Yes She Has Changed!

On December 2, 2011, in ABC news, Britney Spears turned 30 years old and apparently she wished for marriage and wanted to have a new kid.

An insider told the People magazine, “Britney really wants to get married and have another baby,” and added that she and her boyfriend Jason Trawick have been “talking about marriage for a long time.”

As for whether this marriage would be more successful than her first two, which both ended in annulment and divorce. The man who directed Britney and Jason in her “Criminal” music video told People that Britney’s relationship with Trawick appeared to be healthy and happy.

“He’s chill and cool, which goes well with Britney — she’s the same,” said Chris Marrs Piliero. “They have a solid chemistry and a real bond and trust.”

A close source told People that Jason had stuck by Britney through her ups and downs over the past two years.

“They’re very much a family,” said the source of Britney, Jason and her sons, adding, “Jason's been there every step of the way, through the good and the bad. They have a fun, loving, meaningful connection. And he loves her boys as if they’re his own.”

Britney was looking forward to some post-tour downtime with family and friends, the source told People, adding that even though Jason had been on the road with her the whole time, they were not sick of one another. “They enjoyed every minute of it — and it proves they’re ready to take the next step.”

I was glad that the media finally have some good news about Britney Spears; especially after what had happened to Lindsey Lohan couple weeks ago with the jail issue. After years of drug addiction, family problems, and strange behaviors, Spears finally turned herself around and regain her dignity so that she could continue her life. I hope that her boyfriend Jason Trawick, whom she might marry in the future, would continue encourage Spears so that she could have a shoulder to hold on to. With the recovery of Britney Spears, I hoped that in the future more celebrities with personal issues would get inspired by her and make positive changes for themselves. The more good role-models we have, the lesser problem that the next generation would be facing.

Women Inequality in Films

On November 23, Los Angeles Times, science has confirmed that women were underrepresented in movies. Cinema tendencies diminish and drift, but one facet of Hollywood moviemaking proving remarkably consistent was gender inequality, according to a study being released Monday by USC's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

In a survey of the top 100-grossing movies of 2009, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "The Twilight Saga: New Moon", researchers found that 32.8% of the 4,342 speaking characters were female and 67.2% were male, a percentage identical to that of the top-grossing movies of 2008.

"We see remarkably stable trends," said USC Annenberg associate professor Stacy L. Smith. "This reveals an industry formula for gender that may be outside of people's conscious awareness."

It was not just the ratio of female to male characters that continued to be imbalanced but the manner in which they're depicted, according to Smith.

The USC study determined that women were still far more likely than men to wear sexy clothing in movies, such as swimwear and unbuttoned shirts (25.8% versus 4.7%), to expose skin (23% versus 7.4%) and to be described by another character as attractive (10.9% versus 2.5%).

Revealing clothing and partial nudity was just as prevalent among 13- to 20-year-old female characters as it was among those 21 to 29, suggesting that females were sexualized on-screen at young ages, Smith said.

Behind the camera, the gender inequality was just as dramatic: only 3.6% of the directors and 13.5% of the writers on the top-grossing films of 2009 were female, according to the study.

Researchers found that the sex of the storytellers had a significant effect on what appeared on-screen. In movies directed by women, 47.7% of the characters were female; in movies directed by men, less than a third of the characters were female. When one or more of the screenwriters was female, 40% of characters were female; when all the screenwriters were male, 29.8% of the characters were female.

"Some of this is a function of the fact that we see more males working behind the scenes than females, and they're telling the stories that they know," Smith said. "If the numbers behind the scenes move, we're likely to see numbers on-screen move."

There was one area where women surpassed men in films in 2009 — they bought more than 50% of the movie tickets sold in the U.S., according to the Motion Picture Assn. of America.

"Females represent half of the population and half of movie going audiences, but they don't hit a third of the characters," Smith said. "Male consumers aren't the only ones going to the movies, but our cultural storytellers today are male. The problem is really thinking about the perpetuation of the status quo."

My thought about this gender inequality in films was that men still hold more power in business than women in modern time. Recalling what kind of movies that I have watched with women as the main characters, I realized that majority of films with female protagonists were about romance. And for some reason, when two or more guys fell in love with the heroine, the male roles would get more attentions from the audience than the main female character. Although large numbers of movies featured women, they were mainly portrayed as damsel in distress or just the love interest of the male hero. Women in the film industry just weren’t shown as some strong individual, maybe our society’s value on female reminded the same; look pretty, inferior to men, and be good house-makers.

Fat or Curvy?

On November 15, 2011, Miley Cyrus claimed that she was at war with the critics who said her curves were fat.

