In the world of celebrity the key word is 'ME'. Everything is about ME and ME alone. I suppose considering the attention they recieve their idea of self worth is inflated a great deal. Not always rightly so. Celebs get alot of attention. They get alot of attention, for the wrong reasons. The media builds hype around them, and the only thing worse than that is those that begin to believe their own hype. They begin to believe that their opinion matters more than the next persons. That they can tell you how to live your life, give you advice about religion, and expect you to blindly follow, and why? Because they are a celebrity! Duh! I don't mind celebrities, we the public are just as guilty as they are at inflating their egos. We sit and stroke it for them, and then expect there to be no reactions! Haha...life doesn't work like that.
Now in recent times celebs aren't just people we see on the tv, people we see in the media. They are actual business people. They have clothes lines, they invest their money into all kinds of things, selling an image. They do all kinds of things, I guess a name can sell extremely well. The one that gets me the most is the celebrity autobiography. Not just any autobiography, but those of the stars that write their autobiographies before they have even hit the ripe old age of 30. In my opinion that is completely ridiculous, and nothing more than a money making scheme. I am sure that 30 year olds have a story to tell. I am 22 and I have a story to tell. We all do. However surely an autobiography is for when you have lived your life, and you have the WHOLE story to tell. Isn't that much more interesting?
Young celebrities no doubt live exciting lives. Lives that most of us can only dream of living. They will see things, and go places, and experience things that someone else of a similar age probably won't have. I am not taking that away from them. To write their life story at such a young age, just seems quite self indulgent to me. That they presume people are interested in their lives. That they somehow manage to think are more important than they actually are. Unfortunately, people are interested. Now I have read some wonderful autobiographies, that have been very interesting. When I look at some of the young people who are producing these I do wonder what they have to say for themselves. Their communication skills don't always come across very well, and I wonder how they manage to fill a book, full of their thoughts and feelings, and all about their life.
If these people have lead such interesting, exciting lives, why not wait a little longer, so maybe they could inject even more wisdom into their life story, and make it something they are truely proud of. Something that their childrens, children can read. Something they can read proudly, and know that it is because they want to share an interesting story, rather than they just want to make money. Fans will always want an insight into someones life. They will always be grateful to get just a little bit more information about their chosen celebrity. Celebrities know this, and I suppose at the end of it all, they are just business people. Money matters.