She’s lucky to have even gotten the work she did. If she planned for the future better, she wouldn’t be as much of a lolcow though.
Smarter moves Tess could have made at the height of her “modeling” career:
- Learn a skill, like hairstyling or makeup, to use for when money dries up
- Save some money for both her sons to go to college/learn a trade
- Actually try to maintain good relationships with people within the industry to secure future job opportunities (impossible task)
- Not get horrendous looking fillers
- Set up a savings account, so money is always available for emergencies
- Not buying every possible trendy, tacky item she sees online or in stores, only for those items to never be seen again, or sold at a ridiculous up charge on Depop
I can’t say for certain what her finances actually are, but Tess has to be delusional to think she has the same earning power as a “model” now as when she did in 2014. Even most other models have more realistic expectations than that, and the wiser ones will work on cultivating skills to use for when there is less demand. Though, I imagine that when Tess first got her taste of fame, she probably thought she won the lottery, and likewise spent that money as poorly as some lottery winners do.