Jennifer Connelly attended Yale and Stanford, and didn't graduate from either

"Like, why?"

I'm going to guess you did not finish high school.

Or maybe she had a nervous breakdown and dropped out.

Or maybe she doesn't like to read.

Who is she, anyway?

Jennifer had an amazing set of tits when she was young. She didn’t need any degrees.

A beauty along the lines of Liz Taylor, stunningly so

Maybe she really hated it and got job offers and decided to just take them.

Flashdance

Matt Damon didn't graduate from Harvard, and he only had one semester left to go.

Are you as suspicious of him, OP?

She wanted to finish the degree, but her eyebrows had other plans.

Claire Danes said she only went to Yale "for the experience" and didn't graduate

Her movie career was taking off. Why go to school for drama when you can actually do what you're training for?

[quote]Jennifer had an amazing set of tits when she was young. She didn’t need any degrees.

I went to college with Connelly. Those tits showed up after a summer. They're fake

A structured education isn't a good fit for many creative types, and as their program proceeds they may realize that they aren't learning anything and that they really don't give a shit about graduating. And school's out forever.

She’s gorgeous.

Unconsummated like her relationship with moi.

This would have been around that time

Thought that was her natural look, cant tell. Terrible film. There is an active thread about films that were made as an excuse to sexually gratify the filmmakers. This film is one of them, fap material only.

She's an actress! They're nuts.

R11 They are absolutely not fake you stupid queen. Fake tits do not look like this.

I come from a family of big boobed women, boobs can also get to their full size as late as early twenties, and weight fluctuation changes your boob size significantly. Boobs are just sacks of fat. That's why she's flat as a board now - she's an anorexic who dieted away all her natural curves.

r16 link?

Brad Pitt, attending the University Of Missouri, went on Spring Break to Los Angeles six weeks prior to his graduation. He didn't come back to Mizzou to finish his degree. He was from a middle-class family in Springfield, MO that saved up to send him to college. His parents were mortified.

I wonder what they are saying now?

He was Grand Marshall of the Homecoming parade one year. Some alumni were not pleased, because he did not complete his degree. He wasn't an alumnus.

She was probably the campus pump, running around with all the top frat boys. Lord knows she could’ve had anyone she wanted. Spring breaks in Cancun with Decker and Miles and Cody. Summer pool parties that end with some puka shell necklaced stud on his knees rutting behind her. An endless orgy of muscle and sweat, with sultry young Jennifer struggling to douse a libido in overdrive. Her beauty destroyed any chance of collegiate success.

Suspicious of what? That her grades were low? Who the cares?

R11, what was she like?

I suspect low self esteem and or psychological issues

Actors want to act, nothing too deep.

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“Leagues” for men are about more than looks, R27.

R9 Claire Danes is a cunt. She's been getting rougher these last few years but by god "Serpant's kiss" or whatever, her Apple miniseries, where she tortures with an English accent... bitch has graduated to pure fuckin hard and ugly. And still insisting on that harsh blonde? Tsk.

I’m sure it’s more classier being in a Tom Cruise action movie. She used to do really good movies. I loved her in House of Sand and Requiem for a Dream. How do you go from such good movies to Michael Bay shit?

I remember, for her early films, critics only talked about how beautiful she was on screen. Only later did she become a good actress

Actors want to act. Good payday and a high profile project

R22 sounds like a creepy straight guy

A troll started another piggyback thread, so I will leave this here.

I wrote a screenplay for her. She was my muse.

R18 I wouldn't know..

This is the second thread I've seen today shitting on Jennifer Connolly of all people. The other thread was about how she wasn't that attractive back in the day. Fuck off, OP

I purchased Sun-Yi's degrees.

She double-majored in ass2ass.

Shame on you all for talking about my eternal queen Sarah like this😤

She was so fucking hot.

It’s virtually impossible to flunk out of Yale or Stanford…at either place they will do virtually anything to get you your degree. Either she didn’t give a fuck, or she fucked up big time.

R42, she left for a lucrative career.

