@liz.lemonade: She's a young, occasionally troubled, female celebrity, whom the paparazzi seem desperate to prove 'not lez'; since when has she not been on 'Bump Watch'?
Oh Liam. I love you, and even created my high school AIM screenname about you. But there are two things wrong with your quote: 1) You're not 41. 2) You go into the studio and make shit music. Seriously, your new album is just disappointing crap.
Yet I still buy your music, will always worship you, and will be seeing you in NYC and Camden next week for Oasis concerts, where I will get shitfaced and sing loudly and love every minute of it.
Okay, the idea of pregnancy and childbirth is actually kind of terrifying to me, too, but I think it's that way for a lot of women. It's a huge, huge change in your biology, it involves stress and discomfort and all kinds of crazy hormonal changes and something the size of a bowling ball moving through one of your most sensitive areas. Fun!
For me, though, I know that my body is evolved for childbirth. It's something my body can do, biologically, and maybe (this is a big maybe) hypothetically, one day I might be responsible enough to take care of another human being. And then I will run blissfully into the waiting arms of modern medicine and have a zillion doctors poking and prodding at my junk and eventually I'll have a kid. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be scary and painful as hell, but zilllllllions of other women have done it before, or else none of us would be here.
Or, I'll just figure out some way to grow a kid in a vat of nutrient fluid.
@tscheese: I popped two out without painkillers. I am not going to lie and say it was no big deal -- it was excruciating -- but at least I was pro-active and there was an end in sight. To me, it wasn't as onerous as the long nine months of pregnancy. I always said I'd trade: I'd give birth to the kids if someone else would do the pregnancy part.
@tscheese: Actually, I read somewhere that our ability to walk upright makes our bodies less than perfectly suited for birthin' babies -- something about our hips? It's like homo sapiens still has some evolvin' to do before we can walk upright and have babies easily. (Apparently humans have much higher mortality rates for birthing mothers than other species?)
In summary, I'm still scared to give birth. Good thing I don't want kids! ;)
RE Beyonce: I've never once been terrified by the idea of giving birth. Surely I'm not the only one? And over time, I've become all the more comfortable with the idea as I've migrated farther away from the idea of a hospital birth and instead, a birthing pool at home with a midwife.
@tonightineed thinks rahm is nom: I don't think I was ever terrified with the concept of childbirth until I SAW one. I think therein lies the problem (for me). But I do look at it as, you know, I wouldn't be the first person in the world to experience it, so...
@whatsergem: Yeah, I can imagine that seeing one would be traumatic. Especially because I don't suppose B is well read or typically exposed to a lot of birth. I'm an only child myself, so it's not like I was by the bedside as seven siblings were delivered, but since I was a little girl I've always been quite fascinated and would ask loads of questions and read up on it. I read What To Expect for the first time when I was 13 or 14. I'm an odd one.
But still, that rush of blood and the huge head, etc, can be scary to see I'm sure.
@tonightineed thinks rahm is nom: Still photos were even worse for me to see than live action. This baby head just poking out in suspended animation in oozy globs of blood against a white sheet has done wonders for me. The wonders of email forwards. Yay.
@whatsergem: I watched my best friend give birth, and honestly I thought it was pretty cool. The pain part of it was awful of course, but I didn't find it 'traumatizing'.
A teenage girl should not be suggestively snuggling or posing or whatever with her father. Thats all. Had nothing to do with her being teenaged and wrapped in a sheet. Had everything to do with the fact that her DAD was posed with her. Thats just inappropriate.
@JillJitsu: I agree. That photo was beyond creepy and bothered me more than the one of her wrapped in a sheet. And she seems AWFULLY sexualized for a girl of her age. Did you see those shots of her suggestively making tongue faces at her boyfriend a while ago? She looked like a porn star.
I predict it will come out one day that something weird was going on in the Cyrus household.
@JillJitsu: It bothered me to no end that the media focused on the "sheet pic" and not the one of her with Billy Ray. Or maybe they were just afraid of getting sued for slander if they hinted there was anything untoward going on.
@Trixie from Toronto: I'm horribly weirded out by all the pictures of her in her underwear or in the shower or what have you that have leaked over the years. She's so young, I mean she's only a couple of years older than Dakota Fanning and that puts things into perspective for me.
And frankly, Miley dearest, I think it has less to do with the US being conservative (though certainly, that's true), and a lot more to do with the pose and style of choice. There were plenty of other ways Leb. could have posed her, even nude, that wouldn't have been so.. odd. It just looked underage tawdry, and generally, like I said, odd. What happened to the happy-go-lucky teenage poses for J14?
@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: Actually, I have a feeling that's the day all kinds of bad behavior and alarming info hit the tabloids and interwebs. I'm betting they keep her on a very very short leash. And when that ends, all hell will break loose.
Miley Cyrus talking about her photo shoot sounds like that girl in your dorm who came back from her semester in London who can't stop talking about how great her "flat" was and how "beer is so much better warm."
It wasn't about being conservative. It was about you BEING HALF NAKED WITH YOUR DAD.
Well, and your shoulder. Your slutty, slutty shoulder.
@Snowbunny: Bwah! Yes, yes they are. Ask any conservative control freak man (zing!) - disclaimer: look, I'm working out my aggravation for the eligible chaps my mum would have me date on this here wimmin's blog... intertube... thing.
In that photograph up there, has Lindsay disconnected her head from her body? She's just holding it in her hand, isn't she? After yesterday's "literal meltdown", I'm starting to believe she is some form of mutant.
(That is the gossip I want to see in the tabloids. BREAKING: LOHAN NOT HUMAN.)
@drinkthefat: Along with Microphonehand(TM), also visible in the above picture, which ensures that one is never without vocal amplification should one find oneself in a spontaneous call-and-response situation.
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2. And the Arctic Monkeys are a great band, but my 13-year-old self is giggling that Liam thinks we should look to frozen primates for inspiration.
3. I kinda love the name "Joan Bush-Rich".
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1) You're not 41.
2) You go into the studio and make shit music. Seriously, your new album is just disappointing crap.
Yet I still buy your music, will always worship you, and will be seeing you in NYC and Camden next week for Oasis concerts, where I will get shitfaced and sing loudly and love every minute of it.
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For me, though, I know that my body is evolved for childbirth. It's something my body can do, biologically, and maybe (this is a big maybe) hypothetically, one day I might be responsible enough to take care of another human being. And then I will run blissfully into the waiting arms of modern medicine and have a zillion doctors poking and prodding at my junk and eventually I'll have a kid. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be scary and painful as hell, but zilllllllions of other women have done it before, or else none of us would be here.
Or, I'll just figure out some way to grow a kid in a vat of nutrient fluid.
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(I am being facetious, for those who might be unsure)
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In summary, I'm still scared to give birth. Good thing I don't want kids! ;)
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But still, that rush of blood and the huge head, etc, can be scary to see I'm sure.
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"I am crushing your head!"
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I predict it will come out one day that something weird was going on in the Cyrus household.
**ducks**
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And frankly, Miley dearest, I think it has less to do with the US being conservative (though certainly, that's true), and a lot more to do with the pose and style of choice. There were plenty of other ways Leb. could have posed her, even nude, that wouldn't have been so.. odd. It just looked underage tawdry, and generally, like I said, odd. What happened to the happy-go-lucky teenage poses for J14?
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It wasn't about being conservative. It was about you BEING HALF NAKED WITH YOUR DAD.
Well, and your shoulder. Your slutty, slutty shoulder.
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(That is the gossip I want to see in the tabloids. BREAKING: LOHAN NOT HUMAN.)
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