I know this is a short one, but I read it on imdb.com today that she is demanding background checks for the nurses helping her delivery. First Kylie Minogue, and now this. man, I've always hated celebrities.
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pregnant pop star Britney Spears is planning to a luxurious labor when she gives birth to her first child in three months time. the singer has reserved a plush room in a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona as well as all adjacent rooms to ensure her moans and groans cannot be heard by nosy passers-by. a source tells star magazine, "Britney wants white and yellow roses in the room when she gets there. Britney wants all the nurses serving her to be given background checks."
Deb, it's no secret that celebrities have their share of enemies the same as they have their share of fans. It's also no secret that non celebrities babies have come up missing from hospitals (baby's stolen). Stories where babies come up missing due to kidnapping from the hospitals, from their cribs at home, from backyards, grocery store shopping carts, department store areas, etc. etc. are what makes me question why anyone -- especially those of us in healthcare -- wouldn't understand any well-known public figure wanting to protect their unborn child.
If I were a celebrity, I would certainly do everything in my power to protect myself during my pregnancy, during the labor and delivery process, and after having the baby -- at ANY cost! Britney has the money to make this happen for herself, so why condemn her -- a mother to be -- for wanting to protect this very precious moment in her life. Many may not like the choices she has made as a celebrity.......well, many non celebrities trash other non celebrities for the sake of trashing them, out
of jealousy, or for whatever reasons. :)
I guess it sickens me when some people -- especially nurses -- can't present a more professional tone and professional stance when it comes to birthing of babies that just happen to be a celebrity's child -- whether still in utero or already born. It was we, the public, that made those celebrities rich. They do not become celebrities without the support of the people who buy their music, see their movies, and scream when their seen at concerts and out in public. The public wants to take photos with them. THAT is how they become the celebrities that make so many want to puke. :)
Brit has a private plane. I sure hope she gives birth in the sky because knowing how nurses feel about her choice to protect her unborn baby and privacy during her baby's birth, no wonder the woman wants security to the max, and background checks on the staff. IF it is indeed Britney putting this news out to the media. You know we can't believe everything the media spits out of their greedy mouths. Half truths are STILL not the whole truth, and just because something may be read in print or passed by word of mouth doesn't mean it really happenend. Think about all the times when something negative was told about ourselves...the lies, half-truths, and such.
I'm sorry...I just do not agree with those who condemn ANY mother -- and yes, that includes the Britneys of the world -- who will go to any length to ensure their child's safety.
Do I like Britney? YES, I do...always have. I have daughters...three of them...I'd fight for them, Britney's of the world, or any female who would put up boundaries that say "You evildoers, you media people, you paparrazi folk -- this is where I draw the line. Stay away from my baby! :angryfire
Please, lady, you are taking this thread waaay too seriously. No one wants harm to come to Britney Spears or her baby no more than they want it to come to anyone else. What we have here is a venting of people who are fed up with having the screeches of
no talent (and the girl ranks even above Jessica Simpson and Shania Twain in the world of talentless wonders)
brats shoved down our throats around every turn. :barf01:
Britney Spears is going to be shoved in our faces....
we have to suffer through the endless barrage of Britney
Personally, Britney Spears and most of the others turn my stomach and are just more pollutants in the pop wasteland.
When I wrote my post comments about the hatred spewed on this forum, you proved my point when writing what you did above. (I narrowed it down to the adjectives you mentioned against Britney and other celebs so you would know exactly where I'm coming from.
When I don't want to watch a show, listen to a certiain type of music or certain singer singing, or read about them, or hear about them, I simply exercise my choices the Good Lord gave me, and tune it all out. My television and my radio at home and in the car all have knobs that turn on and off, channels that have the ability to be changed....so that's how I handle the media and the celebrity hype everyone craps about on here. :) If something isn't important enough for me to involve myself with, I choose to simply not partake of it. I don't buy newspapers unless I want the job ads, and then I throw away the rest of the paper after I removed the classified ads. Now we can search the classified ads on the computer which is great! No bothering with the media, the hype....:) This is all I'm saying in a nutshell.
When I wrote my post comments about the hatred spewed on this forum, you proved my point when writing what you did above. (I narrowed it down to the adjectives you mentioned against Britney and other celebs so you would know exactly where I'm coming from.
