I have also been in the media. Had an abusive parent. Kid at 16.I did actually not on tv no, but the way I acted on social media was exactly the same because I constantly wanted validation and to be told I was this and that.
It was unhealthy but when you are in this mindset you don’t care how erratic you actually look. The NHS comment I haven’t seen but that doesn’t stop her from having love to give does it?.
It’s two separate things. Being unable to raise her dogs also shows that passing them on to someone, for someone else to bring up as she is unable to, also shows to me she clearly cares, instead of just leaving them to suffer.
And being self obsessed as you say is simply her way of receiving that attention she clearly craves. You do when you’ve never recieved it as a child, which was the same for me in my case.
I constantly had people talking about me on the estate I came from until I moved off it it was no different to this site just it’s online rather than behind closed doors, the more I heard someone slag me off the harder I went.
And she probably doesn’t know how to. You sound like you was lucky enough to wake up and realise you need to sort your tit out, but for some people it doesn’t come.
especially if she is constantly surrounded by fake people who will say whatever they think she wants to hear. Why would she wake up and sort her life out.
I was raped when I was 12 my mum told me I was a slag and shouldn’t of been out in the first place. Yet even now I still try and please my mum or want her attention yet I don’t even like or respect the woman. I’ve had counselling it just is what it is for me. Maybe the same for Lauren it’s confusing and changes your whole behaviour and output on life when it’s your own mum who does stuff like this and treats you weird and bad.
And now, even now that i have addiction issues due to my various SAssaults (I was also a SWer exposed by the media nationally) I would never ever act like she does. Literally the end point was her doing down the NHS. She can go duck herself as far as I'm concerned.