I realised something strange after reading two articles about celebrity women in the magazine sections of this weekend's paper. In both articles the journalist strove to make it clear how 'normal' and down-to-earth the women were: they both adapt their career to their children, they don't want their kids to become famous actors, they were heading off after the interview for quality family time and so on and so on. One of the articles was written around the premise that we mere mortals have certain diva expectations of famous women and cannot truly understand their life and position in the media. The implication was that these were positive aspects of their lives and were rightly to be yearned for. I think it's bizarre that 'normal' people supposedly want to be celebrities, but most celebrities endeavour to come across as 'normal', average human beings. I guess today's gratitude is for the interesting strangeness of people (or at least media's perception of people).
12/100 was a post on The Migraine Game.
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