Jamie Lee Curtis insists that she's "asking questions, not pointing fingers," in her essay published Monday at the Huffington Post,
but she made it crystal clear that she blames the mothers of Paris,
Britney and Lindsay for the sad and desperate situations the troubled
young women now find themselves in. If you haven't read it yet, here are some of the highlights:
"The sad paths of the three most popular young women have ended in prison, rehab and mental illness. I hope their mothers
are worried sick and wondering, 'What could I have done differently?'
And our culture should be asking the same question too."
Referring to her generation of parents, who want to befriend their kids, instead of raise them: ""We applauded every move they made. Every step
they took. 'Good climbing, Brandon' was our hue and cry. We were raised
by people who didn't 'understand' us and now we don't 'understand' why
our children are so messed up. What we need to do is look long and hard at our part in all this. Where
did our children get the message that the rules don't apply to them?
And where did we, the Mothers, get the message that if we abdicate our
responsibilities as Mothers, the Universe will do our job for us? And
it does, but without any of the love and tenderness and compassion that
we could have given, along with the lessons.""
Jamie Lee had harsh words for Kathy Hilton especially, and waxed philosophical about Paris' dramatic trip back to jail: "It was a painful episode to watch. A young woman,
begging her mother, the person who should have taught her right from
wrong, to help her, to teach her the rules of life. It was a little too
late. And so she wept as the Universe was bringing the teaching and
settling the score."
A
celebrity baby herself and mom to Annie, 20, and Tom, 11, Jamie Lee had some advice for the Kathy Hiltons and Dinah Lohans of the
world: "Children are paparazzi. They take your picture mentally when you don't
want them to, when you don't look good, and show it back to you in
their behavior.... Wake up, Mothers, and smell the denial."
Damn, that sure sounds like "pointing fingers" to me. We haven't heard about Jamie's kids kicking up a big ruckus yet, but c'mon - her boy's only eleven. There's still plenty of time for him to pull a Danny Bonaduce on us. And her daughter's 20 - hardly out of the woods yet. I know that Jamie Lee is considered an expert on child development now that she's written a few kids' books, and everybody loves her because she seems "real," but I think she sounds a little obnoxious here. A bit preachy too. Not that I don't agree with her... but still. As she says, "celebrities who live in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks."
What we have here are boulders.
