To wonder why some celebs (not mentioning any names --Natasha Hamilton-- seem to swap partners more often than I swap handbags?

[LaConnerie]

And I love my handbags.

Why is it though? Somebody like Natasha Hamilton appears to have a good life and her head screwed on. She's had a reasonably successful career, must have money of her own, is still young, pretty and in good shape. But apparently she has split with Richie Neville - who she decided to have a baby with after knowing him for nano-seconds.

Yes it's NOMB - but she kind of makes it my/our business by giving interviews every five seconds about the latest development - and in bored moments I can't help wondering how and why anybody can live in a real life soap opera 24 hours a day.

Uck I just called mumsnet the bitchiest site online and this lives up to it.

Maybe she's got terrible taste in men, maybe some humans struggle to stay interested in one person for the rest of their life.

I don't see how its affecting you.

Some people can't bear to be single.

Some people either don't care about contraception or jump into having a baby quickly because they want to cement a relationship.

Some people just love the drama.

Look at Katie Price and Kerry Katona. If their lives weren't equally dramatic then they wouldn't be able to draw their OK Magazine "salary" either.

Sucks for the kids, though.

Hetty so actually, you coming on here to have a sneaky look at something you find so awful could be compared to me reading OK, couldn't it?

They do it because society justifies it and for some reason people are prepared to pay money to read about it.

Personally I have a pretty dim view of anyone (be they man or woman) who have multiple children by multiple partners. By all means have a one night stand every other week if that's what floats yer boat. But really, as soon as you start bringing babies into the equation you complicate things massively. It's bloody hard enough to blend two families with stepchildren and resentments and whatever else on both sides. How in the name of God could it ever be expected that four different children scattering off to see their four different families and sets of step and half siblings could in any way be a stable and secure environment for any child.

And anyone who falls for the line that they are "the one," from someone who already has four children by four different partners (again, male or female is irrelevant here) needs to give themselves a shake.

I can't help wondering how and why anybody can live in a real life soap opera 24 hours a day

I feel the same - which is why I don't know or care who these people are. If no-one bought OK etc, it wouldn't happen because they'd all have to get a real job.

There is evidence done by, I dunno, real therapists or something, that whatever the age that you become famous is the age you stay at mentally - you don't develop any further because from that point on, you only get told how wonderful you are. So Justin Bieber is 22 going on 14, Rhianna is 28 going on 17 etc.
This is the reason why people who got famous a bit later in life - Dido, Helen Mirren - are much more normal. Sooo, based on this highly scientific rationale, Natasha Hamilton is basically a teenager with a teenager's relationship habits. And no interest in using contraception.

Apparently the 'weight gain/ weight loss ' thing is something they do to sell magazines too. They do it to sell pictures and stories about their weight loss hell or whatever. i think the difference between Liz Taylor and the Z listers of today is that she was an actress. She was a person with a career, who just happened to have a car crash/ drama llama life as well. The likes of Kerry Katona and Katie Price have a car crash life as their career. Kim Kardashian is almost completely talentless, but when please god let it be soon she is of no interest to anyone anymore, she will be a multi millionairess and never have to work again.

So much for feminisim, no man on this Earth could ever judge a woman like other women judge a woman. What does it actually matter in the slightest bit if she has y number of children by x many men? However, well done you of falling into the trash magazine net, you keep this sort of 'drama' going when most just don't give a flying fuck.

Natasha Hamilton, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Liz Taylor, Kerry Katona, Katie Price all been mentioned so far.

Is it only celeb women who swap partners frequently?

Do any blokes do it, or is it just less trashnewsworthy? New word there.

She is building up a career in beauty from what I have read, going to college etc.

Raisedbyguineapigs you are right famous for drama and sell it. Tbf these celebs were famous for something else originally The kardashians baffle me

Why so angry Sleepy?

It's just AIBU you know, take a deep breath and have a

Sleepy's right in a way though.

Reading trashy magazines or simply being in the AIBU topic, doesn't make people judgemental over other people's lives.

The desire to sit around criticising a complete stranger, for their relationship/lifestyle choices etc, has to come from within.

Quite why people have that within them, only they will know.

But it's worth remembering that there are millions of men and women out there who make the wrong relationship choices, for a whole variety of reasons, and some of those reasons will be very deep seated and hard to deal with.

Knowing their being judged by hoiky pants strangers, probably doesn't help them.

*they're

I am sure all this was said about Ulrika back in the day.

I agree 100% sleepy. Very well said.

My children have different fathers, yet my close friend's all have the same. However she is in an abusive relationship.

Why anyone would 'Sucks for the kids' with different fathers is beyond me.

And yet Rod Stewart, Paul Weller, Eddie Murphy (who all have more kids with different partners) et al don't attract quite as much criticism.

Nobody feeling sorry for their kids, it seems.

I think that living in the public eye breeds narcissistic tendencies in men and women and attracts women with borderline personality disorder

The praise for drama, fall outs, lack of boundaries, excuses for poor behaviour, selfishness etc wouldn't be tolerated in 'normal' world. But it's encouraged to sell PR stories

I know it's rare for a young seemingly healthy and well mother to suddenly die but it does happen, look at Jade Goody as a prime example. I always wonder what would happen to these children if their mother did die. They'd presumably all go live with their separate fathers, would they even have any contact with one another?! It's one thing having two different fathers but when you're talking about four different ones it's getting extremely complicated isn't it! Imagine the four different dads having to work together to ensure the siblings maintained a relationship... Also it must get complicated with them all going off to completely different environments with totally different fathers at the weekend or whatever. I know my DC would be upset if they had to go somewhere different to their siblings.

She was with him for about one or two months before she got pregnant. I think she was married to one or two of them though. Tbh it's the sort of thing that would put me off a man. Not that he had children but if he had children to multiple women or had been married three or four times. I'd be questioning his judgement or what the hell was wrong with him to not be able to last in a relationship. I'm surprised the women don't struggle too. It's no easy feat trying to date when you have children, especially multiple children. I'm surprised she finds the time for all these men!

I can't help wondering how and why anybody can live in a real life soap opera 24 hours a day

Because it's easy money and unlike the Oscar-winning Liz Taylor, she has no great talent to use elsewhere.

Why anyone would 'Sucks for the kids' with different fathers is beyond me.

Wasn't suggesting that having different fathers is problematic per se (although Christmas must be interesting) but the succession of stepfathers who move in and then leave, plus the associated negativity of a relationship breakdown (arguing, bad atmosphere, upset adults) must surely be unsettling for the children.

I've never heard of her, don't you need to be famous to be called a celebrity?

I would say Atomic Kitten were fairly famous in their day.

Who?