Tallulah Riley and Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Ricky Vigil M / Justin E Palmer/GC Imagesan actress Tallulah Riley is at the homestead with her husband Thomas Brodie-Sangster — just don’t call her a “traditional wife.”
“We live in an age where lifestyles are commercialized online, indexed through hashtags. We are encouraged to “be the brand” and make an impact, prioritizing personal growth. I hate putting a label on my life that is multi-faceted, so please don’t call me a traditional wife,” Riley, 39, wrote in Sunday Times essay published on Sunday, December 1. “I’ve been divorced twice – no wonder unless you’re Zaza Za Gabor.”
The Pride and Prejudice the actress was previously married of a businessman Elon Musk twice, both times ending in divorce. She has since found love with Brody-Sangster, best known for his role in Love actuallyand they were married in June.
Riley and Brodie-Sangster, 34, recently moved to a sprawling farm in rural North Hertfordshire, England.
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“I’m 30 now and safe at home in the UK and the country idyll is going full steam ahead,” Riley wrote, referring to her brief stint in Los Angeles during her marriage to Musk, 53. “Thomas, who was born and raised to the sound of Bow bells, promptly took to country life, though he still pretended not to know the difference between a horse and a cow, to enliven the long car journeys. He is a carpenter and mechanic as well as an esthete.”
The category “traditional wives”, short for traditional wives, recently went viral on social media after influencers Nara Smith and Hannah Neelman showed off their home life in a series of videos. While both Smith and Neelman have ssimilarly condemned the labelit is a slang term for modern women who have the role of staying at home for their breadwinner husbands. The term “traditional wife” seemingly glorifies the more old-fashioned lifestyle of the housewife.
Riley, for her part, is content when she and Brody-Sangster are despite what the world can see or determine.
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“Happiness for me comes slowly and seems directly proportional to the number of chickens knocking on the kitchen door each morning.” Thomas may also have something to do with it,” Riley wrote in the article. “The philosopher Spinoza (who believed that God and nature were one and the same, sorry to bring it up at this late stage) said, ‘Happiness is a virtue, not a reward.'” So I will focus on the propagation of rosemary, not on personal growth.
She added: “Here at the (fake) farm, it’s really all love and manure. Hashtag us if you like. Or come and join us.”
