The Kristen Stewart Scandal: Was She Your Role Model? (We Hope Not)
posted on August 1, 2012 at 7:57 am
The hearts of Twilight fans are breaking after Kristen Stewart admitted to cheating on her beau Robert Pattinson with a married man. Apparently, she and Rupert Sanders, the director of her movie Snow White and the Huntsman, had a brief fling. Sanders has been married for 10 years to model and actress Liberty Ross, who played Stewart’s mother in the movie.
Stewart and Pattinson met on the set of the movie Twilight and began dating a few years ago. Twilight fans have fallen in love with the couple, so when Stewart admitted her indiscretions, some fans took it very personally.
Sanders’ father recently told People, “She [Stewart] is a very pretty girl and when you work that closely with someone for so long, sometimes things happen.” I completely agree–when people work as closely with others as they do in the movies, it can stir up emotions. That’s how Stewart and Pattinson got together, after all.
And so many other Hollywood couples have come together this way, like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (Mr. and Mrs. Smith), Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song), Katy Perry and Russell Brand (Get Him to the Greek), Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan) and so many more. It’s almost a cliché. Some of these couples are still together and some not.
I believe that for Twilight fans, the magic of Stewart and Pattinson’s romance began with their characters’ romance in the movie. Then, when the couple came together in real life, it allowed that fairy tale romance to continue. They became an iconic couple in a relationship that many young girls were striving for in their own lives.
But as we all know, life is not scripted like a movie, and temptation is so much more alive in Hollywood–especially on the sets of movies. As much as on-set romances are popular in Hollywood, breakups are just as prevalent, primarily because couples work so closely with one another for long periods of time.
If Stewart and Pattinson can fall for each other after an intimate working relationship, why would it surprise anyone when one or the other falls for someone else they work so closely with? It’s a sad truth, but it’s also become a common scenario in Hollywood.
For this reason, I can only conclude that Hollywood is just no place to look to for solid relationship role models.
PI ladies, were you fans of the Twilight couple? Did you hold their relationship in high regard?
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Years ago, I was a Twilight fan. And I wouldn’t say that she was my role model, but I believed she would be a better example in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it seems as though she has fallen into one of the traps laid out in the Devil’s Playground.
them think they can achieve it in the real world. They don’t know how to fill that emptiness so they try playing the script. In reality you don’t really know if they truly loved each other. I think its all just to fill a void which only God can fill.
My best friend LOOOOVESS them…and she is taking it pretty hard..
I’m not allowed to watch Twilight,thank the Lord,I’m not into the whole Robert Patinson/Kristen Stweart thing. i want to see Snow White and The Huntsman,because it sounds interesting,i never thought of Kristen Stweart as a role model. so meh. great article though!!!
I am not allowed to watch it either but i never liked vampires to begin with. Any way I think just the thought like mentioned in the blog of the intense love in the movie makes them think they can achieve it in the real world. They don’t know how to fill that emptiness so they try playing the script. In reality you don’t really know if they truly loved each other. I think its all just to fill a void which only God can fill.
I liked the books. Have never seen the movies. i honestly really don’t want too. i really didn’t know what to think of her but now…… i think i have an opinion. Thank you for posting this article.
Katy Perry and Russel Brand met at the MTV music awards, not Get Me To The Greek.
Ya, and I’m sure Robert and kristen me before twilight. But the point is that doing a movie with someone really brings you closer to them
From what I gathered, they first met when they had a kissing scene in “Get Him to the Greek,” which was deleted in the final version. When interviewed about the scene, she said he had quite an affect on her. She saw him again at the VMAs, after which they officially got together.
Why give up Robert Pattinson for someone else? he truly loved her
and was deeply hurt by this he treated her like she was his Bella. i did hold the relationship higher than others. he propped her on a pedastal. and she cheats! WHY!!
Without the love of God dwelling inside of us we are capable of doing anything. 1 John 4 and 1 John 3:7-10.
