I very much enjoy Britney as a singer/entertainer, what I don’t like about her is her celebrity. Despite my waning fandom, I remain a fan and think she can make a comeback. I think it’s easy to write her off now because she hasn’t done anything career-wise for the past two years, due being on materially leave. Despite her ridiculous nature, she does have a track record for releasing smash hits from each album. (e.g. "...Baby, One More Time," "Oops!...I Did It Again," "I’m a Slave 4 U," and "Toxic.") I think it will only take her the following to bring the focus back onto her music career: (1) losing the post-pregnancy weight quickly, (2) having compelling danceable material that will excite her audience, (3) take formal vocal lessons (it’s long overdue and would be beneficial), and lastly (4) divorce K-Fed or stop including him in her career-related affairs.
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It's not really the whole marrying Kevin thing that makes me lose respect for her now. It's just how she totally let herself go in all aspects of her career. I've heard from people, "She's pregnant! Let her look like that!" But, other celebs worth Brit's money who got pregnant still looked great and didn't walk around barefoot into bathrooms and walk IN PUBLIC with Cheetos stains on her clothes! She's lost all my respect for good.
So, Britney opting for a life of normalcy has led you to lose respect for her? I really don’t understand why some harbor such animosity for her dress code. She doesn’t dress any differently from other normal pregnant women I’ve seen. I think she should be commented for not giving into society’s narrow-minded standards of beauty, despite her mass fortune. As a former Britney fan, you do know that she was often vilified for presenting a body image that was unattainable (a figure that was once physically fit, not emaciated a la Nicole Ritchie) early in her career. Now that she is currently unable to do her regimen of 500-1,000 sit-ups a day she’s criticized even more for her fuller physique and opting for comfort. Damned if she do, damned if she don’t.
Also, as I recall correctly, Britney was photographed entering two separate public restrooms, on two different days, without footwear over a year-n-half ago. (FWIW Kirea Knightly was recently photographed without her shoes, walking around London, and no fuss was made.) Before those careless incidents, she was photographed once holding & eating a bag of Cheetos -- which has become this tedious long running joke -- both occurred when she wasn’t pregnant in 2004.
On another note -- I don’t know why you feel the need to belittle Britney by bringing up Christina, especially when Ms. Aguilera denounced any sort of feud/rivalry between the two recently in
Newsweek. But, as you say, whatever!