Latina Harvard grad Grazie Sophia Christie advised women to marry older man, column went viral.
Writer and editor Grazie Sophia Christie, 27, wrote an essay for New York Magazine's The Cut column extolling the virtues of marrying an older man, but the internet buzz is that her essay is more about marrying a wealthy man; she married someone ten years older whom she met at 20.
When she was 20 years old and a junior at Harvard College, Grazie Sophia Christie had an epiphany. She could study hard and diligently pursue her “ideal existence” though years of work and effort.
Or she “could just marry it early.”
Christie chose the latter.
In a column for New York magazine’s The Cut, the Cuban American editor and writer extolled the value of marrying an older, wealthier man as a shortcut to the life she desired. Christie’s March 27 story went viral, topping the magazine’s “most popular” list and inspiring hundreds of overwhelmingly negative comments online and on social media. As Miami New Times described it, “The essay hit the internet with a virtual thud heard round the world.”
Readers were taken aback by myriad aspects of Christie’s florid essay, which runs nearly 4,000 words. Though she was an undergraduate, Christie lugged “a heavy suitcase of books each Saturday to the Harvard Business School,” which she felt offered the best options for a suitable mate. “I had high breasts, most of my eggs, plausible deniability when it came to purity, a flush ponytail, a pep in my step that had yet to run out," she wrote. "Older men still desired those things.”
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