Britney Spears and Her Bad Mother
September 12, 2007
This post has been rolling around in my head for a couple of days but Her Bad Mother’s Catherine took it and made it all fancy, so now I don’t have to write it. Thanks Catherine!
Now why couldn’t Chris Crocker have been as rational? (video - NSFW due to swearing)
I make fun of Britney all the time but I haven’t said one word about her body at the VMA’s. I’m totally Pillsbury in the middle too. You might say, “Well Karen, you don’t prance around on stage in a bra and panties,” but here’s where you’re wrong.
Okay you’re right, I don’t. Nevermind.
Still, Britney was Little Girl Lost up there and I felt there was nothing funny about her performance.? I wanted to wrap that poor kid up and bring her home.
The fact of the matter is, the paparazzi is constantly on her, we’re eating up their filthy, twisted product on a daily basis with websites like The Superficial, magazines, and t.v. shows aimed at dragging celebs through the dirt and catching them at their worst.
If she was fitter we’d say she’s too skinny.
She can’t win. Why would she try to?
As for the rest of her trainwrecky life - I sure hope that young mother finds her way. I’m afraid of what may happen if she doesn’t.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I thought Brit looked pretty damned good for having 2 young children. The outfit could have been a bit more tasteful though… I also hope that she finds her way and that the press leaves her alone for a bit.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
I agree that she looks fine, if she didn’t try to cram it into an outfit 4x too small. However, people probably wouldn’t have noticed her rolls at all if she was remotely sane.
You need FameCrawler links.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I just saw a clip of this on CNN the other day. I really don’t think she looked bad. Even in that outfit. I would LOVE to have that body when my kids were as young as hers.
I personally feel that if you have issues with her look or her outfit..it’s jealously. Because she looked hot. She may not have been all 6 packs and muscle bound. But, in my opinion, her body should have made mothers out there proud. NOT outraged. She didn’t cover it up. She was PROUD of her body image. Confident in that one fact. If she hadn’t been, she wouldn’t have been able to wear it.
In a world filled with media telling us to be skinny and never be happy with what we look like unless we are perfect…in that one moment I think she became a shinning example (let me stress..In that ONE thing) of what we should be feeling.
As for the rest (her performance, her life, etc) I do feel very sorry for her. She started in the business way to young, made mistakes and some very poor choices. She obviously had no real guidance in her life or good examples. I still sincerely hope that at some point she will wake up, get the help she needs, and find herself. Both for her sake and that of her children.
And I’ll take my soap box and go home now
September 13th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I didn’t think she looked fat at all. But I do wish she’d put some underwear on.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Amen and well said. I also want to take her in and help her refocus.
And if you haven’t pranced around stage in a sparkly bikini, who is that hot momma that I saw in that video? (I kid… or do I?)
September 13th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I read HBM’s post and felt like she hit the nail on the head. I’d be content to be a Britney-size-ten. To have people say she’s fat is an insult to not just Britney, but to all women who may wear non-size-two’s.
Ugh.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Well, she keeps whining that the press won’t leave her alone, then she chooses to forego a more tasteful outfit and does a drunken stumble on national television. She has more money than God at this point and she obviously wasn’t interested in performing that night.
I think she WANTS the attention.
But I do feel sorry for her. I blame her mother a lot. I think her mother pushed her into this stuff and pushed too hard at an early age. The poor girl is confused about what it takes to be loved and/or stay popular, so she just jammed her not quite ready body into a trashy bikini and thought appearing on stage would bring all her fans love to her, or something.
Don’t get me wrong; if I saw her on the beach, I’d say, there goes a woman with a beautiful figure. But if you’re gonna “sing” in front of a national audience, there’s no need for that outfit, especially if you really don’t look “perfect” and you’re not actually singing. Even if she did look perfect, I’d think, there is one girl with a F***ed up image of what it means to be a woman.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Where were you Tuesday when I made a very tiny comment on my blog about feeing sorry for her? Really? Where were you? I got into SOOOO much trouble for showing sympathy toward Britney - you would have thought I said, “Gee, I feel sorry for Saddam Hussein, sure hope his neck is ok, now.” Seriously!
September 13th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
I’m concerned as well. She is so sad. I hope she isn’t doing these things because she needs the money? Has poorly planned and spent. Regarding the paparazzi, I wish someone would stalk each of them and let them know how it feels. And yes…I think the public is slowly killing her..
Dorothy from grammology
September 14th, 2007 at 7:59 am
You know what Karen? I get so sick of hearing “Brittney is fat”, she looks amazing for someone who just had two kids. There was nothing different about her performance at the VMAs was really no different then any of her other performances. Personally, I don’t think Brittney has had a really good hit in several years.
There is no such thing as “perfect”. People come in different body shapes and are all beautiful. Brittney may have a lot of issues, but she isn’t fat. Maybe crazy, but not fat. The media needs to stop putting shit like that out there. There are so many teens with eating disorders because they are hearing things like a perfectly healthy Brittney is “fat” when really, she’s fine. So they try to be like the media’s definition of “perfect”. It’s sad.