Lots of people like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, etc, left great colleges early because they had major opportunities. While she's not at their level, she strove to be a big movie actress. Since she was already getting movie jobs, she figured there wasn't much point in staying in college

Sadly, she never really became a big star. She disappeared after winning her Oscar for A Beautiful Mind.

She did minor roles here and there. I assume her biggest hit was the recent Top Gun 2

She didn't become Julia Roberts but I would argue she was/is still a pretty big star. Everyone knows who she is and she's been in a couple of classic movies.

Why she's married to that creep Paul Bettany, I've no idea.

Beautiful women don't get asked out

Yeah, they do.

I love Jennifer Connelly. Years ago Vanity Fair did a cover story on her. She came across as anxious and insecure. Her son was young and it's about the time she got with Bettany but the were not married yet. The writer mentioned her emaciation or relationship with food on some way. Anyhow, Hollywood is a fked up place. She definitely beat the odds to become a decent adult leading actress. Good for her! Maybe university gave her some sense of normalcy that she never had. Maybe that's what she was after and not the degree.

Claire Danes fucks like a champ in Homeland. Mind you, who wouldn't even in simu-sex with that hot ginger Damian Lewis.

Word was that Dame Helen and Dame Maggie were going to jump her in the toilets after she robbed "their" Oscar for "Gosford Park". Dame Judi was meant to keep lookout but she pissed orf

VF article ca. 2002

Yeah, Connelly is a stronger performer than Halle Berry but both were required to get on all fours in front of the camera for the AA.

Both too beautiful.

[quote] “Leagues” for men are about more than looks, [R27].

Not R27, but for most straight men, it's mostly about looks (when assessing women).

Female actors have a limited shelf life. Why should Ms Connelly have squandered her best years of youthful beauty dicking around in New Haven for God’s sake?

R49, I believe Bettany is a cruel spouse . A narcissistic abuser. JC had a vulnerability that these vampires like to destroy and possess.

News flash: things change for people. I dropped out of college with only a year left. For valid reasons that were not outside factors. I just needed to. Maybe she did too.

r56 I remember one sighting from the old Gawker Stalker that described seeing Bettany screaming at/berating Connelly in public.

I never miss a Jennifer Connelly thing. What a star.

She got too skinny. She was beautiful with curves.

She looked great in Top Gun. Kudos to Tom Cruise for casting a leading lady not much younger than himself.

Why did she go to both Yale & Stanford? Did she think they'd be that different from one another? Surely one Ivy is much like another.

Bunp

R62, maybe because she wanted to be in California so she could easily get movie roles

I still can't believe she showed snatch from the back as in R18 but then again she did that infamous double dildo scene in Requiem for a Dream. Today she seems to be in the "respectable Oscar winner" club. Did she have a stage mother pushing her to these extremes or was it just all her doing?

R62 Wikipedia says she studied English Lit @ Yale then after 2 yrs transfered to Stanford to study drama.

She was an adult woman when she did the nudity.

It seems like beauty really does scar people, or at least sets them up to be taken advantage of. Jennifer, like Jonathan Rhys Meyers, seems profoundly negatively impacted by the way people treated her because of her looks, even in her work as well as her personal life.

If you want to be taken seriously as an actor in terms of craft, and treated like a normal person rather than some kind of unreal pin-up star/wank fantasy, better to be photogenic and appealing (maybe even sexy, in a weird or average way), but not model-gorgeous and beautiful.

She’s reportedly a very nice person.

She’s got a really crappy husband. Those texts with Johnny Depp were disgusting.

I know r70 . Poor thing

I love her forever.

I know a director who worked with her. He had only nice things to say about her notes on the script and working with her as an actress

She’d have been perfect in the Winona Ryder role in Black Swan having worked with the director a couple of times already it may have had even more resonance.

I take that back. She’d only worked with him one time up until then.

She did too much Ass-to-Ass while in college.

I knew a few kids at school from very wealthy families who stopped one or two credits short just to “travel” or float around trying various careers that had nothing to do with a degree but we’re possible via their parents having connections.. I think they knew they would get pushed along by the parents anyway in life.

