Leave The Stinky Mom Alone!

I never used to like Madonna because I thought she always looked like she smelled bad. Oddly, once she had her first child, she looked clean to me. Britney Spears is totally not someone I listen to but she did, at least, look clean - when she was new to the game that is. Then, she had her bad girl transformation and looked dirty and smelly too. I thought that, like Madonna, she might start looking "clean" again after she had kids. But nope, she still looks like she stinks. However, this stalking job they are doing to her about her child and implying that the things that happen to every mother, everyday makes her a bad mother, is just scandalous and shameless. I'm not a mom but moms agree with me!

Britney Spears. She's so easy to make fun of. Even her song titles conspire to mock her: 'Oops, She Did It Again!' But the latest headlines about America's most maligned mother are evoking a new sentiment from fellow moms.

Almost tripped and dropped a baby? PLEASE, they're saying. What mom hasn't? Give the girl a break!

When little Sean Preston entered the world last September, the blessed event only intensified Spears' fame, as celebrity births do nowadays. But unlike, say, Angelina Jolie or Gwyneth Paltrow, Spears had a way of appearing maternally challenged. First it was the sight of baby on Mom's lap in the driver's seat. (OK, that was bad.) Then, the accidental tumble as he was lifted off a high chair. Next, the car seat facing the wrong way in the convertible.

Not good, the celebrity mommy patrol said. We'd never do that.

Until ... the almost-baby-dropping incident.

Suddenly -- and there's nothing scientific about any of this, mind you -- but suddenly, it seems fellow moms are doing something a bit surprising: defending Britney ...

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