you're buying on to use as support for your "cracking rack".
there's also the obvious fact that babs is insecure about the idea of wearing jeans because they don't conceal her gunt in the way she can hide it with dresses, but obvs she can't announce that her gunt prevents her from wearing trousers because #boyconfidence, so instead she makes a huge deal of making out that they're hugely uncomfortable. yeah babs, because you purposefully buy the wrong size so you can justify never having to wear the jeans that emphasise the areas of your body you feel insecure about! but don't worry babs, you still have that hoard of ugly designer bags that you can use to hide your gunt - that, or just grab a child and shove them in front of you!
it's also hilarious how the babettes fawn all over her, yet her words are so insincere. in her stories this morning, the "love you...you're the best!" supposedly aimed at her "friends" conveys absolutely zero emotion. i don't understand how the babettes can't see that they are simply words from a script that she ensures she repeats each morning to make sure the babettes continue to think she cares about them, but it's all absolutely meaningless: hollow words to match her beige, hollow life.