OT: Britney Spears Ongoing Career Revitalization Plan

[delalluvia]

The kids are probably fine.  Social services would be poking around if there was even a hint of neglect in such a high profile situation.  The grandmothers wouldn't let it get that far.

The idea that K-Fed is trying to come across as father of the year is laughable.  Maybe they should have Shar Jackson tell everyone what a great father he is. 

Gawker made an excellent point about the double-standards applied to women who react with violence instead of tears against the paparazzi.

[injest]

The kids are probably fine.  Social services would be poking around if there was even a hint of neglect in such a high profile situation.  The grandmothers wouldn't let it get that far.

The idea that K-Fed is trying to come across as father of the year is laughable.  Maybe they should have Shar Jackson tell everyone what a great father he is. 

Gawker made an excellent point about the double-standards applied to women who react with violence instead of tears against the paparazzi.

I mean!! good grief...

[opinionista]

The kids are probably fine.  Social services would be poking around if there was even a hint of neglect in such a high profile situation.  The grandmothers wouldn't let it get that far.

The idea that K-Fed is trying to come across as father of the year is laughable.  Maybe they should have Shar Jackson tell everyone what a great father he is. 

Gawker made an excellent point about the double-standards applied to women who react with violence instead of tears against the paparazzi.

Believe it or not, Shar Jackson does defend him! I was suprised after what he did to her. She assures K sperminator Federline is a great dad.

[delalluvia]

Believe it or not, Shar Jackson does defend him! I was suprised after what he did to her. She assures K sperminator Federline is a great dad.

Ye gods.  I guess that 15 minutes of fame is too much to resist.  The definition of a great father?  A man who takes off and abandons you and your unborn child when he meets a hot rich famous babe.  A man who lets said rich famous babe pay his child support.   

Makes you wonder what a great father he would be if the camera wasn't on him 24/7.

[injest]

Ye gods.  I guess that 15 minutes of fame is too much to resist.  The definition of a great father?  A man who takes off and abandons you and your unborn child when he meets a hot rich famous babe.  A man who lets said rich famous babe pay his child support.   

Makes you wonder what a great father he would be if the camera wasn't on him 24/7.

see this is something I can't understand...there are 4 billion + people in the world. That is the BEST they can do? I mean, Britney has looks, fame, money...and THAT is the best she can get???

OY!

[MaineWriter]

Poor Britney...she is still in rehab and the latest report is that she attempted to commit suicide Saturday night. Oh my...


Britney Spears, in rehab and on the road to recovery, may have suffered a set back when she supposedly tried to hang herself on Saturday night.

The “Slave” singer, who recently checked herself into rehab, reportedly penned the number “666” on her newly shaved head and then yelled “I am the antichrist,” followed by “I’m a fake, I’m a fake” a source told British tabloid, The News of the World.

She then tied a sheet to a light and then around her neck, according to the paper, but paramedics arrived before she was hurt. The staff at Promises Clinic has not commented if this was an actual suicide attempt or just a cry for help.

The same source went on to say that Spears, 25, has spent several hours each night on the phone with estranged husband, Kevin Federline, and wants to get back together with the Super Bowl commercial actor/WWE wrestler.

Rumors are flying that Spears is still in love with Federline and wants to have another child with him in order to secure their marriage. Spears and Federline spent two years married and already have two children, 18-month-old Sean Preston and 5-month-old Jayden James. Spears filed for divorce in November.

[opinionista]

So, while Britney is busy rehabbing and supposedly trying to end her life, her estrange husband is using all the publicity he can get by playing good Dad in front of the media. According to People, Kevin is such a loving, responsible and wonderful parent, that he didn't hesistate to take his two babies to Las Vegas and was even late to a dinner because he didn't want to leave before tucking them to bed. Awww! 

These sort of stories reinforces the double standard imposed by the media on this case. Britney, who probably has a bad case of baby blues, is portrayed as the mentally ill mother who needs rehab for trying to have a social life and attacking a papparazzi (who probably deserved it) with an umbrella  and now is even sucidal. Meanwhile the sore loser she has for a husband is portrayed as such a great father. They forgot to mention that shortly after the second baby was born he was out partying, and touring all over the place, trying to build a non existent career. Why didn't he stay home, helping Britney out with their two babies?

It's not fair. I feel bad for the kids though.

Here's the scoop on K-Fed playing dad.

Kevin Federline Takes the Kids to Vegas
MONDAY MARCH 05, 2007 07:25 PM EST

By Mark Gray and Jennifer Garcia

While Britney Spears remained in rehab, Kevin Federline headed to Las Vegas over the weekend – with the kids.

Federline was in town for a long-planned paid appearance at the Mirage Hotel & Casino lounge Revolution, sources tell PEOPLE.

"Kevin was really low-key," one source says. "You could definitely tell he was on his best behavior. He was having a good time, but wasn't the wild, crazy Kevin who used to come to Vegas."

He arrived on Saturday with Sean Preston, 18 months, and Jayden James, 6 months, plus a nanny, his mother and brother and two bodyguards, sources say.

He had dinner with friends and family at the hotel's Japonais restaurant, says a source, who adds: "He was late for dinner because he wanted to tuck his kids into bed."

By midnight, he was relaxing at a VIP table at the Revolution with a group of friends who included Las Vegas comedian Jeff Beacher.

Spears's rehab ordeal, says a source, has matured Federline.

"He wakes up with a purpose each morning and has enjoyed his family being around him," says the source.

A rep for Federline declined to comment.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20014118,00.html

[delalluvia]

Gag.  Yeah opinionista I saw that too and I also have been seeing how he's playing the media for all it's worth.

At least Britney has a real probability of an excuse - she may very well be suffering post partum depression.

Fed-Ex has no excuses for his behavior.

The 'compared to Britney, the man's a saint' is crap.  Yeah, I guess he and his lawyer want everyone to forget his abandoning his pregnant girlfriend, partying and off on publicity jaunts while still married and a father, buying pot from a drug pusher/friend in the driveway of their own home and other various stunts throughout the last two years...but we're supposed to buy what a great father he is. Yeah, right. 

[Lumière]

Lordy, poor Britney indeed!
When I heard the attempted suicide thing - I figured it was just a tabloid thing. 

I think most people know that K Fed is milking the spot light for all its worth .. plain and simple.

[Lumière]

Brooke Shields Reaches Out to Britney Spears


Actress Brooke Shields has offered help to Britney Spears, after reports claiming the troubled singer is suffering from postpartum depression.

Reports last week claimed Spears had been reading Shields' 2005 book "Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression" during her current stay at the Promise rehab center in Malibu, California.

Shields wrote the book after successfully conquering postpartum depression with the help of counseling and the anti-depressant Paxil following the birth of her first child Rowan in 2003.

Shields tells the TV show Access Hollywood, "I hope she's fine. I believe she's going to be fine, and she just needs the support and her kids. She's their only mom, and she'll earn that back in her own mind.

"(If she is suffering from depression) then it really needs to be reckoned with, and it's very common, and she'll get through it.

"If (Britney) is reading my book. I hope it's helping her. If it's not, and she wants to talk to someone, I'm available. She is followed every moment of her life, and she's documented every minute of her life."