Reality star Khloe Kardashian, and her boyfriend, NBA star Lamar Odom tied the knot last Sunday, September 27th. If you hadn’t heard about it, you must have been out of town for a month, because that’s just about how long they had been dating before deciding to take the plunge. It’s Hollywood, people, to them that’s a lifetime.
There is a lot of controversy swirling around the nuptials, including the claims that the wedding isn’t legal, but will be once the prenup is hammered out by the two’s lawyers, the fact that the wedding was done so hastily without the prenup because the TV channel E!, agreed to foot the $1 million bill if the wedding happened on Sunday, and even that the Kardashian family found out about the wedding on the radio, and Odom’s family is not supportive.
I rehash these things, not because I care, but because it sets the stage for the bigger issue here. Lamar has 2 kids by an ex-girlfriend, Liza Morales, who is not shy about airing her displeasure with this union to the media.
Liza told TMZ before the wedding she would not permit her children to attend.
Liza told RadarOnline.com that not only did she find out about the quickie wedding via text, but that Lamar has been sending everyone mixed signals, and it’s effecting the kids:
“In August this year he was talking to me about rekindling our relationship and being a family again but I told him that our two kids, Destiny and Lamar Jr, are getting older and I didn’t want to confuse them any further. Unfortunately, he hasn’t actually seen them in the past three months and when it comes to being a father it’s time that he really stepped up to the plate in that respect.”
In the media, no one cares about the kids because its all dresses! and scandals! and celebrities! but the only news worthy piece I see here is that these children missed out on their father’s wedding.
The custody arrangement between Odom and Morales is unknown, but it is safe to assume the Odom is allowed to be an active participant in these children’s lives. Did their mother make the right decision keeping the kids from the wedding? Or should they have been permitted to attend their father’s wedding no matter how their mother felt about it? What would you have done?
Comments
KV
October 1st, 2009 - 1:01:14 PM
Kids should have been allowed to go. This is between them and the father, not the father/the mother/the kids. She is no longer a part of his life and for her to not allow those children to be a part of something important like that is just selfish on her part. Now, if they had said they didn't want to go that would be one thing, but not allowing them to go because she disagrees with how he's living his life, well that's another thing - sounds like someone has control issues. What if the shoe were on the other foot?? How would she feel were her children not be allowed to attend her wedding?? We don't know these two people & their relationship, and neither does she. Who are we and her to assume that they are genuinely not in love?? People have dated for years and gotten married and divorced a year later....so what if they dated for just a month. It's their decision. They are his kids too.
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