Should Britney Spears Be Used as a Role Model

Of What NOT to Do

Sara Martin
Lately I have experienced the uneasy and sad truth of what is happening to Britney Spears through the media. This girl is spinning out of control while the whole world is watching. She can not make a mistake without someone seeing. I feel sorry for her. She was a strong independent woman at one time, and now she is a mess. The latest story that I read about this dame in distress is how she tried to commit suicide by hanging and shouting that she's the Antichrist, with the numbers 666 scribbled on her bald head. Seriously, the media needs to give Brit her space, and her family needs to be there for her.

If we really thought about Spear's situation, it is something that anyone would go crazy over. She's only 25 years old with a failed marriage, which she wants back, two young children, a dying career, and huge expectations from her. I feel that she should be an example of what not to do, but also should be sheltered from the spotlight while she recovers. This woman is crying out for help and it could be a result from a number of reasons. As I stated before, she's been in the spotlight for so long, one little mistake and her name is printed across thousands of newspapers the next day. It is very well possible that she is at her wit's end and she needs the compassion that she deserves.

Postpartum Depression could be a key role in Brit's wild behavior, not to mention the reality that her family now lives in a broken home. We should take the time now to discuss with the young females in our lives how Britney is like anyone else and she needs help. Use this time of despair in Spear's life to discuss what happens when someone let's stress eat them alive and doesn't get help for it. I truly believe that Britney really needs help and with proper help, she will be able to come out of this.

Some might question if her toxic ways are for publicity, and I have thought that many times before. The only reason I now feel that she isn't doing this for the publicity, is that her drastic change in behavior has happened over night. As if she can not control her actions! That is exactly what is happening. One moment she decides to get two tattoos, the next she feels the need to shave her head, now she thinks she's the Antichrist! The lady is not sane!! She needs help. Oh I forgot to mention the impromptu beating of a car with an umbrella when her ex-husband K-Fed refused to see her. This girl needs help!

In conclusion, give the woman some room and just hope that her children will live a normal life. Use this as an example for any teenage girl in your life to show them what stress, drugs, and peer pressure can do to you if you wait too long for help. Please find something better to get your media fix on and leave the poor, bald, insane woman alone!

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  • chelle morris3/22/2007

    fabulous insight. i have long worried that she may be on a downhill spiral due to postpartum depression as well. she does need her space, and sadly she will not get it. i feel sorry for her myself. she has lots of potential and the media has made a circus of her life, it will take nothing short of a miracle for her to turn her life around and get back on track. then she could be a good role model, because she's been to the bottom, and yet found her way back up.

  • ALBAN MEHLING3/21/2007

    it's obvious this young woman has some issues to deal with. Y'all gave it fair and objective slant. Keep writin'.

  • Murielle Stephenson3/18/2007

    I am not the type of person to waste my time buying the Star or other magazines to keep up with the lates gossip about a star. I have to say however that this is the life that this young lady has chosen. She welcomed the cameras when she was up, she has to deal with the cameras now, that's part of the bargain.

  • Jeannette Morrone3/16/2007

    Well said!

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