In an episode of The Suze Orman Show, a 52-year-old California teacher named Maureen, who had just received a pink slip, asked what to do about a house worth about $200,000 with about $400,000 owed on it. Orman's answer started with what Maureen said worried her most: her credit score.
“There comes a point […] where you have to not care about your FICO score,” Orman said. "Nobody is more FICO frenzy than Suze Orman. I was the very first person in the United States that started to get on television and go ‘FICO, FICO, FICO, FICO.’ However, we're talking about survival mode here. If you have no money, how are you going to buy your food?"
