Friday, July 06, 2007

The rise of the asian trophy wife

Alice Kim and Nicolas CageMany successful men have always found younger (and beautiful) wives later in life. Recently, it seems that more of these "trophy wives" are asian. Chinese-born American Wendi Deng () has been in the news a lot lately because her husband, Rupert Murdoch, is trying to purchase the Wall Street Journal. We saw Vietnamese-American Hong Le Webb, the second wife of Jim Webb, at his side when he was elected to be the junior Senator from Virginia last November. There is also Woody Allen's marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, which has now lasted for almost ten years.

These women are not bimbos. Wendi Deng has a Yale MBA and is head of MySpace China while Hong Le Webb is a securities and corporate law attorney in Washington D.C.. An exception might be Korean-American Alice Kim (pictured here with her husband Nicolas Cage). Although she had a bit part in his movie, "Next," her career prior to marriage is described on wikipedia as "sushi restaurant waitress."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't see how this makes Alice Kim to possibly be a bimbo due to her having been a waitress. It is a job. Many consider Dubya Bush to have idiotic qualities, despite his MBA from Harvard. A bimbo can have a degree from any school and sleep her way to the top of MySpace. It is a possibility not to be ruled out.

It is stated how white males and asian women become hitched. Why is it not the other way around? Is it genetic? Is it cultural?

Here is an exception:

http://www.xanga.com/JPNYC

Randy said...

Thanks for the comment, and good point about degrees and bimbos.