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A trophy wife is commonly used to describe any wife who is considered a status symbol.
The term trophy wife was coined by Julie Connelly, a senior editor of Fortune magazine, in a cover story in the issue of Aug. 28, 1989 and immediately entered common usage. Although it often has a pejorative spin, the term originally meant a corporate titan's second (or third) wife, who was younger and beautiful.
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A trophy wife is commonly used to describe any wife who is considered a status symbol.
The term trophy wife was coined by Julie Connelly, a senior editor of Fortune magazine, in a cover story in the issue of Aug. 28, 1989 and immediately entered common usage. Although it often has a pejorative spin, the term originally meant a corporate titan's second (or third) wife, who was younger and beautiful. As used by Fortune Magazine, a trophy wife was almost always highly accomplished in her own right and was quite intelligent. This important point is usually ignored by the popular media, and in popular usage, a trophy wife is usually considered to be unintelligent, sometimes even a bimbo.
The marriage of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith to oil magnate, J. Howard Marshall, was widely followed by the U.S. media, as an extreme example, as at the time of their marriage: he was 89 years old and she was 26.
Some sources claim the term was coined earlier (for example the Online Etymology Dictionary cites 1984 ) but that seems incorrect. The Oxford English Dictionary confirms Aug 28, 1989 as its first use.
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- , article in the Sunday Times (UK), stating that "Academics say they have found the first evidence that successful British males increasingly prefer a spouse with a high-powered job to one who stays at home with the children."
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