# Maria & Arnold calling it quits after 25 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396 "2011-05-10T14:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/81 "2011-05-19T00:21:06Z")
The mom and kid live in Bakersfield. Talk about being exiled to Siberia! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/82 "2011-05-19T02:19:27Z")
get…out ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/83 "2011-05-19T02:20:53Z")
If only Maria had somebody in her family or extended family she could talk to about having an unfaithful husband… ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/84 "2011-05-19T02:31:51Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > While I am sure that many Dopers will find it crass and vulgar of me to say, I am willing to point out that the “other woman” is pig-ugly Well, it was fifteen years and at least one pregnancy ago. A lot of us are probably a less fetching in our late fourites then early thirties. And yea, that kid looks exactly like you’d think a young latino Arnold would look. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/85 "2011-05-19T07:08:39Z")
Maria and Arnold’s son Patrick tweeted that he wishes to be known as [Patrick Shriver](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43078355/ns/today-entertainment/) now. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/86 "2011-05-19T07:57:42Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Well, it was fifteen years and at least one pregnancy ago. A lot of us are probably a less fetching in our late fourites then early thirties. > > And yea, that kid looks exactly like you’d think a young latino Arnold would look. Actually looks depend a lot on bone structure also - some women like Sophia Loren stay looking fine, others spud out at about 35. My mom, who comes from a much different time [born in 1923] would probably say something along the lines of “well, you know how it is, some people are like that, they look young for years then they get old suddenly, and others get old fast” and she would be meaning how oriental women seem to stay looking young until they hit their 50s and 60s then they almost instantly do the wrinkled apple look, or how italian and spanish women are beautiful when young then poof go fat and frumpy in their mid 30s. [and I have noticed that this seems to hinge on bone structure and the ability to diet and exercise as opposed to working class poor who may have a non optimal starchy diet, work in smoky or chemical laden environments and have non desk jobs- as i have seen the same in pretty much ever ‘race’] ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/87 "2011-05-19T17:06:20Z")
I wonder if Arnold gave her a cashmere sweater that he got on the cheap because it had a small flaw in it. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/88 "2011-05-19T19:15:14Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Well, it was fifteen years and at least one pregnancy ago. A lot of us are probably a less fetching in our late fourites then early thirties. That’s true. [Here is a reference for how Mildred looked at the time](http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/arnold_schwarzenegger_love_child_mildred_patricia_baena_photo_gallery_pictures#tab=most_recent&id=91952). Compare and contrast with [1995 Maria](http://photos.extratv.warnerbros.com/galleries/arnold_schwarzenegger__maria_shriver_through_the_years/entry_image/361571-january_24_1995). It still beggars belief. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/89 "2011-05-19T19:25:01Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > While I am sure that many Dopers will find it crass and vulgar of me to say, I am willing to point out that the “other woman” is pig-ugly, and I wonder if that is even more of a slap in the face to Maria Shriver (who is at least somewhat attractive, even if in an unconventional way) that her husband cheated with such a revolting, hideous lowlife. > > I am not saying she is a lowlife because she is morbidly obese and utterly disgusting in appearance; I think she is a lowlife for having an affair with a married man while living under the same roof as him, his wife and their young children. She was not a naive innocent, tricked by slick predator pretending to be single, or taken by some singles-bar Casanova who fed her a line about how he and his wife were on the rocks, and were separated pending a divorce. She knowingly fucked a married man, under his wife’s (her employer) nose , and I am not going to shy away from calling her a slatternly whore. > > Of course, I fully acknowledge that Aryan Asshole Arnold has more personal responsibility for this sad, tawdry situation than anyone else in the world, and I think it would be perfectly fitting if he was photographically paired-up with his Walmart-quality “conquest” in every photo printed of him (in an inset picture) from here on out. > > (and yes, I know that the child doesn’t deserve any of this, and is NOT responsible in ANY WAY for the actions of his parents, and so I should point out that the above is just a rant to point out that the other woman is not an innocent victim in this situation. She had a choice, and chose to go along with a sleazy piece of shit named Arnold Schwarzenegger) Why, yes. I find you crass & vulgar. \*“pig-ugly” “revolting, hideous lowlife” “slatternly whore” \* She had sex at least once with a married man (who had economic power over her), neglected proper contraception & failed to abort the result. Hardly exemplary behavior but not, in my thinking, worth your Victorian phrases of condemnation. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/90 "2011-05-19T19:44:01Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Why, yes. I find you crass & vulgar. \*“pig-ugly” “revolting, hideous lowlife” “slatternly whore” \* > > She had sex at least once with a married man (who had economic power over her), neglected proper contraception & failed to abort the result. Hardly exemplary behavior but not, in my thinking, worth your Victorian phrases of condemnation. Sorry you feel that way…😃 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/91 "2011-05-19T19:46:09Z")
