Just B Rant: Megastar Parents

Published Sep 12, 2023, 4:00 AM

Bethenny has never been one to side with an opinion just because it's the popular one. 

Find out where she lands on the recent criticism of megastars like Beyonce and Jessica Simpson.

Celeb daughters. So Blue Ivy people were really praising during the Beyonce concert, and it was terrible because when it first started, when the tour first started, people were actually making fun of Blue Ivy's singing an eleven year old, and it really really bothered me. And I thought about just the pressure and what it means to be Blue Ivy to be a young girl on stage with your mom an icon, what a small idol, And it's beautiful for her mom to share that with her, but it must be a tremendous amount of pressure, like it's just getting on that road so early. And I wonder about it, like my daughter doesn't really kind of want to be in the end tainment industry in that way, like maybe something cute, you know, we're gonna do a little podcast together or conversation, but very very brief. The pressure for an eleven year old to be up on stage, it kind of has to be in your blood or something she really asked to want to do, or something Beyonce knew that Beyonce probably wanted to do at that age. And if you kind of get a child used to that young, they'll get a head start. It's just it's a dance. When I was young, I wanted that kind of thing, But it also does take away a little bit of your innocence, and my daughter really loves being a kid and her innocence. And I just I think about a couple of things, like I live for Beyonce. It's funny because Beyonce's tour hasn't gotten the same like cult status as Taylor Swift's. And I went to Tailor Shifts because I was invited. I definitely would have gone to Beyonce's if I were invited. I just it didn't come up. But I just had been moved by a child that age up on stage with that kind of public attention and scrutiny and schedule and lights and all of it. I mean, it's rare air. So it's just it's interesting to me, Like I don't know exactly what I think about it. I think it's wild and beautiful and amazing, and she's such a beautiful, inspirational young girl. But I think about it being difficult to have an actual innocent childhood while doing that, And I'm sure she goes back to having her normal childhood, but she has mega stars as parents. It may just be what she know is not unlike Northwest. You know that's not She stands near the met gala to watch her mom go in. It's just a different life, and some kids are more attracted to that than others. My daughter's not attracted to that. Then I think about people really trolling Jessica Simpson when her daughter was wearing a croptop. Who's also eleven and kids are wearing crop tops, and I don't I don't like people judging moms and like maybe in maybe maybe I wouldn't put my daughter in a crop top or put my daughter up on stage. I don't like this judgment when it comes to a tween who's going to see it or hear about it. It's so pure and innocent and fleeting being a child, and that being scrutinized is risky business to me. So that brings up the question of the parents, even in the entertainment industry, myself, including your children in being public. So I do remember being young and wanting to kind of be an actress an audition, and my mom didn't help me with that in any way, and I used to be so intrigued by it, but no one was going to drive me into the city to go look at these auditions that I'd see in magazines, and I just was really fascinated by it, and I was interested, but I had no vehicle to get there. Now, my daughter doesn't have any real interest in that. She does some tiktoks, not a lot. She does some fun, cute beauty reviews because she's seen me do them, and she does them on her own. I don't certainly don't say to her, you should sit down and do some beauty reviews. But she has fun and someone dons there are some cute bracelets, and I control how much she gets, Like free stuff comes for her, and I put it in a certain box, and I'll give her treats along the way. I make her give rid to something if she gets something new. But I'm not gonna make my kid be like a spoiled child that's exposed to all this just because I'm her mom, Meaning I worked all these years to be successful and for someone to send me a box of free stuff that I don't really even care about. But I'm not going to just hand her every free beauty product or bracelet that she gets because she's my daughter and because they want to either get to me or they just want her to post about it or she's famous or whatever, and she's marginally famous. So I think about the Jessica Simpson and the Beyonce situations, and I think about public scrutiny, and I definitely wouldn't want that for Brinn. Somebody said to Brinn in her comments, oh, tell your mom to stop talking about this stuff, because it was like about the Raquel stuff, and other mama bears came in and said, like, get out of there. She's a thirteen year old kid. Do not be commenting in her, you know, as an adult to a child on these matters. Someone else wanted her to reach out to them because they wanted to send her something. So like, I've got my mom army that's in there helping me be the mama cub and swat away weirdos. But when you put your child up on stage for millions to see, does that mean that they're open to a different level of speculation scrutiny and just being a public figure, it's the same thing. I guess. It's putting your kid as a child actor. It's just the Beyonce stage. Someone said to me recently, Oh no, not to me. Charlemagne said on his podcast that Beyonce can't go to certain restaurants because it will cause a riot. So now her daughter is like of that level fame by association. So are these kids ready for that? You know? Was Macaulay Culkin and was Michael Jackson? And were these child stars ready for that? It's just something to think about. I just was moved by watching Blue Ivy performing on a stage and it's a stage of billions because it's all over the world. People are going to watch that, and then people criticizing her singing, and then I thought about the Jessica Simpson and the halftop and criticizing that Jessica lets her wear that, and I just thought about that whole mix bag, and I would not be That's not for me. Like I'll dip my toe and let Brynn have a little bit of public forward facing stuff and some tiktoks and things with me, But like that, there's a line. I just think being young is so fleeting, so precious, so pure, so short, and I want her to have a child to like a pure kid childhood. And once you break that seal and once you open that like Justin Bieber did not have a normal childhood. He was uber famous as a kid, and you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube. You can't. Once you open Pandora's box, can't close it back up. So fame is an interesting, tricky thing, and as adults we have a difficult time handling it. We can't handle it for kids, so they've got to now handle it. And it's just an additional thing that happens on reality TV too. Look at the kids on Jersey Housewives or Kim and KROI like people Kim Zolziak's daughters. They're older now, but the reason people feel so comfortable criticizing them about their hair or their filters or their handbags is because they walked into this fame young and they've just been known for all this time. So it's definitely something. On The Housewives, I don't think that Gigi and Bella would be as big as they are if they weren't Yolanda's kids on The Housewives. Lisa Rena's kids too, their models and they started out young. So just tell me to think about for me,

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