“Pregnant ladies are gorgeous” -John Dwyer

Ditto. I could intellectually analyze why we are so obsessed with celebrities but my gut response is: pregnancy is beautiful, it is not something to be ashamed of.  I find it to be more interesting than someone’s jewelery or what they wore to the oscars.  I love seeing all of these adult women not pretending to be teenagers. Instead say this is my body.  This is my life. We are fascinated by the mystique of life and this goes beyond the pettiness and voyerish nature of tabloids.

Should we be askng why we’re a “nation of voyeurs” as G.Anderson says? Or why “junk culture information is so much more interesting to most people than the stuff pertaining to the real world? Is it because the general public feels no control over their own lives, perhaps, and prefers a fantasy life of imaginary involvement in the lives of celebrities? Hey, folks--the media just gives what readers are asking for…

Just imagine what her kid will feel like in 15 years, when (s)he sees an old copy of this magazine…

The way the media portrays the ladies’ pregnancies, one would think they invented it.  Zzzzzzzzz

Why does anyone even care about these people or what they do?  I couldn’t care less about Tom Cruise or his dwarven child.
If anything this recent baby boom in hollywood is only meant to cause one in the sheep that follow their lives.  Why would such a thing be desired?  Because in the next 10 years you are going to see a large decline in the population from illness and military conflicts.  Bird Flu and WWIII, we need babies.

Pop culture is ust sick right now, that’s all. So what if britney has a baby, millions do. What makes her baby and shiloh pitt better then any other baby. I think it’s disgusting how people called her messaiah and all this crap.

Pregnant ladies are gorgeous.

Celebrities go on talk shows and tell embarassing stories about themselves, they make fun of themselves or they complain about things and people laugh.
In real life, if you complain about anything you are labelled “a complainer” and excluded from the group. If you tell embarassing stories about yourself or make fun of yourself people think less of you.

So real people learn to rarely say what they think. Celebrities are allowed to talk more freely, so we may actually know them better than the other soccer moms we meet with weekly while our sons are practicing.

And there you have the reason for our love of celebritites. My God, Brad Pitt TOLD the reporter with Vanity Fair, while still with Ms. Aniston: “I want to have babies, we have practiced long enough”. Unlike him, I cannot hint at any problems I may have with my mate to any members of my extended family.

They will think less of me and ignore the positive things in my life.

fuggy

I have a question:
Who gives a crap?

They are just women and men having babies, just like the rest of the species.

So Brittany whatever wants to try to enhance preserver her career for doing something or other (I don’t know what--or care) by appearing naked and pregnant on a magazine I wouldn’t read of the only other reading material was the entrails of a dead and rotting porcupine!

Then someone thinks that it was “special” when Demi-Brain did it--forgetting that it was just as tasteless and stupid then.

Men get women pregnant and then they have babies.  If both want this, WONDERFUL If they don’t the anti-abortion forces (who deceptively call themselves “Pro-Life” though very few are) try to make damn sure that 3 people, father, mother and child, are miserable for eternity.

So WHAT if they are famous this week?  I couldn’t pick Brittany whatever out of a crowd of two!

Motherhood is happening all the time. The U.S. just passed the 300 million mark recently, didn’t it? But unless you are determined to have your own football team, most women spend very little of their life in the bump stage, and much more in the diaper-changing, feeding, staying up all night with a sick one, or endlessly worrying about a teenager stages. It’s one of life’s choices, and just like all of them, is neither all bad nor all good.

Apart from the airbrushing, Britney is a couple of months away from the “Holy Cats! is it possible to get that big and not explode” stage. The tiny bump is a very short stage indeed.

But why make such a big deal about something that most people do anyway, and is anything but glamorous for most people? If people believed half of what their elders tell them about having children, the human race would come to an end. In this case, willful disbelief is the only thing that keeps it going.

I believe Angelina Jolie, the most over-hyped mother on the planet, said something to the effect that she found childbirth a terrifying experience. I bet she won’t be repeating that in a hurry, unless she finds someone else’s husband irrestible in the near future and just can’t control herself. You notice that she’s left her options open (no pun intended) for a quick getaway.

As for Brad Pitt, I find his treacly public statements sick-making.

Could people possibly be interested because motherhood is both good and natural?

Or is it because of massive amounts of airbrushing? 

Collin

http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com

I believe the baby bump coverage is further evidence of the encroachment of American junk culture upon society. The media simply need to come up with more trivial topics to write about.

Ask a bunch of random people on the street some questions about celebrities—name of their favorite actor, performer, athlete, etc.—and you’ll get an earful of useless info.

But ask people about (non-celebrity) history, geography, or philosophy, and the conversation is likely to end quickly.

And we wonder why so many kids are functionally illiterate upon leaving high school?

Just say NO to pabulum!

I was a little shocked to see Brittany as a Brunette…

but as for the rest of it who really cares...?

My children nursed for a long time, and I hope that they will not be obsessed with nudity and breasts, and someone else’s life like those in the Media seem to be…

Despite all of Brittany’s stardom, I feel somewhat sorry for her, she seems so lost, and clueless about her own life, just like the rest of us.

Maybe that comes from being a nation of voyeurs, watching others live our lives for us, instead of living for ourselves…

but of course there’s no money for the media in that....