It's no secret that famous people have always drawn and held much of the public's attention, but in the last couple of years, there seems to have been a developement of a serious obsession with celebrity pregnancies and babies.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems to be a disturbing trend that has gotten completely out of control. Now even tiny tots like Shiloh (Jolie-Pitt... duh!) snag covers of tabloid magazines that claim to know how she feels about such and such. Does the fact that she's only two mean anything? What, did Shiloh pick up her cell phone and to ring People magazine and dicuss her feelings on various topics? How do they manage to write a two page article about a two year old's concerns and feelings? And why do they have desires to do so anyway?
This may not be entirely correct, but I believe that in the past nobody cared too much about celebrity kids. After all, it was their parents with the fame, and they were only occasionally exposed when out with mum or dad and caught by the pappazzri. Now it seems celebrity kids are born famous, and might as well come out of the womb with a bunch of dollar signs stamped all over their foreheads, after all, their first baby pictures will be worth a fortune, and that's just the beginning.
In fact, celebrity babies are also bonafide trend setters for their fellow tots around the world (read: really for the mothers who are silly enough to buy into all these baby trends for their little ones). If you don't mind me saying, I don't think your 1 year old is concerned with whether she's dressed out in the latest fashions, or that her outfit was inspired by what Suri Cruise was wearing last weekened.
Obession with celebrity pregnancies and babies has become so widespread that there are now countless blogs devoted to keeping tabs on all the "celebrity breeders", as one baby blog Babyrazzi puts it.
All I'm wondering is how much thearpy are these celebrity kids going to need as they grow up? Perhaps we should start with a support group for celebrity kids endlessly teased by their peers, because their parents find sport in giving their children the strangest names? I think they're going to need it...
