Thanks to social media we’ve never had more access to the celebrities we love and the ones we love to hate.
But are today’s celebrities crossing the line with TMI (too much information) when it comes to what they share with the general public Has today’s modern “celebrity” lost its mystique
A hot TMI topic is celebrity pregnancies; we get everything from how they did it to how they had it (thanks Kourtney Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson).
Last week American Idol singer Kelly Clarkson appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, spilling the beans on her and husband Brandon Blackstock’s plans to become parents.
When asked if she was already expecting, Clarkson responded: “We aren’t announcing anything right now! We’re not, no, but practice makes perfect! We’re trying, trying, trying … like rabbits!”
Does the world really need that visual The sweet-as-pumpkin-pie songstress going at it hammer-and-tong with her hubby
Then there was Jessica Simpson revealing TMI to Jimmy Kimmel about her nether regions when she announced during her last pregnancy: “Oh my God, y’all I just had a daydream that my vagina ate a bag of Skittles. Vagina and Skittles: two words we should never have to hear from a celebrity in the same sentence!
Tori Spelling gave us the down-low about her downtown during her pregnancy, admitting she got her husband, Dean McDermott, to ‘maintain the lawns’.
“I wasn’t prepared for losing sight of my lower region; I’d say, ‘Dean, how’s it looking down there Do I need to shave’ But of course I couldn’t shave. So Dean had to shave me. He’d hold up a mirror and say, ‘How’d I do’ Or he’d take a picture with his Blackberry to show me,” confessed Spelling.
It’s not just celebrity confessions in interviews; thanks to smartphones and apps like Instagram TMI gets visual.
Aussie beauty Megan Gale recently announced her pregnancy (which is wonderful), but it’s Instagram not foetus-cam.
Nicki Minaj has never been known for leaving much to the imagination, but must we be subject to her baring her buxom boosies on our Instagram feeds
While the thought of Justin Bieber’s bare derriere is enough to bring a prepubescent teen girl to tears of adulation, this post-pubescent bad boy got more than 30,000 likes after he flashed his crack for fans on his Instagram.
Have celebrities lost their minds or just their inhibitions Is their candour a cry for help, attention or just a kind gesture to make their fans feel closer to them
Are we as a society responsible for these media monsters thanks to our fanatical and at times macabre obsession with the rich and famous
Should celebrities be applauded or admonished when it comes to TMI
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– Sydney Morning Herald