Dating isn’t easy for anybody, but when it finally does work, all that scrolling through profiles and all the dead end dates you go on seem worth it. But when you’re caught in that dating whirlpool, it can sure feel like you’re doing something wrong even if you’re just being yourself.
Attraction matters. Chemistry matters. Being true to yourself matters. You do have to be somewhat picky — that’s the only way you’re going to make a match that actually lasts.
Jenna Thompson has been on the dating treadmill for too long, and she pins her lack of success on one thing: how good she looks.
On an appearance on British morning show This Morning, the mother of two, who also happens to be a bikini model, didn’t find a warm reception from the audience as she explained her dating troubles.
“I am too good looking to date,” she explained. “I intimidate nice guys.”
“I seem to attract guys who are only after one thing. People who think they’ll have a go and just want hook-ups. No one is looking for anyone that serious.”
One of the hosts suggested she try a more modest look, but Jenna dismissed the idea.
“Thing is, if you change yourself you’re never going to be truly happy, are you?” she replied.
“How long can you wear a mask before it starts to slip? You’re not going to be authentic to the person you’re dating. Why change the way I look just to fit into a category for the sort of person I’m looking for? Maybe I haven’t met that type of person yet.”
However, Jenna also admitted that she can be fairly selective when it comes to the men she looks to date.
“Maybe it’s the type of guy I go for,” she said. “I’ve got a definite type. I have a definite type in looks and that seems to come with a certain territory. I like heavily tattooed guys, good-looking, who look after themselves, gym goers. I need someone who is able to connect with me on a deeper level.
“I like someone who has quite a bit of depth and personality. This is why I quite like people who are heavily tattooed, because they’re normally quite deep and artistic.”
If Jenna though the studio audience’s reception was cool, the online audience was downright frosty in their response.
People who had tuned into the show popped up in her Instagram and Twitter accounts to let her know exactly what they thought.
“Hahaha to good looking…lol…maybe your too full of yourself…maybe you want the Barbie fantasy too much…maybe high maintenance…there is a reason your the age you are with kids and no husband…its not because your too good looking,” one person wrote in a grammar nightmare of a comment.
“No guys want that much plastic,” wrote another. “They’ll get a Real Doll. At least she won’t talk back.”
Really, folks didn’t hold back on Jenna. They got harsh.
“Hahaha listen doll face. Nobody is intimidated by you. That’s your perception. I think, with that mindset, your personality is probably trash,” wrote one person on Twitter . “That’s why you don’t date.”
“Ego makes people ugly, just saying,” wrote another, “You are pretty, but people like you are a dime a dozen.”
Jenna isn’t letting the negativity bring her down, however.
Speaking with the Daily Mail , she said “It’s nothing that’s going to spoil my day. I’m going to speak my mind. I’m not going to introvert myself just because people don’t like the way I talk about stuff.
“I knew it would be controversial. I was mentally prepared there was always going to be backlash, but I don’t read everything or get upset by anything.”
And she’s completely unapologetic about her lifestyle choices.
“I’m in my prime in my life, mentally and physically,” she said. “I’m really looking after myself. I’ve got myself super fit. I’m 36, I’ve grown up and I’m at the prime in my life and I don’t think I should hide that.”
Watch Jenna’s This Morning interview below!
