Where does Elin Nordegren fit in?
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Jaimmee Grubbs, Kalika Moquin,
Rachel Uchitel
No one, as far as I know, has commented on the women that Tiger Woods took up as mistresses, and compared them to the woman he married. That is what I will attempt to do now, and provide my own explanations.
All three of the (alleged) mistresses who have come out have a hybrid Hispanic/Middle Eastern/Asian look. His wife, on the other hand, is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Nordic Scandinavian.
So what attracted Woods to these brown/yellow-toned, doe-eyed women? My theory starts with that...they look like his mother – or more beautiful versions of his mother.
And why did he marry this Nordic, white woman? My other theory is that she is the trophy wife: blonde, blue-eyed, young slim (ex-model). She also seemed wife material; after all, she was a nanny when Woods met her.
It is no surprise then, that within 21/2 years of marriage, Woods started his affair with Grubbs, the kind of woman whose looks he obviously prefers. This affair went on through the births of both his children with Elin Nordegren.
In line with my theory of a trophy (i.e just-for-show) wife, here is the family photo of Woods, Mrs. Woods Sr. and the young mother of Tiger Woods’s children, at a photo shoot to commemorate a bronze statue unveiling of Woods and his late father.
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bronze statue of Woods and his father
at the Learning Center in
Anaheim California, January 21, 2008
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one surely fits the bill. Elin has been almost erased out of the (family) photo. She is wearing a nondescript black suit and merges easily into the background. She is not holding her daughter, but that role has been given to Woods’s mother, who stands out in her gold and yellow jacket, placed front and center. Tiger leaves his wife alone in the back (the background). The looming confident bronze statues of Woods and his father are more in line with Woods’s and his mother’s postures, rather than with that of the diminutive figure of his wife.
Woods’s daughter - and newborn son - resemble their paternal grandmother, and seem to have nothing in common with their mother.
So, Woods got his trophy wife, kept on the side women whom he preferred to be with, and still gets to pass his lineage more in keeping with his side of the family than with that of his wife’s. He had it all, for a while.
Here are a couple of shots of Woods and Nordegren. In the many photos of them together, I haven’t found a single one where Woods looks at his wife in a loving or adoring manner. It is almost always Elin who does so. Except for this one (below right), which was taken just as they were engaged/married around 2004, but Woods has a more excited and surprised look than an adoring one. The dishevelled Nordegren on the left is at an official golfing ceremony in October 2009. She seems to have lost her lustre and attractiveness. She is wearing little, if no, makeup, similar to her appearance at the unveiling of the bronze statues, and looks like she's being slowly transformed into the nondescript (unloved?) wife.
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