The Brangelina Twins
evawhite on July 16th, 2008
In case you haven’t heard, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have become proud parents of twins, a boy and a girl. Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are their names and they weighed 5.1 and 5 pounds respectively. Apparently the mother (who was conscious with an epidural during the C-section delivery) the father (who was present, did not faint and cut the umbilical cord) as well as the children are all fine. That takes the number of total Brangelina children (Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2 are the others) up to 6 I believe.
As regular readers may well be aware, I am not particularly enamored of celebrities and their proclivities and activities what does interest me in the ceaseless interest the paparazzi have in all and I mean all of their doings. The reason the Brangelina twins story interested me is reports of the estimated value of the photos of their new born children. Estimates put the value of the photos at between $11 and 20 million! Is that crazy or what! I mean newly born children look like newly born children; a little wrinkly looking, a little wizened looking, a little simian looking… 11 to 20 million dollars? What? Why? Who?
Now the other new parents of twins, Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony, were the cynosure of all eyes not too long ago. Reportedly the pictures of their twins sold for some 6 million dollars! Global recession? My eye! And I can post this picture of mother and one of her twins here on my blog at no charge, so how is it worth all the millions that publications pay for them? Well as I already said, CRAZY!
Then the other photos that were really hot property were the photos of J Lo in a bikini after the birth of her twins because she was carrying some extra weight. A new mother carrying extra weight? How outrageous! How dare she!
Among the others, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban had a baby girl Sunday Rose Kidman Urban for whose photos an astronomical sum was undoubtedly paid, and when Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Alba became parents, those baby pix also reportedly fetched seven figures. So what price will upcoming celeb baby pictures fetch? Well, your guess is as good as mine.
Emma Watson, the pretty co star of the Harry Potter films turned 18 recently, and this apparently is big news for some gossip related news sites and blogs. Fine! But what really appalled me is an ‘article’ about her that showed photos of her see thru underwear! This is when I thought how crazy is this world that something like this masquerades as ‘news’ or ‘interesting post’ or whatever.
The world is so celebrity crazy that every move made by the beleaguered Britney Spears is reported and re-reported to death! She got married, she got divorced, she got pregnant, had a baby got married again, became a drug or alcohol addict, went into rehab, got out, whatever!!! I have simply lost track of how many times I have skimmed over news about the singer in the recent past.
And god forbids that anyone in a relationship should be suspected to call it quits. A media feeding frenzy will at once ensue, and practically ensure that even if the relationship was not at break point, the unending hounding and countless searching questions will effectively put such a stain on the relationship as to make it untenable.
I for one am convinced that the story hungry paparazzi, ever eager to satisfy the public’s unending lust for any crumb of celebrity information, was at least partly responsible for the tragic accident that claimed the life of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed.