I was a Twilight fan with I first watched the movie & realized I was obsessed with it. I saw that it was thinking about it all the time and remember that God said if you obsess with something, its your idol. So I renewed my thinking more on God & got rid of everything that reminded me of it. When the next Twilight series came out, I wasn’t obsessed to watch it. I held myself calm and not screaming to watch it. No excitement pretty much. I realized that if we ask God, He will help us. I’m a fan of it now at all. Hollywood dies, God is forever alive.
*not a fan of it. Oops!
Well, I agree Hollywood stars have some shkrt relationships. So far, I’m proud of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith for staying together all these years. They have beautiful children and such a beautiful couple. May God bless them. I hope nothing goes wrong
The answer to the question: “Why do we look up to celebrity relationships” is in the question. Celebrities are influential people in our society, but are not meant to be followed or idolized, as they are human beings just like us. Kristen Stewart made a mistake. She fell. Because of that, we shouldn’t judge her. I pray for Kristen Stewart and her family.
Please, don’t obsess and cry and be an ultra fan over this situation. It’s there problem and we don’t need to stick our noses into it or weep because our favorite star made a personal misstep. Come on! There’s so much more to life then Twilight or celebrities for that matter.
I don’t get why you post stuff like this on here? I mean… sounds so cliche, but it’s thieerr lives. We don’t have to go running around shouting ‘OMG DID YOU HEAR WHAT KRISTEN DID OHHH MY GOSH SOOO SCANDALOUS’…. our relationship with God is what’s important here.. not Twilight or celebrities or whatever..
sorry.. I don’t mean to be a poop.. but yeah. God’s grace is enough for everyone. Even people who mess it up big time and are unfortunately well-known enough to have their failure spread throughout the whole world…
I’m a fan of the Twilight franchise, but not so much the actors themselves. Though I did think Rob and Kristen were rather a cute couple. It is pretty sad to see this happen.
It’s kinda sad.
Don’t get me wrong,there are still some hollywood couples that are happily married. Will and Jada,Harry Hamlin and Lisa Renna.
I have never really been a fan. I like the movies but as for what the actors do when the camera stops I don’t really care. Hollywood is pretty fake at times so I stopped caring about what my favorite actors did in their personal lives. I think teens now-a-days need to show the younger generation that Hollywood is no good, unfortunately(being as I am 17 and a Junior in high school) I know that most teens today are no much better role-models for the generation beneath us than Snooki or even Kirsten Stewart.
Never really was a fan of Stewart or Twilight. But I’m not surprised either way…
Personally I was not a fan of the couple. For the most part (at least from what I have seen and learned) movie couples (who got together after being featured as romantic partners in a movie) who get together fall in love with the character in the movie. In reality, that is not who they are. Once they realize this, things go wrong. They say “Wait a minute, this isn’t the same person I fell in love with on the set!” Because they are right!
Now, I have loved Kristen Stewart since I saw her in Zathura (SP?) and I have never had much of a thing for Robert.. Don’t get me wrong, he’s probably a great guy. But it is disappointing that she would do such a thing.
None the less, life is life, and despite being in the spotlight they are still people. People make mistakes, people have flaws.
I’ve watched the movies and I felt it was nice to see a happy couple who seemed to genuinely love each other. I was/am not necessarily a fan, but it still dissapointing to see yet ANOTHER hollywood couple fall apart. I think they would have done much better as Christians, but nevertheless, it’s still sad to see this happen.
You know we should be praying for these people, not criticizing them. If you are going to list off why people are horrible, can you end with a prayer for God to save them? People make mistakes and yes what happened was inexcusable, but that doesn’t make her worse then the rest of us.
just doing that with anyone is awful, but with a married man! someone who has pledged his life to another woman! no matter how pretty she is, neither should have fallen into that temptation, an its not like sanders’ model wife wasnt gorgeous too!
I’ve seen more than enough of this stuff on magazine covers and the internet and wish that we could keep it off of PI. It seems very similar to a gossip column. :/
I pray that Kristen finds Jesus Christ!
I love Twilight and Kristen Stewart and I will forever be a fan of her.
Not a fan, and this is just the icing on the cake.