Rule 5 Saturday - Kendel Kay

From the US Sun, My man asked me to quit my job to become a stay-at-home girlfriend at 23 – chores took over my life, then he dumped me

KNEADING dough in her spotless kitchen, Kendel Kay swished her bob and smiled at the camera on her phone.

Later, she uploaded her baking video to TikTok for her 500,000 followers with the caption: “POV: You chose the soft life & let your man take care of the finances so you can rest in your feminine energy & spend all day in the kitchen.”

Spending hours in the kitchen was normal for Kendel – in 2021, she moved 3,000 miles to be with her boyfriend of just a few weeks, leaving behind her successful modelling career to become a “stay-at-home girlfriend”.

Her boyfriend Luke Lintz, now 25 and CEO of a PR company worth millions, paid their rent, bills and for their glam getaways, while Kendel cleaned, cooked his meals and shared glimpses of her “idyllic” life online.

Now, however, Kendel is single, and admits she grew deeply unhappy with the life so many young women aspire to.

In fact, when the relationship ended in November 2023, she found herself in the grips of an identity crisis – and living off savings, having sacrificed her financial independence.

“It’s definitely risky to enter this lifestyle if you don’t have a safety net to fall back on,” she says.

“The loss of independence was the worst thing for me. It’s so fragile to rely on another human being like that.”

I call bullshit. 

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