After Miley, 18, found out her more womanly figure was the subject of some bad weight jokes and unflattering videos on YouTube, she lashed out on Twitter.

Miley tweeted her more than three million followers, “By calling girls like me fat this is what you're doing to other people.” She also posted a picture of an emaciated woman along with her tweet. Miley went on to criticize her critics, she wrote, “I love MYSELF & if you could say the same you wouldn't be sitting on your computer trying to hurt others."

To make her point, Miley posted a picture of Marilyn Monroe with the caption, "Proof that you can be adored by thousands of men, even when your thighs touch."

Lovato had to defend her post-rehab weight gain back in August. At the time Lovato tweeted, “Guess what, I'm healthy and happy, and if you're hating on my weight you obviously aren't.”

Finally! More celebrities who do not care about what the public said about their weight! Seriously, people need to stop telling others that just because they were not size zero or born with slim figure that they were overweighed. And it was natural for women to have their body grow larger as they age. Being healthy inside and out were much more important and attractive. Beside, who said being skeletally thin was beautiful? Having a curvy body not only show off one’s sexiness, but also draw a lot of attention from the guys!

For the Sake of Beauty

On November 9, 2011, 30-year-old Victoria's Secret Angel model Alessandra Ambrosio wore one 30-pound pair of gold wings on the run-way.

"It's really heavy," Ambrosio said after a team of four unharnessed her. "When I first put it on, I almost fell back, that's how heavy it was. You really have to put a lot of strength toward your shoulders to be able to hold that. But it's incredible. You can't say no to an outfit like that. Those wings are unbelievable."

Besides heft, the wings boast bling in the form of more than 100,000 Swarovski crystals. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show producer Monica Mitro called them "the most spectacular wings we've ever done."

"She was struggling to walk in them but she was like, 'If it looks good, if I look good, I'm wearing it,'" Mitro said. "She's in her underwear, she's wearing high heels, it's a bit of a precarious runway. So you really have to want something badly to wear something that heavy on national television."

"I never work out my back, I never work out my arms," Ambrosio said. "But I guess this week I'm going to have to lift some weights to be able to wear those wings on the runway."

It was no doubt that a job such as modeling can be difficult, but having the models wearing something so heavy just for the sake for selling the designers’ products was too extreme! Since these models were probably underweighted, they do not have the strength to carry these heavyweight materials, worst of all they even might get smashed! Sometime it would be better if the designers designed their merchandise in a more reasonable weight so that the people who were trying to sell them can actually advertising instead of suffering!

Marriage Problem

On November 2, 2011, Kim Kardashian's mother claimed that her daughter obtained nothing from her $10 million wedding.

“Kim definitely made money from the pictures,” Kris Jenner said on ABC’s “The View” today, referring to wedding photos Kardashian and her separated husband Kris Humphries sold to People magazine for a reported $2.5 million. “We all got our shooting fees from doing the show [but] when it was all said and done Kim had to pay a lot of money.” Jenner said that Kardashian placed her own money into making “her fairy tale dream come true.”

Jenner, who was on “The View” to promote her new memoir, said that her daughter “felt like she married for love.” Jenner said she doesn’t know why Kardashian marched for divorce. “She said ‘Mommy, this is what I feel I need to do. Please trust me,’” Jenner said, adding that Kardashian came to the decision “with a lot of prayer and a lot of meditation.”

“It’s a tough time for the family and for Kim and for everybody involved,” Jenner said, choking up. “It’s really hard to go through this on a public stage.”

“I do, you know, want to make clear that I would never marry for a TV show, for money, for anything like that,” Kardashian said on an Australian radio show.

Kardashian has repeatedly scolded reports that she caused her wedding for a payday,writing on her blog saying that she was “donating the money for all the gifts to the Dream Foundation.” The Dream Foundation confirmed to ABCNews.com that Kardashian has reached out to make a donation.

Besides the stated $2.5 million she got from People, Kardashian is said to have made between $12 and $15 million for the E! TV special about her nuptials. She also reportedly banked hundreds of thousands of dollars for selling exclusive rights to her engagement announcement, bridal shower and bachelorette party.

On October 31, the day Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries after 72 days of marriage, the New York Times calculated that the couple made $10,358.80 per hour of marriage, or $5,179.40 each if split evenly.

My thought of this news was that why do celebrities tend to have poor marriage? This was not the first time a famous person whose nuptial lasted fewer than a year, but this sort of things have been going around more frequently these years. What worried me was that the young audience might get affect by these young married stars and cause the divorce rate to increase! Even though Kardashian’s divorce was her own decision, but the public can easily mistake her action as a woman who dumped her man for work. Therefore, I believe, if a woman celebrity want to get marry she have to think about the future whether she have the ability maintain her job and her role as a housewife or not!

