Riddle Me This….
After seeing this picture of Jamie Lynn Spears over the weekend, I started wondering– why did they even tell anyone she was pregnant? I think if I were their mom, I would totally have been like "come home, have the baby, and then we’ll pretend it’s your niece or nephew, or that I (the mom) had a new baby, or whatever. At this rate, no one would even have noticed, is all I’m saying. You’d think with the resources that family has, they would have been able to stage an old-style Hollywood coverup.
This reminds me of a totally depressing article I read in People Magazine while I was getting my nails done with my friend in San Francisco (see– because if I admit I was reading People Magazine and it’s NOT in a nail salon, then you’ll lose respect for me). The article was chronicling the lives of, like, five teenagers who had gotten pregnant in high school, and what they were doing now. I don’t know if it was just the journalistic slant the author/ magazine were going for, but I thought it was very telling that the ONE AND ONLY girl who was remotely well-adjusted and happy, and still pursuing any of her dreams was the girl who gave her baby up for adoption. Her quote was like "adoption is the most amazing thing I’ve ever done, period." And now she’s free to go on with her life. The others were, oh my God, pregnant in the seventh grade, dropping out of school, barely getting by working as cashiers at the market and hoping their babies’ fathers would still talk to them. YIIIIKES! DOUBLE YIKES!
I’m not going to spark up a wad of controversy by suggesting that, perhaps, just because you CAN make a baby, you should go out and do that, and that if you’re not smart enough to figure out how to use birth control, maybe you shouldn’t be procreating. Because, you know, this blog isn’t the place for that. But, I think you see my point. Didn’t Jamie Lynn see Juno?
Speaking of the Spears family, did you see this Amy Winehouse performance at the Grammys? Sha-DAMN, dude. She’s been sober for what– fifteen minutes? Someone should call up Britney Spears and tell her THIS is how you do a comeback.