Jerry Seinfeld’s Wife Gives Oprah A Present; Yet More Proof That They Are Not Like Us
 
I don’t watch Oprah, but here’s a story I could not pass up.
I guess Jessica Seinfeld, wife of cereal-loving Jerry Seinfeld, was on Oprah’s chatfest to promote her new cookbook. A week later, it is a best-seller. Jessica is insanely grateful, so she gifts Oprah with a little thank-you present.
Fast forward to yesterday. Jerry was on the show to promote his new movie, Bee Movie, and Oprah showed just what his wife had sent as a thanks-for-promoting-my-cookbook-on-your-show gift:
Jessica sent Oprah 21 pairs of shoes. From the shot that goes across the screen, the majority were Christian Louboutin kicks, which retail for $800-$1200 a pair. Just a $16,000-$20,000 thank you, from one multi-millionaire couple to their billionaire friend.
Like Oprah needs more shoes. She has more shoes than she’ll ever wear. She has more shoes than Chicago will ever wear. And in the unlikely event that she should need new shoes, she has enough lettuce to go out and get her own. How much you wanna bet those shoes will never even get worn?
Do you know how much good that $16,000-$20,000 could have done at a homeless shelter, a VA hospital, a home for abused women and children, a drug rehab treatment center, a no-kill shelter for pets? There are children going without coats this winter in Chicago, do you know how many winter coats that sort of bacon can buy? Do you know how many care packages that could have sent to our troops in Iraq and around the world?
Forget buying shoes for Oprah…how about buying shoes for the homeless, for the elderly in nursing homes, for children who don’t have any? I’m sure Chicago is full of people who could use new shoes a lot more than Oprah. Why not make a donation to a charity in Oprah’s name?  Jessica could have done a lot more good with her cheddar than this empty-headed gesture.
What a waste. I’ve never liked Oprah and her self-righteous, “I’m the only one who knows how to save the world and you should all listen to me” attitude, anyway, and her friends seem to be as out of touch as she is. We should all read a book because Oprah endorsed it? Please. I can pick out my own books, and I have better taste in them than Oprah. This shoe thing just shows yet again that Oprah and her out-of-touch-with-reality celebrity friends are not worth my time to sit and watch.
Besides….by writing this cookbook, doesn’t Jessica realize that her secret is blown, and her kids will never eat her meatloaf or scrambled eggs again?
(and yeah…I know I just gave them all more publicity, which is what I suspect Jessica was really buying with those shoes, but I had to say it…I wonder if all the money she made off the sale of those cookbooks was worth it)
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Recently, I threw aside all shame and wrote Oprah begging for money. (I’m not in the habit of asking for handouts, but I am truly desperate and thought it couldn’t hurt to try, not that I even expect a response.) I need to move, you see, in the worst way, I’m in dire straits and I can’t raise the moolah on my salary. I happen to live in one of the highest-priced housing markets in the nation, where you practically have to be a millionaire before you can even consider buying a home. My current housing situation is driving me insane with insomnia and various tortures. Although I have a professional job in an office, with a fancy title and responsibilities I get paid for, I live in a small, run-down apartment in a bad part of town. Not that there aren’t millions of people worse-off then me of course. But I’m a good, deserving sort of person, and one or two of those pairs of shoes would help me improve my standard of living tremendously and possibly save my sanity as well as my marriage. Will Oprah listen? Stay tuned to find out. But don’t hold your breath!
Comment by Mitsu — October 16, 2007 @ 10:31 am
I really want to buy that book now!
Comment by Hi5 Codes — October 16, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
well if u dont like oprah, u are allowed not to…but is it an offence to receive a gift..no if u citing shoeless people as an example..she gives more to charity than any celebrity…so whats ur point..i guess u need to write something to keep ur site going
Comment by mike — October 16, 2007 @ 1:23 pm
I was pointing out the fallacy of Jessica Seinfeld gifting Oprah, of all people, with shoes…when homegirl could buy all the shoes in Chicago herself. Better things could have been done with that money, and Oprah (as much as I dislike her) should have pointed that out, instead of showing them off.
Comment by k — October 16, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
Mike,
You sir, are a knucklehead.
Comment by D — October 16, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
There is an old susperstition which advises never to give friends a gift of new shoes because they will walk away from you.
Comment by toeslayer — October 16, 2007 @ 9:05 pm
That seems like good advice T-slayer. I can’t imagine giving a friend shoes, unless they picked them out and I just paid for them.
Attire is not something that’s easy to pick out for others.
Comment by D — October 16, 2007 @ 10:09 pm
The Washington Post reviewed Mrs. Seinfeld’s cookbook unfavorably. Not because the recipes taste bad, but because the whole premise of the book is that you need to fool your kids by hiding the vegetables so they won’t know when they’re eating something good for them. Like, puree butternut squash and put it in the mac and cheese–same color! There’s a sketch of her on the cover, messing with a plate and winking. The problem is, apparently any kid with an IQ higher than furniture will catch on and never trust Mommy again, because if she put yuck in the food, what else did she do and keep it secret?
Then wait till the Seinfeld kids find out Daddy gave Michael Richards a job.