In Jennifer’s case, if she was starting to get career opportunities then maybe she figured it would be a waste of time to stay in school. And with acting, you never know if the opportunities will come around again.

I knew Connelly in college. Yes she was nice, but “inert” might be a better word.

She kept to herself and her small group of friends. She wasn’t particularly active in college groups or activities.

Jennifer has said in interviews that she got decent grades at Yale but she because she worked herself into a depression. She said she had no social life and just studied all the time because she was desperate to prove that she had more substance than her public image would suggest. She has a perfectionist personality that fed into the overworking and in the end, she says she chose Stanford because it "sounded sunny".

Recently she did an interview where she revealed that when her son got into Yale, she considered going back to finally finish her degree, and got as far as filling out the application but never sent it in. That was five years ago and she says she still thinks about going back but she can never seem to justify the time commitment (she has an 11 year old daughter and balances her work schedule with whatever that husband of hers is doing).

R49 with regards to JC's weight issues, there are not many times that she's spoken about how she feels about her body/weight. The question isn't ever asked of her anymore, and I have a feeling it's because it's a sensitive subject that her publicist tells interviewers is off-limits. But back when it was something she talked about, she revealed a really unhealthy relationship with her curves. Things like wearing bathing suits under her clothing to flatten her chest, and not being able to stand the feeling of her own flesh pressing against furniture when she sat down, and trying on 50 different outfits and still feeling too "disgusting" to leave the house. And it seems to have started in her teens. (She said the weight issues were something she tried to shake off when she went to college, where she hoped it wouldn't matter how she looked, only what she thought.)

I know it's a bit off-topic for the thread, but I always see people comment that her eating issues started when she got thin in her 30s, but I think it's been an issue her entire life - it just wasn't visible from the outside until she lost enough weight to fit the Hollywood ideal. And I think her professional relationship with Nicolas Ghesquiere isn't helpful. I read somewhere she tailors her workouts to fit the clothing she wears for him. And he designs for THIN women, even by runway standards, he fetishizes thinness. I imagine for someone with Jennifer's history and personality, it's incredibly easy to take it too far.

R80 is JC publicist. R78, I think JC was and is very vulnerable and insecure, but so kind and nice . The type the bully, insecure ( bad type) wants to dominate and take their rage out on .

JC has two sons . One previous to Paul B and asshole Bettany . I pray one of them did not delude themselves into believing they are trans female. 😢🙏

And with asshole Bettany lol

R81 I doubt her publicist would be throwing shade at Ghesquiere. It's a lucrative relationship.

R82, why do you care if they are trans or not? The obsession with trans people here is so weird

You can't ask anyone about the weight, whether they're thin or plus-sized. Its too personal a matter

I recall the sighting on Gawker, but I recalled it differently

The older son is an engineer for Lockheed, and the younger is a composer at the New England Conservatory. Cute twink.

This family photo speaks volumes

Husband has bitchface for days.

I don't see anything unusual about this image other than the family is well dressed. Americans dress badly.

Why the fuck should I care about education after I won an Oscar? And why the fuck should fat OP care? How does my lack of a degree concern OP????

Beautiful daughter. Jennifer has a very sad look in her eyes . Paul is a jealous abuser

The younger boy looks too thin

Don't see the same thing you see. Didn't realize their child had an old school first name, its cute

Poor kid

What's with all the old pics? Something more recent

It was weird watching He's Just Not That Into You, where Scarlett plays the mistess of Jennifer's husband (Bradley Cooper). The film really emphasizes Scarlett's curves, particularly in the office scene where Bradley strips and gropes her. Then, Jennifer comes in and tries to seduce him and it's just sad. If you weren't familiar with Connelly beforehand, you'd have no idea that she was once the voluptuous bombshell. While her role in Top Gun 2 was pointless, it was nice to see her be sexy and charming again.

R97, that kid is so cute and looks exactly like his mom . The family is stunning. I truly hope they are happy and they live well .

Bump

The son is very handsome. I’m howling at this comment from Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer’s kid on his Insta.

R94 must be 333 pounds of juicy fat, if she sees the boys as too thin.

