!! FridgeBrilliance

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* In ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada'', Miranda is a woman in her mid fifties (maybe even 60s) who somehow has 10 year old twins. The reason why would be because her obsessive focus on work carried over into her personal life, which is why she can't stay married and why she had children so late in life. It's not unlikely that Miranda would have undergone fertility treatment due to both her age and workaholic tendencies to get pregnant. Women who utilize fertility treatment to get pregnant frequently end up with more than one child.
** Or she may have adopted the twins if she wanted to become a mother but didn't want [[MarriedToTheJob to give up essentially a year of work]] to have them.
** Not to mention considering how cutthroat the fashion industry is and the standards of being thin, ("0 is the new 2 and 2 is the new 4") and the inevitable weight gain from pregnancy, it's also just possible Miranda paid a surrogate to carry twins for her. She does have the money and connections for it after all.
* Andy doesn't care about fashion, she's using Runway as a stepping block to get a job she actually wants. As a runway, if you will.

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* In the film why did Miranda end up giving [[spoiler:the recommendation for Andy despite the latter quitting on her in Paris?]] It's actually because Miranda realizes that [[spoiler:Andy's greatest strength is her loyalty. Despite being in a job she hates, Andy comes to admire Miranda and see the method to her madness, even comforting her in a MomentOfWeakness. And what did Miranda do in the car after screwing Nigel over? Tell Andy that while she is touched, loyalty doesn't mean much in the fashion world and that Andy's already learned to screw people over, say with Emily.]] Miranda's not stupid, so she deduces off-screen that when Andy leaves without a word that [[spoiler:her words made Andy realize there's no point to being loyal to Miranda and left the latter without an assistant for Paris]]. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Oops.]] And Miranda is right, but [[spoiler:she knows that another boss in another industry will be lucky to have that loyalty, hence why she says only an idiot wouldn't hire Andy.]]
* Crossing over into FridgeHorror: Emily is doing her absolute damnedest to make sure that she is the perfect assistant to Miranda. She does whatever she says, is constantly working, and clearly loves fashion, as she dreams of getting to go to Paris Fashion Week, advancing her career, and getting all manner of haute couture outfits. It seems strange, then, that she makes amateurish mistakes and gradually becomes forgetful--especially because she's worked with Miranda for some time. Then it becomes clear that Emily has developed a full-on restrictive eating disorder in the name of fitting into those same outfits. She eats nothing but individual cubes of cheese, and even then only when she's in danger of passing out. One of the classic signs of being malnourished and eating disorders is diminished mental capacity--the brain has to shut down higher functions like memory and spatial awareness to focus its severely limited energy on keeping the body alive. ''That's'' why Emily gets long-lasting illnesses and general "brain fog": her mind and body are gradually shutting down.
** To a lesser extent, that's why Emily is finally eating in the hospital; her doctors are literally ordering her to do that since they don't just give you a chocolate pudding cup. It was a LifesavingMisfortune that Andy was forced to tell her about Miranda's decision as well as the car hitting her. She's noticeably nicer to Andy in the ending, in her {{Tsundere}} way, and seems to be happier overall after her stay.
* Emily and Nigel's statements both backfire on them. Emily at first taunts Andy by saying that Andy works as an errand girl while Emily would get to attend Paris Fashion Week, which she doesn't get to and Andy does later on. Nigel also completely dismisses Andy's complaints about Miranda not appreciating her, only for her suspicions to be proven right at the end when she screws him out of a job.
* Nate acts betrayed by Andy missing his birthday celebration for a mandatory work event and seems to think she should have found a way out of it - except he’s a ''chef''. Anyone who’s worked in restaurants knows that there are certain days, especially holidays like Valentine’s and Mother’s Day, that are so busy that you ''have'' to work and, short ​of hospitalization or leaving the industry, there’s really nothing you can do to get out of it. Andy is clearly apologetic and trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation when she gets home; Nate going straight to bed and refusing to hear Andy out comes across as incredibly childish and petty when he himself should be very familiar with having to celebrate certain events on off days because of work. FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that the reason he’s being so sullen is because ''he expected Andy to quit her job for him'' and he resents that her career is more of a priority to her than his birthday party.


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* The first book seems to put Andy in the wrong for choosing to stay in Paris over going to check on a comatose Lilly. Readers were quick to point out a few problems, with this, which the sequel addressed:
1) Lily was an adult and responsible for her actions. It was her fault that she ended up in a drunk driving situation, and Andy is not her mother. The sequel shows that she wasn't a good friend to Andy by moving to Boulder, but gets CharacterDevelopment by comforting Andy about Max and Emily stabbing her in the back. She ''grew'' into the role, and earned trust.\\
2) Alex had no idea about the impossible demands put upon Andy and believes that her not coming violated basic decency. Andy told him time and time again that if she didn't finish the year, then it would be all for nothing. Cue ten years of him living in the real world...and he comes to admit that judging Andy in such a fashion. Alex understood that not all situations are black and white.\\
3) Emily was a better friend to Andy than Lily was. The sequel showed them reconnecting after meeting up and becoming close again... and then Emily choosing to sell their magazine to Miranda. It shows that Emily was a bit too ambitious to understand why Andy would never speak to her again for the betrayal.


!! Fridge Horror
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* Emily isn't just MarriedToTheJob--working for Miranda is quite literally ''killing her.'' It's all but stated that she has a full-blown eating disorder: she starves herself, eats nothing but small cubes of cheese, hopes she'll get a stomach flu to lose even more nonexistent weight, and thinks she's much heavier than she actually is, all classic symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Her immune system is also shot--she can't recover from what would probably be a minor cold if her body wasn't so utterly overworked--and her mental capacity is gradually diminishing: she's clearly getting more absent-minded, flustered, and generally imbalanced as time passes. It's a terrifyingly realistic portrayal of eating disorders, especially because Emily is so laser-focused on advancing her career that she doesn't even realize she's dying.
* It might have been for the best that Emily got hit by a car when the Paris news broke out. If she was fully able, she might have been DrivenToSuicide or attacked Andy and/or Miranda.