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Why can't the public just give her the privacy she so obviously desires?! I mean, it's getting to where you can't even sit in a restaurant in your panties and enjoy a quiet meal without being stared at.
She's got that deer-in-the-headlights look of near panic. I'm worried for the kid. I bet he's in rehab by 7.
porpoise, the kid will be seen once Master Tom has used his supreme powers of scientologic transmutation to change the child's tentacles into arms and legs. He can do it, he knows he can.
I never understood the whole 'visible thong,' thing either. Is it supposed to show me what a wild & sponateous little chicky some girl is? And the way to show me how spontaneous you are is some canned move that every other bimbo is doing. Plus it always looks like wedgie-bait to me. But then again it already is a wedgie isn't it? Where does that leave us?
I feel sorry for her. Not because of the outfit - just because she keeps making bad decisions. I wish I could give her my telephone number so she could call me because I'd really like to have a chat with her.
Actually once, when I was working the phones as a computer salesman, I was talking to a guy who on his loan application said that he lived in a furnished room and listed his occupation as disabled, and had a voice like Bukowski on a paint-thinner binge. In the background throughout our coversation, playing at peak volume was "Ooops! I Did It Again."
I make bad decisions too, ico. You've never offered me your phone number.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the black bra yet. It might be ok to have that much band showing if she was nursing, but there's no way that skanky white top is convenient for subtle feeding sessions.
I actually feel kind of bad for her. It's hard enough working through the whole new mom thing without people scrutinizing your every move. (Although, you'd think someone among her staff of thousands would know something about goddamn carseats.)
And drjimmy, no one is trying to take away her right to dress how she likes. We're just mocking the way she chooses to exercise that right.
I just love it when these celebrities piss and moan about the paparazzi when that is exactly what they signed up for when they decided to pursue fame. Fame means being being recognized and watched and pestered at all times, not just when your hair looks nice for the premiere.
Us: Ooooh - It's great to be a celebrity. Just try it, go on. It won't hurt.
Them: OK
Us: You filthy whore. Look - we took a bad photo of you. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Them: Please don't pick on me
Us: You stupid cunt. You deserve everything you get. Hope your child goes mental.
She looks fine to me. It's not a great picture, but she just looks ... normal.
Plus, she never signed up for this. And if she did, she never understood the fine print.
Sometimes I'm ashamed to be human. Far from doing anything wrong, she's bought joy to millions of people and *then* we demonise her for not conforming to a unattainable ideal we invented. If this woman were my friend, I'd be on the war path right now.
Boo fucking hoo. If this woman were my friend, I'd still call Children, Youth and Families on her ass. Camera or no camera, you don't drop your federletus on his head (he had a concussion and a blood clot, people) or drive around with him in your lap or fail to secure him in a car seat (which was in the wrong position to begin with) or carry the poor thing while teetering in 5-inch heels while trying to keep your vodka and tonic from spilling on the sidewalk.
I must admit that I'm not particularly sympathetic to the problems of adult celebrities, but kids are different, and the reason is informed consent. Or, really, the lack thereof.
Mama Spears, and Pops Simpson and Patsy Ramsey and Joe Jackson and plenty of others, are monsters, and they kinda disgust me. But their offspring, well, they mostly make me sad. Don't get me wrong--I find Britney repellent in every way. But a tragedy isn't any less a tragedy just because it's happening to an idiot.
Most parents I know have...
- done something really stupid with their child.
- accidently dropped them.
- made a decision I disapprove with.
That's not me knowing nothing but bad parents, that's the reality of child rearing.
Thankfully, all kids involved are OK.
According to the interwebs, the high chair / concussion incident happened when the Nanny was picking the 7 month old kid up and the chair broke. That's hardly grounds for calling bad motherhood.
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