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Being married to a star is not always a starring role.

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TO the onlooker, celebrity wives enjoy an existence filled with enviable advantages--luxurious homes, shopping sprees, posh parties, high-profile premieres, and unfettered access to the world's best nannies, cooks and personal trainers.

But there is another side, a not-so-attractive side that includes security guards, persistent paparazzi, dubious friendships and calculating women who try to close in on your turf.

Many spouses of celebrities say that if you have a high-profile man, you have to be very skilled at holding your tongue, even under the most difficult circumstances. Some say it's hard to get used to fans dismissing them, walking over them as if they don't even exist.

For instance, Tammy Franklin, wife of gospel superstar Kirk Franklin, says one passionate fan trampled her small children while trying to get her husband's attention. "We were out with our children and a lady knocked over our 3-year-old and our 6-year-old to get to Kirk, and they actually fell down," she says. "Politely as I could, I let her know that she had pushed my children down, and she apologized."

And it can be especially hard, some wives...

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