Open Letter to Silly Celebrity Moms

Dear Silly Celebrity Moms,

Hi, it's me again.  Jen, the opinionated one.  Or, as my friend, Tina will someday call me:  The Jeneral.

I know, I know.  I can't stop harping on you guys, but you just keep putting your bat shit crazy out there and I can't help myself.  I just have a few suggestions for you and then I'll go back to ranting and raving about minivans and elves.

OK, to start with - can we please, please, please just stop with the semi-naked pregnancy pictures (or post-multiples pregnancy, crazy Nadya Suleman)?  I simply cannot stand to look at another (obviously airbrushed) magazine cover of you guys in all your glory.  No one looks good.  Not even Demi Moore looked that great and she's pretty banging, so the rest of you look fairly revolting.  Please, I beg you, stop posing nude when you're pregnant (or not attractive, Nadya) and unleashing that shit on the world.  ("My eyes!)  Get your attention fix some other way - for instance, start a blog, I find that works for me.

Also, it's bad enough when the young actresses are doing this, but when you trot your sad, desperate ass out and release an old nude pregnancy Polaroid of yourself (on your grown son's birthday - Happy Birthday, Sweetie!  Ewww.), I just want to smack you.  I'm talking to you, Kris Jenner!  At least you weren't airbrushed, but that actually backfired, because everyone else is and so you looked especially bad.  I'll give you props for working the granny panties, though.

The next strange thing I'd like to address is the new phenomenon of "Silverstoning."  You know, when you chew up your baby's food and tongue him down with the paste that you make.  I know the video has been everywhere, but in case you missed how Momma Bear feeds Baby Bear, here you go:

A lot has been said about this parenting technique and I'm ready to add my two cents.  WTF?  Don't you own a blender and a spoon, Alicia?  You're not a cave dweller without modern day tools.  There is no reason to chew up your food and spit it into your child's mouth!  (Actually, it looks a little too close to French kissing for my taste.  I wish you'd just stand back and spit, it would make me feel less icky when I watch the video.)

You're worried about what your baby eats?  You want to make your own baby food?  Fine.  No problem.  Just do what everyone else does!  Get out your blender or buy the Baby Bullet and puree the hell out of your vegan feast and then take a spoon and feed it to your child.  Also, some of us like to feed our children at the table.  Maybe you don't care, but I'm not as wealthy as you are and can't replace my couch when the kid urps chewed up avocado on it.  My children don't spew food anymore and they still aren't allowed to eat on the couch.

I digress.  Let me get back to my point, you've already done a pretty good job screwing him up by naming him Bear, please don't feed him like an animal too.

Next up is January Jones and her placenta eating fetish.

When you're pregnant, the first book someone hands to you is What to Expect When You're Expecting.  There is a chapter in there about weird food cravings.  They cover the basics like pickles and ice cream and whatnot.  Tucked away is a strange chapter about the preggos who want to eat dirt and soap.  I do not remember the chapter about wanting to eat your placenta after the baby is born, dirt was as weird as it got.

I have a crunchy mom friend who reads this blog.  She is a chiropractor and a doula.  If anyone I know would eat her own placenta it would be this girl.  The other day I was in her office being forced into a human pretzel and I asked her if she ever ate her placenta.  It could be my imagination, but I think she almost broke my arm when I asked her.  "Are you crazy?!" she asked.  "Of course not, Jen.  That's nuts!"

So there you go, if my crunchy friend thinks it's nuts, then it must be fucking bonkers.

I read about the procedure and I have to say it's not as gross as you'd think.  The placenta is cooked, dried out and ground up into capsules - much a like a Tylenol.  You just swallow it and go on with your day.

I realize that celebrities aren't like the rest of us.  I think you'd have to be a little crazy to want to be a celebrity and I think being a celebrity would make you a little crazy, so it's a vicious circle.  All I know is that the pressure put on "regular" women to be good moms is tough, I can only imagine what the celebrity moms feel.  

The next celebrity mom who comes along has a high bar to get over.  She'll need to pose naked each trimester when she's pregnant, YouTube the home/water birth live for the world to see, fry up her placenta and eat it like a steak, chew up a few bites of placenta and mouth feed them to the newborn with breast milk, the dad will need to eat a piece too so he can properly bond with the baby, pose naked a week later to show that her body has "bounced" back, practice diaperless potty training and unschooling,  and co-sleep with the child until adulthood, oh yeah and then pose naked again at this point to show she's "still got it."