I still think her cokehead husband bullied her into full fledged anorexia. She seems extremely passive and meek as a person.

Inaccurate. She struggled a bit with body image from her adolescence..

Yes, but she didn't start starving herself until she got with him.

Her career is not what it should have been, but it’s better than Paul Bettany’s.

Is he the bitter, resentful type?

Did he write ghastly text messages or did he just receive them from Johnny Depp?

Bitchface Bettany. Has a ring to it.

Why should Paul Bettany be a SUPERSTAR? The hype was mind-boggling!

Dark water was such an interesting and haunting film.

R101, the kid is getting into Kardashian territory.

Paul Bettany said in a magazine interview, that being in the delivery room for birth of their son, it was “ like watching my favorite pub burn down .”

What a bitch! Bitchface Bettany.

What does that even mean, R111?

R113, he’s implying that seeing a baby come out of her vagina and possibly stretching it a bit lessened his attraction to her

that is absolutely despicable. what a level 5 asshole.

Bump . I perused their insta accounts and they seem ostensibly happy , but her eyes show sadness . Something creepy about him. Beautiful kids though

Bettany sounds like a typical DLer with that vagina insult.

It's not an insult and men are justified in feeling revolted by the sight, but they don't have to announce it to the world like PB did. Men should stay out of the delivery room but nowadays all bitches insist that their men should (must/has to) watch them crap the baby along with the nastiest smelling juice, blood, piss and shit and then feel sexually attracted to them for the rest of their lives and never think that little Susie creamed out of that hole whenever they're making love. Women in the past had it right to keep the guys OUT.

I agree men are justified in not wanting it to see it R118 but it was most definitely an insult and is par for the course on DL so I'm surprised so many here are disgusted by it.

Also, you have a lot of anger towards women, clearly demonstrated in your very graphic and bitter post.

I THINK we can all agree that he is a cad for publicly stating his Dataloungesque thought, which is humiliating for his wife.

I don't believe it is common practice for men to be AT THE VAGINA END when women are in childbirth.

Straight and bi men love the sight of Pussy. You jealous pathetic queens are so well pathetic

God r118, get some therapy you misogynistic POS.

Birth ="favorite pub burning down"= affection mixed with fear and dark humor.

R118 needs its pussy and mouth sewn shut

She looks gaunt in recent photos.

Not when there's a babies head coming out of it R122. R118 is unstable but correct about that.

R118 is also clearly 90 years old, as no one names their kid Susie anymore

Well this thread certainly took a turn!

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^ What happened? She looks terrible. She is either anorexic or a drug addict.

It's been established multiple times that she's had an eating disorder for many years.

Severe stress causes eating disorders. I don’t like Paul

Yikes. Dying hipsters. They both look like they're on the junk.

She was very beautiful, but her current state is not necessarily his fault. They seem quite content together in whatever their dance is. Looks and sounds like drugs.

Heroin addicts with money live forever.

R123 Spoken like a true frau. Truth hurts, dear. R118 is absolutely right. No wonder straight marriages are so sexually dysfunctional and straight men cheat so much when you have harridans forcing them to look at their bloody, stretched out hoohas as they inevitably shit on the table while popping out a cheese-covered brat. My sister confided that our grandma told her to keep her husband at her shoulder and not look at her vag during birth. Grandma knew what’s what.

^Yet, somehow they went on to have more children and are still happily married. Truth hurts, jealous pig @ R134.

Oh honey R134, we all know you're R118.

^Uh, no dummy.

Just FYI: Being in a movie is way more fun than sitting in a Lecture Hall, taking notes, while some Autistic Professor drones on and on about quantum physics!

Which would YOU choose?????

Personally I find formal learning a much more enriching experience than a movie set.

She was a "child actor" so her College career is suspect. I doubt she ever went to college.

^ "attended college"

Fuck she looks shriveled and scary now! 😱💀🙏🥴.

I actually hope she’s on junk- that would at least be some fun. Eating disorders are just depressing.

Pray for JC ! For her to feel true contentment and peace of mind and protection from abuse