Insider tip: if you were looking to place a bet on who the next big “it” girl in Hollywood will be, I wouldn’t put my money on Taylor Momsen. Sure, she’s got that certain angsty je ne sais quoi, complete with the drowned-rat hair and “leave the money on the dresser” style. But, when she opens her mouth…oy. Would someone get this poor girl a PR coach?
So far, Momsen’s most famous gaffes include a backhanded LiLo diss in Seventeen:
I get such a bad rap for being like Lindsay Lohan. I hate naming names because she’s really sweet — and I’m really not. I don’t go out. I have no desire to be some tabloid party girl. I’m entirely a loner. I have been my entire life.
And telling the UK’s Sunday Times Style magazine how she doesn’t “f***ing care” about being a role model:
I didn’t get into this to be a role model. So I’m sorry if I’m influencing your kids in a way that you don’t like, but I can’t be responsible for their actions. I don’t care.
Classy.
But I gotta say, this last one takes the cake. When asked by OK if she would try to help Haiti through donations or campaigns, the raccoon-eyed Gossip Girl star managed to mutter the following, truly inspiring response:
Um, right now I’m trying to just finish my record and getting through the last season of Gossip Girl for right now. So not so much thinking about that.
Well, all I have to say is that it’s a good thing Ms. Momsen doesn’t “f***ing care” about being a role model. Well, at least not now that she’s famous and all.
But hey, wait a second: Isn’t this a video of the Gossip Girl herself encouraging kids to get out and volunteer?
Hmm… so let me get this straight. What you’re saying is that
volunteering makes you feel good about yourself because you know you’re helping someone else
But not as good about yourself as, say, making lots of money and acting like a spoiled brat. Hmmm. Maybe you should re-think that whole getting a “bad rap for being like Lindsay Lohan” thing. I mean, didn’t she just save 40 Indian children from being sold as sex slaves?
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Awesome. The CW right? Now I know where to find all the classy girls when they close the bowling alley by my house.
M’eh, in an age where every bleeding heart celebrity is trying to save the Polar Bears and find the next Darfive, I find her complete disinterest in anything but her own goals satisfying and unpretentious.
The 30 second Volunteer spot? Probably just community service from some old shoplifting charge.
You would think if she was going to shoplift something she would at least take some decent looking clothes.
I HATE it when someone says something before–or better than–I can say it.
I don’t see what difference it makes whether we donate to Haiti anyway. The government will do it for us (with our money, naturally). I’m just glad someone in Hollywood isn’t telling us all to donate our life savings to some cause.
Personally, I find her attitude refreshing. She isn’t a role model, she’s a celebrity, and anybody who views a celebrity as a role model is an idiot. Yes, there are rare exceptions of the good and charitable and honourable among the rich and famous, but they are few and far between.
As for the video, it’s a piece of network propoganda just like the “Knowing is half the battle” crap that followed each episode of GI Joe in the 80s. That’s not her talking, that’s the network talking through a puppet.
Thank God, the first celebrity since Shannen Doherty who is honest about the fact she’s not a good person!
Taylor, I like ya.
Having watched the video now, I just thought of something that bothers me. I hate it that if you turn down one cause, you’re a callous jerk. My mom works for a service station, and they take a lot of flak from various charities because they won’t give them any money. Well that’s because they support one particular charity and turn down all others. (A lot of big corporations actually do this so that they don’t have to deal with solicitors.)
My point: if she actually works for St Jude, I don’t see what the big deal is for her to not donate to Haiti. I don’t see why this particular cause is such a big deal. I mean, are you just selfish if you don’t support this particular cause? Are you selfish if you don’t donate to cancer research, toys for tots, the united negro college fund? I’m just not sure where the line is. What causes do we have to support nowadays?
While I find Momsen annoying (and her lack of compassion repulsive), I have to agree that the Haiti cause is somewhat overwrought. I read and hear about all these people who feel for the orphans and want to adopt one, and while the sentiment is admirable (and often genuine), there are plenty of orphans in the US and other countries who also need good homes. I think that sorrow and compassion for the people of Haiti is appropriate, and relief efforts are a worthy cause, but there are a lot of other needs in this world, and supporting those causes is no less important than helping Haitians.
I also don’t think that Haiti will truly become a good place to live until Haitians choose to make it a good place to live, and until the educated Haitians choose to support their homeland by staying and working to improve it in situ, rather than via remittances. I read that something like 82 percent of Haitians with a college degree leave/do not live in Haiti. If the best and brightest don’t stay, things will never improve. On the other hand, if I had the choice, I probably would hightail out of there too.
Gosh Beige, that’s the nicest thing anyone’s said to me all year.
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this chick is a junkie loser who will be dead within 5 years. Oh yeah, Taylor- who cares?
I think it’s not so much the not supporting Haiti (which is getting plenty of support). It’s her attitude. She doesn’t care about Haiti because she’s busy with her record and her cute little tv show. Does this silly slapper live in some kind of self-absorbed bubble because, ah, you know, thousands of people are dead.
In twenty years time, people will remember the Haiti disaster. The only thing they will remember about this dumb slapper is that raccoon makeup suits no-one except raccoons.
Do people still say “WORD!”? Because “WORD!”
Taylor who?
While I agree that Haiti is a tragedy, I would love it if the celebrity’s would raise $58 million for something closer to home. Like maybe a nice border fence?
Damn it, I just got done giving to New Orleans.
And it was pretty darn hard working Rwanda into every third sentence.
Then I was all busy Rockin the Vote.
I wore my Save the Somali Pirates tee shirt like every day for a month!
And I just get done F’in the Vote for health care…
Now I gotta do the Haiti thing too?
Good Lorddoncheadle Almighty. I’ve only got so much superficiality to go’round!
She is obviously doing all this for the money. No doubt about that. She doesn’t care if she messes with people’s heads with her mixed messages. Or else why would she be this big of a hypocrite? Her actions and words don’t meet.