If you are someone like Nadya Suleman and you want to be a big star like your heroes Angelina Jolie and Pamela Anderson how are you going to achieve that goal? Well, if you watch TLC for any length of time the answer will come to you. It's to have multiple babies. No talent required, just a willingness to have and raise a whole bunch of babies.
Last night after the season finale of John & Kate Plus 36, TLC premiered a brand new show called Table For 12. Guess what it is about? Parents with a buttload of kids. The couple in this show have two sets of twins and one set of sextuplets. Sure, it isn't quite the 14 of Nadya Suleman, but it is still an impressive total and is the only reason the couple have a television show. If they just had the two sets of twins, they wouldn't be making money and being on television every week.
99% of potential parents would not be influenced by trying to become famous by having multiple births. However, there is definitely a percentage of couples or singles like Nadya who will do anything to become famous. Don't believe me? Why on earth would you sleep with Paris Hilton unless you wanted to be famous? People will do anything. Danny Bonaduce is getting married again. People will do anything. Multiple childbirths will be occurring more and more frequently as long as television and the world make these people famous and provide them with a great deal of money.
well, don't be so surprised. after all, these are the same people that exploit little wee ones ('toddlers and tiaras' anyone?) for profit and gain.
ReplyDeleteDo you think we'll ever wise up and stop giving them an audience for their shenanigans? Nah, what was I thinking.
ReplyDeletei love John and Kate + Hate, but only to see John reduced to a lil, lil man. poor bastard.
ReplyDeleteit's not even about the kids anymore.
Enough is Enough!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe Middle America actually watches this type of shit.
The exploitation leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. Bah!
i have been saying this since octo mom became octo... thanks for finally verbalizing, if you haven't noticed her infamy is lasting longer b/c she is on dr. phil every five minutes... she is so unecessary
ReplyDeleteNo different that freak shows at the circus. People have been fascinated by this shit forever. Now they can imbibe in the privacy of their own homes.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was an interesting (and long) article about John & Kate. http://www.phillymag.com/articles/jon_and_kate_gosselin/page1
ReplyDeleteI thought this quote was spot on about the multiples phenomenon:
All of which has critics like Penn bioethicist Art Caplan concerned that frenetic publicity over higher-order multiples perpetuates the myth that such pregnancies can be had any day; that they’re lucrative, fun and easy, like a never-ending class trip. In fact, most end in heartache, cerebral palsy, and preemies too young to survive. “No one should get the impression that it’s anything other than a big gamble to try to deliver six babies at once,” Caplan says, “both for the mother and the babies.”
When I saw this topic show up in my following feed, I thought it was the band TLC encouraging multiple births. I need to quit the gossip. :)
ReplyDeleteHowever, Ent is right. Jon and Kate was only an extension of Dateline/Primetime/60 Minutes, but by being a "reality" show, it's expanded things a lot. Are people actually "Learning" things on The Learning Channel anymore?
Am I the only one who doesn't find watching a bunch of kids on tv entertaining?
ReplyDeleteDNfromMN: no more than the History Channel teaches any history. Bigfoot, yes. UFOs, certainly.
ReplyDeleteHistory? not so much.
The way TLC glorifies these ridiculous families makes me SICK.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you note, they are all oooooh soooo religious. Because g/God(ess)/es do not approve of them selectively aborting a few from the litter so that the remaining ones would have a chance at health. This, of course, being the same g/God(ess)/es who didn't see fit for them to be parents by "making" them fertile in the first place.
Blech blech blech.
Goodgrief - no, you aren't.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how Octomom even has any energy to be all over the place.
ReplyDeleteA normal person would be collapsing from everything, but I guess the fact that she is insane explains alot.
Lutefisk, as far as I can tell, the only thing she does is shop.
ReplyDeleteWhen I see Octomom on ET I stare at her lips lol, they are weird. Really looks like a trout mouth HAHAHA.
ReplyDeleteMooshki, I don't know about you, but when I shop, I get tired. And I only have 2 kids!
ReplyDeletefiggy-
ReplyDeletethe reason I believe some of them are religious is for the handouts that a church provides.
DNfromMN,
ReplyDeleteI learned that if Stacy London got into my closet, I'd have to become a nudist. Although, I'd probably just beat her ass if she showed up at my door and save us all a lot of time. ;)
While I'm handing out the smackdowns, I'll take on Kate for Jon. I learned that I can't stand 72 hours in a row of that bitch, too.
:)
There are also some crazy right-wing evangelists who see large families as a way to 'take things back':
ReplyDeletehttp://jezebel.com/5183841/like-big-families-meet-the-quiverfulls
Lutefisk, but I bet part of the reason you get tired is because you take great care of your family before and after the shopping. :)
ReplyDeleteword today is that nadya was a stripper before she started having litters.
ReplyDeleteand THAT little tidbit came from the news, not dr. phil.
i hate dr phil, but i can't tear my eyes away from the freak show.
Didn't know about Bonaduce. Eek. Not even dead.
ReplyDeletethanks Mooshki, but actually I get tired because I am anemic! And I would think Octomom would also be anemic after all of those births, but she seems to be superhuman.
ReplyDeleteI think she's on a permanent high from all the attention she's getting.
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