One more reason for me to hate the Kardashians: Kimmy is getting married! And, has registered at Geary's of Beverly Hills for gifts totaling $175,000.
I loath the Kardashians and every person, product endorsement and spin-off series that has spawned from them. Just when I thought that family, and the three "breadwinners" within it, couldn't blatantly flaunt their vain, materialistic ways, I was wrong. $175,000 at one store. What a waste. What a huge, gigantic, enormous waste on trite material items that are so expensive they will never actually be used.
For example: An extra large Baccarat crystal vase, $7,850; Baccarat crystal jam jar, $380; two Baccarat crystal ashtrays, $840 each and six Buccellati butter servers, $520 each.
One designer crystal ashtray is a lovely mortgage payment in the Midwest. What else could this ridiculous amount of money be used for? How much good could socialite Kardashian and NBA player fiance Kris Humphries do with this sizable sum? How many hungry mouths could this feed? How many mortgage payments could this cover for those thousands of jobless? How many underprivileged children could attend college on this?
This is overindulgent, especially for a Hollywood couple who could actually afford to go out and purchase the entire wedding registry themselves. I don't know why, though. It's not like Kardashian should actually be famous. She has no actual talent to speak of. She can't sing, dance or act. (God, she can't act.) Being "famous" for a reality series, a sex tape and a large ass isn't anything to be proud of. But hey, some take what they can get so they can afford the simple things in life like Chanel, Dior and Christian Louboutin. And butter servers. Don't forget the butter servers. A necessity.
It's like Khloe Kardashian said, "Too much Chanel too soon." That's why Kim is like she is. That's the only quote I've ever remembered from that show. Oh yeah, I've seen the shows. It's one of those black holes that suck you in when you're flipping the channels and you randomly stop because everything else is a commercial. Then, minutes later, you realize you're losing brain function, that your IQ has dropped 20 points and you might scream if you have to listen to these spoiled brats complain about one more thing in their "imperfect" lives.
Not being rich and famous I'm sure it's easy for me to judge those who are. However, I like to think that if I had enough to live in a Bel Air mansion, drive a Bentley and buy designer clothing, that I would be smart enough to pay that forward. I would like to think I would give back and ask people to donate to a charity instead of purchasing lavish, pointless gifts for myself and my equally wealthy fiance. But I'm just some Podunk from the Midwest. What do I know?
I know I want more celebrities to be like Reese Witherspoon. I know her acceptance speech for the MTV Generation Award was fantastic! I know it was everything I have been thinking about celebutantes and young Hollywood.
"I know it's cool to be bad, I get it ... but it's also possible to make it in Hollywood without a reality show," Witherspoon said. "When I came up in this business you made a sex tape and you were embarrassed and hid it under your bed and like if you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hid your face."
People like Kardashian who are famous for having sex tapes and leaked naked photos should be embarrassed. They should hide their heads in shame. Instead, they flaunt it down Rodeo Drive.
I can only commend Witherspoon for her honest words. And I can only wonder what Kim Kardashian would be like had her father not been lawyer to Hollywood stars and if she hadn't been introduced to Chanel so soon. I might be able to wear Sketcher shoes without gagging at the thought of her "simulated sex" commercial promoting the shoe line.
Reese Witherspoon's MTV speech
Kim Kardashian's $175,000 wedding registry
