bad idea...

reports are saying that nick is considering doing a special on teenage pregnancy in light of the jaime lynn controversy.

i think it's a bad idea.

i am by no means a hypocrit. i had a kid out of wedlock. being a single mom is hard. i've been there.

i sat and watched the jaime lynn enhanced episode of showbiz tonight on cnn last nite and they were flying from all angles.

"she should be commended for not getting an abortion and stepping up to the plate."

yeah yeah yeah. she doesn't deserve a medal because she said she's keeping the baby. she should get one if she actually sticks to her word and tries to give the kid a normal life. not the hollywood kid life. but a normal life. without nannies or personal assistants or a pr agency to smooth things over.

"being a single mom is so hard - especially for a teenager!"

sure. talk to you me when you don't have a trust fund, hit tv show, cd, or deal with ok mag to sell your photos after the baby's born for several million dollars. try it with a savings account with $300 and no job or insurance. have to deal with the system. medicaid. child support. talk to me then.

"her career is over" "why can't she be a teenage mom and have a career too?"

she can have a career. i just don't think it should be this one. nina can no longer watch zoey 101. when i told her why - all she said was "she's too young to have a baby." she's a horrible example for little girls. "do as i say - not as i do."

i think that if nick goes ahead with this special to try and smooth over the crisis at hand - it's going to glamorize the whole concept of teenage pregnancy. ok has a deal for the first pictures of jaime and baby. jaime lynn isn't going to have a tough go of it. not at all. little girls have been looking up to her and now they're going to see what she did as being cool. having a baby is going to be a fun adventure for her. not the struggle that it really is for the single young mom. no matter how the publicists try to spin it.

nick can't fire her for being pregnant unless her contract has something in it about morals - which i doubt. but they can pull they show for bad ratings. and i have a feeling that they will be going down.

maybe i'm wrong. it's possible. i just can't see it as anything but a bad thing. the ok deal. the possible nick special. using jaime lynn as an example. all it will show is how much fun she's having - not the dirty nitty gritty of it all.

use a real situation as an example. not a piece of pr being spun by the master manipulators of truth in hollywood...