Read Between the Lines: Nikki Reed

I never can quite feel positive when Nikki Reed is in the news. She is a controversial character herself and has been cast as a character that she fails to fit the part of.

Public opinion is, she qualified for the role of Rosalie Hale in what was once, the much anticipated Twilight Saga movies, due to her personal contact with director Catherine Hardwicke. Catherine Hardwicke employed a friend instead of someone that fit the role.

As this is public opinion, it is fair to say we can all agree there are many beautiful blonde actresses out there that also has pale skin tone's. It is undeniable that behind all the wigs or blonde dye in the first movie, as well as the blotched make-up, that behind it all is a tanned brunette. Whenever I look behind the portrayal of Rosalie in the books, comparing the book with the film - I cannot remove the idea from my mind that it is all fake. Rosalie in the film, played by Nikki, is not a natural beauty. The character's image lacks that natural complexion.

During June, the news that shocked us all and the follow up reports, made most of us chuckle at the desperation that Nikki has sunk to. Engaged to Paul McDonald, American Idol reject, after three months of meeting him. Only a year before, she explained, "I'm not going to be with anyone for a very long time. It's about time that I focused on me," after a break up with Greek boyfriend Paris (Celebrity-Gossip, 2010). From a rumoured depression thanks to her fans filling me on this, which required her brother to comfort her, you would assume a long time would be a few years, not one year later and to top it off rushing into an engagement with a man she hardly even knows, naively calling him the one. I'm sure the other men she tattooed on her body, she dreamt of as being the "one".

Four months later, and headlines a month before her latest film project due for release, spread the rumour it was Nikki and Paul's wedding. Less than three month she's engaged -Gossip Cop (2011) confirmed- and in less than a year she marries the man of her dreams.That would be sweet but to put it in perspective, her track record of men that always leave her heartbroken, and her relationships failing to last long enough; doesn't give her much hope. Also the matter that her desperation knows no bounds, through her rushing into this relationship rather than slowing down, as the prior relationship should have taught her. I'd love to extend my congratulations but I cannot.

As we all know, the social networking sites on the worldwide web have a remarkable influence on society today. Some are sickened by the amount of time spent on social networking, leading to criticisms of the human race losing the vital communication skills we need to interact in an educational or work environment. Nikki once was one of those types of characters implying she hated Twitter. Yet she signed up and was sucked into social networking, following only one solo artist to this day: her partner. It wouldn't be so odd in following her partner, but she has friends to follow, such as the maid of honour Alexa Vega. She sinks as low as the disgrace of social networking's influence on all of us.

Apparently, she could be a role model to young females. However when she was young, her childhood revolved around illegal drugs, underage sex, and self-harming because she couldn't have her own way -which all documented in the film Thirteen. Films at a later date that Nikki was cast in, had a slight resemblance to her un-likeable character in Thirteen. Currently too her whole world seems invested in one person - Paul - that she feels content in promoting, whilst she permits her own career to go down the toilet. Quite literally, especially in the campaign where she expressed for us to, "Give-a-shit" as she sat on a toilet, and then afterwards forgot to wash her hands (Ads of the World, 2011). These are terrible campaigns that are meant to involve light humour, which just presses on the point that she has flushed her career down the toilet. Promoting Paul, and finally getting involved in crap campaigns. Some could define this period as her mid life crisis.

Back to a point made already: she's invested entirely into her partner. She would teach any young girl that looks up to her to lose your self-worth. Lose that independence we should find from a career and in other relationships such as friendships. She'd teach a young girl to work for nothing but her partner. I prefer a role model that can find her footing though she may have a partner. A role model that can keep a distance between supporting him/her and following her own path in life.

An attempt to suss out her ways of living leads to deciding she clings unhealthily to friendships or anyone that shows her a little love. I feel it is right to hold onto some form of love from a friend, relation or better yet a partner, but you don't cling to them squeezing the life out of you both.

Though some may say we all can have a change of heart, she should have taken her own advice before signing up to Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Most find the content of what she updates is amusing, thus falling short everytime, making herself appear a fool within a wide group of people. After her co-stars have been caught up in a load of trouble with either the release of nude photographs or the wrong wording in quotes, Nikki herself confirmed at one stage she didn't feel comfortable with owning a Twitter (Ace Showbiz, 2010). "I don't think something like Twitter is for me because I'll just end up getting myself in trouble with what I accidentally say." Once on Twitter she agreed with fans once she reaches 100,000 followers she will take part in a Q&A. Therefore sooner or later she'll answer controversial questions. Or she'll avoid some questions that would serve her an advantage if she answered them and removed the gossip behind her fall out with cast members. But instead she prefers to pretend she and her cast are a huge family, that don't even have a wedding invitation sent to accept or reject due to work commitments.

