Do You Grow That Thick Skin or Does It Just Come Naturally?
I often wonder how celebrity moms do it, putting themselves, their children and often times their significant others at the mercy of anyone who thinks they have any room to throw their judgments around.
Roseanne Barr recently slammed the Jolie-Pitts on her weblog (google it) in a “letter” to Angelina’s actor-dad John Voight. In it she not only called Angelina “evil” and Brad “vacuous,” but then wondered how many more dunces they were going to spit out into a world that will have to take care of them. She apparently also disapproves of the $3+ million they donate to charity every year as being not enough.
Aside from wondering how many rocket scientist children Roseanne has “spit out,” or how much she’s donated to charity ever, or what upcoming project she has that needs some attention, I can’t help but also wonder how celebrity moms deal with such nasty things said about them and their kids. I don’t think celebrities should get a free pass on criticism because I do think they’ve put themselves out there (hence my comments about Roseanne), but I don’t think kids, especially minors, are fair game.
More than anything the attack seems to be politically motivated (and Roseanne is making the whole thing about race, tossing in the nationalities of the three adopted kids as a reason the Jolie-Pitts should be voting one way), which I also find stupid because I’m tired of celebrities thinking no one else is as smart as they are.
What do you think of Roseanne’s comments? Adults are fair game but leave the kids out of it? Or is everything and everyone in Hollywood a free-for-all?
As is usually the case I think there’ll probably be an apology issued within the next week with an excuse about not thinking first or not feeling well or some other BS. And I hope Angelina is able to genuinely shrug the whole thing off and get on with taking care of her wonderful family (though I can’t imagine her stewing about any of it anyway!).
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4 opinions for Do You Grow That Thick Skin or Does It Just Come Naturally?
Thrifty Karen
Aug 19, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Roseanne is even crazier than I thought she was. She just needs to hush. Her comments are almost as bad as that comedian’s who said bad things about Britney’s kids. It’s not ok.
Betsy
Aug 20, 2008 at 7:47 am
The kids don’t have the choice to be born/adopted into celebrity life. And as they are still minors, they should be left alone.
However, the celebrities that choose to put their kids into the media (whatever their reason) or the tweens/teens of celebrities that choose to misbehave/make spectacles of themselves are fair game. I know that Michael Douglas has kids, but I couldn’t tell you anything about them. I know that John Travolta has a son named Jett (b/c of John’s passion for flying), but that’s all I can tell you.
It comes down to how the parents (celebrities) conduct their lives and the values they teach their children.
sherry
Aug 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Roseanne did issue a half apology (but not really). It upset a lot of people but Angelina has often said she doesn’t pay attention to the tabloids and commentary. She may hear about it in passing (and if it was ever going to bother her it might be now what with having all those post-pregnancy hormones), but she’ll most likely just brush it off.
Don’t even get me started that she gives WAY more than $3 million. That would be a lot anyway, but she gives 1/3 of her salary.
Cough, sorry, soapbox over!
Brianne
Aug 22, 2008 at 7:48 pm
It’s sad that some people have such a big mouth and such a little brain… Oh sorry, that wasn’t nice, was it? Oh well, chalk it up to hormones of a pregnant woman…
Kids should be off limits, but since the world seems to have less and less class and common courtesy as the years go by, it’s up the their parents to protect them. Whether they do so by simply shielding them from the spotlight or by teaching them by example to ignore people’s nasty and untrue comments, I wish them all luck. Parenting isn’t easy to begin with - parenting while under a microscope can’t be easy OR fun.
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