Thursday during the prime-time TV block on ABC I watched the new Ashton-produced series Miss Guided with some friends and my 13-year-old sister and some interesting converstaion was ignited.
The good ol' classy, non-knocked up Nick star Jamie-Lynn Spears made a shocking cameo as a rather permiscuous high school student (Ironic foreshadowing? I think so.) We all chuckled as she popped up on screen all slim and slender flashing pushed-up cleavage dusted with her platinum highlights-- and totally not preggers yet. It was fun for my college friends to joke about the lack of bun in her oven. My sister, the 13-year-old, the one who should not understand the complications of baby-making let alone baby-daddy drama chimed in with her opinion on the situation.
In an I'm trying to be punk-pretending not to care about gossip toned voice she squealed,
"You know she doesn't even know who the father is?"
I laughed uncomfortably thinking, umm, you mean she doesn't know the name of the stork bringing her the miracle baby she is getting!
"I heard it might be Lil Romeo's or even a producer from Nickelodeon!" She had an unusually maniacal and pleased look on her face. Nothing pleased her more than to dish this juicy tidbit to my way-cool-older friends and I. This was a lot to take in. Jamie-Lynn's torrid love affairs with apparently all of Kentwood, LA as well as corporate Nick was tainting the innocent minds of children everywhere, of children in my very own living room.
The lil pop-tart didn't fall far from the over-sexed chaotic skank tree that is her tabloid drenching big sis Brit. Baby Spears is filling the poparazzo cameras with big bellied photos shopping for mommy gear and holding hands with one of the supposed daddys-- and kids get to see the 16-year-old experience this grown-up activity for themselves. She doesn't make it look hard or troublesome for her or her family or like it was even remotely a bad idea to get pregnant while still in celebrity kid-trailer schooled-high school. And Nickelodeon isn't doing anything about their teen star's scandal either (rumors hinted at a Linda Ellerby news special airing on the channel to address the issue but Jamie's about to pop and still no discussion-- maybe they are waiting for the baby's comments on the issue.)
Someone needs to explain to these kids that Jamie was young, extremely misguided, (most likely) drunk and far too stupid for her own good to think to put a condom on any of the boys/men she's been banging since she was 14. Why is young Hollywood determined to ruin what's left of the kids in America? It's bad enough that the High School musical kids are either getting nose jobs or naked for their bf's cell phone every other minute. None of them are gonna fess up to what they are doing, that's what lawyers and PR people are for.
If kids are our future than I'm not so pumped for pregnant middle schoolers, after-school plastic surgery runs and kiddy porn on the playground. Yeah, scary. I know.
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