Nasty picklesWhat's in them? See below. I like a good one. Not-so-good ones can be pretty awful. My husband paid $175 for a jar of...
* Sold bad stocks to her friends and told them not to sell it, even though she had already sold her shares long ago, thus making them lose thousands of dollars. * Cheated all her partners in her catering businesses. * Repeatedly overcharged her catering customers and cheated her employees. Also repeatedly and regularly stole leftover food that customers had paid for in order to re-use it in her catering business. slave-labor and verbally abusing and belittling him. * Insulted her mother and her cooking in front of others. Said "My mother only makes peasant food." * Slapped an employee in public. Slapped her husband in public. * Regularly browbeats employees, so that they all have to walk on eggshells. * Uses the work of other creative people and either refuses to pay them or pays them very little and takes credit for their work. (all her books are written by other people who were underpaid by her, but she takes credit for writing them). * Stalked her husband, harbutted him, and vandalized his property for a year or so after he left her. * Dragged out the divorce for many years, trying to avoid giving her husband what was due to him. * Hires creative people with low self esteem so she can manipulate and take advantage of them * Doesn't live up to business agreements. Doesn't give business partners the share of profits that were agreed to. * Is cheap with her own money and her employees but spends as much of the money of business partners as possible. * Published recipe books full of mistakes * Ignored her daughter her entire life because she was too busy working. * After the separation with her husband, used money to bribe her daughter into never speaking to him, even though he had been a loving father. * Staged a charity event to remodel and showcase an old house she bought so she could get free remodeling and personally profit from the event. Then she refused to disclose how much money was taken in until after a few weeks of public pressure.
The following are the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Martha Stewart has all these symptoms.
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements) 2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love 3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should buttociate with, other special or high-status people (or insbreastutions) 4. requires excessive admiration 5. has a sense of enbreastlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations 6. is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends 7. lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others 8. is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her 9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or atbreastudes
