2008 Woodie Awards
Pregnant celebrities are real, not fashion
Ali Tweten
Issue date: 10/11/07 Section: Opinions
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I am far from a "US Weekly" reading, TMZ surfing, Britney/Lindsay/Paris following teenybopper, but I couldn't help but notice the scrutiny Britney Spears faced after her recent VMA performance. I usually have no care for who's dating whom, where so-and-so ate a piece of cake or which celebrity has cellulite (Just like you and me!). I don't have a TV (proudly), so the only way to see these things is through the glorious YouTube.
After reading a random blog about how Spears' performance was so shockingly bad, and hearing about how she was extremely out of shape and terribly lip-synching, I had to find out what the hype was all about.
John Maynard of the Washington Post wrote, "Dressed in sequinced black underpants and bra, an out-of-shape Spears moved tentatively around the stage, getting totally outgrooved by her backup dancers and badly lip-syncing her way through the song, whose main lyric was 'Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.'"
After watching the so-called "disaster" of a performance, I had to agree that it was, indeed, terrible. I'm not about to whip out my eyeliner and turn into Chris Crocker crying "leave Britney alone," because "she's going through a hard time right now," but for some odd reason, I felt kind of bad for ol' Brit.
For one thing, I'm not exactly sure how her mental health is going since her divorce with K-Fed, but the woman had two kids and she's expected to bounce back from that and dance on stage in her underwear? This is not natural.
I'm not saying mothers shouldn't be able to dance provocatively, but gee, people, give her a break. Her body is probably a lot hotter than mine, and I haven't given birth to two children.
With the baby craze in Hollywood getting more and more prevalent, celebrities are expected to lose the baby weight instantaneously after walking out of the hospital. What is this saying to real, un-famous women? Having a baby is in vogue, but once it pops out, you'd better be a MILF and cart that baby around like it's a handbag.
After reading a random blog about how Spears' performance was so shockingly bad, and hearing about how she was extremely out of shape and terribly lip-synching, I had to find out what the hype was all about.
John Maynard of the Washington Post wrote, "Dressed in sequinced black underpants and bra, an out-of-shape Spears moved tentatively around the stage, getting totally outgrooved by her backup dancers and badly lip-syncing her way through the song, whose main lyric was 'Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.'"
After watching the so-called "disaster" of a performance, I had to agree that it was, indeed, terrible. I'm not about to whip out my eyeliner and turn into Chris Crocker crying "leave Britney alone," because "she's going through a hard time right now," but for some odd reason, I felt kind of bad for ol' Brit.
For one thing, I'm not exactly sure how her mental health is going since her divorce with K-Fed, but the woman had two kids and she's expected to bounce back from that and dance on stage in her underwear? This is not natural.
I'm not saying mothers shouldn't be able to dance provocatively, but gee, people, give her a break. Her body is probably a lot hotter than mine, and I haven't given birth to two children.
With the baby craze in Hollywood getting more and more prevalent, celebrities are expected to lose the baby weight instantaneously after walking out of the hospital. What is this saying to real, un-famous women? Having a baby is in vogue, but once it pops out, you'd better be a MILF and cart that baby around like it's a handbag.