Is the success of MTV’s reality show glamorizing teen pregnancy and inspiring young girls to get pregnant?
As ‘Teen Mom’ searches for an all new teenaged cast of regulars to film, industry insiders reveal that some ladies are so eager to appear on TV they’re getting pregnant just to score an audition.
“This is yet another example of the desperation of fame,” relationship expert Matt Titus tells Pop Eater’s Rob Shuter. “The sad state of reality television has created a lowbrow vehicle for untainted train wreck personalities to display their private lives. Getting pregnant to be famous is like eating as many cockroaches as possible in a one minute period.”
(Didn’t they do that once on ‘Survivor?’)
Of course getting pregnant for a TV show is a horrifying thought – something Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, says is due to our culture’s out-of-control celebrity obsession.
“Reality TV first began by exploiting people’s problems, assuming they would do anything for fame. The idea of teenage girls getting pregnant to be on television shows that reality TV is going a step beyond exploiting problems. It is now creating the problems.”
“These girls are ignoring the fact that this decision is followed by a lifetime of responsibility,” the Rabbi continued.
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