LeAnn Rimes Hits Headlines for Kiss

LeAnn Rimes recently went on the defensive when photos were released of her kissing her boyfriend. Debates have ensued over the propriety of public displays of affection. In one of these pictures, though, I find much more to object over. For example, Rimes is out with her boyfriend Eddie Cibrian and his 3-year-old son. 3 is old enough to see adults who love each other kissing, I have no qualms about that. Here's the real problem. In the same picture, Rimes is leaning over Cibrian and his son in a tiny little black bikini bottom that doesn't cover a whole lot.

In essence, it looks like she's giving a father son lapdance. It's possible that this picture is taken from a bad angle - it wouldn't be the first time a celebrity photographer is deliberately misleading in the attempt to sell a photo. But maybe she could put something on that doesn't show off her assets quite so obviously.

Rimes, on her Twitter, pointed out that she has the right to kiss her boyfriend (agreed), and suggests that the photographer was violating her rights to privacy, and as the flip side of the coin she's completely right. Whose business is it what she chooses to do in her private time? Write and wrong become relative if we go too far into the debate.

Rimes and Cibrian have been seeing each other for about a year, and their relationship was the cause of both of their marriages ending, Rimes' to Dean Sheremet and Cibrian's to his wife of 8 years, Brindi Glanville, whom he had 2 children with. For that year, the press has been having a field day dragging all parties through the mud over and over again.

Back in February of 2005, ABC News/Nightline published and article by Jake Tapper and Dan Morris called "Celebrity Media Spinning Out of Control?" They talk about how tabloids and paparazzi were getting worse and worse - has it gotten any better? Absolutely not. They use the Jennifer Anniston/brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie love triangle as an example of how the press goes absolutely crazy over celebrities' personal lives. Many people accept that Princess Diana's death was partially due to insane paparazzi chasing her down. When Patrick Swayze announced he had pancreatic cancer, the press went crazy with that too, and in a time when he really could have used some privacy.

So next time you're feeling judgmental, ask yourself why you're seeing a picture in the first place - chances are, that's none of your business.

Sources

EOnline

ABC News

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeAnn_Rimes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cibrian