So I don't have much issue with Eleanor wanting to be married. Not every woman wants to have a career or hobbies outside her family, and for some, being a full-time wife and mother is their greatest goal in life. What I do have an issue with is the lying, and I also judge her for being a poor partner (and likely mother).
If Eleanor admitted off the bat that she just wanted her MRS Degree and her channel was a good housekeeping/aspiring mommy blogger type of channel, that would've been fine. Instead, Elle pretended to be a hard-working, corporate lawyer (that's what "securities lawyer" meant to me, and I'd imagine, the vast majority of her viewers) who was also interested in fashion.
She attracted the bulk of her viewers by misrepresenting the facts.
In regards to women who are full-time wives, at least in my experience, they're becoming less and less common with our generation and they usually have a lot to offer in one way or another. They're often:
- Much younger and more attractive than their divorced older partners
- Have great domestic skills. This means cooking, cleaning, gardening, child-rearing, etc. and are very doting on their husbands
- They have family connections and money that they bring into the relationship
Eleonore Lecocq isn't old but unless she's going for twice divorced 50 somethings, she's certainly out of that trophy wife age range. Even after all her plastic surgery and makeup, she's ok-looking at best. Men, especially older ones, are not stupid and they can tell she's very plain under the heavy makeup even with all the work she's had done. She has no interests outside of shopping and primping and I can't see her having any in depth conversations with men or anyone else. She has hygiene problems (i.e.: see moldy silpat, stirring drinks with her fingers, touching cats while cooking), her food looks dry and unhealthy (I'm sorry but most health conscious people do not consume pasta and cheese for 80% of their diet like Eleanor), and she can't really cook a variety of dishes and seems useless without her "smart tools" as we've seen her struggle with a real pasta maker recently. She didn't even clean when she lived with Joe and probably made him pitch in for a housekeeper, and complained about having to cook for him and how that took up her time from going to Nordstrom and primping. She can barely clean her cats' litter boxes and leave them for days at a time to hang out with Ginette or chase after men and I doubt she'd be a much better mother. Her and G are also weirdly attached at the hip and whoever marries Eleanor will probably have to pitch in for G's expenses because she's always coming over and staying with them (remember Joe and Elle's spare room was reserved for Elle's mountains of Nordstrom cashmere sweaters and Ginette?). I have a brother and he would never go for someone like her, and I can't imagine many men would unless they were extremely desperate. Hell, even Rick didn't seem to think she was worth it and he's not exactly the "rich, eligible bachelor" type that Elle is hoping for.
I can speak from personal experience of being in a very fast-paced, EXTREMELY stressful retail job that paid handsomely... And hating it. Then making the painful decision to move to a different branch of my career, but the only spot available was part-time. Even though I ended up in a much better spot for my sanity, I beat myself up bc at the time I wasn't a mother and thought there was no reason to be PT at that point in my life. Worried how it would look to others. Now I'm a SAHM and have the new mental hurdle of feeling like I'm not worth as much as a working mother (even though being a SAHM is really difficult). 
She is desperate and needy, and above all she is selfish. Ugh. 
!
I have a cat myself and cats are trainable. The fact that the cats are so poorly behaved is pretty telling that either the care taker is too lazy to train their cats or they are left by themselves too often for too long that they forget the basic rules they are supposed to follow. In Elle’s case it’s both.
