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Standing Up to Her

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Some days later, Gerald wedded Kareen in a private wedding ceremony that made it to the blogs.

It wasn't because of the extravagant set-up that Kareen enforced that brought the public's attention to them, but because it was reported that most of Gerald's colleagues in the movie industry declined his invitation and didn't show up for his wedding.

Once again, the effort Kareen made to attract attention in a positive light failed.

She had deliberately invited and paid off two news publishers to take photos of her expensive wedding props and write a good article but the majority still found a way to push it aside and talk about something else.

Scandalous Gossip Blog reported that Gerald and Kareen's wedding had nothing to do with privacy after they paid off some paparazzi to write a good report about their wedding.

Bella's massive supporters which came about because she was a good person in the public's eyes and had never once involved herself in a public drama only to be publicly disresp
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