It is hard to believe the Rachel Crow I see every week on the X Factor was born a crack baby and lived in a crack house during the first six months after birth. Can you imagine being born to crack mom and then having to live in a crack house? Rachel was taken away from the parents she never knew and was eventually adopted by Barbara Crow who gave an interview to the NY Post about Rachel's life.
"She was born a crack baby and actually lived in a crack house and suffered a lot of abuse. But she is totally unaffected by it. She never looks at it in a sad way. She looks at it as that is what made her the person she is."
Rachel says she has no desire to meet her biological parents. I wonder if they are even alive or if they know their daughter is on X Factor. Think they will figure it out eventually?
Well even though she is young, it just goes to show that your parents do not always = your actions later in life. Take notes Lindsay, and everyone else that blames their upbringing or parents.
ReplyDeleteShe's a doll and has personality in bunches.
ReplyDeleteActually Princess, I take the opposite from this. She was removed from a shitty home and was actually raised WELL by good parents who made her the person she is today. Yay for them :)
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ReplyDeleteI don't know why those people always have to share their personal sob stories when they are participating in those shows? I see it on Idol, X-Factor, and that super talent show. I thought they want to impress with their talent and not make the people vote for them because they had to go through bad times in their lives. Otherwise, they could name the shows 'Who has the saddest story to share'.
ReplyDeleteI also think that most of them aren't considering that they won't win the contest and fade into obscurity again, but a lot of people will still remember all those intimate things they shared on national tv.
The old nature vs nurture conundrum.
ReplyDeleteMina, they tell these sob stories because the lame ass producers of Xfactor and Idol WANT these lame ass sob stories. They think it makes the show more interesting.
@ Mina - "Who has the saddest story to share" is the funniest thing I've heard all day, thanks :)
ReplyDeleteAnd FS is right, they're looking for sob stories to make it more 'interesting'.
I hate all the back stories. I wish they would all stop them and just sing/dance/whatever it is they are on stage to do. American Idol was the first to really piss me off with the sad tales.
ReplyDeleteHow old is this girl? I can't imagine any child wanting the world to know they were a "crack baby".
ReplyDeleteMy husband's brother & his wife adopted a crack baby around 25 years ago. She was doing great until her mid-teens when she found out that her biological mother was a crackhead and she up and decided that's the path she was doomed to follow. So she did. Now she's a crackhead prostitute with a baby on the way. My in-laws are devastated - they paid for rehab a dozen times but our niece just decided it was her biological inheritance and became what she is today. The family has tried everything but nothing has worked. If I see her I'll tell her this Rachel Crow story - perhaps it'll help (but I doubt it).
ReplyDeleteI'm really getting tired of the sob stories as well. Can't someone come along and just be like "yeah, I had a great life with a big family and many friends, and I am awesome at doing the fucking moonwalk!". No. It's always some guy who was found as an armless baby in a shoebox and adopted by a kind white woman who believed in his abilities as a mediocre singer who only performs ispirational songs and makes people cry on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteThis kid IS pretty rad though! :)
LOL Maja!
ReplyDelete@Maja - An armless baby that could moonwalk deserves no less than a 15 minute back story. ;)
ReplyDelete@SusanB - that is SUCH a sad story!
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But wouldn't it be a little bit monotonous if they gave no background at all?
Another article I read said that she was taken from her mother at 6 months old and adopted by her foster family a year later, so she doesn't remember any of it. Whether or not the neglect she suffered from 0 - 6 mo would have a significant imprint on her is debatable, but I know my former shrink would think so. For Rachel Crow's sake, I hope not.
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