Britney Spears - Toxic Celebrity
The media is all over Britney Spears and her problems, calling it a "meltdown". It seems that when direct Britney news cools down, there's a rush to see who else can be turned over the coals a bit.
Brit's mom, Lynne Spears, has seen her life change from success story to finger-pointing "whodunnit" melodrama. Her book deal has been put on hold after her younger daughter revealed her pregnancy and now her older daughter has been taken, via ambulance, to a hospital for psychiatric observation.
Mommy Spear-est?
Is Mom to blame for all of this or should Britney be held responsible for her life now that she is an adult and a mom of two young boys? I don't think the finger-pointing is going to help one bit and I do believe in personal responsibility. Lynne Spears can be supportive, but she can't be held responsible for Britney's actions now. Her daughter has to curb her own behavior, admit she has to deal with some very serious personal problems and face the consequences of her actions. It's time for professional intervention of many sorts, it would seem.
This latest news also points out how the Spears household has a lot in common with many other homes in this nation. They have their problems and conflicts, but there's an added burden that most people don't consider and that's celebrity.
Consider how you would function if every action in your life, 24 hours a day, were photographed or videotaped and people said things that were hurtful, disturbing and not totally honest? It's called overload and if it goes on long enough anyone would have a melt-down. You begin to wonder who your friends are, who is selling stories about you, and you might want to just be left alone but they keep pushing and no one seems able to step in and help you get a grip on reality. Reality may often not feel 'real' anymore and you begin to wander around in a daze. Could this have happened to Britney? Really, no one knows what's really inside her personal world.
Lynne Spears has asked for prayers for her daughter and I think that's a good idea. Things as they stand now are too much like one of Tennessee Williams' plays and they were no laughing matter. Leave the girl and her family alone. No one should be dogged this way.
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Brit's mom, Lynne Spears, has seen her life change from success story to finger-pointing "whodunnit" melodrama. Her book deal has been put on hold after her younger daughter revealed her pregnancy and now her older daughter has been taken, via ambulance, to a hospital for psychiatric observation.
Mommy Spear-est?
Is Mom to blame for all of this or should Britney be held responsible for her life now that she is an adult and a mom of two young boys? I don't think the finger-pointing is going to help one bit and I do believe in personal responsibility. Lynne Spears can be supportive, but she can't be held responsible for Britney's actions now. Her daughter has to curb her own behavior, admit she has to deal with some very serious personal problems and face the consequences of her actions. It's time for professional intervention of many sorts, it would seem.
This latest news also points out how the Spears household has a lot in common with many other homes in this nation. They have their problems and conflicts, but there's an added burden that most people don't consider and that's celebrity.
Consider how you would function if every action in your life, 24 hours a day, were photographed or videotaped and people said things that were hurtful, disturbing and not totally honest? It's called overload and if it goes on long enough anyone would have a melt-down. You begin to wonder who your friends are, who is selling stories about you, and you might want to just be left alone but they keep pushing and no one seems able to step in and help you get a grip on reality. Reality may often not feel 'real' anymore and you begin to wander around in a daze. Could this have happened to Britney? Really, no one knows what's really inside her personal world.
Lynne Spears has asked for prayers for her daughter and I think that's a good idea. Things as they stand now are too much like one of Tennessee Williams' plays and they were no laughing matter. Leave the girl and her family alone. No one should be dogged this way.
Related Topics: Update 1/7/2007:
Technorati Tags: Britney Spears, Lynne Spears, mental health, celebrity, crisis, stress, anxiety
13 Comments:
sheesh, thats really sad and crazy. Dont know what I'd do if I was in her situtaion...probably just stay inside 24/7...not a way to live. I looked up where she lives (www.housefront.com/62739), nice place with lots of room and security to bad she doesn't stay inside away from those photomen.
I agree that this is not a funny event, but a sad one. I fear for the future of Britney. I work with the mentally ill, and while I would not try to diagnose britney, she is in need of good health care. IT is time to stop blaming this person and than person. Being in the media spotlight must be a dizzy experienc, but can that be used as a scapegoat. Britney seeks out the attention, she always has. This is a combination of bad people around her, not the best of family support, and substance abuse, and until someone can get Britney to face the heart of her problems, she will continue down a dark road of no return. I could not pretend to ever understand what it is like to be a celebrity, especially a young one, but fame has been handled well by many many celebrities. IT is the few bad apples that get all the attention.
