Topic : 03/05 Anna and Britney: Behind the Headlines

I agree with you!

 

When Anna Nicole first began topless dancing, she was only working dayshift hours.  She got implants, she got nightshift.  She got nightshift, she got more clients.  She got more clients, she got more money.  She got more money, she got more famous.  She got more famous, she got less happy...  It all began with something false that was positively reinforced. 

 

When Britney was coming up in the world, she was just a young thing.  A schoolgirl, to be precise.  But what made her stand out?  The fact that she was a sexy schoolgirl!  She let her midriff hang out and shook her hips, and what did we do?  We praised her for it!  We gave her money!  Fame!  When she sang that she wasn't a girl, but wasn't yet a woman, we pushed her into being a woman!  We wanted her to!  We wanted her to strip to sparkly stickers, dance suggestively, and be our toxic drug!  We bought the albums, we watched the videos - we ate it up. 

 

So how can we blame this girl that we took completely out of reality and put onto a pedestal - for struggling when she has to return to reality?  We used to want her to take her clothes off, now we're telling her to put them back on.  We used to want to see her at the parties, now we're telling her to stay home.  I imagine she is very confused. 

 

It seems to me that WE push this falseness on our celebs.  We demand that they be these things.  We reward and worship them for it.  And then when these things take their toll, we sell tickets to witness the devastation.  Instead of talking about what a freak Britney is, consider that she's something we helped create. 

 

I believe Anna Nicole and Britney are just symptoms of what is wrong with our society as a whole.

I lost my youngest son, 18, to suicide in June. I can understand her wanting to die to be with him and how it consumes your life. I give glory and honor to Jesus for lifting me up out of that pit. Yes, I will admit there are still times I would rather be with him than here but I am learning to embrace each new day and want to live. Life is a precious gift!

Anna Nicole Smith's death is, in the truest sense of the word, a tragedy.

 

It might seem impossible, if you would see me and then look at her, to believe that we could ever have anything in common. However, I too lost my beloved only son, Benjamin, five years ago when he was 15, as a passenger in a drag-racing accident. As with Daniel's death, it was sudden after a happy time in our family. I had just turned 50 and my husband and I had celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary.

 

I can't even imagine, from reading about her life up until then, how it felt to be Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy bunny and celebrity. But I do know how it is to be the grieving mother. For at least six months after Ben died, I just wanted to lay on top of his grave and die myself and let them find me there in the morning. It wasn't that I didn't care about the rest of my family, but there is no way you can replace a child who has given you part of your life back. Though Ben didn't save my physical life, as Daniel might have saved Anna's (or however he did that which was mentioned on Dr. Phil), emotionally Ben's birth gave me something I had not had from a single male relative any time growing up--someone who loved me just because of who I was.

 

So when I saw her recent interviews on TV, I thought, "Is she getting any kind of grief counseling?" "Does she know about the Compassionate Friends?" "Are the people around her letting her grief eat her alive?" And it can, SO easily! It wasn't until two years had passed that I began to feel anywhere near normal again, and that was living a low profile, nondescript life!

 

Then you add in postpartum blues... She didn't have a chance.

 

One of the things our pastor told us when Ben died was "Don't let this be a double tragedy by losing yourselves also." Ironically, watching Anna you would think she was the blessed one--looks, money, fame--but I kind of  doubt if she had anyone in her life tell her that, and show her how to do it. That is the truest tragedy of this whole affair.

I do too...but privacy works both ways. you go out with Brandon Davis and Paris Hilton? Sorry, you don't want privacy.

You have two babies at home and wear no underwear to scummy clubs? LOL... well, that's a whole 'nother thing.

 

   I just have to say i'm disapointed at how dr.phil trivialized lupas...it is a very hard to manage disease for some. There are different forms which can be more serious than others i have 1 family member who died from it and 2 that suffer severly from it. So i think it is very possible that anna could have had it and died from it. Females tend to get it more severe than men. She also wasn't taking great care of herself so i'm sure she wasn't following a plan properly. And the woman in my family that suffers from it doesn't drink or smoke and goes to the doctor almost weekly to manage it and she is only 30 yrs old and they say she probly won't be able to work anymore within the next 3 years! I'm dissapointed that a doctor would trivialize such a serious disease. :( i luv dr.phil.......usually.

 Why is it even on Dr. Phil, the obvious questions everyone is thinking aren't asked? It is OBVIOUS, even to the untrained, that she is under the influence in her interview with Pat O'Brien. Why didn't Pat ask her that? Why  didn't Dr. Phil address it?

Concerning Dr. Phil's comment that parent is a verb, I agree. However, does anyone think that Stern is parenting right now? It's Dannilynn's nannies that are her parent's right now. Birkhead isn't even being given the chance to be a parent. Pat stated he doubted the DNA test would ever be done. PERFECT chance for Dr. Phil to jump on that and he didn't. Why does Pat think the DNA test will never be performed? Could it be because Stern knows the outcome? Of course.

So, if everyone is citing what's best for the child as their motivation, why is determining the biological parent seem to be on the back burner. Stern is banking on the longer the DNA takes the longer he has to build a relationship with Dannilynn and nullify any DNA results to the contrary. Interesting Pat said he asked Stern point blank if he was Dannilynn's father and Stern stated he was. Pat asked the wrong question. Of course Stern believes he's Dannilynn's father. The question that Pat should have asked was if Stern believed he was Dannilynn's BIOLOGICAL father. Big difference.

I was disappointed Dr. Phil didn't pursue this more in depth than other news agencies by asking the point blank tough questions.