You know what I find really, really sad? How some women go from being the object of desire for scores of men (and loads of women, too, probably) to despised and reviled parodies of their former glorious selves. I’m thinking in particular of Britney Spears, that sweet girl who enthralled the world.
I wonder what percentage of the guys who’d fantasised about her a few years ago, still do so now:
Don’t get me wrong, I think she’s still a beautiful woman. But she’s been through hell, and while I think now her face has more character, that very quality makes it more difficult to forget she’s more than just a desirable body.
I’ve blogged about her before, but Katie Price is another person who often leaves me with an odd sadness when I see photos of her. She’s beautiful, no denying that.
She’s much different from Britney. Yet to my mind, there’s something unutterably sad about someone who is blessed with natural beauty like hers, who becomes what she seems to be.
One other woman I want to mention is Paris Hilton. I’ve never seen the infamous Paris video, but a few nights ago read a list of videos considered to be iconic, and this one was listed. I Googled it, and got to see some bits of it – not the sex, but just video of a young Paris Hilton talking to her boyfriend. Something I’ve always thought has become a stronger conviction for me: I don’t think this woman deserves all the vitriol she’s been exposed to. No, she’s not perfect, and she might be more shallow and materialistic than I realise.
Still, I really do not agree with a lot of the nasty things about her I’ve read and seen circulating on the internet. I wager that in her most private being, this woman is vulnerable, and deeply hurt by the malice directed at her.
Why is it that you find this kind of thing…
…directed at her…
Paris Hilton
…but not at her:
Katie Price, aka Jordan
The mind boggles.
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