Comment by ostrova — October 16, 2007 @ 10:55 pm
What makes you think the Seinfelds don’t give money to charity? Just because they don’t publicize it like Oprah doesn’t mean they don’t do it. How much do YOU give?
I’m all for picking on Oprah, she’s as out of touch as they get. But the Seinfelds don’t seem that way to me. Of course I actually watched the episode instead of just making assumptions from stuff that I heard.
Oh and by the way ostrova, Jessica Seinfeld also stressed that her kids do eat their vegetables the regular way too, but this is a way to make sure they are getting enough veggies since most kids won’t eat enough on their own.
Comment by DJ — October 17, 2007 @ 9:26 am
Twenty-one pairs of Christian Laboutins are not a thank-you gift. They are compensation for services rendered. And Jessica Seinfeld is a plagiarist — which is not surprising considering she started “dating†Seinfeld about three weeks after coming back from her honeymoon. The woman wouldn’t recognize morals if her chef served them to her for lunch.
Comment by annie — October 20, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
You have great points. I would merely point out that I believe that we would all be the same if we had that much money. We think that we would be different but we wouldn’t. We would have people like post #3 asking us for money. Why? Because just a few more dollars will save her marriage. A few more dollars won’t save her marriage. If we had Oprah’s money we’d get all these requests from morons and we’d say, “screw it, I can’t solve everybody’s problems.” We would isolate ourselves from everyone else because we’d get tired of their begging and self righteousness. We’d get tired of the blogs, tired of the articles, tired of people’s opinions that make $25,000 per year and we’d hang out with millionaires to ease having to deal with it. You can get upset if you want to, you can deny it all you want but we would all be the same. We would all end up giving and accepting the shoes because that’s what you do when you’re a millionaire. Millionaires don’t judge millionaires so they hang out with each other, give each other obscene gifts and don’t read blogs. I’m not a millionaire so I read yours : ).
Comment by Big J — October 25, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
I thank you for taking the time out to read here (btw, it isn’t my blog, although I have been asked to write here) and for the nice comments.
You know, I can understand the motivation to write someone like Oprah and ask for money, because she has tons to spread around places like an African girl’s school, why not take care of the home fires too? And you surely don’t believe Oprah actually reads her email…she has assistants who do nothing but screen her emails. I’d guess she reads about 1% of what is actually sent to her. And I can honestly say that the idea has crossed my mind once or twice myself…I could use a decent vehicle for long-distance trips.
And I don’t think she reads GlossLip either, although she should…she’d get some common sense.
I would accept the shoes, but then I’d turn around and sell them and give the money to charity. My post was about the idiocy of gifting expensive shoes to someone who could buy shoes for everyone in Chicago. Jessica could have done a lot of good with that money. Rich or poor shouldn’t matter…I think it is when someone comes into money that their real personality comes out, whether that be selfish or philanthropic.
Besides, who needs heels that cost thousands of dollars a pair? You step in a crack in the sidewalk or in some gravel, you’ve stripped the leather from the heel, you’re now walking on a metal tip, just the same as shoes from Shoe Carnival. Who cares if they have a fancy name attached…they still make your feet hurt.
Comment by k — October 26, 2007 @ 12:16 am
I completely agree with the the writer of this, K. Some like to play devils advocate by defending celebs because perhaps they feel closer to the wealthy and powerful, yet these people won’t give you peops the time of day no matter how much you butt kiss. Sure Oprah helps people, but the show has to bring in money, despite her incredible wealth that is still the priority. So lets say you are like me and want awareness of a particular disease you have, but its not common, then NO show. That is my situation. I wrote her saying I have this miserable illness, can we bring about awareness so that it gets more funding, as of right now a cure is not even in sight. No response from her staff of hundreds. But perhaps my illness wasn’t interesting enough for the audience. Much more fun to have a crazy monkey like Tom Cruise jump all over her couch.
Comment by Vicki — November 1, 2007 @ 11:34 pm
Hahah. Hate to say it but J is somewhat right about what happens to people with money. I think when you experience something even more dramatic than having that kind of money, that is when there is a chance that you may care more for people in general than simply make it easy on yourself by hanging out with your millionare friends, much more fun and no beggers to deal with. I’m sure they feel like, hey, I earned my money, no one gave it to me, the rest of the world has the same opportunities.
Fact is, I would rather regain my health back than win powerball, wouldnt even think twice. Now THAT is when running into tons of money doesn’t change you as much. There is no way in hell I could turn my back on people if I had money, not when I know what it is like to truly suffer with symptoms daily, that no one else can imagine. I would laugh at anyone who asked me for money simply because they reached some hard times, sorry but its true, world is full of that, cant help all. But people with incurable diseases, diseases that could have cures if there was money for R&D, I would devote my life to helping in this area as much as I could. Oprah raised 5K for Obaka Bama in one night. Yet my disease raises 1 million a year, that is nothing. That is pathetic. But who the hell cares right? Not when people are not in your shoes, its easy to say it sucks but then its out of your mind, you dont live it. So YES, Jessica Seinfeld could have perhaps donated some money to a charity in Oprah’s name in place of 21 pairs of overpriced worthless shoes.
Comment by Vicki — November 1, 2007 @ 11:47 pm