It's a strategy as old as stardom itself - having your picture taken with children in order to show that you're human. How often have we seen a celeb pose with some poor little bald-headed cancer kid, or an inner-city child at a playground built with donated funds, or a bunch of school children who participated in an essay contest? All so we'll know that celebs are really just folks like everyone else. And, of course, this sort of photo-op is never so valuable as when a celeb is on the outs with their fans. Make a couple of bad movies, get photographed staggering around drunk, punch your significant other - you can make all that bad stuff go away by spending two minutes in a ward filled with crippled kids, and sending the pictures out to magazines.
Of today's stars, few would seem to need career rehab more than Britney Spears. Poon flashing, drunken escapades, insane umbrella-attacks - lately Britney has seemed less like a pop-star and more like an on-going episode of Springer. And these antics have not gone unnoticed by her fans, who have been abandoning her in droves. But, Britney is ready to wipe that slate clean - she's canned evil manager Larry Rudolph, had lipo to get her body back in shape, gotten her teeth whitened, and begun taking dance classes. And now, Britney has taken that next step toward reconciliation with her former peeps - she's done the kiddie photo-op. Of course, most stars, when they do the photo-op thing, pose with other people's kids - cause we sort of assume that they spend time with their own kids all the time, therefore making it kind of silly for them to be photographed with them. Britney, however, is different - when she wants a humanizing photo-op, she grabs one of her own spawn...um, that is her kid right? Well, what difference does it make, right Brit? It's a kid. They're like regular humans, except smaller and less able to control their bowels. Hell, he looks like you anyway - except that he has hair. And dresses better. And I actually think he can tie his shoes already, whereas you...
