Britney Spears has had a rise to fame since she was 8 years old on the Mickey Mouse Club. In 1998, at 17 her debut album Baby One More Time hit the charts and her music was attracting fans of all ages. Her once innocent teen look turned into a more sexual appeal once her Oops I did It Again album came into stores. This album sold over 10 million copies in the US, and fans everywhere had Britney as their role model. Less than five years later Britneys ever so innocent look and confidence came to a crash in 2004 when she married childhood friend in a marriage that lasted 55 hours in Las Vegas. Six months later Britney announced engagement to Kevin Federline, where it all started and where it almost ended for her career. From stories of being a bad mother, to crotch shots and mental diseases Britney was on a fall down ever since this marriage started till it ended. Now, she has been rising to reclaim her fame with her new album Circus which has sold 500,000 copies in less than 3 months. Britney has been building her self again after years of havoc.
In 2007 Britney appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards to ultimatly make a comeback with her album Blackout. When she came onto start wearing nothing more than a bra and panties people started to talk about her dancing, singing and of course her body. To my opinion I believe that this critisism was unfair towards her. Confient and prepared she came onto stage for a chance to redeem herself but all she got was hateful words. To have 2 children and have been through a divorce this was surprising of Britney to do this, but she still did and it shows she was still strong. Our society, if we don't see things at "perfect" we tend to critisize. We ourselves are not perfect but when we see stars who aren't we see them as targets to veer away from our own problems and body dislikes.
As Britney was already going through a difficult time with her marriage, children and juggling her career the paparazzi ultimatley made it a lot worse for her. Britney's every move was to be captured on camera. "The paparazzi's job is to know where she is and be on her 24/7", says famous photographer. A candid shot of Britney can be worth over $10,000, so to hit that jackpot you have to be where Britney is to get the shot. As each mistake Britney made and each time her like would slowly turn to the worst the paparazzi was there to capture it and everywhere around the world people knew about her life. All she needed was some privacy to deal with her problems, but all she got was people everywhere wanting to know more about her. I am a true believer that Britney is a victim of this frenzy. Although she does like to have a bit of fun with the paparazzi, she isn't allowing them to scoop in on her private life.
Celebrities are not taking enough action in order to protect their personal life from the worlds eye. Many celebrities just tend to stay away from certian locations, where they will get many paparazzi chasing them down. Being a celebrities is a duty of having pictures taken and having many interviews. When paparazzi push to get more deep information on certain celebs is going to far. For a celebrity to be going down to the grocery store to get food, should be a normal unphotographed event. There is no real reason to take pictures of them doing just hat. They need their quiet and their space. I believe that the crave for money has gotten to the paparazzi to the point that they have no respect of how they are affecting them emotionally.
The MTV video music awards was where Britney performed her comeback song. Many negative comments were made about this appearence. I beleive that it was wrong to critisize her, her body looked great for having two children, and her voice was fine as usual. To have that type of confidence to go onto stage after 2 -3 years is an amazing trait to have. For media coverage in th future I just that paparazzi cut down on the stalking of growing stars. We have seen the effect to Britney and they shouldn't push themselves more than they already have. When celebrities willingly give out information in interviews and TV is when we should publish big stories in magazines. It is the right way to do it.
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