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The Kardashians

These girls (and their Machiavellian mother) have had this punch coming, but tonight since I'm so pissed off that I can't sleep they're finally getting what's due to them.

It's been a busy weekend and I can't sleep so I was catching up on my emails/FB when I saw an article on Yahoo about how much reality "stars" make.  (Don't even get me started on why we call these people "stars."  Ugh.  What do these people do except make total asses of themselves on TV?  Who knew there so many narcissistic people in the world to keep these shows going?  Not to mention the idiots like myself who watch their shows.  Why can't I stop watching The Real Housewives of Any City??)

"Stars" like Snooki and The Situation make millions of dollars a year giving commencement speeches and motivational workshops to the future of America.  Imagine the influence they're going to have over the next generation!  I can't wait until I'm a senior citizen and my heart surgeon is named Joey "The Heart Attack" DiCataldo and he keeps flashing his abs at me while he takes my blood pressure.  Very reassuring that I'm not going to die on the table.

What really pissed me off though, was when I read that the Kardashian family made $65 million dollars last year peddling garbage and "starring" in several reality television shows.  Their mom, Kris Jenner, said, she worries about "overexposure."  Wow.  What would it be like if she DIDN'T worry?  We'd have a Kardashian channel on our cable lineup and they'd ALL be on the cover of every magazine rather than just the hot one.

I have to admit, I've actually never seen any of the shows so I can't say WHY I hate these girls so much.  But I can say, I've been watching a lot of the same channel lately (maybe Bravo?) and they've been showing a ton of previews for Khloe & Lamar's show.  What a trainwreck.  Her mom attacks her for being too fat and ruining the "brand" they've all worked so hard for.  The "brand"?  What exactly is their brand?  Kim's ass?

All I can figure out is that Kim is the hot one and the other two sisters are kind of attractive - but not on their own, so they've always got to have Kim somewhere close by to complain about how much she hates her big (perfect looking) ass and how she had an ugly duckling phase.  (Don't you love when really pretty women talk about how traumatized they are by the tough phase they went through when they had frizzy hair and a pimple?  It was the worst two weeks of her life until she blossomed into the staggering beauty she is today.  I don't know how she got out of bed.)

I've seen a few ads with sexual innuendos that sell shoes - maybe?  (I can't follow what they're hawking half the time.)  I saw clips of the "music video" Kim and her body double made.  And, of course, we all know about Kim's SNAFU wedding.

And I've seen ads for several shows where a group of sisters descend on unsuspecting cities like New York, for instance, and I assume they drain all the natural resources, buy ugly shoes and move on.  I know there were some predatory credit cards at one point that they got in trouble for.  But I think I missed the cure for cancer they found and/or the Nobel Prize they must have won - why else would they get this much attention?

I guess that is the "brand" is Kris referring to?  Can you imagine what Kris could do if you sent her to medical school?  With the drive and determination she has for success she could probably cure cancer singlehandedly.

I can't decide who I think is the better mom:  Tiger Mom who calls her daughters "garbage" and tells her four year old a homemade birthday card is "unacceptable" all while she spends several hours a day teaching at Yale and forcing education and culture down her girls' throats OR Kris Jenner who belittles her adult daughter for destroying a brand she's worked tirelessly to create by whoring herself and her daughters out to any tabloid/red carpet that will take them.  That woman would charge for her daughters to attend the opening of a letter - and she'd probably get it because there are idiots who will pay to watch that.  Yeah, I'm going with Tiger Mom, hands down.

What is the world's attraction to The Kardashians?  They're not THAT cute, people.  Why do we find these women soooo unique and interesting?  I find it interesting they can balance on such high heels and that they made $65 million dollars last year - WTF??  Maybe it is because we like to watch the drama that only a group of sisters has?  If that's the case, then it's too bad there wasn't reality television 70 some years ago.  My grandmother is one of SEVEN sisters.  Imagine the drama those girls had!

Let's stop the madness.  I will say it now, I refuse to watch any of the Kardashian's shows and/or buy any product they sell.  I will do my part to drive them back into obscurity.  Who is with me?