Maybe Britney is jealous of Paris and is just trying to bring her down. After all, Britney has a lot of personal issues to deal with herself. It has been recently reported that Britney Spears will be replaced by a body double in her nude photo shoot for Blender Magazine. The magazine apparently thinks that Britney is “too out of shape� and plans to replace her body with a double. The magazine plans to use a “more in shape� model in place of Britney's body and an ad has been published in search of appropriate models. Britney may not be as in shape as she was before, but is really necessary to get a body double? Britney is definitely not overweight and her physique is now more like that of an average woman. By putting her real self on the magazine, it shows the public that it's ok if you're not stick thin and that it's normal. I agree that the old Britney had a better body and was more attractive, but the Britney now has had two kids and is more real than the pop princess we use to know. Here's Britney now
and Britney then

Which picture displays what the average person looks like? I wish that Britney's body was the typical physique but it's not, so we should instead try to embrace what we have. Since so many people look towards celebrities to set their standards of beauty, celebrities should initiate the change by asking magazine companies to show them as who they really are- without all the airbrushing and body doubles. I don't see the point of a magazine featuring a celebrity when they're actually using someone else's body instead. It is also probably quite humiliating for Britney to be asked to agree to a body double. Hopefully the public image of women will change in the future and lead to a more diverse definition of beauty.

Aside from the coat situation, Britney received a $10,000 diamond and gold ring, $4,000 in Barito brand sunglasses, and various t-shirts and hair products- some pretty nice birthday presents. After leaving the Scandinavian Style Mansion, Spears and her crew continued the festivities at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills till 4:30 in the morning. The next day, Britney spent her actual birthday with her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. However, according to her custody agreement, Britney is prohibited from consuming drugs or alcohol within 12 hours of being with her kids. Hopefully no one took a picture of her drinking late Saturday night.

If you want more details about Britney's birthday, here's a video clip from that night: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1330350960

Although most people wouldn't consider this year to have been Britney's best year, Britney did win the honor of being the top celebrity search on Yahoo. In the past seven years, Britney has been top ten on the list but this year, she came is first, followed by "Paris Hilton" and "Anna Nicole Smith". This shows that Britney still has a chance for a comeback since people are still interested in her. I guess bad press is better than no press. As much as people bash Britney, they just can't stop talking about her. You have to give her credit for maintaining everyone's interest and doing it without selling a hit record.

1) Britney is trying to adopt a pair of Chinese twins. People are saying that Britney is in the final stages of adopting twins as a result of losing custody of her two boys. She feels empty without them and maybe wants a second chance at motherhood. You can read the full story at http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/spears-to-adopt-chinese-twins--report/2007/11/26/1195975912015.html
2) There may be a new love interest in Britney's life- a waiter at Mirabelle named Michael Marchand. Although both deny a relationship, they have been spotted together. Britney's friends say that it's just a fling but who knows, maybe it'll turn into something more.
3) Britney Spears was caught driving without a valid California license and now her lawyer is saying that she is being treated unfairly. The court is considering a 24 month probation and Britney's lawyer says that the court has never treated such a violation so harshly before. Britney's lawyer is fighting to get Britney no probation at all. But this video clip of Britney running three stop signs doesn't help her case:http://perezhilton.com/?p=9404
4) Britney's Blackout album came in at a disappointing number 23 on the Billboard chart, selling only 51,520 copies. She didn't even make the top 20. Comeback? Not so much.

Britney has been criticized for feeding her kids unhealthy food like chips and giving her kids soda. In "Peoples" magazine, they said that Britney would ask her kids to get her cigarettes and she would refer to them as "mommy's lollipops". Her parenting coach says that Britney doesn't know when to feed or change her kids, and when she's allowed to visit her kids, she takes them shopping with her rather than spending quality time with them. Her partying lifestyle has also been questioned in terms of being a responsible mother. The list goes on and on.

Britney had just made headlines again as a result of her bad driving skills. Her driving history consists of driving over a few paparazzi and deputy officer's feet and driving while holding Sean Preston in her lap. Now, Britney has even more to add to her driving record. In the last week alone, she has been photographed and videotaped committing multiple traffic infractions — running a red light and making an illegal turn, and crossing double yellow lines to overtake another vehicle — while either talking or texting on her cell phone. All this while her kids are in the backseat. In response to these incidents, Kevin Federline has just asked the court to prevent Britney from driving her kids. This definitely doesn't help Britney's case in gaining custody of her kids again. Here's a picture that mocks Britney's parenting skills:

Britney says Blackout stands for "blacking out negativity and embracing life". Her last album "In The Zone" came out 3 years ago and she has changed so much since then. Her record company says that her second single will be released soon- by mid-November. I'm hoping the next single will be better and display more of her singing abilities rather than her just chanting "gimme, gimme".

So before I completely give up on Britney, let's hope that she'll prove everyone wrong and show everyone that she still has it. It's going to be tough because there's a lot of pressure and the world is watching her. The paparazzi tails her and every mistake she makes is magnified. We'll see Britney...

Look at the difference- the old Britney versus the new Britney

I'll be here to update you on any crazy Britney behaviors and I'm sure there will be a lot of them. Will she be able to make a comeback? She definitely won't be able to if she plans to perform like she did at the MTV Video Music Awards. Here's a clip of her performance http://youtube.com/watch?v=hdhV16_u7ow She had no energy and it seemed like she didn't even care. Well let's just hope that it gets better than that.