Posted on 11/19/2003 11:20:39 AM PST by HAL9000
Monica Lewinsky says her White House liaison is a liability on the dating scene.
The intern infamous for her affair with US President Bill Clinton told GQ magazine that she goes on dates occasionally but her romantic relationships have been short-lived.
Ms Lewinsky, 30, said in the interview she sympathised with the men she meets, saying she, too, would be intimidated by the tales of her past.
"If I were a guy and I'd heard all those things about a girl, I don't know that I'd want to take her out," Ms Lewinsky told the magazine.
But she also admitted she is impatient when men are not as responsive to her as she would like them to be.
"The one thing I don't do well with, with a guy, is ambivalence," she said. "I want to shake them and say, 'C'mon, just like me! Do what I say!'"
In the nearly six years since news of her dalliance with Clinton broke, leading to his 1998 impeachment and later acquittal by the US Senate, Ms Lewinsky has designed handbags and, most recently, hosted a reality TV host.
But the woman who nearly cost Clinton the Oval Office said she wanted to dispel rumours that the scandal had made her wealthy.
"One of the huge misconceptions about me in the past few years is that I have made a fortune from this," Ms Lewinsky said.
"People who have this idea that I have millions of dollars or even a million, or close to a million, are off their rocker."
Well, that hasn't stopped some guys. Especially when they have no mom to take her home to, I suppose that does reduce the dating pool, though.
I would imagine that the real trouble is her mind. To go from absolute total obscurity to headline news in a virtual instant has to be an enormous shock to any young mind. Even sports and entertainment stars got to spend a few weeks, if not several years, contemplating being famous for their "talents". To go from complete unknown private citizen to the central figure of a sordid chapter of American history and then back to near obscurity (except as a part of a snickering remark) while still in your twenties has got to mess with her head something fierce. I'm sure that this freaks guys out.
Is she truly irredeemable? What if she "repented" as part of joining some religious group? If she got counseling from a religious leader in your church (I'm not just talking to you, Sam) then came out by his/her side, and said she was going to make a new life for herself, would you take her seriously? Would anyone?
You just know some photographer waited and waited around to take THAT shot.
Monica could date Hillary -- and hit the Bifecta!
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise
News FLASH BIMBO, "YOU NEVER HAD ONE."
She should try the metrosexuals. Is Howard Dean available?
When interviewed on the Today Show, Lewinsky's latest date was asked why he couldn't bear to kiss her on the lips. He responded "Alas, whore Couric, I eschew her fellatio..."
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