When I don't want to watch a show, listen to a certiain type of music or certain singer singing, or read about them, or hear about them, I simply exercise my choices the Good Lord gave me, and tune it all out. My television and my radio at home and in the car all have knobs that turn on and off, channels that have the ability to be changed....so that's how I handle the media and the celebrity hype everyone craps about on here. :) If something isn't important enough for me to involve myself with, I choose to simply not partake of it. I don't buy newspapers unless I want the job ads, and then I throw away the rest of the paper after I removed the classified ads. Now we can search the classified ads on the computer which is great! No bothering with the media, the hype....:) This is all I'm saying in a nutshell.
IF that is how you feel --- why are you reading, and responding to this thread ?
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Deb, it's no secret that celebrities have their share of enemies the same as they have their share of fans. It's also no secret that non celebrities babies have come up missing from hospitals (baby's stolen). Stories where babies come up missing due to kidnapping from the hospitals, from their cribs at home, from backyards, grocery store shopping carts, department store areas, etc. etc. are what makes me question why anyone -- especially those of us in healthcare -- wouldn't understand any well-known public figure wanting to protect their unborn child.
If I were a celebrity, I would certainly do everything in my power to protect myself during my pregnancy, during the labor and delivery process, and after having the baby -- at ANY cost! Britney has the money to make this happen for herself, so why condemn her -- a mother to be -- for wanting to protect this very precious moment in her life. Many may not like the choices she has made as a celebrity.......well, many non celebrities trash other non celebrities for the sake of trashing them, out of jealousy, or for whatever reasons. :)
I guess it sickens me when some people -- especially nurses -- can't present a more professional tone and professional stance when it comes to birthing of babies that just happen to be a celebrity's child -- whether still in utero or already born. It was we, the public, that made those celebrities rich. They do not become celebrities without the support of the people who buy their music, see their movies, and scream when their seen at concerts and out in public. The public wants to take photos with them. THAT is how they become the celebrities that make so many want to puke. :)
Brit has a private plane. I sure hope she gives birth in the sky because knowing how nurses feel about her choice to protect her unborn baby and privacy during her baby's birth, no wonder the woman wants security to the max, and background checks on the staff. IF it is indeed Britney putting this news out to the media. You know we can't believe everything the media spits out of their greedy mouths. Half truths are STILL not the whole truth, and just because something may be read in print or passed by word of mouth doesn't mean it really happenend. Think about all the times when something negative was told about ourselves...the lies, half-truths, and such.
I'm sorry...I just do not agree with those who condemn ANY mother -- and yes, that includes the Britneys of the world -- who will go to any length to ensure their child's safety.
Do I like Britney? YES, I do...always have. I have daughters...three of them...I'd fight for them, Britney's of the world, or any female who would put up boundaries that say "You evildoers, you media people, you paparrazi folk -- this is where I draw the line. Stay away from my baby! :angryfire
Renee, I am sorry I can't agree with you at all. I TOTALLY RESPECT YOU but can't come to any agreement with your defense of people like Ms. Spears.
First she is not the first woman to get pregnant and give birth!!! WE ALL WOULD LIKE to protect ourselves and pregnancies to the maximum. So, she deserves "more" such "protection" due to her influence and money? Well I suppose so, in the "money talks" world, but not by my morals/ethics.....
I don't embrace the "VIP" philosophy in healthcare at all...... No one should get to "rent" an entire floor for her own safety/protection. With all that money, her choices are many. She can hire body and door guards. She can chose to birth in a quieter and more private setting with all manner of "servants" at her beck and call.
Why, oh, Why, inconvenience an entire population for her whims/desires? Maybe she would do well to go to distant Europe or somewhere else where she can deliver in a home environment, with certified/registered attendants to "serve" her there? She deserves no more special consideration than the next woman in the same boat.
And I am sorry to say this, but she indeed sold out to the highest bidder in seeking increased fame and fortune. She was in the unique position to be able to influence our girls in a positive way (and in the beginning, was much more positive and less cheap---I actually liked her 5 or 6 years ago)----at least this was until some agent, I am sure, "showed her the money"......She is certainly NOT alone doing this, but I lose respect for each one who does. Someone as uber-rich influential and famous as she could have resisted and stayed true to her initial and much-ballyhoo'd/publicized principles, but she chose not in so many ways, by dressing like a cheap streetwalker would and marrying a questionable character who dumped his pregnant girlfriend for her. I am sorry, but that does not say much about Ms. Spears. Her choices speak for themselves and her character, very loudly. She now wants "privacy" after MONTHS of very public blabbing about wanting to be a "mommy" and posing with her husband's kids for the cameras at every single photo op she could grab.....hmmm......
