L'Wren Scott Lost Her Bet with Mormonism

L'Wren Scott with her Mormon family

  L'Wren Scott's greatest mission in life was to prove to her Mormon family that she could escape her Mormon upbringing.    But there is no escape from the indoctrinations of our childhood.  And in the end L'Wren found herself too emotionally wounded by the life she had chosen, to face that truth.  We can embrace our families' morés or fling them in a ditch.  But in choosing the latter, we will be oblivious to the fact that those devious little critters crawl back out of the mud, grab and cling onto the underside of our psyches like lice. L'Wren wanted it all.  But when her business failed, her relationship with Mick Jagger hit the rocks, she was childless at the age of forty-nine and remained by the vocabulary of her strict upbringing,  a "spinster," the fashion designer admitted defeat.  It was not by our terms, but rather by the standards still pinging within the depths of her psyche that caused this celebrity in her own right to commit suicide.

Within Mormonism, the road to happiness for women is chastity until marriage and having lots of children.    However, Luann Bambrough, who had been adopted as an infant by a Mormon family, chose a different path.  She escaped from her little hometown of  Roy, Utah in her twenties, or at least thought that she had.  The ambitious young woman changed her name to L'Wren Scott and moved to California where she became a stylist working with Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Julia Roberts.  L'Wren launched her first collection as a fashion designer in 2006. Her business appeared to take off as she dressed celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Sandra Bullock, Uma Thurman, First Lady Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of the former French prime minister. 

Since L'Wren's death, Mick Jagger has been pumping the air waves and cyberspace with paid shills claiming that he and L'Wren Scott were engaged, blissful and about to settle down.   But in truth, their relationship had soured to such a point that one gossip columnist hauntingly foreshadowed the grief-stricken L'Wren's death three days before it actually happened.  

Mick Jagger is not to blame for L'Wren's death.  It was her decision not his.  But it didn't take much for the man's philandering, rock-star karma to bludgeon her fragile, Mormon karma to death.  

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