Celebrity Moms Making a Difference
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It seems our culture can’t avoid obsessing about celebrities, especially when they are falling to pieces. I wonder about our need to analyze, judge and criticize every action of public figures. Even Angelina Jolie, for all the good she tries to do, is subject to regular scrutiny. While it may be fun to criticize and condemn the Britney Spears of the world, I believe those reactions are attempts to avoid looking inwards at our own challenges and inadequacies and avoid improving ourselves. I thought it might be novel for just a minute to look at the considerable contributions of my favorite celeb mom without over-analyzing them, and to take stock of the good being done by people with celebrity status.
Angelina Jolie, acknowledged by the UN for work in many struggling areas of the world, is a self-admitted work in progress. She is not only a mom to recently born baby Shiloh but has completed three international adoptions. I have heard a great deal of criticism of celebs adopting children with the view that a high profile contribution would have been better spent on rehabilitating impoverished and at risk areas. They argue that the biological parents of these children can and would care for them - when the problems in their communities are solved. While I agree this is the ideal solution, many children are suffering now. The amount of time required to “turn things around” means that many children will simply be forgotten. Angelina Jolie has dramatically changed the life of three children who were not born to her. She made this choice because she could and she cared enough to do so. While some people say all actions of celebs is promotional, I say, “Who cares?” If doing good in the world gains her a few fans and her movies make more money, then so be it.
Cheers,
Andrea Page
