'It seems that shows like Teen Mom are all of a sudden making teen pregnancy seem cool in the eyes of young girls...but girls, these are not people you should idolise!'
Orly? I'll attack this argument on two sides: 1. who are you to determine who is famous/idolized? 2. I think the show does the opposite.
So, Kim. Kim, Kimmy, Kimber. You're a celebrity because...
You're famous because...
You've done...
You've helped...
You can...
I'm really drawing a blank here. According to Wikipedia, she got her fame from her reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which is a show, like most reality shows, about some really rich, overprivileged girls and their daily romps with drama and buying expensive things they don't need. She is also a model, because she's posed nude for Playboy. Ooh. She is famous because of her spoiled and lavish life, and because her daily half-naked twipics keep the boys busy and the girls crying for her bod. Oh, and she was in a pretty popular sex tape.
All very good things to idolize. She is aware, and noted, that she has many young fans. She says she regrets her sex tape but continues to parade around the public dressed like a common party slut. Now, this is of course something that she has the right to do, she can be whoever, but her being willingly put in this kind of spotlight, I can criticize - especially because she's decided to point out to her blog followers/readers - who you could say, like her or look up to her or want to be her (oh, like idolize her) that the show Teen Mom is responsible for boosting teen pregnancies.
Which leads me to the second side of my argument. To anyone who has watched Teen Mom as I have, the show shows life for these girls as it is. Do I want to be them? No. They have lost their freedom and youth for their children; sacrificed their education and have been encouraged, in most cases, to move out, get married, and start careers all before they're old enough to even drink alcohol in public. It's an entire lifetime of milestones done in an incredibly short period of time.
Only an idiot would want their life.
They are not people to idolize, but people to watch and learn from. The intent of the show is to show how hard it is to have a child so young and to discourage viewers to follow their paths.
I know they get paid a large sum for being on the show, and thanks to magazines like US Weekly and the other paparazzi mediums, they are household names and a lot of people know their business outside of the show. Yet on the show, they do not flaunt this money or show how being on the show has affected their daily lives. Thus, the show itself is not responsible for the irresponsibility and downright stupidity of its viewers who get pregnant to imitate what they see on TV or to attain the short lived but always glamorous fame of a paparazzi-stalked teen. It's their parent's fault for raising children who think that by either getting pregnant and put on TV or rising to fame for being talentless and slutty, they will be happy and successful in life.
MTV knows that when they're not helping teens or putting their lives on TV as expository, even educational, programs (like True Life, Made, I Used to Be Fat, Teen Mom, 16 & Pregnant), they also have shows that are for pure entertainment, like Jersey Shore, Disaster Date, The Real World, etc etc. It is not Kim Kardashian's fault that people want to be like her and live her pointless, shallow life, but for her to critique a show that, arguably, has helped teens and other viewers learn about the troubles of raising a child, is ridiculous. Has her show or any modeling/writing/acting that she has done promote anything but being famous for being rich and beautiful? Nope.
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