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The Birds & B-listers

Before you have kids, you often have a general idea of what you want your parenting philosophy to be.  After lots of careful thought, most of which is not based on any actual kid experience, you have definite ideas of how you want to raise your kids regarding everything from nutrition to television.  Having "The Talk" about the birds and the bees with my kids was something that I figured I wouldn't have to think about doing for a few years yet, being that Jilli is 6 and Aidan is 3.  Now I'm not so sure.

Jillian, like most little girls, loves all things Disney and, as a result, I became familiar with High School Musical, Hannah Montana, and the Cheetah Girls.  I'm fluent in Disney in a way you can only really understand if you have a little girl.  Perhaps that's why I'm a little tweaked about the latest Disney scandal involving Cheetah Girls Adrienne Bailon and bottomless pictures meant for her fiancee which were stolen from her laptop last week.  If you don't have kids, or if you are blissfully unaware of celebrity 'news', you might not know that this is far from the first time Disney has found its squeaky-clean stars in the middle of a scandal.

Jillian was only 2 when the Vanessa Hudgens' scandal blew up and the nude/semi-nude pictures of a very underage High School Musical star hit the fan.  The pics were apparently taken as a gift for her boyfriend Zac Efron.  Obviously, in light of the $80 million dollar haul HSM3 saw opening weekend, the scandal hasn't had a lasting tarnish on the franchise or Hudgens. I personally am glad that Jillian isn't into HSM (its got too many 'kissy' scenes) right now and that she's too young to be able to google her Disney Idols like I can.

Then Miley Cyrus (daughter to Billy Ray "Achy-Breaky Heart" Cyrus and my daughter's absolute idol) revealed her "friendship" with the Daddy approved 20-year old Justin Gaston.  I don't know about you, but personally the idea of my 15-year old daughter getting cozy with a twenty-year old is something that freaks me out.  I don't care how Christian the guy may be or what her crazy daddy thinks - its still a felony. 

kathy griffin is effin funny.

H & I were watching Kathy Griffin: You can suck it on comedy central the other day and the woman, as usual, had me laughing so hard i was crying at times.  This bit was great:

"i read about paris hilton getting into a fist fight with shana moakler on a stairwell in a club. that's not my thing, alright? that's not fun for me. i'm not going to confront anybody! i was raised right.  i talk about people behind their backs. yeah...its called 'manners'."

If I didn't know Kathy was born in Illinois, I would have pegged her for a southern girl....that's like the southern girl's mantra...

'fashion' strikes again

what the heck is it with posh and footwear that makes me think she's buying from an S&M shoe shop? via socialite life

Celebrity Parenthood

if you are a mother, there have been more than a few occasions when you feel like you just aren't getting it.  when you look like you haven't seen a hairbrush or a gym in a while and the kids misbehave while dinner burns and you get a zit. days when the last thing you need to see is some celebrity telling you they do it better.

with the continuing wave of celebrity births it seems like there's always a glossy cover screaming about how so-and-so lost all their post baby weight in a month, subtitles promising to tell you how!  now we all know that these women come equipped with an entourage to make sure that they get back asap to better than pre-baby shape because that's what their career is based on, but that knowledge doesn't help when you see celebrity moms wearing bikini's with no hint of pregnancy while you are left wondering how to hide your flabdominals.

we all know that there is an impressive staff that goes to support a celebrity mom.  what is irksome is when these celebrities try to convince us they do it all. its insulting to those mothers out there who do the day to day, every day.

Shine's article, "celebrity parenthood" said it best:

"it's not that they brag about their children; it's that they sometimes are caught bragging that they've accomplished so much and raised a family. It's almost as if they're saying they're successful despite having this burden of responsibility and limitation."

whether you're a mom working out of, or within the home, its hard to 'do it all' and to have the media and our culture continue to make it seem like its completely possible.  even when you know better, this kind of attention can make mothers feel like on some level you have failed. 

what do you think about it?

high fashion. indeed.

so this weekend victoria/david beckham strutted out to promote their new his/hers fragrances...notice anything? anything...missing?  well i didn't see it at first but once you tear your eyes away from her robotic beauty you notice her boots aren't knee or thigh-high but actually disappear into posh's nether regions....

...AND THEY DONT HAVE HEELS!  

now i may be a poor, fashion-backward girl who likes to shop at j.crew but i dont get how wearing coochie-high PVC boots is considered anything but trampy....

or part of an uncomfortable halloween costume. that being said, even if you did want to be all avant-garde and wear boots this uncomfortable, would you pay $6000 for them? Six grand for Antonio Berardi PVC boots?  PVC??!!!