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Dress-Up: Moms Put Their Tykes In Stars' Clothes

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WSJ: Moms Put Their Tykes In Stars' Clothes

I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand it seems like over-the-top behavior on the part of star-struck people who are probably very lonely and need a great deal of validation and attention.

On the other hand... a lot of us (myself included) proudly dress our little kids up in the latest Buckeye fan gear. Who among us hasn't wanted that new cap / vest / shirt / jacket that JT wore?

This still somehow seems more creepy to me, but I'm not sure why...

Dress-Up: Moms Put Their Tykes In Stars' Clothes
Magazines, Web Sites Monitor Hollywood; Sneakers Angelina Buys

By RACHEL DODES
May 10, 2008; Page A1

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Brad Pitt walks with 3-year-old Zahara, whose red shirt was snapped up by customers.

Adriana Serio is into celebrity fashion. She recently got a $28 pair of pink Mary Jane shoes by Robeez after the daughter of actress and former Miss USA Ali Landry was photographed wearing them.

Adriana can't put her enthusiasm into words. She's only nine months old. But her mother, Gina Serio, who bought the shoes, admits to her own fascination with what celebrities' babies are wearing.

The 32-year-old Springfield, N.J., mother of two logs on to www.celebrity-babies.com whenever she's looking for something nice for her kids. Recently, she ordered a hair clip she saw worn by the infant daughter of "Dancing With the Stars" co-host Samantha Harris. Ms. Serio admits her fascination with celebrity babies is "sick, really sick."

An industry of magazines and blogs chronicles and critiques what the stars wear. But this is a new crease. To the delight of entrepreneurs, it turns out a lot of people are willing to spend money dressing their little ones like Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the 2-year-old daughter of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Suri Cruise, the 2-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, is also a role model.

It's hard to pin down what's behind this fascination with the sartorial splendor of celebrity offspring. Are the stars having more babies? A large number of A-list actresses did get pregnant at about the same time. And more of them are willing to share intimate details of their family lives. Magazines are willing to pay for exclusive baby pictures. Baby pictures sell magazines.

Then, too, a national baby boom seems to be aborning. In 2006, there were 4.3 million babies born in the U.S., the largest number since 1961, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New parents these days are generally older and have more discretionary income. The result: Sales of clothing for kids three and under grew 11.2% last year, compared with 2.9% for the overall apparel market, according to market researcher NPD Group.

Antoinette Collins, a 26-year-old administrative assistant in Dayton, Ohio, says she bought a $25 pack of camouflage-print socks after seeing rocker couple Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale's 2-year-old son, Kingston Rossdale, knocking around London in his socks. Now, Ms. Collins's son, Jase, who is five months old, "can be just as hot as any celebrity baby," his mother says.

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BUCKYLE;1160157; said:
Them.

This quote from the article pretty much sums it up for me...

Now, Ms. Collins's son, Jase, who is five months old, "can be just as hot as any celebrity baby," his mother says.
Fucking freak.
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Okay. I agree. I just needed some validation that it's okay for me to dress my kid up like Archie Griffin... :biggrin:

I guess this article jumped out at me because it reminded me of a show I recently tripped over... Danny Bonaduce / I Know My Kid's a Star. Made me sick...

Makes me want to bring some of these people up on child prostitution charges... :grr:
 
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OCBuckWife;1160170; said:
You might not want to do a google image search for child beauty pageants then. :sneaky:
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I think the thing that made me stop on that show when I was channel surfing was because the parent and some friends were trying to convince the kid (maybe 7 or 8) that she needs to get sprayed / bronzed before she goes to bed or she wouldn't win the next day. And this kid is like passing out from being so tired and they're trying to prop her up and one of the people doing the spraying screws up and sprays the stuff into the kid's mouth. So the kid all of a sudden perks up and starts coughing and puking from the chemicals she inhaled.

And here I am worried that riding along on his grandfather's tractor might hurt my kid's ears ... :shake:
 
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OCBuckWife;1160170; said:
You might not want to do a google image search for child beauty pageants then. :sneaky:
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What scares me about Shetuck is that if he did, he would then turn up the birth photos, including the brat climbing out of the vagoo, the birth certificates, home numbers and the pictures of the kids they had play dates with :wink:
 
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OCBucksFan;1160564; said:
What scares me about Shetuck is that if he did, he would then turn up the birth photos, including the brat climbing out of the vagoo, the birth certificates, home numbers and the pictures of the kids they had play dates with :wink:
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vagoo... :slappy:

When'd you say HTML 7.0 is coming out? :paranoid:
 
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I'm not trying to draw equivalence here but, from the other side of the world, here we have the sobering tale of a different kind of Pyrrhic parenting...

The Guardian (UK): My daughter deserved to die for falling in love

'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

Two weeks ago, The Observer revealed how 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader was beaten to death by her father after becoming infatuated with a British soldier in Basra. In this remarkable interview, Abdel-Qader Ali explains why he is unrepentant - and how police backed his actions. Afif Sarhan in Basra and Caroline Davies report

For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.

Two weeks after The Observer revealed the shocking story of Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, murdered because of her infatuation with a British solider in Basra, southern Iraq, her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed his student daughter to death.

Abdel-Qader, 46, a government employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours. Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said.

Rand, who was studying English at Basra University, was deemed to have brought shame on her family after becoming infatuated with a British soldier, 22, known only as Paul.

She died a virgin, according to her closest friend Zeinab. Indeed, her 'relationship' with Paul, which began when she worked as a volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing water, appears to have consisted of snatched conversations over less than four months. But the young, impressionable Rand fell in love with him, confiding her feelings and daydreams to Zeinab, 19.

It was her first youthful infatuation and it would be her last. She died on 16 March after her father discovered she had been seen in public talking to Paul, considered to be the enemy, the invader and a Christian. Though her horrified mother, Leila Hussein, called Rand's two brothers, Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, to restrain Abdel-Qader as he choked her with his foot on her throat, they joined in. Her shrouded corpse was then tossed into a makeshift grave without ceremony as her uncles spat on it in disgust.

'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said.

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'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said.

Your "religion" is a mental illness, Abdel. :crazy:
 
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