Gloria Sheller
Staff Writer
It’s official. Britney Spears is on her way to making a magnificent comeback. After digging herself into a seemingly bottomless pit of bad decisions and poor outfit choices during the past few years, Spears is turning over a new leaf. Thank God.
America’s favorite Mouseketeer has finally ditched her leach-of-a-husband Kevin “K-Fed” Federline and is looking good while doing it. She’s on her way back to being the powerful female role model she once was.
Sure, Britney has had a wild bumpy ride since marrying K-Fed in October of 2004. So she put on some risky balcony shows for the paparazzi and showed up for a recent interview with Matt Lauer looking more like Anna Nicole than like a pop princess. But with the birth of her second child, Jayden James on Sept. 12, Spears has begun to start acting and looking like real a mom, by putting the well being of her children on top of her priority list.
Now, some may argue that Britney Spears has never really been a positive role model. I’ll agree that while she looked good in her sparkling skin color suit at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, it wasn’t the best thing to be wearing when her target audience was a bunch of self conscious and insecure 12 year-olds. And, most mothers probably weren’t condoning their little girls watching Spear’s and Madonna’s sexual cat and mouse chase in the ‘Me Against the Music’ music video. Bad Britney.
But think about some other leading celebrity females… Angelina Jolie. OK, but is she worthy? Well, she has been the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001 and had adopted children from both Asia and Africa. But what about the times when Jolie would sport her then husband Billy Bob Thorton’s blood in a vile around her neck? Or, when she admitted to cameras that they had just had intercourse on the way to a red carpet event? Oh, the world must have forgotten the old Angelina. Let’s forget the old Britney.
Britney Spears is doing, what Angelina did and what Madonna does just about every five years; she’s reinventing herself. She had changed from bubblegum pop princess, to sexy provocative super star and, now, to down to Earth mom. Give her a break.
Britney proved she is making the first steps back up to the top with her appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” No one can deny that Spears looked better in her surprise appearance than she has in about two years. Showing up in a bright blonde bob haircut and a short, but somehow still conservative, sexy ensemble, Spears looked like a new woman. While rumors of her divorce from K-Fed weren’t yet circulating, it’s certain that congruence of her surprise Letterman pop in and filing for divorce were more than planned. Good Britney.
She’s smart, demanding that she had full legal and physical custody of her two boys, Sean Preston, 1, and Jayden James, 2 months. Completely cutting herself off from her past that bogged her down will only open doors for Britney in her ascent back to the top.
K-Fed, on the other hand, will probably remain “Mr. Spears” as long as he will live. Predictably, his debut album “Playing With Fire,” which was released Oct. 31, flopped. He accredited much of his influence to Spears in an Associated Press interview, pre divorce filing, “She’s a strong woman and knows what she wants out of life and that helps build a strong man. I look up to you baby.”
Obviously, what Britney wants out of life is not K-Fed. Britney can only be commended for her efforts to better herself as a mother and as a person in general.
11-16-2006
