Would Fame Be Worth It?

[carnation]

I was reading the thread "Jon and Kate Plus Eight" and wondering about this. People are discussing the freebies that the family gets but also the blogs about the family, the intrusive weirdos, etc.

Well...several years ago, CNN did a feature on our large and multiracial family along with a related article in Parade Magazine. They kept rerunning clips of it for months and we had to deal with a lot of pointing, gaping people in public, along with some minor weirdnesses. Enough to make us want to pull our family into the safety of our home and never leave it.

But a lot of people want to be famous. They want the recognition, the money, the perks...I don't. I wouldn't want it for my kids either. You see what the media has done to several stars--would you want the tabloids hounding you and searching through their shots until they find just the right one of you with your eyes half open so they can proclaim you a drunk? Or going on about your pregnancy weight gain; I read today that Lisa Marie Presley has been dogged by the media lately about that but that the press has always criticized her because her dad was more talented and her mother more beautiful than she is. And those poor Kennedy women....

One of our sons is a dead ringer for Orlando Bloom and we've been approached by people who want to capitalize on that. I don't. Fame, stay away from us!

How would you feel about being famous?