More Photoshop heaven – and you really must read about how she is giving her children a normal life
The Sunday Circle is running an interview with the prime minister’s wife, who has been photoshopped to the point where she looks like a cyborg.
It’s not as though we don’t get to see her in real life, so this extreme photoshopping business is a really bad idea as it makes her look terribly insecure about her appearance.
The entire interview is carried in the link below, so you needn’t bother getting the magazine unless you wish to cut out Mrs Muscat’s photographs and frame them with a red candle lit beneath.
The Hello magazine style of questioning is all about how Mrs Muscat is a mother first and foremost (because nobody has ever had children before) and how she is determined to give them a normal life – you know, by flying them to Manhattan during school days, taking them to receptions at Dar Malta in Brussels in the evening, and hauling them off to meet the Pope (“he’s just like a village priest” says Mrs Ignorant, missing all the signs of somebody gracious who is scaling his conversation down to her level).
How many more of these Evita Peronesque interviews are we going to have before the situation is completely milked dry? At least Evita Peron had no children. Mrs Muscat is hell-bent on shoving hers down everyone’s throat while her political sidekicks become hysterical at any criticism of the situation, describing it in terms of a Herodian massacre of innocents.
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It just occurred to me that this interview provides justification for every criticism of her posted on this blog – she must be a avid reader.
This just shows that she is either very insecure or being used as a tool by her husband to spin back into positive territory DOI press releases that went the wrong way.
Is this some attempt at making us all feel sorry for laughing and then being embarrassed by her husband’s citizenship scheme?
Sorry, but I don’t actually care about how Mrs Muscat runs her family life. Whether she does it well or not makes little difference to how I view her husband’s policies and attitude.
Are we not allowed to criticise Muscat because, jahasra, Mrs Muscat will be sharing the burden while being a mother at the same time?
When Dr Gonzi and Dr Fenech Adami were in power, we rarely heard or saw their wives except at appropriate events, which showed how they aren’t limelight seeking idiots, but unassuming, decent individuals who live/d their lives with integrity.
But now we are saddled with a PM who thinks nothing of cheapening the country and with his wife, who acts like Eva Peron/Jackie Kennedy. Well, unless you have achieved things that are on par with what those women have achieved, you have no business acting like them. Plus, don’t you think it’s slightly unoriginal?
Does Dr Muscat hide behind his wife all the time, or is this just a one off?
You couldn’t have put it better, Edward.
It’s an attempt at making up for their many gaffes by showing us their homely, compassionate side (ahem).
She feels sorry about people living in tents. Well, if like Mrs Gonzi had done, Mrs Muscat had ever bothered going to Hal Far, she’d have known that the tents were replaced with containers some years ago, and that the “big hall” is actually in a detention centre, not an open one.
Here’s an open invitation to Michelle Muscat to put her money where her mouth is.
Dig into those deep pockets that are filled regularly with money from public funds and buy a few shelves so that motherless teenagers don’t have to store their spare set of clothes in a garbage bag on a wet floor.
Or dig a bit deeper and buy enough blankets and warm clothes to cover everyone in detention.
If schoolchildren can help, you can do better. And please don’t do it in a blaze of publicity, trailed by countless TV cameras and reporters. These are people we’re talking about, not animals in a zoo.
Or better still, tell her husband to never threaten to send immigrants back to Libya.
If she feels so sorry for them, why doesn’t she visit them and raise awareness among her husband’s supporters of their plight? Are we going to see Michelle “Peron” Muscat take on a humanitarian role and actually walk a mile in these people’s shoes to help stamp out the overt racism seen among most if not all of Labour’s supporters?
That is something that might actually make a difference. Right now she just allows her ego to be stroked by citizens who ask her questions like she’s benevolently imparting wisdom, something her husband clearly lacks.
If Mrs Muscat or anyone else wishes to donate a shelf costing Eur13, she can contact https://www.facebook.com/groups/aybspromos/
Eur494 will buy the remaining 38 shelves needed in the current appeal.
I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she lays into her husband in private but plays the simpering, supportive wife in public.
What really got to me in that interview is that she says she feels sorry that people have to sleep rough, but “we can’t really cater to their needs”.
This is a woman who’s maintained by the public purse which pays her husband for his use of his own car, who doesn’t hold down a paying job, and whose children are in private education because state schools are not good enough.
You’re asking a bit much, Edward, expecting Michelle Muscat to take a public stand against her husband.
She’s too busy organising silly fashion shows and capricious parties for Spanish Princesses.
Tixtieq, Jackie Kennedy……..
