Kevin Federline - isn't it amazing?

[beanieb]

Just read the new 'Hello!' and isn't amazing how the whole public perception of Kevin Federline Britney Spears's ex-husband) has been turned around, or perhaps the perception (media spin) was just bollox?

Maybe I am just projecting but don't their kids look so much more comfortable a happy with him?

I'm not a Britney basher at all but I suppose people (like me) forget he is their primary carer and perhaps all that guff about him being some kind of devil incarnate a few years ago was balloney!

He hasn't taken her kids from her though, he's taken on the role of primary carer and a court decided it was best that way. He is also working hard to get to a point where they share custody more equally.

I wasn't insulting you I just think it is weird, not knowing that much about his reasons for being with her, to suggest that he is a bad man, a bad husband and a bad choice of primary carer when the courts clearly do not believe this to be the case.

As far as I know this is the first interview he has done like this, Britney has done many more with her kids. I don't see why it's bad for him to do so but not for her?

I have a friend who had to shepherd him through a few UK interviews and vists (she is in PR).

He is a prize twat who is happy to slag of Britney to anyone and everyone and make shocking jokes about her mental health. He was vain and rude and totally self obsessed. My PR friend said he was one of the least impressive, rudest men she had ever been asked to take around London.

was. I don't know him so I couldn't comment but at the moment it does seem ,ike he's stepped up for the kids.

My friend's meeting with him was within the last 9 months.

Don't get sucked in by Hello interviews. They are hardly probing and insightful. Yes, I understand you liked the photos, and I don't deny the kids might be happy with him, but most kids are happy with a parent who they are used to and does not abuse them. He will have had one of the best "feel good" photographers in the world.

Oh - I know what Hello! is like, I know it's all a very sanitised version of things but the kids do look very happy with their dad, certainly not lilke kids who have been plonked in his lap for a few minutes by the nanny.

This wasn't meant to be a Britney or Kevin bashing thread. I was just commenting on how much he seems to have turned his life around and how happy they looked.

I think if he has, and if they are it can only be a good thing for all concerned and all the evidence does show that he is working with their mum to allow decent access which I think is brilliant. There's certainly no evidence at all that he is trying to stop her from seeing them or take them out of her life which I think is fab.

beanie well let's hope what you say is true. However I am sure you will allow for my cynicism when I say he saw a very fuckable life-long meal ticket in Britney.

She has obviously been micro-managed from a very early age and just wanted some space to live her own life for a while. Unfortunately a combination of her upbringing and naivety meant that she simply did not have the tools to cope successfully on her own in the media spotlight. She was always going to be a magnet for assholes.

To be honest he behaved like a wanker after the kids were born, now he is a media savvy wanker. He knows having the kids buy him a very nice lifestyle. Hopefully they are not just an appendege to the lifestyle and actually do have a relationship with him.

Perhaps if he had been a more supportive partner to Britney after they were born events may not have escalated as they did. However this is of course indulgent speculation on my part!

Of course I will allow for it. I am guessing that goes for any man who gets involved with her.

I do feel so sorry for her and I get the impression that she is not happy with the level of control her dad has but at the same time she obviously has had a very troubled recent past and whoever is looking after her mental health believes she needs that guidence.

I think it's a real shame she has goone back out on to the stage but perhaps she had some involvement in making this happen because if anything it gives her a little more freedom.

I don't really want to speculate on his reasons for getting together with her in the first place as I just don't know the circumstances, but I do know they both were willing partners at the time.

Well she was bred to be the family money- maker, that's her role. It appears from that docu that she enjoys performing but I bet there was little 'balance' in her young life. No chance to grow up away from the limelight. God no wonder she has mental health problems.

It would not surprise me if she is actually a sensitive, pleasant person and just has no idea how to put her own personal boundaries in place. Other people have always had their own agendas for her and these have no doubt involved the accrual of money. It did cross my mind that it must feel very cruel to have to yet again hand over all control of her life to her father (and ex husband). SHIT.

Neenztwinz - I forget the legal term for it but it's what happened in this case.

Conservatorship - just googled it.

I think it's more further-reaching than a PoA in the UK.