Celebrity Hell

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise are unhappy because Tom is crazy. Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are engaged. You’ve heard this already right? Hoorah.

Honestly, reading these headlines plastered all over sub-mediocre magazines in the market check out line make me feel…sad. Sad for the people who write them, sad for the people who read them, and most of all sad for the people they’re written about.

Let me say now- WHO CARES if Tom Cruise is a crazy tyrant (prob not true) who doesn’t let Katie Holmes out of the house (not true) and, apparently, wants to strike up a professional dance career (true?). I don’t know Mr. & Mrs. Cruise, and I never will. I’ll never sit down with Katie and hear about her marital problems (we all have them), and I’ll never hear both sides of the story. Can’t we, the average people, put our selfish fetishes aside to let celebrities live their lives uninterupted? Granted, choosing a “celebrity” lifestyle automatically assumes that you know the paparazzi will lurk relentlessly in the shadows and anything you say or do will be held against you in the worst way. However, does this give us the right to do it? Nope. I really hope that Tom and Katie are happy, if not for themselves than for their daughter.

There are plenty of married couples out there who aren’t happy. Many have been chosen their lot in life due to bad circumstances or being pressured. There are a ton of happy married couples too- and why don’t they make the news? Because we, as humans, have the unending need to see people fail- and when they do, we feel satisfied.

And for the Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart thing, please people, give them a break. Are they dating? Are they engaged? They know, and their friends know, and that’s what’s important. Ok, so they are products of one of the craziest, most fanatical, tween franchises ever…but I still think they deserve their privacy. They’re not Bella and Edward. They’re not a hot mysterious vampire and an awkward high school human. They’re actors. They’re celebrities. If they’re in love- congratulations to them! If they’re not- that’s ok too. Don’t ruin a good thing people, let the movie be the movie and their personal lives stay personal.  

I think I would hate being in the limelight 24/7. I think being a celebrity would be hell. I think it would be immensely annoying to know that people love to hate you, because that’s what it seems like most of the time. I feel bad for the super famous. I wish that more people would understand that actors, musicians, rappers, etc. are just as normally human as the rest of us. We think we know them but we don’t. We have no right to know their personal information. How would you like it if everytime you met a hot guy 20 cameras followed you on your first date? Not fun. Celebrity hell.

Keep Squeezing,

A.