Cenk Uygur
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You Can Now Rent A Mom
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November 16, 2015
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4:42Now PlayingA new service lets people rent a motherly figure. “Need A Mom” allows customers to pay for a woman to come and give them emotional support. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Need a Mom is a service through which busy and/or emotionally needy customers can purchase, for $40 an hour, “a short-term, temporary” mother, as Nina Keneally’s website puts it: “When you need a mom … not just YOUR mom.” Keneally, a Brooklynite, will sit with you at a coffee house listening to your love-life woes. She will teach you how to sew a button back on a shirt. She’ll accompany you to Whole Foods and help you cook a meal with the groceries you buy.
One thing Keneally won’t do: actually be your friend, as in for real. Forty dollars an hour can’t buy you love.
In the few weeks since she’s been in business, Keneally’s attracted a bevy of press coverage that belies the size of her actual business—just six paying clients so far, with some more who have expressed interest. An agent from William Morris Endeavor has also gotten in touch about television possibilities, as Keneally told me when I caught up with her earlier this week.”
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