This article was one of Herald Lifestyle’s best-read stories of 2024. A Dubai millionaire’s wife has caused a stir online after she revealed that she spent more than $3 million in one week. Linda Andrade, 23, spent a huge chunk of her husband’s salary after spending more than $US356,000 ($589,087) on a shopping spree of designer brands, as well as $200,000 ($330,948) on gold and $7200 ($11,914) on chocolate.
The woman, who boasted of her financially frivolous ways on TikTok, detailed her spending habits over a recent week, which prompted social media users to call her antics out for being “excessive” and “over the top”. The self-proclaimed “Original Dubai Housewife” says her relentless card use was “how much” she made in her job as a millionaire’s wife, prior to her sharing in great detail exactly what she had bought..