Britney Spears Back in Rehab: Surprise, Surprise

Ah, but we have such high standards when it comes to celebrities.  I was listening to the news this evening, and heard that icon and role model Britney Spears has again returned to rehab.  All I can say is… “are we surprised?”  She is, for all intensive purposes, the monster we made her.  Here is young britney not too many years back…

A normal enough kid, by all appearances.  But thenn came pop stardom. and we as a society told this young girl that she needed to be as sexy as possible.  Being young and ignorant (who among us wasn’t) and obviously a bit star struck, she did just that.  It wasn’t as bad as it could have been at first, although I wouldn’t let my daughter look like this for all the money in the world…

But then the floodgates opened.  There was, as all to often seems to be the case, drinking.  There were drugs.  The bottom lone is that we give these kids their celebrity status, ridiculous amounts of money, and we forget that virtually no one is responsible at that age.

The girl has now become a woman, and a woman with issues.  She has been through everythibg from a bad relationship to losing her kids to having her private parts plastered all over the internet.  She made something of a comeback, apparently figuring the best way to climb out of her hole was to dance on a stripper pole for the world to see.

Hopefully, she will wake up.  Society may have sucked her dry, but she isn’t unique.  What she is is a mother.  Time to start acting like it.