Chrissy Teagan, a former model who married John Legend, was featured on a podcast I heard yesterday. I have never been a fan of hers. Like many once famous celebrities, she seems to be clinging to whatever fame she can maintain.
The problem is, she’s no longer a hot supermodel. She and Legend are no longer the hot “It” couple that graces all the magazine covers and websites.
They are rich and successful. They have a bunch of kids. They live a luxurious life.
But, nobody really gives a sh!t about Chrissy Teigan again.
Her 15 minutes of fame have passed her by.
I think she has launched a podcast to capitalize on her dwindling celebrity status. She’s not the first person to do this and won’t be the last.
Who knows – maybe her podcast will be a big hit.
But even if it is and it catapults her to the upper echelons of podcasts, that success will be fleeting. In a short time, even if her podcast tops the charts, she’ll become irrelevant again.
We all do.
Fame, I suspect, only makes the fall into irrelevance feel steeper and more dramatic.
I first experienced being irrelevant when I went to college. I went from being the “smartest kid at my school” to being a nobody at my college.
I experienced it again in my early 30s when I left a startup where I had been a “key money player” for 4 years and realized that nobody missed me (or if they did, they never told me).
Those were two great lessons.
Now I don’t fear becoming irrelevant. Or invisible. Or forgotten.
It happens to everyone.
What matters to me is being relevant to those I love – which for me today are my dogs and a few close friends. I like being visible to my broader circle of “loose” friends too. It’s nice to be seen and missed.
The past is over.