Bingo!
I'm sure she's lazy, too, but that's like 5th or 6th down the list of what she is, under "star-fucky", "moronic", "completely phony baloney", and "a total embarrassment".
Howard's like that creepy lying kid in 5th grade that told retarded lies to cover up his shame over eating bagged cereal.
"and she..........speaks 5 languages!"
Does she?
A part of it was obviously Beth feeding him the bullshit. I think Howard bought into her bs hook, line, and sinker, and then he took to the airwaves to brag on it. She couldn't tell him to stop, because she used it to reel him in, but she also couldn't run with it, because she knew it was bs.
So we get this "strange, flawed tapesty" (great phrasing), a.k.a. complete bullshit.
I would love to know, and to have seen the look on his hideous face, when it finally hit him that she was completely full of shit.
The rope-a-dope she pulled on him was extraordinary. It was a double whammy, or even a quadruple whammy, depending how you score it.
She went from the bullshit of "I was a European top model, but I'm over that now, and I don't want to be famous", to the reality of "I was never a model, I
do want to be famous, and you're going to pay for it to happen".