My idea of a trophy wife is a much younger woman married to a successful man. Their marriage is a perpetual honeymoon with NO children. She spends money, has no job, and is eye candy, not much in the brain department.
A professional woman who marries and has children becomes a mother, therefore she does not equate, in any way, with a trophy wife.
The left is exhibiting Fear of Fred syndrome. ;^)
I agree with your assessment. Also, a trophy wife is always ‘waiting in the wings’ when a man becomes successful and dumps wife #1. Fred was single for 20 years after his divorce, so he never brought in a step-mom to complicate his children’s lives, and he remains on good terms with wife #1.