What did she actually ‘get famous’ for? Like what was the thing?
tbh, it’s mainly through her association with her dad.
she was born in July 1994, so she’s about to turn 29.
She left school in 2012. she met hubby as a teen at Glastonbury and were a couple by jan 2013, so shes been with him since she was 19. They probably met at Glastonbury in 2011 (there wasn’t a Glastonbury festival in 2012) sooo she met him when she was 16 and presumably started dating from then.
He’d been in a boy band and studying in Dublin I believe
She followed him and lived in Dublin for a year (I think it was 2013, so basically as soon as they become “official”) working as a deliveroo driver. 2013 is the only gap she includes on her LinkedIn so… reading between the lines.. they met in June 2011, kept in contact and she moved to Dublin to be with him in January 2013 and became a couple then.
Then he moved to London later for work and she followed. She briefly worked as a marketing consultant but I don’t think that lasted long. It wasn’t a proper full time job, more a scattering of internships and freelance work which she never held down for long (see LinkedIn above)
She started blogging in 2015 so that’s when she was, what 21? I don’t think it was especially popular or widely read.
again in 2017 she got a book deal but… I don’t know much about that book. Never seen it, don’t know anyone who read it. It’s got a 3.65 rating in good reads which is very low for there. She’d only down a handful of pieces of the likes of the sun and teen tattler, and these seemed to focus largely on her being Jeremy clarkson’s offspring.
her blog was
www.prettynormalme.com and was active from late 2014. It was very cringe and imo, badly written. You can see for yourself on the internet archive;
Pretty Normal Me was founded by Em Clarkson last year to help women be the happiest versions of themselves. Growing up she had been surrounded by a damaging society of 'size zero', 'thinspiration' and that BLOODY Thigh Gap! She decided that life was too short to spend counting calories...
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she started using Instagram from around 2018 I believe, and had management involved straight away.
she had a full blown media kit, literary agent AND publicist back in 2018, at a time before social media management was a big thing. She most certainly benefit from her parents influence and contacts at that point.
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basically, she’s never done anything that substantial or remarkable.
She is in the news semi-regularly because of the connection with her dad. Even in the early days of her Instagram she would frequently pointed out the connection to her dad and tag him.
I’ve pointed it out before but there’s no way they can afford a townhouse in Balham on their joint wages. She is financially totally propped up by her family. Her “career” exists because she’s propped up by others.
she’s basically never had a real job and gets thrown the odd bone likely because her mum or dad has had a word with someone and pulled in a favour.
no doubt she’ll hover around the media circuit taking the odd, low key piece of work that’s thrown her way, coasting along talking about feminism and smashing glass ceilings, when basically she’s an unemployed housewife? Grifter? with lucrative side hustles from her dad/mum.