Don’t blame Brittney, blame the media for always criticizing her. Fame is a hard business, you hear stuff you don’t like all the time. She’s probably snapped by now.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I’m afraid for her, too. Parenthood is enough of a mindfuck without people calling you fat.
(great minds think alike, of course. am pleased that yours is in synch with mine. xo)
September 16th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
About a year ago, or maybe more, Aviva and I sent a copy of our book to Britney’s grandmother in Louisiana with the hope it would find it’s way to Britney. Yeah, we thought she needed some help then and we still would want to help her now. All parents need encouragement and support, even, and maybe especially, the famous ones. Tons of pressure on parents as it is, but having that pressure plus the paparazzi? ARgh!
September 24th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Just because all that vicious body-centric criticism isn’t warranted doesn’t mean that none of it is. I ll get to that in a minute. First let me say something about that god-awful costume the woman had on. La Spears was evidently told that the outfit she chose to wear on the VMA s was not suitable advice she patently ignored. Now - 18 year-old size 2 non-mom Brittney Spears would have killed in it; hell any precocious teen-bot with wiggly breasts and jiggly hips could have shimmied themselves into VMA history draped in little more than a glittery bra and panties. But you d think any mentally fit woman would have the perspicacity to take a good look at her now voluptuousness figure and want to accentuate that especially a woman whose career was 75% looks to begin with. Check out Madonna. No one ever accused her of being able to sing. Her shtick was her choice of material and her unique look; something she still plays to perfection whilst pushing 50.
But back to Brittney. Having worked in a costume shop at one time in my theatrical career, I know a little something about what looks good on stage. I would have dressed Brittney romantically, playing up that extra-curvy size 10 bod (which I d kill to have, by the way). No hard edges (unless she really wanted that Mistress Mandy look). Its high time Brittney changed her image especially if she wants her career back; a thing I harbor grave doubts over. She seems to have mentally frozen herself pre-mommy and that worries the hell out of me. Please note that above I used the phrase mentally fit . Here comes that criticism. Something is very wrong in Brittney-land dangerously wrong. How long before she sees those two kids of hers as impediments to the hard-partying, Tara Reid-like life she s so enthusiastically embraced? It is past obvious the woman is no longer interested in any kind of career; not if it involves hard work, at any rate. She skips rehearsals, refusing to prepare herself adequately for dancing onstage (you don t have to be skinny but you do have to be fit). Brittney Spears obviously wants a life of hedonistic pleasure unfettered by any responsibility.
Those two kids are great big anchors. They require more than a herd of nannies trotting after them, changing diapers and getting their juice they need mommy and daddy and love. Brittney is listed as primary care giver (or she was), so it is her responsibility to see that they are indeed loved and cared for something she doesn t do at the moment. I think she thought having children would be like having puppies something cute and fun that she could abandon whenever she got tired of having them around (as she has done to her dogs in the past). Her bodyguard says that she hits her kids hits a toddler and a child under three. Other employees claim she feeds them nothing but junk food, refusing to see to their most basic physical and hygienic needs. Evidently she also gets high in their presence. Now - maybe that s not all true but if it is, if even a part of it is - this celebra-drama has all the earmarks of incipient tragedy. Let us hope the judge reviewing Brittney s parenting skills has good judgment of his own. I d hate for this to be another Michael Jackson redux kids left in harms way because no one wants to upset the celebrity . And lest you think I have no sympathy for the woman - think again. Much of this behavior may indeed stem from legitimate medical needs, I realize that. But someone has to intervene if Brittney herself cannot. As her friends and family seem powerless - that responsibility must fall to the court. It s what they are there for.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
thank you for writing this.
i tried to write about it at my own site, and all i got were comments and emails to the tune of: i’s kill to look like post-baby brit, but i still would never wear that outfit.
to me?
that’s the problem.
what’s the point, if we–the women, who sit around and type into oblivion about society and media and body image and blah-blah-whatever–can’t applaud her for making that choice. how can we expect things to change, if we aren’t willing to embrace that change ourselves?
of course, she did look like a zombie up there…but that doesn’t mean that she needed to be ashamed of the way her body looked in that bikini.
i just really thought, when i turned to the blogosphere, that i would find more support for her…at least in that aspect. i’m glad i saw a little bit here, and i’ll be off to see what HBM had to say next.
thanks, again.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
i think the paparatzzi have done all of this to her.. she is still so beauitiful and still got a great body she has had 2 kids for christ sake.. she needs someone to talk to her and she doesnt need help at all.. i bet she is just sick of the pararatzzi i know i would be..
September 26th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
i know image is everything but the pararazzi need to just take a break away from her the arseholes.. she has kids and she needs to sort her selfout and work things out.. she needs to look at herlsef and realise she still has talent there and she cant just let it go.. i admire her and i think if she carrys on like this her family and friends will be in fear for her death.. im not been dramatic but i think the worst wil come if she doesnt pull her finger out.. i hope something gets done soon.
October 1st, 2007 at 5:12 am
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