Since we don't really get any TV channels to speak of, my favorite way to decompress when I get home from work is to read magazines. Magazines are like potato chips for the brain. I subscribe to the wholesome mags Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, and Good Housekeeping. However, one of my all time favorite magazines is People, and I have been able to read it like crazy since I got a big stack of hand-me-downs from my sister-in-law Sandy.
I've had lots of reminders as I've read through this stack of outdated celebrity gossip that the celebrity world and my own world are not even on the same plane of reality. I've come up with unanswerable questions such as:
1. Why are Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan making headlines in every issue? They haven't done anything worth being famous for in a long time! Has Britney had a single since she got married to K-Fed? Has Lindsay made a movie since Mean Girls?
2. What must it be like to carry a handbag (or any fashion accessory) worth over $1000? I'd really like to see a glamour pic of someone in their Armani formal, sporting a purse that they bought on sale at Shoe Carnival.
3. How is it that all of the major celebrities are friends with each other? It's a lot of people who are spread out all over the world (when you include people with homes in other countries). We laugh when someone makes an assumption like "You went to A&M? Did you ever know my cousin?" But in Celebrity-land it must be like "You're a celebrity? Me too! Want to come to my party?"
4. What do they do with all of that space? I read that Ashlee Simpson is selling her house (she is what, 20?). Apparently she lived alone in a house where the master closet was more square feet than my house.
5. What do they do to celebrate really big occasions? When taking your jet to Cannes is a typical long weekend getaway, how to you make an event?
6. Is there any fashion that a famous person can't pull off? I swear if I tramped around Waco in some of the outfits that I see on StarTracks, I would get laughed out of town. Is it all a matter of confidence?
7. Is there any hope for the children? Even if Suri Cruise wanted to live a quiet happy life in the Midwest, do you think it would be remotely possible? I wonder how old she would have to get before people could meet her without asking about Tom and Katie.
8. Where did I miss the signup for that life? I know that despite all the money, most celebrities live unhappy and empty lives. But if I could have my fulfilling life, my normal relationships, AND the jet trips to Cannes, I would be okay with that.
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I have to add that the whole Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie mess is getting old. Or Brangelina as I've heard it called. And do you remember Bennifer? (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez) Linds, if you were a celeb, your love life would be dubbed, "Linseve," or "Steendsy."
Actually, since your names don't do well combined, you probably wouldn't make it as a couple in the celeb world. Wait... do any of them make it?
Wow, junk food for the brain! What'll they think of next?
Great post.
I think a few celebrities manage to maintain a semblance of a normal life. Tom Hanks, for example. Haven't he and his wife been married for forever?
I'm just waiting for my ship to come in as a painter, and then I'll get the dream trips and all that, without the paparazzi. After all, who cares about a painter?
Aren't most painters famous only after they die?
for the record...lindsay lohan was in herbir abd just my luck after mean girls......you still do have a good point though
herbie**** im typing with only my left hand
Oh, yeah...how could I forget Herbie? It really changed my life.
I really admire the celebs that keep up a sort-of-normal life. I do like Tom Hanks for that reason. It's so sad that staying married to your original spouse puts you on such a higher moral plane than your peers.
PS- Mel Gibson has a good marriage, too, from what I hear.
Mel Gibson - angry drunk too
I don't think beta blogger likes me either, karend. I have tried two times now to say that I think Julia Roberts has a normal life and I like her.
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