Obsession

In our recent articles about Fandom and Stardom, it mainly discussed regular people looking up to celebrities. Celebrities are suppose to be these icons of achievement balled up into everything we want but will never have, a very depressing thought when you consider who is famous currently. My generation have created a whole new identity of celebrities because you can now be famous for just being a hot mess or being arrested. High standards are still provided but the Lindsay Lohans of the world are still just as famous as the Jennifer Anistons. In between was born as new celebrity. The reality show celebrity. How tv stations pick the people for those shows I do not know but reality tv stars has become a whole new category. Seeing as we hold celebrities on these pedestals makes me want to critique celebrities who wants to be perfect. The first name that comes to mind is Heidi Montag. Self made fame whore, Heidi started on the MTV reality series the Hills. She was the best friend to the lead role and started off as the innocent girl from a small town. After a season or two, her plastic surgery charade began. First it was minor changes, but eventually it led up to what we see now in the current season and many tabloid magazines. Her desire to be perfect or ideal caused her to have many surgeries in one day. Not only did she risk her life but she looks like she came out of the mattel factory right next to Skipper. Her surgery supposedly made her have the perfect face and body, etc. Instead she no longer looks real. This just goes to show how the lime light causes celebrities to want to buy into our obsessions with them. They want to continue to be held on this pedestal, to be seen as perfection that no one else can achieve except for in this case her perfection can be paid for at a really high price. Her own stardom caused her to obsess about perfection and I cannot help but wonder if she never was on the show to begin with would she still be the small town girl from Colorado. I think stardom and fandom can ooze into celebrity world as well. We think that we are idolizing people that we can never be like and that pedestal causes them to have to live up to our expectations. When they fail we enjoy their down fall and when they succeed we are jealous of their accomplishments or look up to them as idols. Actors and Actresses, musicians, artists of all kinds say they want to go into the business to pursue a dream but do some just really wanna be famous? People do not have to have any real talent any more as long as you can make a profit, you are valuable. It really makes you think where these people will be in a few years as shows like the Hills come to an end. Will they be desperate to find work just to stay in the spotlight, will they follow their passions, or will they fade into the background amongst many other celebrities that lost their ten minutes.