Get well Britney, and get rid of allt he toxic people around you.
i think Britney needs a lot of guidance and support from her loved ones.For Them to fully understand Britney and what shes going the media and her family first have to understand wheres shes coming and why she is doing and acting out the way she is. Shes dealing with what ever she is going through the only way she feels comfortable.
Can you imagine what your life would be like if every single move that you made was being photographed and analyzed to the point of obsession? How would you feel if your personal, private life wasn't your own, but the fixation of the papparazzi,media, and all of it's millions of viewers? I realize that all of this comes as "part of the territory" with being rich and famous, but for crying out loud, leave the girl alone and give her a much-needed break! She's only human.
I agree completely with agent 983 - instead fo the media making a mockery of brittany, we should be using her as an example of what happens when people don't get the help they need for mental illness. No one would be laughing if Brittney had cancer.
Why are you people even talking about her?I do not understand why people just can't live their own lives & leave people like her alone?You would be better off, & definately she & other people like her would also.
Mind your own business!
I feel that people and the news should leave Britney alone. Of course when you're famous you get followed all of the time. She has some troubles, but a lot of us do and we get by. I think she should do a 180 and turn her frustrations around by taking all of it out on her career. She's young...she wants to get out there and be young, but has to realize she's a mother too. If after her last album she might think of moving away for a while and stay low and come back with a bang. Wouldn't it be nice to see her sexy and conservative and being a mom to her kids. I must say however, she should really be more selective in who she dates. Right now, best to stay low. I wish her luck. She's beautiful and talented and can really start over.
Oh, one other thing...I really don't think she's mentally disturbed. She was upset about the kids. She must've been crying so much that she started to laugh. It happens. She's not mentally ill. Why can't the news just focus on something else instead of her. Why is she such an attraction ayways. Leave her alone already. As for her family who should be there for her...well...I don't like them.
I wish everybody would just leave Britney Spears alone. We do not live her life. I would never want her life. It would be too much for me to deal with all that press and everybody recording every move you make and then judging it and then putting it all over magazines.
I do not think she is "mentally ill" and we certainly aren't helping her by labeling her and trash talking about her.
I get very angry when I see how the press takes pictures of her (or anyone)in their worst moments, but notin the good.
I think she has some personal problems (don't we all) but that's just it-they are PERSONAL!)
It makes me laugh that people say "Leave Britney alone". How stupid is that?
Britney chose celebrity. She chose to show off for the press. She still chooses to show off to the press. Not to mention that she makes her own bad press.
I don't see or hear other stars doing what she does. I don't care if she is bi-polar or not. She started acting nutzo years ago and had had plenty of time to seek professional help. She has been asked and told over and over that she needs to at least talk to someone, and she refuses.
She has some strange God-complex and until she learns to stay home and rein in her behaviour she is gossip and paparazzi fodder of her own making.
To an extent, she is responsible for her own actions, now that she is an adult. But we know nothing of how she was while growing up, how much her family influenced her actions.
While growing up, she was influenced by her mother, who was a stage mother to the max. Since then, she has made bad decision after bad decision. I think how she debuted her latest single on national television was a cry for help. I really don't think she wanted to be there, was obviously just going through the motions.
She has been insulated all of her life and because of this, she does not know how to act any more, except to create spectacles. Everyone needs to back off and get her into some private psychatric counselling, which is long overdue. Only then will she begin to put her life back together.
I think people forget that Britney Spears has been "famous" for a very long time. Perhaps having fame at a young age is the reason she has no idea how to live in the real world. Is she bi-polar? Only her doctors know. What I do know is, as a mother, it breaks my heart each time I see those two little boys, either with Britney's family, or with Kevin Federline. It is a sad world indeed when a man who continues to be photographed with socialites, holding bottles of liquor, is deemed the best parent. Those boys will never be able to form lasting relationships, they will have trust and boundary issues, and could very well end up with borderline personalities. My heart breaks for those children. Also, did Britney really choose this life? Or did her parents toss her in the ring with no coping skills, very little support, and hope for the best? Celebrity is a virus in this country, and Britney is not the first victim, nor will she be the last. Minimal talent, minimal emotional support and endless cash is a very dangerous combination. She does need help, but I am guessing that she feels totally alone and isolated, because at the end of the day, who does she have that is interested in her as a person, not as a celebrity? Her parents? Too little too late. Her brother is the only one I have never heard of, perhaps he can bring some light and peace to this troubled situation. I pray for the children, and for Britney Spears as well.
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