Christina Aguilera Backlash Makes Us Wonder: Why Aren’t Moms Allowed To Have Fun?
5 June 2008, 12:00 PM. By Daniel Mauser
Poor Christina. Not only is she at the mercy of music critics, tabloid editors and sexy, sexy bloggers over her choices in everything from song lyrics to lipstick color, now she’s being blasted for her perceived lack of mothering skills:
“I spend all day with my son and once in a while if I want to go out and have a mommy-daddy night with my husband, I am more than allowed to do that,” Aguilera told “Access Hollywood.”
Not once you’ve spoken out about your bra size, silly.
“They never air (footage) of the paparazzi actually pulling up beside my husband and being like, ‘When is she going to leave the house? I have been trying to get a picture of her for weeks,’” Aguilera said.
Which got us wondering, why does she have to be either a Madonna (the Jesus one, not the one prancing around in a sweaty leotard with Justin Timberlake) or a Whore? Either she’s portrayed on the cover of People wearing pastels and tastefully posing with her newborn with a photo spread on her immaculate, professionally decorated nursery or she’s photographed leaving a club with headlines about how trashed she is or how “New Mom” Christina is having “Wild Nights.” Can’t she be allowed to have a bit of both? Or neither? Can’t a new mom rock the cradle and morning-after eyeliner?
God knows pushing a human being out would make us want to have a night or two of dancing all up on our baby daddy in front of judgmental strangers. Like our parents.
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Her mistake is in trying to publicly defend herself (or feeling like she has to).
It’s damn hard (and all kinds of identity-crisis-inducing and sometimes even boring) to be a mother and to try to mesh the old you with the new mother that you become, especially with all the expectations that comes with.
I personally did not have the energy to party when my son was an infant (but I do now that he’s older), but if you can swing it and still tend to your kid’s needs in the morning, more power to you.
You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t - and so you’re better off letting it slide off your back.
Like Tere says, I think there is a expectation among women, Latina women especially, to stay at home care for the children and play housewife. Anything that defies that condition makes them seem like bad mothers.
When it comes to Christina, I tend to just zone out and not care. Frankly, she’s lucky the paps still care to snap her picture after her snoozefest of an album.