In her recent tweet on Twitter, she confirmed her wedding, "Yesterday was the most magical day of my life…" If I didn't think this was a publicity stunt before, I do now. When married, you spend the next day, the next week enjoying the bliss of married life. I have never met anyone who is on the internet a day later tweeting for everyone to read how the wedding felt. Does it make it more real than a show, if the words are typed publicly for the whole word to read and acknowledge? Nobody but Nikki, her husband, and her guests demands this information.

"I found a solution and it's not the ideal solution because my team would like it if I did more of what some of the other cast members do, like go to Starbucks on a daily basis, get photographed and make it into Us Weekly. But I just don't know how to function like that, regardless of what the general public thinks, which is also weird." But it was Nikki's decision to share plus confirm on the MTV Red Carpet, her details on an engagement and at a later date a couple of wedding details with someone from the media. It was her decision after her wedding to speak in interviews with the media, about her wedding. Once was enough, twice was pushing it, three times is plenty for someone who wanted her privacy.

She and Paul since there relationship began, have been in the public eye a lot, caught outside grocery stores that both of them could always find an alternative to. She permitted a photographer to upload photographs of her birthday onto gossip sites. As social networking is another form of the media she's signed up publicly to share information with the whole of the internet. about her personal life. Her and Paul McDonald, seem to need to express their love in words on a public website, a day after saying "I do." Whilst other couples in the industry, understands what privacy means, feeling content with showing their love and expressing their love in words to each other instead of to an audience on Twitter, and instead of to readers in online or in print.

Many of her fans would like for you to believe people who merely dislike her is because of the gossip of her involvement with Robert Pattinson. May I remind you from Nikki herself in print, she answered (Seventeen, 2009), "I'm like, what breakup? Rob and I were never together." If you want to convince me that they were together it is your own problem. I'm quite fine believing Rob and Nikki's denials, so no, it has nothing to do with whether 'Nikki had him first', which I find immature of people.

Some perceive she lied as a celebrity would do to avoid any embarrassment over nothing but a hook up for sex. Perhaps she and he did lie then. But it wouldn't upset me since she's married now to another man, and Rob and Kristen have been in a serious relationship since May 2009. Would the opinion of Nikki being mistreated by her former friends be valid, if there was a hook up? My bet is that Nikki knew all about the crush Rob had had for Kristen. The director Catherine Hardwicke, knew and even felt the need to warn Rob to not try anything with Kristen as her boyfriend at the time was one of her closest friends. When someone understands a man has a crush on their "best friend" as Kristen once was to Nikki, you walk away and find someone else. She would have had her hand in blame.

My dislike for Nikki stems from her personality that I just cannot find likeable. She digs herself into a hole weighed down by lies, embarrassing moments, contradictory answers and actions. There have been numerous occasions where Nikki's snide comments towards her cast - her former friends - has become public knowledge. A snide comment about the possibility that nobody cares about Rob's presence at Comic Con, when she, a much disliked character in Twilight, is present. As well as irrelevant mentions about Kristen Stewart.

During the promotion for the past two Twilight films Nikki and other cast members were asked about what they had borrowed or taken from the set. In Eclipse promotion Nikki mentioned how she wanted a necklace but Kristen had taken it before she had the courage to take it for herself. Recently there has been a sudden need to inform the media Kristen "stole" the shoes Nikki wanted from the first film. There was no mention of this during the promotion of the first two films when it appeared that Nikki was bragging a little too much about Kristen being her best friend (MTV, 2009). Maybe it didn't bother her back then. But now she does mind as it is obvious since Kristen and Robert's relationship started and Kristen's ex no longer was in the picture, that their friendship deteriorated.

Nikki seemed to have taken a dislike to Rob implying females were attracted to him for what she judged were his feminine features (Robert Pattinson Who, 2009). From her Breaking Dawn promotion in October, she spoke to the Italian press blaming Robert's bodyguards who stood outside his trailer on set; for not being able to resume their friendship. However his other friendships have been unaffected by his bodyguards protecting Rob. This causes us to presume she must have been unwelcome in his trailer and unwelcome in his life. According to Nikki there was no Breaking Dawn wrap party which coincided with Kristen's twenty-first birthday party. But Julia Jones who talked about Kristen refusing her cake at first, confirmed about the wrap party. Also Canadian paparazzi confirmed in later reports of the mergence between the wrap and birthday party. Who's lying? It's hard not to believe she was uninvited but couldn't admit to that. An interview with Alexa Chung, identified a drama seeking and pot stirring side of Nikki. In that interview, a clip was shown where her friend at the time mentioned that Nikki urinated on her, which to any of us would be an unpleasant experience. Who wants their friend to urinate on them? This in turn embarrassed Nikki, who threatened a word of warning directed at Kristen the next time they would see each other.

