"Amy Griffin is the founder of G9 Ventures, an investment firm that has backed a slew of cool, woman-centric brands and startups including Goop, Spanx, and Bumble. She's a mother of four; the devoted wife of a strapping blond billionaire ex-hedgefunder; and a fixture in the Instagram tributes of the rich and famous ( Reese, Gwyneth, Mariska: they all sing Griffin's praises)."
"In her book, The Tell, Griffin writes that this seeming perfection was hard won, something she was raised to strive for, and did - as a college athlete, a mother, an entrepreneur. Indeed, the word perfect appears 71 times in The Tell. "People often told me that I had the perfect life," she writes. "I was athletic, tall, and blond. John was successful and respected in his career..."
Amy Griffin founded G9 Ventures and backed consumer brands such as Goop, Spanx, and Bumble. She is a mother of four and married to a wealthy former hedge-funder, with widespread celebrity praise and curated public image. Griffin cultivated an appearance of beauty, success, and perfection and employed professionals to shape that image. She repeatedly frames her life as "perfect," while describing the emergence of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse by a male teacher from Amarillo, Texas. Those memories surfaced decades later and expose a stark contrast between public prosperity and private trauma.
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