Equal Power in Gender

On October 25, 2011, in London CNN news, British Prime Minister David Cameron said it has been declared that the sons and daughters of British royals will have an equal right to the throne under changes to the United Kingdom's succession laws agreed. The legitimate revolutions would mean a first-born girl has precedence over a younger brother.

The leaders of the 16 Commonwealth countries that have the queen as head of state approved the changes unanimously at a Commonwealth of Nations summit in Australia, Cameron said. The individual governments of those 16 countries still must agree to the changes for them to take effect.

Manners have changed profoundly over the centuries, Cameron said in a televised address, and old-fashioned rules should change with them.

"The idea that a younger son should become monarch instead of an elder daughter simply because he is a man, or that a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic -- this way of thinking is at odds with the modern countries that we have become," he said.

"Put simply, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were to have a little girl, that girl would one day be our queen."

Britain is not the first European nation with a hereditary monarchy to take steps towards gender equality in its laws of succession.

Denmark changed its rules to make them gender neutral in 1953, allowing the current monarch, Queen Margrethe, to succeed to the throne.

Sweden followed suit in 1980, three years after the birth of Crown Princess Victoria, the current successor to the throne. Norway also accords equal rights of succession to royals born after 1990.

Queen Elizabeth is in Australia for the three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The Commonwealth is an association of 54 nations with ties to the United Kingdom. Only 16 share the queen as head of state.

I was very excited to hear this news since it showed that women are finally getting the equal right and power to rule the monarchy. Before people would just have the male heir run the royal business, now the women heir can have the chance to take control too! Even though this news was mainly aimed for countries that still have the monarchy system, it can still probably increase the possibility for the United States to elect women for president!

I DON'T Want To Be 31 Years Old!

On October 21, 11, Kim Kardashian turns 31 in New York City as she wraps filming on “Kourtney & Kim Take New York”. After Mrs. Kris Humphries comes back from Dubai, she hit the Angel Ball on Monday, where she dished that turning 31 is "freaky".

"I think 31 is even worse," Kim said. "It's like now I'm really an adult!" And yet she's still partying in Vegas!

Last year, she was a single lady and celebrated with her sisters at Tao nightclub. This time, her birthday party is going to Marquee nightclub inside the Cosmopolitan Resort on Saturday.

But today, Kardashian will be busy filming into the evening and packing to move back to L.A.

"Can't believe we are done with New York! 3 months went by so fast! Boxes everywhere in our hotel! All ready to go home! Kardashian twittered in her blog.

Though I’m happy that she is going have fun celebrating her birthday, this subject actually kind of makes me think about why celebrities worry about aging? Famous people like Kardashian, whose ages are not in their teen or 20’s anymore, would usually be seem as “washout” for their business. Since young audience prefer someone around their age or a little bit older, celebrities would have to look or behave like that age to please the viewers. In Asia, when a super star hits age 30 or older, the fans would probably say “Aw she’s too old now!” or “Ew a old person trying to look young”. Even though some celebrities does get more popular as they ages, I continue to think that it is because they are trying to look young or put on a lot of make-up on to cover their winkles.

Some celebrities just won't change...

On Oct. 14, 2011, Lindsay Lohan got her teeth’s picture taken and they weren’t very lovely. “Lindsay Lohan's need for a better toothpaste should not outshine more important issues such as homelessness, lack of funding for public education and relations between America and its allies," the actress's rep said.

Steve Honig responded to the online buzz about a close up photo of Lohan's teeth "Lindsay is widely recognized as one of the most beautiful women on the planet, and is regularly sought-after by some of the top photographers in the world to appear on covers of magazines around the globe," Honig said in a speech to CNN.

Worst of all, Lohan's stained teeth were not the biggest concern she has to deal with right now. She got due back in court Wednesday morning for a status hearing before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Saunter. Judge Saunter would check on Lohan’s progress in meeting the community service and psychological counseling requirements she enacted last summer when she sentenced Lohan to probation for stealing a necklace from a Venice, California, jewelry store.

My thought about this news was, “oh great, Lindsay’s gotten herself into another trouble AGAIN!” I mean seriously, child-stars like her who were respected when they were young have become such a mess as celebrities! No wonder people said, “Hollywood kills childhood” I don’t know whether it was the work pressure or personal issues, but these problematic superstars should quit their jobs and do something less stressful.