Unconfirmed news until after Kristen Stewart's birthday this year, was a hint that Nikki Reed, whilst friends with both Kristen and Rob from 2008-2009, called the paparazzi on them both. She always appeared comfortable with the paparazzi although by her quotes they tell a different story. But this news was unconfirmed until April 2011, after two Canadian photographers in defence of Nikki against fan's delight she wasn't in attendance at Kristen's birthday, confirmed she had contacted them and now faced the brunt from Rob and Kristen. When hanging out with Kristen or Rob she contacted paparazzi to have them photographed, in turn disrespecting their wishes for privacy when out on private time.

"In the beginning, it was innocent and fun, and we were like one big happy family - it was like being at sleep away camp. And then success comes along and changes the dynamic. We're not all best friends, and we're not all going to hang out together after the final movie is done." Her Seventeen interview reverted back to answering about the Twilight cast friendships. What's strange is she couldn't congratulate members of the cast for meeting success, yet used it to describe something negative.

Her fan base that represents her too, are nasty pieces of work. The following mentioned are all public Twitter pages of Nikki fans. 'OhMyNikkiReed' wished cancer on her idol's co-star, tweeting without regret, "Here's to hoping that Kristen dies of cancer!" Her fellow fans of Nikki, 'TischaAnya', 'NikkiReedMafia', 'NikkiReeders', 'nreedcom', 'NikkiReedAddict', 'respectnreed', 'NreedFANATIC', 'weLOVEnikkireed' and 'nikkiethebest' all in my view approved of this comment. In the middle of disagreeing with each of them, over this whole who is a hypocrite drama - none I saw had shown disapproval by explaining this user had gone too far. Completely disgusted by that amount of hatred extended, I became wound up trying ultimately to express how wishing cancer on someone is wrong. When I had seen no response from either of the Nikki Reed fans that were aware of what had been said, I branded these Nikki fans as all disgusting forms of her fanbase. Their only real responses to the comment, was their slight dislike in being accused of the one who said that. None of them though thought that saying nothing towards that girl meant they technically approved.

I actually knew a person who wished cancer on someone they despised, and guess what? I am one hundred per cent sure the person who had that wished on him had died from cancer. I don't keep in contact with that evil person anymore. But as you can understand, this is the fanbase that represents Nikki Reed: people who feign ignorance towards wishes of cancer on others. I've made my mind up, when I see someone sending death threats to Nikki or wishing illnesses upon her, I will be unresponsive - exactly the same as the Nikki fans were. Whether I disagree or agree with the comments is another matter. Further insults towards Kristen Stewart, made by each of those fans are: "KSpew", "KShrew", "KStewpid", "druggie", "looks like a cow chewing,", and calling her and sometimes Ashley Greene, "crack whores".

In their tiny, naïve minds you have to be kind to Nikki or say nothing at all. I'd accept that…Whereas deep down in their own minds, whilst they expect that, they feel free to insult Kristen Stewart, making defamatory remarks that Kristen is on drugs in relation to the 2009 pictures of her smoking from a pipe, and that Robert is her drug dealer, and that Ashley is a "slut" or "whore" or name her "Trashley". You must draw a line when you expect respect for your idol. I agree there should be no death threats, but I will not sit back and argue your point on no death threats, when that group sat by basically a year ago approving of an unstable user wishing cancer on a stranger. Maybe we could have met mutual ground, but the chance vanished when I saw no warnings to that unstable fan of Nikki Reed, that she was taking it to the extreme lengths. News flash, you are a fan of Nikki's, not her best friend. As you ask a Nikki hater, would Kristen and Robert approve? As I indirectly ask Nikki fans that insult Kristen, Ashley, and Robert: would Nikki approve? Would it be alright if I sent questions to "NikkiReed_I_Am" asking does she approve of her fans calling her former friends drug addicts, drug dealers or extending wishes of illnesses to them?

Returning to a particular point before I finish, people have defended that she isn't after attention. What does it mean then, to sell your wedding pictures exclusively to a magazine that has a high readership? What does it mean to use the time to promote her film to promote how her own wedding was compared to the characters in the film? What does it mean to take part in interviews talking solely about how the wedding went and how much the partner participated in organising elements of the wedding? Maybe this following question is more simple to understand and answer. Has she gained attention from her tweet(s), selling her pictures that were published immediately, and from answering in a prepared interview about her wedding itself? If she hadn't, nobody would be talking about it. But with something new everyday coming from Nikki's mouth herself, she has gained attention.

Her co-star Ashley Greene, is a star I can accept although she has made mistakes with the nude pictures released online. Anybody though is wary of the fact that Ashley can handle fame and almost welcomes it. On a seriously bad day she may reject the attention. What I prefer about Ashley is, she hasn't once recently complained or placed the blame on her team for the press attention. She embraces fame, she doesn't lie to anyone and is honest with herself.

Nikki does lie to herself. If she were more honest, accepting that she does welcome fame now, I could begin to move on and the debate on is she fame hungry or does she hate it would disappear. But until she quits with the pretence she hates fame, whilst her actions speak louder than words: I'm a member of the audience. Waiting for her 'outspoken' side too - the catty side - to show her true colours once again.


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