Say cheese! I don't want your celeb life
Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:35 AM by Kurt Schlosser
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Celebrities
I'll be the first to admit that I spend a great deal of time on the Internet looking at paparazzi pictures of celebrities. I'll also admit that I think 99 percent of this stuff is garbage and makes me glad I'm not a big shot star (at least not in my own mind).
The only reason I bring this up -- because by now I've learned that all of you who tirelessly read about celebrities actually hate reading about celebrities -- is because two noteworthy photos surfaced this week. One photo shows Britney Spears smoking a cigarette in a bikini as her 2 1/2-year-old son Preston stands nearby, getting ready to lift her smokes off of a table. This image was actually on the cover of the New York Post, teasing a story about how horrible a mother Britney is.
The other image shows Brad Pitt out for a cruise in a golf cart with his young daughter Shiloh riding on his lap. The photo is reminiscent of Britney again, who got more bad mothering heat for riding in her car with one of her kids on her lap.
Some will say Britney and Brad should know better by now, that they live their lives within range of long camera lenses and everything is fair game because they're celebrities. I'm not going to condone the actions being taken in either of these photos, but I think that's a little crazy. It's ridiculous to expect these people to be perfect at every turn when we, the people who feed on their every misstep, would look just as silly under the same microscope.
Regardless of Brad and Brit's parenting skills, who in their right mind would want to be a megawatt star in this day and age? Do the hotels and the boats and the cars and the houses really offset the lack of privacy that comes with being pursued 24-7?
Think about it as the helicopter hovers overhead as you stand there looking bloated in your bikini, your 2-year-old momentarily reaching for your cigarettes before a picture is snapped and sent around the world. Would it really be worth the hit record or the blockbuster movie?
