Maria Shriver turned down $15 million for a tell-all

Maria Shriver leaving the AT&T store in Santa Monica (6/22)

There's bad financial decision and then there's what Maria Shriver did earlier this month. From the Chicago Sun Times:

According to one of Maria Shriver’s closest friends, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s future ex-wife would not accept the reported $15 million advance publishers supposedly are throwing her way.

“Maria will never write a book about their breakup — no matter how much she’s offered. Her family’s privacy — and especially her intense devotion to protecting her children — is her primary concern, as it always has been,” said the Shriver insider.

Turning down $15 million to write about how hurt you were by your husband going raw dog on a fat chick is almost as bad a decision as actually going raw dog on a fat chick. Then again, Arnold did marry Maria -- who sometimes looks like this -- so he's prone to making bad decisions.

*26 Maria Shriver pictures total in the gallery:

[Flynet]