Another journo admiring Kate Moss for partying as if she didn't have a child...

[emkana]

you have to scroll down a bit

" The truly tragic thing about parenthood, other than the amount of time you spend worrying about what your children eat, or don't eat, is how quickly you're transformed into a stay-at-home stuck-in-the-mud. But it doesn't have to be like that. Kate Moss, whose daughter is almost three, was in the papers again yesterday, looking utterly divine in some silver silky dress thing. She'd been up partying all night at Jade Jagger's place in Ibiza, and then had moved on to the beach with some friends and several tankards of what the Mail described as "gin and lemon": they whiled away the morning taking potshots with some sort of air rifle. At midday or thereabouts, Kate finally went to bed. There was no sign, needless to say, of her daughter Lola. When was the last time you spent a straight 18 hours partying? If I was wearing a hat, I would doff it.

· Another woman fighting for a mother's right to party is Courtney Love. The woman has an 11-year-old daughter by Kurt Cobain, but not only is she in rehab right now for breaching her probation (for drugs and assault offences), but she is also said to be pregnant by Steve Coogan after a crazy drug-fuelled shack-up in an LA hotel. It's too good to be true! But doesn't it make your life seem just a little bit quiet?"

Is this writer for real? Or are we really supposed to congratulate women like Kate Moss and Coutrney Love?

I was thinking if it was meant tongue in cheek, but I don't think it is. I am so glad that it doesn't feel me with envy to read about women like Kate and Courtney... if it does it really must make for miserable parenthood sometimes. I am just so happy sometimes that I can stay in near enough all the time without having to feel like a loser for not having plans - being a mum is the perfect excuse to be a couch potato!

They just haven't discovered MN, poor girls

Errr.....emkana,it's very tongue in cheek!
The woman is being condemned not praised.

And the paragraph above does suggest that the writer is a mum herself too. I also wondered if it was being written toungue in cheek or cynically, but then there is nothing int here to say it is.

Is it definitely tounge in cheek then? I really hope so!

I'd congratulate Kate Moss, my dd is the same age as hers and buggered if I could even summon the energy to get on a plane to Ibiza let alone party azll night and look fab.
If you can, then you can
If you can't then you don't
Why is it the medias business to comment or judge on anyones appraoch to motherhood?

Personanlly I like the idea of going to a beach party in Ibiza at Jade Jaggers house.

It was the references to drug fuelled and alcohol binges I was referring to really. Going out is one thing - breaching probabtion and drugs is another.

Must say I thought the journo was not particularly amused by Moss/Love/Hurley the first time I read it yesterday - the first 2 snippets made me think she prefers a grubby toddler any day. As indeed do I.

Well she certainly was implying that Hurley didn't have a clue about diet for child......

I would love to swan around in a dress at a party in Ibiza. Sigh.

I would leave my girls at home with granny however.

Maybe Kate has an obliging granny somewhere. I highly doubt that her dd was slumbering at her feet minding her 'gin and lemon'.

Hurley is bringing out a range of babyfood, apparently

liz hurley who is about to start up a child food business to organise decent ready meals instead of the gross slop usally available in pots?
Excellent!
Courteney Love is a different kettle of fish - the Coogan thing is just a joke that got out of hand I think?
But a drug problem is serious but she has cleaned up enormously I gather since losing custody of her dd. Plus she has to deal with the fact that tons of millions of people blame her for Kurt Cobain topping himself too...
Makes Kate Moss and Pete D look like amateurs

Me too! a drug and alcohol fuelled party session in Ibiza would be grand right now

indeed ninah.

dunno what kind of babyfood
suspect it will be healthy and very 'Boden'

Who the hell would want to be a sad junkie like Courtney? Or a sad drunk like Kate? Sorry, but as someone who was dependent on alcohol (before I had kids), I was a miserable, pathetic loser when I was on the sauce. Substance abuse is NOT something to look up to.

Courtney hasn't cleaned up. She was ordered into inpatient rehab by a magistrate just days ago. She will go to prison if she relapses again. She is what she's been for years - an opiate junkie. Her daughter's back w/her grandmother. Poor kid - imagine having a legacy of heroin abuse instead of parents?

don't want to be a sad drunk/junkie but do want to go to glamourous party in Ibiza.

Liz Hurley's babyfood is going to be low calorie, apparently. Start off their eating disorders young....

Let me guess, Liz is gonna package 6 raisins in a box and call it a snack? Prolly won't even be organic, either.

she says its convenience food, organic healthy meals that mothers are happy to feed their kids.
Of course some of us actually find it as simple to just cook it ourselves, but she spots a gap in the market...
She can't cook, imagine what it would do to her white jeans!