And this is supposed to be a role model for my own daughter? Think again.
I have a daughter , too. Surely, this does not mean I have to embrace every mother's daughter and her poor choices, does it? I choose NOT to embrace the characters of Ms. Spears, Ms. Hilton or the many other lookalike vacuous, obnoxiously and obscenely- dressed celebs that literally pose and clamor for public attention----only to turn and bite the hand that feeds them when they are fed up (yes, my friend, that would be the same adoring public who "made" them!).
One last thing: why is it we can't post how we feel, letting our hair down bit without someone throwing the old "we ought to be more professional than that" mantra? Do I have to remain professional and perfect, even off-duty or----- am I allowed to say how I feel and how fed-up I am with celebrity in general in the USA today? This is not a strictly-professional forum, after all. It's a place where, supposedly, we can and do vent. We disagree, that is ok. I respect your right to express your opinion----let's just agree to do that w/o accusing each other of being "unprofessional", ok? It does not change my point of view to do that to me. Thanks!
I leave this thread now for others' more fresh POV than I have to offer now.
Renee, I am sorry I can't agree with you at all. I TOTALLY RESPECT YOU but can't come to any agreement with your defense of people like Ms. Spears.
First she is not the first woman to get pregnant and give birth!!! WE ALL WOULD LIKE to protect ourselves and pregnancies to the maximum. So, she deserves "more" such "protection" due to her influence and money? Well I suppose so, in the "money talks" world, but not by my morals/ethics.....
I don't embrace the "VIP" philosophy in healthcare at all...... No one should get to "rent" an entire floor for her own safety/protection. With all that money, her choices are many. She can hire body and door guards. She can chose to birth in a quieter and more private setting with all manner of "servants" at her beck and call.
Why, oh, Why, inconvenience an entire population for her whims/desires? Maybe she would do well to go to distant Europe or somewhere else where she can deliver in a home environment, with certified/registered attendants to "serve" her there? She deserves no more special consideration than the next woman in the same boat.
And I am sorry to say this, but she indeed sold out to the highest bidder in seeking increased fame and fortune. She was in the unique position to be able to influence our girls in a positive way (and in the beginning, was much more positive and less cheap---I actually liked her 5 or 6 years ago)----at least this was until some agent, I am sure, "showed her the money"......She is certainly NOT alone doing this, but I lose respect for each one who does. Someone as uber-rich influential and famous as she could have resisted and stayed true to her initial and much-ballyhoo'd/publicized principles, but she chose not in so many ways, by dressing like a cheap streetwalker would and marrying a questionable character who dumped his pregnant girlfriend for her. I am sorry, but that does not say much about Ms. Spears. Her choices speak for themselves and her character, very loudly.
I have a daughter , too. Surely, this does not mean I have to embrace every mother's daughter and her poor choices, does it? I choose NOT to embrace the characters of Ms. Spears, Ms. Hilton or the many other lookalike vacuous, obnoxiously and obscenely- dressed celebs that literally pose and clamor for public attention----only to turn and bite the hand that feeds them when they are fed up (yes, my friend, that would be the same adoring public who "made" them!).
One last thing: why is it we can't post how we feel, letting our hair down bit without someone throwing the old "we ought to be more professional than that" mantra? Do I have to remain professional and perfect, even off-duty or----- am I allowed to say how I feel and how fed-up I am with celebrity in general in the USA today? This is not a strictly-professional forum, after all. It's a place where, supposedly, we can and do vent. We disagree, that is ok. I respect your right to express your opinion----let's just agree to do that w/o accusing each other of being "unprofessional", ok? It does not change my point of view to do that to me. Thanks!
I leave this thread now for others' more fresh POV than I have to offer now.
I agree. I don't think that her fame makes her "more entitled to or deserving of" the care that any other expectant mother should receive. IF she wants privacy, she shouldn't flaunt her private life and pregnancy in public. AND, If she is that suspiscious of the hospital staff, she should hire a private nurse or midwife and have the child in her own home surrounded by armed guards.
IF that is how you feel --- why are you reading, and responding to this thread ?
