What is it with todays female stars?. If it isn’t Britney chopping off her hair, forgetting to wear her knickers and attacking cars with tennis racquets it will be Lindsay Lohan lying comatose in the back of a car drooling out of the side of her mouth.  Supermodel Kate Moss, who can have just about any man she chooses, opts to kick it around instead with a bedraggled badly-in-need-of-a-bath drug addict. And now we have that poor little rich girl, Paris Hilton, being locked behind bars for drink driving offences. 

Just a few months ago Brit and Paris were pals in club crawling, Paris kindly supporting barely-there Brit as they left their latest trendy watering hole.  Well, isn’t that what best friends are for?. Now, Ms Spears is on her way to cleaning up her act and going on the straight and narrow while La Hilton languishes in her own private jail cell. I wonder who rubbed off on whom the most?.

Why don’t we see this behaviour amongst the young male stars?.

You don’t see Orlando Bloom falling out of taxi cabs in his undies, or Daniel Radcliffe appearing starkers except on the stage where he is contracted to be starkers!.

I’m wondering if it is different for the girls…if it is too much pressure to be famous for your ‘looks’ rather than any real talent. Talent, if you have it, is an easy load to carry. People recognise it and respect it. Merely being a ‘stunner’ or having a very rich daddy calls for an effort to maintain an image that is obviously very difficult to make. Why?

Because ‘looks’ fade (especially under the influence of drugs and booze); and, ‘Daddy’ might lose his fortune. Whoever said ‘your face is your fortune’ has a lot to answer for.