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Kaleigh Whitelaw Loud music, bright lights, and flashing cameras. Celebrities are pouring out of this year’s music video awards and are heading straight for the after parties. The clanking of glasses and bottles fill the air and the brains of many are slowing down from the alcohol setting in. It is now time for the celebrities to choose whether or not they will uphold their positive standing in society or throw it all away for one drunken mistake. Most of them will go home and sleep away the nights as if nothing happened, but some will slip up and get the possible DUI, or will go home to spend the night with the next big celebrity, all which causes rumors and will possibly destroy them. Celebrities are not good role models for kids because they are constantly under the pressure to fit in, the paparazzi is constantly out to frame them and find flaws, and most of all, they, themselves are mentally destroyed at times from the constant worry of what they are portraying to the world. The constant pressure to fit in is such a price to pay to be famous, but celebrities do not care. They push through it, or at least try to. Headlines are constantly reading, “Celebrities are losing weight too fast,” or, “Another celebrity DUI.” So what are we, as children, supposed to look up to? When celebrities are being critiqued constantly, being told they are too fat, they are not pretty enough, or even being told to do drugs because its “cool”, celebrities will do anything to please. On many accounts celebrities are told that for a certain role in their upcoming movies they need to lose weight. In that case they automatically go on some crazy binge diet to lose weight, or do a list of different things to their body to look just right. Life for celebrities is always a constant struggle to change into the “role” they are portraying in their most recent type of work. Celebrities have a life of constant struggle identity crisis, weight roller coasters, and even when they are adults they face peer pressure. Paparazzi are also the number one enemy to celebrities. As a paparazzi you are job is to get that special shot that is going to ruin a celebrities’ day. Back in 2006, Britney Spears had what some referred to as a “mental break-down”. Britney shaved her head, went swimming in a fountain, and even destroyed a car with an umbrella. The paparazzi doing their job we’re their immediately and caught it all on film, which will now haunt Britney for the rest of her life. In another case a man by the name of Michael Phelps was living large. Michael was a swimming phenomenon and won eight gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. When one single photo of Mr. Phelps smoking pot leaked his “golden boy” persona went straight down the drain. He suffered much back lash from the press, the people, and worst of all his fans. Along with the entire world judging Michael his pockets began to feel the pressure too, as many of his endorsements let him go. With a life going so well for celebrity’s one slip up can cost you the world, and that is just one more reason why even the best of the best celebrities should not be role models. Another constant worry is their weight, their hair and makeup, what kind of car they drive, and who they’re caught associating with at the big even that week. The constant need to please America and the demographic that they are viewed by is mind boggling. Celebrities can go mentally insane with all the worry of what is going on in their life at the time. Nine times out of ten they manage to keep their cool, but sometimes like we mentioned with Ms. Spears and Mr. Phelps, fame and fortune come back to bite you. Celebrities have to many worries, too much pressure, and way too many people out to get them to be reliable role models for kids my age and children all around the world. In a world like the one that they live in, at times you can feel lonely and most of the time they are. Celebrities are unstable, and unreliable. That does not sound like much of a role model to me, now does it? Find me a celebrity who has had a recent slip up in society, and tell me have they made it back to the top of their game where they were before their fault. Nine times out of ten you will not be able to do such a thing. You may be thinking that I am nothing more than a “negative Nancy” but no, I am a realist. Sometimes the truth hurts but, to hear that people you have looked up to all your life are nothing but fakes, drug attics, anorexics, and gamblers hurts extremely more. There is no reason in the world that I will ever look up to another celebrity and with that said take a moment, do yourself a favor, and reevaluate who your true role model is.