Dave Grohl, of Foo FIghters and Nirvana fame, blames the Spears family for Britney's trainwrecky goodness:
"Fame will f**k with your head, and if you don't have a solid
foundation, you get swept away in it. When Nirvana became famous, I was
only 21, but I had a good foundation. Whenever s**t got too crazy, I'd
go back to Virginia and spend time with the people who loved me the
most, and it kept me from getting dragged under."
Jamie-Lynn's recent pregnancy is another indication that the family is in trouble. Not so much the pregnancy though -- lots of teens from solid families get pregnant, but the thing that proved the lack of support was the fact that Lynne Spears, the woman who was supposed to protect her scared daughter at this time called a frigging magazine and SOLD the story to them. That my friends, is complete bullshit.
I have no issue with teen pregnancy (it happens) and I do hope Jamie-Lynn gets
all the support she needs. Britney is a train wreck because she is a
drug addicted, mentally ill woman who also needs help. She clearly
displays characteristics of a bi-polar or someone with borderline
personality disorder. She’s an overgrown child who needs professionals
to intervene.
Lynne Spears was not the bane of negativity simply for allowing her
daughters to travel down these paths. Sure, some people might be saying
that and I think they are idiots for simplifying it to just that.
My HUGE problem with Lynne Spears is 100% completely valid and it’s
this: What kind of mother calls up OK Magazine to SELL A STORY of her
16 year old landing in a situation where the child is scared?
The woman has exploited both daughters and I take serious issue with
that. Not the acting, not the singing, not even the “Britney image,”
it’s the blatant tell-all-to-whatever-publication-will-give her the
highest payoff. Period. She’s disgusting and her priorities are way
off.
Kids mess up. Parents mess up. I totally get that. But selling their
stories (and future stories - OK Magazine paid $1 million for the baby
pictures exclusive) when they need to you to support them, love them
and protect them from the sharks in the media? Totally wrong.
I’m pissed at Moms who are whining about having to pull Zoey 101
from their living rooms. I’m pissed that these same Moms are putting so
much stock in a frigging television starlet to be a role model to our
kids. That saddens me. My role models were not stars — they were
friend’s mothers, my grandmothers, aunts and cousins. Not Debbie Gibson
or The Bangles.
This should open up discussion (as it did in our house last night as
I broke the story on Famecrawler when I told my 9 year old). We talked
about how it happens, how to prevent it, how to deal with it if it
happens and it was a very open and frank discussion — one of many that
will happen in this house I’m sure.
Think about Jamie, Britney and their
babies — those children (and they all are still very much children in
my eyes) are the ones who need more education, support, protection and
love.
/novel
