I'm sure I know at least a hundred people
that would disagree with me on this: oh well. I never knew
who Kerry Katona was, honestly, until the news of her smoking while
pregnant resounded across the news and blogosphere.
"I'll admit I'll have a puff on a cigarette
and put it straight out...I probably can give up, but I haven't.
My doctor told me it would be more stressful to give up now that to have
one or two."
Kerry, who turned 27 last month, is an
English TV presenter, a magazine columnist, and former pop signer of the
girl band Atomic Kitten (thank you, wikipedia).
Oh, that's why I've never heard of
her. She's from English television, which I really wish we had
here. I've had it up to my ears with American TV.
Anyways, off the subject. Everyone's
angry and blogging nasty things about Ms. Katona, because she is smoking
while pregnant.
Everyone needs to shut up and mind their
own business about it. Smokers are so persecuted!! Ugh, this
is the perfect thing to take to the new forum. Reasons this is
ridiculous:
1) Many of your parents smoked
throughout their pregnancies. I know many people who've smoked
during pregnancy, as much or more, and had completely healthy
babies. What are the proven effects? Low birthweight or
premature delivery is listed, for example, yet those can be due to many
other things.
Regardless of that, it is the mother's
choice. It is her body and her offspring, which she - by law -
could have aborted.
2) There are far worse things she
could be doing. After seeing the recent video of Anna Nicole on
meth while 8 months pregnant, and knowing how many inner city children
that happens to anyhow...it strikes me how a cigarette used to be like
having a beer, and now it's a social stigma.
3) I saw a pregnant woman smoking
outside of a convenient store last week. She, I'm sure,
doesn't have a thousand people insulting her and judging her.
Therefore, it is not fair.
This just makes me want to buy her novel
now. It's called Tough Love, just came out, it's a
fictional story about a young model, and it's getting some good blogger
reviews. Katona's
memoir Too Much Too Young was a Sunday Times
bestseller.
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