For the same reasons you are Tinkerbell. I am passionate about the subject matter, and care enough to share my personal feelings as a woman and as a nurse on the subject like all others who are posting their personal feelings about it. I am a member of Allnurses so I can share in the topics that interest me, so I don't owe any apologies for partaking in the forum topics like everyone else here. :)
They put up with a lot of **** from paparazzi, wouldn't you want your labor to be peaceful and free of unscrupolous medical workers doubling as paparazzi to make money on the side?
Do you know how much a shot of Britney in labor would go for? Easily into the 6 figures.
She does not seem to be too worried about that when she walks around on the street in skimpy maternity clothes with her belly showing.
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For the same reasons you are Tinkerbell. I am passionate about the subject matter, and care enough to share my personal feelings as a woman and as a nurse on the subject like all others who are posting their personal feelings about it. I am a member of Allnurses so I can share in the topics that interest me, so I don't owe any apologies for partaking in the forum topics like everyone else here. :)
I certainly do not mean to "gag" you Renee. I hope you know that. :) I feel just as passionately as you do----just from a completely different perspective, I guess.
For the same reasons you are Tinkerbell. I am passionate about the subject matter, and care enough to share my personal feelings as a woman and as a nurse on the subject like all others who are posting their personal feelings about it. I am a member of Allnurses so I can share in the topics that interest me, so I don't owe any apologies for partaking in the forum topics like everyone else here. :)
Ohh Ok. You seemed be saying that you prefer to tune out things that you do not want to hear or see, so I was just curious to why you would respond to posts that you found negative - instead of exiting the room. :)
Renee, I am sorry I can't agree with you at all. I TOTALLY RESPECT YOU but can't come to any agreement with your defense of people like Ms. Spears.
One last thing: why is it we can't post how we feel, letting our hair down bit without someone throwing the old "we ought to be more professional than that" mantra? Do I have to remain professional and perfect, even off-duty or----- am I allowed to say how I feel and how fed-up I am with celebrity in general in the USA today? This is not a strictly-professional forum, after all. It's a place where, supposedly, we can and do vent. We disagree, that is ok. I respect your right to express your opinion----let's just agree to do that w/o accusing each other of being "unprofessional", ok? It does not change my point of view to do that to me. Thanks!.................................
Deb, I don't mind and don't expect you to agree with me. I'm not asking anyone to agree with me on this at all. I respect you as well, and certainly respect your right to post your own personal thoughts on the subject of celebrities we may or may not approve of for various reasons. It's okay. I'm okay. :)
I am my daughter's role model for how a woman should present herself, not some media star. My daughters have never in their lives tried to mimic a celebrity. They still don't. Some teens grow up obcessed with celebrities to the point they want to alter their appearance to look like them, even down to having plastic surgery or starving themselves to be butt thin. I see this more in the caucasian culture than I do in the Black culture in this country. I've never understood that because I never did it as a teen, and my kids haven't either, and so far their kids do not either. And I do have preteen and teenaged grandchildren already, and still do not see this behavior in them.
I look at these kid stars who have grown up to be so overwhelmed with stardom. Who put them there? Their parents put them in the limelight, and allowed the music and movie moguls to have control over their kids down to allowing them to put on makeup at an early age, dress too sexy for the cameras, adopt the mannerisms of "the hollywood euphoria", and sing songs that are about seduction and getting laid or breaking up....all before the kids come into their own identities naturally out of the spotlight. So, this is why I look at these "kids groomed for stardom" and not judge them for how they begin to go wild once they are no longer minors and under the control of their parents. Given time, they eventually grow up and recover. Some do, and unfortunately some don't (like Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton, Little Kim, Pink, Bobby Brown, other male artists, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilerra, Whitney Houston, and so forth). This is what is sad! Once children, now all grown up on the outside and messed up on the inside. Emotionally stunted kids.
My frustrations are not about simply Britney, but all the Britneys -- the emotionally stunted star kids who have made it to adulthood only to have to grow up emotionally before the cameras. They look like they are adults, but they still hunger for the person inside them they never got to be. As a mother, this is painfully bothersome, and I feel sad for all of them.
That said, if I were a celebrity, I'd be bad mouthed in the media too because I've always danced to the tune of my own music, never being bothered by peer pressure or the need to look like someone I'm not. I'm just comfortable being "me". :) And, I'd have my celebrity butt in a safe comfy place to deliver any babies I would have as a celebrity, and not feel guilty at all about it. :)
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OHH Pleeze !!!!