Jon and Kate Gosselin, stars of the TLC Series “Jon & Kate Plus 8,” have lashed out at the media attention to the personal lives they chose to expose, publicly and lucratively, to the world.
By Ted Anthony
Look at me. Look at my life, my body, my antics, my kids, my home. It’s OK — come on in. It’s a fair deal: I’m getting famous, you’re getting entertained. Everybody’s happy. What’s the problem?
But ... whoa. Wait. Stop. I didn’t sign on for this. Why are you looking at me? How dare you look at me! Go away! Can’t you leave me and my family in peace? At least until next season?
A monthlong eruption of celebrity anger over unwanted attention — everyone from Miss California USA Carrie Prejean to Brooke Shields to the stars of the reality show “Jon & Kate Plus 8” — suggests a new, oddly paradoxical dimension to the way we look at famous people.
In short, Americans who traffic in the commodity that is their lives — Hollywood actors and reality-TV stars alike — aren’t at all happy when their carefully calibrated reality bursts out of the cages they have built to contain it.
“It destroys people’s lives,” Kate Gosselin of “Jon & Kate” said at a recent appearance — a publicity appearance — in Michigan.
Celebrities upset with intrusive coverage are nothing new — Greta Garbo wanted to be left alone as early as the 1930s. And, more recently, stars from Kanye West to Keith Urban to Sarah Jessica Parker have expressed dismay at the media frenzy surrounding their activities and families.
But there’s something different afoot today, something cloudier
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