Weird, weird, weird. Weird is the word. That’s what I thought when I first came across the news on Gawker that Elisabetta Canalis chose to hide from the world after her breakup with hunk o’ burning love George Clooney by going on Dancing with the Stars. 

Ummm, I don’t know about the rest of you single girls out there who have to deal with a hard break up, but joining a reality TV show is not the first idea that pops into my head. How can anyone possibly hide out on a reality TV show? Seriously. That is the weirdest way I’ve ever heard of anyone ever in the history of breakups dealing with a breakup. 

Here’s my Elisabetta Canalis imitation:  “I’m having the WORST breakup ever. I can’t face the world. Please, no cameras. Oh, I forgot, I’m on a reality TV show. The cameras are helping me with the break up.”

Granted, my impersonation probably won’t be featured on Comedy Central any time soon, but you definitely get the idea. Don’t like my Elisabetta Canalis? I don’t blame you. It can’t hold a candle to the idiocy of the real woman’s quotes about her George Clooney breakup.

From US:

“Here in Los Angeles I have found serenity. I've also found work. It was a difficult time for me, but you have to get on with things."

I guess that the city of angels holds more peace than most in the entertainment industry--or any other industry for that matter---give it credit for. 

How do you deal with a breakup? Since my significant other and I ended our long relationship in April last year, I’ve dealt with it like most normal people deal with breakups and have ignored all attempts by the papparazzi to take bad photos of me going to the grocery store. 

Which is the exact opposite of what Elisabetta Canalis did when she chose to go on a reality TV show. 

Like most people who have just ended relationships, I surrounded myself with nice people to help me out, decided to “put myself out there” a bit, and consciously tried not to entire entire gallons of ice cream at one sitting. (That doesn’t mean, necessarily, that I have succeeded in avoiding that particular bad behavior, just that I’m aware it’s not a good decision.)

How do you deal with painful breakups? Do you have any advice for other women going through the same thing?