Seeing the REAL stars

As a child, I have always wanted to be an actress. I was fascinated by the showbiz industry not really caring whether it was local or international. My eyes enjoyed watching those pretty ladies stepping out of limos and walking unto the red carpet or those fancy couples being praised and followed by the paparazzi. I somehow thought that as a celebrity, life would be perfect. You'd be filthy rich, have as many pets as you want and yes, no more freaking chores! That was my view on celebrity as a little child. Life was all about the glitz, the glamour and the hip and the fabulous.

Now let's move on a few more years. I am already in Highschool,still the same old me but already updated in today's culture. I became more obssessed with Celebrity gossip. I was the first in our family of three to grab the newspaper and head directly to the Entertainments Section. I devoured every single celebrity article I could see and enjoyed every single juicy info in it. But time seemed to pass by and all those goody-goody news became a whole lot of negativity.

I started reading articles that weren't satisfying at all. I got to see a totally different view of showbiz from what I read. The pretty girls who used to go down from limos and walk down the red carpet were in rehab. And how about those fancy couples who were followed everywhere by the paparazzi? Well, they either broke up or got a divorce. BANG! Then and there it hit me. My childhood fantasies? About celebrity life being perfect? I realized that it isn't that different from our life right now. Celebrities are just normal people and they are only trying to make a living. In fact, I'm happy that I'm not a celeb right now. I don't have to be in the Worst Dressed list because of a fashion boo-boo or say the WAY overused: "We're just friends." because truth is, I love my imperfect life right now no matter how unglitzy, how unglamorous, how unhip or how unfab it is.