Leeanne Locken - Carny Kid

[J80134]

If I had a dollar for every time Leeanne mentions being a Carny kid and her mom leaving her at 3 I'd be rich! Somehow she always manages to gloss over the fact that for nine months out of the year she lived a normal life with her grandparents. She also seems to forget that she spent every summer with her mother, and wasn't truly abandoned. She felt like nothing, but had the confidence to enter multiple beauty pageants. I believe some of her story but I think it is greatly embellished to make it sound much worse than it was and to give her an excuse to be a terrible person today. 

Would love to hear what others think about the Carny kid 

[RealHousewife]

On 1/10/2021 at 9:35 PM, J80134 said:

If I had a dollar for every time Leeanne mentions being a Carny kid and her mom leaving her at 3 I'd be rich! Somehow she always manages to gloss over the fact that for nine months out of the year she lived a normal life with her grandparents. She also seems to forget that she spent every summer with her mother, and wasn't truly abandoned. She felt like nothing, but had the confidence to enter multiple beauty pageants. I believe some of her story but I think it is greatly embellished to make it sound much worse than it was and to give her an excuse to be a terrible person today. 

Would love to hear what others think about the Carny kid 

I initially felt so bad for LeeAnne about her childhood. Sexual trauma at a young age has to be one of the worst things anyone could go through. At a certain point I got tired of the abuse she's endured in life being used as a weapon and how she was almost competitive about who's had it worse. 

I always find it weird when girls who seek opportunities in pageantry/modeling talk about how they're so insecure and don't feel pretty. It takes a certain level of self-esteem to think you can be a beauty queen. LeeAnne was definitely blessed with physical beauty. She was also one of the more entertaining women on Dallas, maybe the most entertaining. Who can forget "The pantyliner on my underwear is exhausted!" 

I generally liked her despite her aggression and other issues because I see the hurt little girl in her and thought she was good at heart. Last season I found her even more narcissistic and all the Mexican comments really rubbed me the wrong way. Racism and xenophobia are two of the ultimate no-no's for me. Seeing that Kary's brought up being Mexican/Latin two-three times already this season, I'm wondering if there was some truth to that being why LeeAnne went there. It absolutely doesn't make it okay, but I wonder if LeeAnne was more ignorant than hateful. 

[J80134]

On 2/18/2021 at 2:07 PM, RealHousewife said:

I initially felt so bad for LeeAnne about her childhood. Sexual trauma at a young age has to be one of the worst things anyone could go through. At a certain point I got tired of the abuse she's endured in life being used as a weapon and how she was almost competitive about who's had it worse. 

I always find it weird when girls who seek opportunities in pageantry/modeling talk about how they're so insecure and don't feel pretty. It takes a certain level of self-esteem to think you can be a beauty queen. LeeAnne was definitely blessed with physical beauty. She was also one of the more entertaining women on Dallas, maybe the most entertaining. Who can forget "The pantyliner on my underwear is exhausted!" 

I generally liked her despite her aggression and other issues because I see the hurt little girl in her and thought she was good at heart. Last season I found her even more narcissistic and all the Mexican comments really rubbed me the wrong way. Racism and xenophobia are two of the ultimate no-no's for me. Seeing that Kary's brought up being Mexican/Latin two-three times already this season, I'm wondering if there was some truth to that being why LeeAnne went there. It absolutely doesn't make it okay, but I wonder if LeeAnne was more ignorant than hateful. 

I don't think Leeann is ignorant to the racist undertone of her comments. I grew up in a 99.9% white town in the 70s and pretty everyone I knew was openly prejudiced. There were many things I repeated that I didn't understand until I was teenager (eg. To jip someone is actually to gyp someone and refers to the gypsy cultures reputation for thievery). BUT, as an adult who has been exposed to the bigger world I no longer think like my backwoods relatives and I'm well aware of what isn't okay to say. Leeanne has been a Dallas "socialite" far long enough to not be ignorant to the fact that she's saying Mexican like its a bad thing.