I’m actually surprised about this; I thought Arnold would ‘play by the rules’ and have enough self-control to stop himself if he were tempted to stray - his whole life has been so controlled otherwise. It’s also surprising that he managed to keep it a secret for so long. > [@Gnomes\_Ate\_My\_Baby](#): > > I’m just hoping someone makes another vase with the maid and an [additional symbolic horse child.](http://www.regretsy.com/2011/02/09/i-want-this-so-bad-i-could-cry/) > [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Why, yes. I find you crass & vulgar. \*“pig-ugly” “revolting, hideous lowlife” “slatternly whore” \* > > She had sex at least once with a married man (who had economic power over her), neglected proper contraception & failed to abort the result. Hardly exemplary behavior but not, in my thinking, worth your Victorian phrases of condemnation. They were really vile choices of words (his, not yours). I think I felt the spittle all the way from here. At least, I hope it was spittle. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/92 "2011-05-19T19:53:47Z")
Apparently in addition to being physically revolting, (obese and pig-ugly is actually putting it mildly, as several late-night talk show hosts have also pointed out) she is also a thief, as her ex-husband, (whom she was cheating on when she was fucking Arnold) has been paying child support for a kid that wasn’t his for the past 14 years. I hope the ex sues Arnold in a civil court, so he can recoup some of the money he had to pay out for the child of a man who has made 100’s of millions of dollars in his lifetime, by “acting” in awful movies, while the cuckold was scraping by on a landscapers salary. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/93 "2011-05-19T20:03:19Z")
[QUOTE=MPB in Salt Lake] I hope the ex sues Arnold in a civil court, so he can recoup some of the money he had to pay out for the child of a man who has made 100’s of millions of dollars in his lifetime, by “acting” in awful movies, while the cuckold was scraping by on a landscapers salary. [/QUOTE] I’ve wondered if the kid has a father-son relationship with his mother’s ex. If he does then I hope that doesn’t change. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/94 "2011-05-19T20:10:20Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Apparently in addition to being physically revolting, (obese and pig-ugly is actually putting it mildly, as several late-night talk show hosts have also pointed out) she is also a thief, as her ex-husband, (whom she was cheating on when she was fucking Arnold) has been paying child support for a kid that wasn’t his for the past 14 years. > > I hope the ex sues Arnold in a civil court, so he can recoup some of the money he had to pay out for the child of a man who has made 100’s of millions of dollars in his lifetime, by “acting” in awful movies, while the cuckold was scraping by on a landscapers salary. Do you honestly not realise how unpleasant you come across with these posts? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/95 "2011-05-19T20:56:15Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Apparently in addition to being physically revolting, (obese and pig-ugly is actually putting it mildly, as several late-night talk show hosts have also pointed out) she is also a thief, as her ex-husband, (whom she was cheating on when she was fucking Arnold) has been paying child support for a kid that wasn’t his for the past 14 years. > > I hope the ex sues Arnold in a civil court, so he can recoup some of the money he had to pay out for the child of a man who has made 100’s of millions of dollars in his lifetime, by “acting” in awful movies, while the cuckold was scraping by on a landscapers salary. Any child born to a married couple is assumed, by law, to be the child of both parents. There might be some outs here and there, but I don’t this guy qualifies for them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/96 "2011-05-19T23:11:54Z")
So, how’s Jerry Brown doing as Governor? ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/97 "2011-05-19T23:26:01Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Any child born to a married couple is assumed, by law, to be the child of both parents. There might be some outs here and there, but I don’t this guy qualifies for them. Legally, I am sure you are right, something that I learned about from reading various threads here on SDMB, but my guess is that if the ex-husband sues, Arnold will cut him a check ASAP, in an attempt to keep this sordid affair out of the news as much as possible in the future. I would guess that a savvy lawyer would tell him to wait for a while, until the publicity dies down, and then file suit, to get the bottom-feeding tabloid media’s interest all revved up again, and then Arnold would probably be willing to pay off a settlement, in order to finally bury the story once and for all. Of course, the above is just my own speculation, but as clearly Arnold is not hurting for $$$, I can easily imagine that it could work out for the ex. Finally, I really do think this is a Goddamn shame, for the innocent child, for Arnold & Maria’s kids, and for Maria and the mistresses’ ex-husband, all of whom were fucked over by Arnold and his land-whale of a mistress. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/98 "2011-05-20T00:41:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So, how’s Jerry Brown doing as Governor? Not sure what your point is, but all things considered, not bad. Better than the irresponsible goon than he replaced. Probably a subject best discussed in a different thread, though. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/99 "2011-05-20T01:17:58Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Any child born to a married couple is assumed, by law, to be the child of both parents. There might be some outs here and there, but I don’t this guy qualifies for them. Indeed. Pretty bullshit for innocent guys though, who get screwed 100% of the time in situations similar to this, while both cheaters gets off free. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/100 "2011-05-20T02:01:01Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Legally, I am sure you are right, something that I learned about from reading various threads here on SDMB, but my guess is that if the ex-husband sues, Arnold will cut him a check ASAP, in an attempt to keep this sordid affair out of the news as much as possible in the future. That might stop one out of a thousand news stories. Pretty poor return on investment. > [@](#): > > Finally, I really do think this is a Goddamn shame, for the innocent child, for Arnold & Maria’s kids, and for Maria and the mistresses’ ex-husband, all of whom were fucked over by Arnold and his land-whale of a mistress. Indeed. That poor kid is just starting high school. He’s lucky that he’s gonna have a nice little trust fund, but he could end up a real mess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396.md?page=6)