Woman gets her Legally Blonde moment after lawyer ex mocks her dreams, catches him creeping her profile 3 years later after getting into top law school: 'He literally scoffed at me'

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Isabella Penn
Apr 21, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

As women, we know how hard it is to be taken seriously in the workplace. Though it's getting better with time, we still remain underpaid and underappreciated compared to our male counterparts. That's why we love a good Legally Blonde story. Being a woman who is unapologetically herself and embraces all the girly aspects of womanhood does not make you any less capable.

This woman had her own real-life Elle Woods moment. She was just 21 when her then-boyfriend, a 27-year-old lawyer, actually scoffed at her dream of becoming an attorney. She wanted to work her way up as a paralegal, but he basically told her to stay in her lane and maybe aim for court clerk instead.

Fast-forward three years, and she's headed to UC Berkeley Law with a 98th percentile LSAT score and some petty motivation in her back pocket. It's giving "remember those hours we spent in the hot tub on spring break? Well this is SO MUCH BETTER."  Elle would be proud.

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  • To top it all off, she recently caught him creeping on her LinkedIn profile. After updating with her new role, she promptly unblocked just so he could see the big news. Now that’s how you serve justice.

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  • "My extremely tiny and petty Legally Blonde moment"

    My three year odyssey of spite finally came together yesterday. When I was a fresh college grad in 2022 (21f at the time), I dated an attorney for about 3 months (27m). He was a talented lawyer,
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  • spoke lucidly about what he did for work, and I trusted his opinions about the legal profession. So, after I finished a postgrad internship, I told him my real postgrad aspiration
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  • was to get a job at a law firm as a paralegal, and work as one until I was ready to apply for law school. He literally scoffed at me and told me I would be
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  • better off as a court clerk. I don't mean to harp on court clerks at all, it is a very difficult job, but it is more administrative in nature, and from the way he said it, it was
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  • exceedingly clear he meant the comment to be derogatory. He didn't elaborate on why he said this, but it was implied. I was taken aback and really, really hurt,
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  • but at 21 I hadn't learned to have a spine yet, so I brushed it off. A few weeks later, I was working my first paralegal job; we broke up shortly after for reasons I'm sure you can guess.
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  • Anyway, he was right that I'm not going to be a paralegal. I took my LSAT last fall, scored in the 98th percentile, sent out my apps, committed to UC Berkeley Law yesterday
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  • (ranked about 90 spots above his law school, but who's counting?) and am going to become a lawyer. He is currently blocked on LinkedIn after I was the recipient of some profile creeping
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  • from him, but today I'm going to unblock him so he can see. Definitely reminiscent of the scene from Legally Blonde where she gets the prestigious internship -
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  • "remember those hours we spent in the hot tub on spring break? Well this is SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!" Edit: I'm blown away by the number of kind
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  • comments this post has received!! Thank you so much for sharing in my pettiness. I hope you're all achieving your dreams too
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  • Lo_tessa "What, like it's hard?"
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  • rainreset My favorite story from Reese Witherspoon was when she had jury duty after doing
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  • Legally Blonde. They went through the trial and in deliberation the jury had to decide a foreman. Every juror said it should be Reese. She asked
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  • why me? And they all said "Because you went to law school!" Edit to add: Bend and snap, girl!
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  • CynGuy Gurl, you go! ... and congratulations on your UC Berkeley law school admittance! Major major props!!
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  • 15thcenturybeet Congrats! Remember how that scummy ex bf Warren ends up single and alone and with poor job
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  • prospects at the end of the movie. While Elle gets the job, the cute partner, lots of friends, and is still the nicest person! Good on you for being an Elle!!
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  • bleedingdaylight0 Congrats! Back in 2015, I noticed that my town was violating open meeting laws. I
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  • asked the city law director for an explanation and he condescendingly offered. to explain the law to me. I filed a law suit within a week. Won that case, and then sued again a year
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  • later when the city violated the injunction. I won that case, too. I started law school the same year we settled the second case, and I am now a second-year attorney.
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  • The city wisely chose not to renew the contract of the bad law director. I really should send that guy a Christmas card.
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