Friday, January 4, 2008

Or she will be the next Anna Nicole. For anyone who has turned on the news this morning and saw the video of a smiling spaced out Britney, it was a scary sight. Apparently, she was strung out on an unknown substance. Once again, the media is swarming around her like killer bees and they took away her children. At this point, I don't think it matters any longer, this has got to be the last straw.
After years of working in the ER in the real world, anyone behaving this way would typically be held for evaluation for at least 72 hrs. (without any contact of friends or family). When I've seen the eyes of people like this it seems like their soul is lost. It's sad to see but there is no one that can stop her from using drugs but her.
I see the situation in more than one light and I don't know what to think. While I think there are enough examples in history of child stars grown up bad, people are responsible for their own choices.The part that makes us all furious is that she is a mom, pop star or not, it's time to grow up and be a good parent.
In a way her story is sad because if you think about it, she didn't have a chance to grow up like everyone else. The life of a pop star is far from "normal". Then she got involved with the wrong guy and there was probably very little advice she would hear from anyone. Even Donald Trump gave his public opinion about how she made the biggest mistake of her life by marrying him without a prenup. From a woman's standpoint, I think she gave her up her power to a dirtbag and now he's coming out of it smelling like a rose. Again, this was her poor choice. But this could be anyone- she won't be the first woman to fall in love with a loser- only she became less than what she could be.
It really shouldn't be anyone's business. But then again, she doesn't seem to avoid the media attention. Driving around in cars that don't even have tinted windows and wearing hot pink hair doesn't exactly cammoflauge a person. Perhaps she doesn't know anything else but catching the eye of the camera. She may have been charming as a mouseketeer, it's just not charming anymore.
I hear a lot of people refer her to behavior as postpartum depression. It could very well be. Or is it that she does not want to assume custody of her children so that "kfed" has the burden of being the full time parent while she can party in the limelight. Either way, I hope she gets it together for the sake of those kids. And while there may be too many of us buzzing, blogging, gossiping- we are disgusted with people (celebrity or not) who treat their children like their handbags. It feels like such an injustice to see God give this girl two beautiful children when some of us either can't have any or lost our babies.
There are times when I wonder what in the world the next generation is going to be like

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