Yeah, her dancing and lip-synching was as obviously fake as the creepy colored contacts she wore, and no one is putting Brit forward for a mom-of-the-year award, what with the lax carseat policies and the coke-filled baby bottles. And the whole "mistake" thing. But when I follow the Music Award performance debacle, there's one thing that stands out for me. This is fat? I mean, she has gotten crap for being "unfit." Unfit, for those at home, for once doesn't refer to her parenting, it just means fat. It means she needs to lose weight. It means she's pathetic for tarting around after not losing all that baby weight.
Now, I'll admit, perhaps my perspective has been distorted by spending too much time with real women with real bodies. Women who had the nerve to want to actually deliver the placenta before they hopped back on the stairmaster. Women who do not have the benefit of airbrushing and plastic surgery and full-time nannies so they can work out for hours with a trainer, then go home and "eat" a specially-prepared raw veggie smoothie. Britney has access to all that stuff. So how come she didn't whip herself into top form before going on TV?
I don't know, and I don't care. But I know lots of moms who think they are lazy for waiting three months post-partum before starting the weight-loss regime, and it makes me sad. "Fat" Britney looks relatively normal to me. She looks like she had two kids. And yes, she is scantily-clad and selling sex, so maybe she is opening the door for a critique. I guess celebrities aren't supposed to look like that.
But honestly, I'm kind of glad to see a celebrity body that doesn't look like it was starved for nine months. That belly is (do I go to hell for this?) kinda sexy. I suppose my big post-partum advice is this (listen up, Britster): Work on your health. Enjoy your baby or kids. And while I can't believe I'm saying it, if you wanna emulate Brit's body, go right ahead. Copy her on this one thing. She looks fine to me. Just don't, um, phone your performance in.
