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Hey All. I just spoke to Essence.com about this Tiger Woods situation and what it means to women to date celebrities and professional athletes. Here’s an excerpt of our interview:
Source: www.essence.com
For many fans, Tiger Woods’ cheating scandal came out of nowhere, tarnishing his squeaky-clean family guy image forever. Relationships expert Dr. Michelle Callahan, TV host of “Wedlock or Deadlock” tells us why athletes, even super straight ones like Tiger, stray.
ESSENCE.com: Why does cheating seem like an epidemic among athletes?
MICHELLE CALLAHAN: The cheating with celebrity athletes is such a part of our culture because women are lured by the fantasy of fame, money and the white picket fence taken to the extreme. They meet a famous athlete, and those who marry them picture being with someone everyone else adores…[and being] the one he chose. Women see themselves living in the lap of luxury with all the money in the world, having whatever they want and spending lots of time with this person. The “other women” just fantasize about being with [him] for five minutes. That is the fantasy.
ESSENCE.com: What are the realities of being an athelete?
CALLAHAN: The reality for of a lot of the wives of celebrity athletes is that the celebrity athletes are going to travel without them and they will lead very separate lives. Many of the star athletes’ wives feel like single parents raising kids alone, because their partners are traveling the world much of the time. Since the woman is not with her partner, the fame, the power and the wealth attached to the athlete creates much more of an opportunity for the celebrity athlete to get into trouble, more trouble than the average man. More women are eager and willing to throw themselves at the athlete.
