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Britney to Mom & Sis! Look How Far I'll Go to Get You Out of My Spotlight!
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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Britney is a mentally ill woman who has yet to grow up. I doubt she knows how to be grown up. She had kids because she wanted unconditional love and baby dolls. Reality was not her friend. She might be bipolar but she for sure is not safe with her kids nor is she at any point a nuturing experience for them. They always appear shell shocked by all of the photograhers and overwhelmed by her just driving around aimless and encouraging the people that scare them. They will share a trauma of being with an out of control person who is distracted and so self involved to be anyting to them. jamie Lynn has just done the same thing by creating a baby to both love unconditionally and to be a play thing. Sad what damage stage moms have and can do.
I don't feel too sorry for Brittany, who had so many opportunities in life and who has squandered them. I feel more sorry for her children. She has lost her parental rights and should be kept far away from those kids until she does what the court wants her to do, and she should have to see qualified, certified mental health experts for a full mental evaluation if she is ever going to set eyes on her children again. No fake Doctors like "Dr." Phil who just wants to exploit her for his own show. Her parents are not qualified to parent or write a book on parenting, as they sold their daughters to the highest bidder and robbed them of their childhood, exploiting them and turning them into things, commodities to be bought and sold. It's a sad situation all around, but Brittany's kids should be protected and kept away from her until she gets her act together, if she ever does, which is starting to look less and less likely.
Britney's life started going to hell when she started hanging out with Paris Hilton. Just like Nicole Richie, and just like Lindsay Lohan. Drugs and alcohol.
I predict she is about to find Jesus.
This is not about getting more attention than her sister Jamie Lynn. Though I think that there is a part of her that is doing that.
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.
When did it become against the law to not wear underwear? I know there are a lot of other issues but really, isn't this a problem that should be dealt with in a private manner. I don't say that if we simply ignore it, it will get better, but it might go away and the glare of the lights and cameras is only making it worse...and worse yet, it's more distraction from the news that actually matters. You really seem more intelligent than to fall for the media barrage tactics that sell the soap but leave us even dirtier than when we started.
The comments here reflect more insight than any of
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.
britney is ill.
are u gonna write another judgemental, condesending & just plain mean article if something worse happens?
compassion.
look it up.
Its a good thing you don't make 1.5 million a year exploiting this woman and her family while employing the scum that chase her ambulance, knock on doors in hospitals. Even Dr. Phil had to get into the act. Apparently, walking someone to the car is now good enough to hold a news conference and diagnose them. Apparently, he is a doctor like Dr. Seuss is a doctor.
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.
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! *sob sob sob*
This young person is hurting so very deeply. Have you not ever experienced desperation in your life? Try putting yourself her in her shoes...child star, education a low priority while she's the money horse. There isn't enought money in the world to be in the public eye and having your life on 24/7 coverage. We have built up "celebrity" has those they are not people. Now, I know that this girl has asked for the press she has received and turned away all who might be able to help her....when someone is in the painful place she is; asking for help may be the most difficult thing she may do. On top of that with the possibility of being bi-polar and postpartum depression; what a frightening predicament she's in; remember, she's still really a child. It seems to me that most of the press would love to see this young woman commit suicide which is truly the saddest reflection of our society. Live a day in this person's life..
Your shrink friend is looking at this incident from one perspective. Looking from a societal perspective Britney's meltdown is America's fault.
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/
Bonnie, c'mon now, you live for events like this. Without her breakdowns, what else would you have to color the pages of your magazines? There are only so many instances of Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston *almost* getting back together that your audience can take.
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???
Ms Spears is obviously in a downward spiral and needs help. She doesn't seem to have any coping skills and should seek psychiatric counselling. Her fame doesn't help her and her family is MIA when she needs them the most. It's time to leave her alone.
This is perfect for The Star, Arianna, not The Huffington Post. To claim that Britney Spears, who is so clearly mentally ill, and has been for some time, did this to get the spotlight away from her sister being pregnant is ridiculous. Considering that her life for the past year or so has been a constant cry for help, I don't know how this latest event could be considered something unexpected or unusual. She's a sick girl and she needs help, she doesn't need some Star reporter claiming she's acting crazy to get attention away from her sister. I think the gossip columnists and the paparazzi should feel guilty, they've clearly egged on someone they know is ill. I hope they're happy with the consequences. (Yes, this means you too, Bonnie Fuller)
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