Sydney Sweeney is Glamour's Woman of the Year

[mayjailer]

Sydney Sweeney is Glamour’s Woman of the Year! ✨

There’s no question the #AnyoneButYou star has already “made it.” It’s what comes next that will make her a Hollywood legend. At the link, read as the #GlamourWOTY talks about what she sees for the road ahead, why she feels she’s… pic.twitter.com/4NiyPSBy8x
- Glamour (@glamourmag) October 3, 2024

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[steffi_333]

I grew up privileged poor if that makes sense… like I went to private school and lived in a big house and traveled a lot, but my dad was lying about finances, including paying the mortgage and our school fees.

One day the bank announced they were kicking us out and auctioning the house. When I went to university I almost got kicked out because he lied about sending money for the fees. He was borrowing money from people and telling lies (like my mum had cancer - she didn’t) to get advances on his pay. Lawyers would contact us about things we had no idea about. Our car broke down and we ordered a new one but he never sent the money for it, so we had to dodge calls about it and eventually they just sold it on and we ended up renting cars instead.

We lived in a foreign country and he lived overseas in another, so teenage me who was eldest daughter and spoke the language most fluently ended up being at the forefront of a lot of conversations that kids shouldn’t have to deal with.

It was a weird and chaotic upbringing. Like I feel like I can’t moan about it because I got good things out of it, but in retrospect I felt very insecure and unsafe growing up. Like never knowing if people would come knocking for money. Or if we’d always have a roof over our head, or money for groceries. Mum would scream at him over Skype calls about lying. My sister was always so upset and going through her own stuff and an ED.

So yeah I’m also kind of anxious about money. But in an aversion way, like thinking about it stresses me out. I don’t feel like I can trust the permanence of money or financial things. The idea of getting a mortgage made me so scared. Luckily my husband is great and so good at dealing with these things, but if I wasn’t with him I’d still be renting a place on my own somewhere I think.

Anyway. Sorry for the rant in reply to your comment. All that to say I get how you feel in a way.