After her 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn Spears announced that she was pregnant and commandeered world headlines, the covers of Star and numerous other celebrity news weeklies, Britney knew she would have to do something BIG!
Partying pantyless, a third pregnancy of her own, a new paparazzi boyfriend -- none of that was going to do the trick. Plus there was other tension coming from an unusual place for Britney -- the political scene. Barack, Hillary and Huckabee were doing some major attention-grabbing of their own,
Britney had to go for a doozy. And she did!
We've all seen her now being wheeled from her mansion strapped to a gurney after a close to four-hour standoff with police.
Her two little baby boys were there, K-Fed was there, bodyguards, a court monitor, hovering helicopters...again, a scene that not even the best fiction writer could make up.
I say what's really going on is Roman tragedy, even Biblical. Think, Remus and Romulus, think Cain and Abel, Issac and Ishmael, Esau and Jacob -- two siblings desperately vying for attention and power. And in the case of Brit and Jamie Lynn, it's an even tougher situation, they have their mother Lynn pushing her way into the spotlight to with her new big book deal that won't die.
So it's triplets all desperately and determinedly needing attention and Britney, a huge child star and the center of the Spears family's focus for all these years, feels she needs it the most. She needs to be Number One Daughter and she'll do whatever it takes to stay that way.
A shrink friend explained it to me like this "when you get that type of stardom at such a young age and when it feels like it's being taken away with her career on a downward slide, it's such a loss, such a void that Britney has tried to fill it.
First, "it was with having babies and they were taken away. Now her sister and mother are taking away her press spotlight. She feels like everything is being taken away."
Britney is very likely mentally unstable. Star magazine has had medical experts telling us for almost a year that she is probably bi-polar. When you have mental instability, mixed with drugs and alcohol and a feeling of loss of control, it's not hard to understand Britney's desperate measures to regain control of her power in both her personal relationships and her control of the media spotlight.
She may not be able to tell her sister and mother face to face to get the heck out of her spotlight, but sadly, she just found another effective way to do it!
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This is about no one being able to tell Britney No. Ever since she was a 15 year old girl who made hit song after hit song, there has been nothing but yes men around her. And she has never grown up with any values in the word no. As long as she made hits, sold records, and sold out concerts she could do whatever she wanted. And now that people are beginning to tell her no, she is resisting. And it isn't bi-polar mental disorders. It's pure childhood temper tantrums. She wanted to keep the kids and they said no she defied them. They wanted her in court to be deposed. She said no and went out driving around instead. She wanted to leave the hospital despite the advisement of everyone around her. She doesn't take anything seriously because she never had to. No one is responsible for her actions but her. And she has millions of dollars at her disposal that furthers her ability to do whatever she wants.
I wrote a very long piece on this on my own blog Scandalouscandice.com but I will not link it here because you not allowed to pimp your own blogs. But if you do a search it's there titled "Stop blaming K-Fed for Britney's actions."
Remember no one has ever put a gun to her head. She is doing what she wants and when she gets told no its a temper tantrum its typical childish behavior. Like a kid who holds their breath and stomps their feet when they don't get what they want.
your "expert friends"...
This woman has never experienced "normal" or had the benefit of a mentor who wasn't looking to make a buck.
She is uneducated because she was supporting a family who probably never offered her the choice to "opt out".
Its pretty sad.
are u gonna write another judgemental, condesending & just plain mean article if something worse happens?
compassion.
look it up.
The tide is turning against these bottom feeding tabloids just as Access Hollywood joins their ranks with their own site and Page 6 is racing to open an LA office to go live with their celeb site.
Now that it seems official that there are bigger issues at play here, will the tabloids, paparazzi, news helicopters, broadcast media and online sites leave share in the blame? This woman has been chased around the world for most of her life, knowing nothing like privacy or support.
But there is blood in the water and God knows these sharks aren't about navel gazing. Our blogger will be quick to profit from this tragedy just as she decries its damage to 2 young children who are watching their mother self-destruct on her next exploitative cover.
Britney built that industry. Will they be responsible for the life that they have nearly destroyed?
Where are the authorities in all of this? Any casual viewer can see that it took 6 police cars and decoy ambulances just to get her to the hospital? Why wont the LA police exert any control over these vultures? They camp on Mulholland and swarm, dangerously into streets, private property, onto cars. How many ambulances going to Cedars Sinai last night with other patients were slowed down or harassed by the media?
It has to stop. Why cant she even break down without people enjoying it and profiting from it? I thought at least people had a reasonable expectation of privacy while in the hospital. But you can rest assured everyone who can will sell every scrap of information on her.
'08 is about change and the tabloids are next.
Britney grew up very fast. Her development was arrested in many ways and she missed out on many experiences...We, the public, are guilty because we ask her to be a good role model, then we ask her to be more grown up... mixed messages! And we disapprove of her husband, her pregnancies, her mothering skills. She must be sooo tired of trying to live her life for us! Britney has so many expectations to live up to. She began rebelling against them, trying to live her life, but we're still there criticizing her, waiting for her to mess up again- or be perfect. Honestly, will we ever be happy with Britney Spears again? Answer this question @ http://www.chicbeautyandfashion.com/britney-spears-breakdown-americas-fault/
The fact is that if Britney were a "nobody", her antics (partying, no panties, drinking, smashing car windows with umbrellas, custody stand-offs) would be considered "trashy" at best, but no one would give a hoot. If all of this were happening down the street from where we live, we'd have called the cops ages ago. She's an attention-addicted, uneducated, no-talent lost soul. I do feel something for her, but it's not sadness or compassion - it's more like pity.
If anyone can take anything from this entire situation it should be parents who are thinking of shoving their children into the spotlight at such a young age. Britney never got a real education, where she interacted with people on a real level because of Lynne, who let both her daughters run wild in Hollywood. Britney's always been catered to and had every detail looked after. An educated woman doesn't leave the house without underwear. An educated woman doesn't run for coffee six times a day. An educated woman doesn't throw herself in front of the paparazzi when she has a custody battle going on and everything she does could potentially affect the outcome.
For our sake, I hope Britney-gate turns out okay, if only so the media can go back to focusing on what really matters, like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie, right???