Bananation: Is Britney Spears Insane or Justin Timberlake too Vain?

If there is one reason that people are buying the October issue of Star Magazine (inset above), it must be the shocking photo of a ballooned Britney Spears on its cover. I couldn't believe my eyes that a bespectacled woman with a triple chin and a bulging belly is the sexy vixen who was once a toxic in the man's world. She looks like a 40-year old woman who hasn't slept and washed her hair for days. What's wrong with her? From shedding her goldie-lock to become Demi Moore in G.I. Jane to Rosie O'Donnell, is this woman insane or just thirsty for media attention? (see caricatures).

Source: illustrations from galleryoftheabsurb.com

If you could remember the baby one more time, she was the sweet little girl from the Disney Channel's New Mickey Mouse Club. What could have driven the ex-sex goddess to abandon a body that every woman dreams of and every straight man desires, to become a deranged woman who has forgotton all about social decorum and her celebrity image? Her failed marriage with publicly acclaimed gold-digger, Kevin Federline, or her overwhelming popularity?

Her fellow mouseketter, Justin Timberlake, on the contrary showed off his six-pack abs and defined pecs when he took off his shirt at the end of his FutureSex/LoveShow tour recently at Sacramento. His body just gets better while Britney's deteriorates by the days. In a world where beauty is the language of women, shouldn't Britney still looks as hot as she was before? I have never heard a male sex icon in Hollywood today who would allow himself to disintegrate in the way Britney did. Well, Maybe males celebrities manage their private life better than the female celebrities. Even when the former's appearance went into a drastic change, the man has a statement to make. Marlon Brando turned himself fat so that Hollywood would take him seriously as an actor and not just for his pretty face.