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I mean, COME ON BRITNEY. Your hair isn't looking so awful anymore, GET YOUR CLOTHES TOGETHER. I generally feel sorry for celebs who have their pics taken in normal, everyday clothes when people are like OMG GROSS- we all have our slouch days- but even on my laziest days, I'm always sure to COVER MY ASS.
Looks like Natalie Portman shuts out Keira Knightly once again in my continuing round-robin between the two. Now if NP would only put on a few more #s...
I honestly think she needs to seek professional help. You can see it in her facial expression and her eyes - there's no one home anymore.
How many times is she going to show us her ass or her boobs or her cooter or make out topless in a pool or get a speeding or parking ticket or get pulled over by the cops or wear torn fishnet pantyhose or change clothes with a perfect stranger or walk barefoot in the street or wear clothes that completely expose her unmatching bras and underwear or go to the beach in her underwear or drop her kids on their heads or sit them on her lap while driving or be seen holding a lit cigarette only a few inches from her kids' faces or make that horrible face where she pushes her chin into her neck and looks like this thing? Or, the biggest infraction of all, how many times is she going to continue to wear platform flip-flops??? I mean, "we're country, y'all" can only excuse so much.... ;P
(yes, thank you ontd for keeping me up to date with all the britney news I need)
I would kill to be her stylist. Rachel Zoe would have nothing on me. I would make her look hot and fresh and age appropriate. She needs a little dose of class. And longer shirts.
you know, without their stylists, most "well-dressed" celebrities would look pretty bad too. maybe not this clueless, but still pretty bad. I guess she was too high to notice that that was a top, not a dress. I thought her thighs looked worse, though. she's getting relatively back in shape. or eating less because of the drugs, who knows.
I like the pink superhero but the spears bashing has too much of a fish-in-a-barrel quality now. she's bad, yes. she probably thanks god for amy winehouse -- spears will always come second in the most-fucked-up chart. she's gotten so bad that people wouldn't even care if a sex tape came out -- we'd all be grossed out, period (and Paris Hilton's was just lame; I cannot remember a vaguely hot celebrity sex video since the one with Pamela Anderson and the not-Tommy-Lee guy, was he from Slayer?)
if spears she had any sense she'd move out of LA, but I suppose she likes the weather.
well, she'd have a Chanel bagful of diet pills on you. she'd have Spears get down to a size 0 in a matter of days. you couldn't do that because you're a nice person.
Hey, go easy on Britney. Not all terrible singers with killer bodies and brazen attitudes can stick with it all the way to the mystical leathern warhorse stage the way Madonna did. Most wither (or balloon) up and blow away somewhere between "You forgot my name" and "I forgot my pants."
What shocked me most on that page was the sidebar story that blamed Owen Wilson's 'downward spiral' and suicide attempt on a bad influence from Steve "Alan Partridge" Coogan!!! Alan P., we hardly "knowing me, knowing you"-ed you!!!
Frankly, I don't think she should get her act together (well, only because I feel sorry for the wee ones), but speaking as one who never liked her when she was "on top", this downward spiral is much more amusing.
I have mixed feelings. In my eyes, she's a pretty girl who has at least a modicum of talent (I assume... lots of people who should know liked "Toxic" as I understand it) who was built up to be a huge celebrity because of her looks. This grates, of course. I imagine all the deserving musicians who will never make it beyond playing gigs in a limited venue because they lack either the connections or the "hotness".
She could have used her wealth and influence to do all sorts of things, including expanding her own skills and taking charge of her own fame. It's difficult to feel sorry for someone who squanders all that.
But she appears never to have had even a single person in her life who just loved and cared for her simply as the little girl, and now woman, that she was and is. She's always only ever been loved and applauded as Britney the star - and as that fades from her grasp she resorts to bizarre behavior in simplistic Pavlovian equations designed to fulfill X (where X is love) by providing Y (where Y is her body, her youth, whatever the people want). All the way down the line, you can see in her history how she has responded to the public maw by trying to supply whatever she perceives as the meat that will feed that appetite... and make people love her.
A huge big deal was made about her 48-hour marriage? She'll get married again! She was the talk of the town as pregnant Brit? She'll do it again! In all the headlines when she became louche party-girl BFF with Paris? Sho thing! She'll show the goodies... and again, and again. And so "Whoops I Did it Again" becomes a sad and ironic foreshadowing.
I think maybe the one true thing she ever did was shaving her head in revolt... but it was only a drug-addled act of pure pain, and the whole unholy weave thing has been X (where X is love) = Y (where Y is "my long, sexy flowing locks" - you guys loved that, right? Right? Look! I have it again! Do you love me now? Do you?)
I find this terribly tragic. Yet I can't help but feel a certain satisfaction when the Emperor's clothes of undeserved fame are revealed as imaginary. Still... she has never hurt anyone or even been particularly arrogant or hateful. There are much, much worse monsters who are never going to be unmasked.