Edward, you nailed it.
Dan attakk fahxi u oxxen fuq las infantas.
Fejn hu Peter Paul?
Don’t cry for me Malta
Sorry Joseph but can I possibly change it to ‘Don’t cry for me Birzebbuga’?
It is just that we need four syllables to make it work.
Normality, is she serious. She once had them both carried in for a ballet class, covering their faces as if she was hounded by paparazzi in Sliema. It was an utterly ridiculous scene.
Mrs Michelle Muscat, wife of the prime minister of Malta, in whose presence things happen: a peasant with delusions of grandeur, who doesn’t understand that in ten years’ time max, she’s going to be one of the crowd again and with 30 years of life ahead of her.
Nobody’s going to bother giving her ‘treatment’ then, because there’s going to be nothing in it for them.
That’s quite a generous timeframe. Even Mrs Muscat talks about enjoying the next five years only. Personally I honestly do believe it will be much less.
This citizenship scheme will be the LPs undoing.
It seems that she’s the only one to juggle her children with other commitments, and she doesn’t even work. She has a driver, help with the children, help in the home and a comfortable income. And we are supposed to admire her efforts.
All of us Maltese mums are lucky to have her as a role model. We know it’s the first time a Labour prime minister has a wife and family he can parade about, but their excitement at the novelty is getting ridiculous now.
I’m sorry but the whole article makes me want to reach for the sickbag. Why is she portrayed as some sort of saint or model mum?
Bah. I still prefer Razzle.
Thank you for this article. Looking forward to buying The Malta Independent tomorrow morning.
The background of the photo with the children looks like a film set of a 70s Coronation Street episode.
I can’t understand how people let themselves be photoshopped to that extent. The message I would get from it is “you’re ugly, so we have to fix you”.
Sorry, I didn’t even bother reading the article. I can’t stand the woman.
You are not the only one.
I read through this with pain in my stomach caused by this ridiculous show-off.
But it made me think even more highly of my really super wife, mother of our six children (including a fostered child) who through her complete dedication are being well educated and achieving well at school.
Without any external or state help for that matter, with no drivers or personal assistants or fanfare, she manages to take our children to sports, performing arts and scouts activities outside school hours.
Kudos to my wife and to all hardworking mothers whatever their particular situation might be.
Mrs Muscat, wife of the Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, would do well to urge her husband to do something about the increasing number of unemployed.
Bet you anything, Mrs Michelle Muscat is eyeing a spot at junior Eurovision for the untouchable infantas.
For once I beg to disagree with your comment “because nobody has ever had children before”. I am more under the impression that her credentials and mentality do not extend beyond those of a typical post-war Maltese housewife, or the glorified version of that. Had she been more erudite no journalist would have hesitated to engage her in one or other topic. Ex nullo nullum procedit.
Michelle Muscat interviewed by The Sunday Circle: “This is me in action,” she says, while packing the girls’ bags.”
Jesus wept.
“Charity work is one area brought on by her political life”
Which means she did none as an inconnue.
“I was invited to CHOGM in Sri Lanka, but since the girls had a ballet show coming up and lots of rehearsals, I decided not to accompany my husband.”
Right. That must be why she didn’t pull the children out of school to take them to New York – because it’s not as exciting as Sri Lanka.
Received by email, in reaction to Michelle Muscat’s sympathon:
“Michelle was, is, and will remain, a cheap version of Victoria Beckham or the Kardashians – if one could possibly get cheaper than that lot. Michelle’s photo shoots and interviews only serve to drive that truth home – though the likes of Phyllis Muscat probably think she is one to be envied.”
The thinking of the attention-seeking babies: first I’ll become famous and then I’ll do charity.
The thinking of the truly philanthropic: Look, I can do charity without being famous, and the result is actual charity, not some sort of publicity stunt to boost the image of my brand.
Whoever keeps photoshopping her photos needs to look up the “uncanny valley” as soon as possible.
The whole thing is simply sickening.
These people are just ‘wannabes’ and the person who wrote the article is just as bad.
If Michelle Muscat does not have the intelligence to answer a few questions that should have been asked to a Prime Minister’s wife, the article should not have been written.
The Sunday Circle should not have stooped so low as to publish this ridiculous ‘interview’.
But I suppose this is Malta, so we have to suck up to anyone in power, no matter the consequences.
[Daphne – Be grateful for small mercies. She didn’t make the cover. They put Malcolm Galea on it instead. That must have gone down well, but it’s a good gauge of where Mrs Michelle Muscat stands in the popularity charts right now.]