Monday, January 9, 2012

What a bitch!

I am not proud to admit this but in my past life (pre July 2011) I was really into celebrity gossip. And not just People magazine gossip. I'm talking Perez, TMC, dlisted, gawker, radar and all that junk. Now, I can't even open a magazine. I've completely lost interest in celebrity gossip and could not give two shits about their overinflated egos and seemingly charmed lives.

But in our society you can't always escape the reach of celebrity gossip. It's all over the Internet, on home pages of search engines, on Facebook. Supposedly legitimate news sources even report on it as if it's "important." That's why I wasn't able to escape the news that Beyonce gave birth to her first child over the weekend at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.

I for one, could give a shit about Beyonce. Yeah, sure she's talented. Whatever. And I know that I have been angry about anyone whose pregnant/having babies at this point. (Actually, I'm getting a little better with this - I even walked through the baby section of Marshalls and did NOT cry. Go me!) So no, I am not angry at Beyonce for being blessed enough to have a baby. I am angry at her for being such a bitch while doing so.

First off, she had a scheduled c-section. Fine, fine. I do not know her circumstances but I can almost guarantee that this was an elective c-section and not medically necessary for her or her daughter's sake. How much do you want to bet she got a tummy tuck with that c-section. Whatever. That's small potatoes to my real beef with her. Here's where the bullshit starts. Apparently, Beyonce & Jay-Z shelled out $1.3 million to take over an entire FLOOR for her birth. Hospital staffers were forced to turn over their cell phones (to avoid any unauthorized picture snapping) and instructed to cover the lenses of the floor's security cameras with tape. She also hired an entire security team to guard her and the baby.

Extravagant? Yes. Necessary? Maybe. I get they were trying to prevent people from snapping photos of their kid or, god forbid, prevent a kidnapping. There are some crazy ass people out there who might do something like that. But really Beyonce? Did you think that you were the only person in the whole god damn hospital? I bet there were other families having babies in that hospital on the SAME day. Crazy how that works, huh?! Also, those security cameras are in there for a REASON. They are meant to protect the safety of everyone, not just the wants of a celebrity who thinks her shit doesn't stink.

Although the above does get me pissed, this is what really boiled my blood:

"Among other parents irked at how they were treated, a Brooklyn man named Neil Coulon is still reeling from his run-ins with Beyonce and Jay-Z's muscle men while attempting to check on his premature twins inside Lenox Hill's neonatal intensive care unit.

"Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU and it happened once on Friday [the day Beyonce actually checked in] just because they wanted to use the hallway," the frustrated dad told the New York Daily News. "They should have been more strategic about it. These are children with problems in intensive care and you're just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology."

Yes, Beyonce and Jay-Z were preventing parents from visiting their sick children in the NICU. Are you fucking kidding me? I can't believe that someone would actually think they were that much better than someone else - that just because they were giving birth, that gave them the right to prevent someone from seeing their very sick and potentially dying child. Can someone really be that ignorant and narcissistic? If you were so worried about security, why didn't you arrange to give birth at home bitch?? I can tell you one thing, if that had happened to me while trying to visit Naya while she was sick, the whole world would have heard about it. And Beyonce would probably have a black eye to go with her c-section scar.

13 comments:

  1. I can just imagine a big fat shiner on her, and I'm laughing my ass off. Really, it's because I'm bitter, but not for any real, significant reason. For those small, universal ones, like I don't feel as important as I think I should be.

    Thank you for putting me in my place, cuz I think you're right! For as much money as they spent, why couldn't they have brought a staff into one of their multiple property holdings? Or rented a small house close to the hospital? For shame, cuz there are real parents and children suffering. I will be pirating bitch's albums, from now on... ;)

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  2. LOL....Yeah, tummy tuck for sure. She defiantly has child bearing hips so WTH??? I guess, when you have so much money you don't know what to do with it, you schedule your own childs birth and immediate plastic surgery. Not for me to judge. But seriously, I find this all amusing and makes me feel like such a better person for being so real. THANK YOU BEYONCE !!!

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  3. It's nice to see that someone else sees elective c-sections as ridiculous and vain as I do. And I really hope Beyonce gets some sort of negative publicity about this.

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  4. I can't believe anyone would purposefully schedule a c-section (unless medically necessary). I still haven't gotten over the fact that I had to have one in July.

    I'm even more appalled that her security team would block anyone, let alone a father, from seeing a sick baby in the NICU. Absolutely awful and disgusting.

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  5. That is awful. It boils my blood as well. I agree with your title...What a bitch!

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  6. I cant believe all this.

    By the way, Ive given you 2 blog awards. They are on my blog!

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  7. Not saying it's right, but I'm sure $$ had a lot to do with this scene. No doubt the hospital accepted buckets of $$ from Beyonce, knowing that other families would be inconvenienced. The world spins around the almighty dollar.

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  8. I used to think she had a lot of class, but this pissed me off. By all means, hire extra protection, but COME ON. (And don't get me started on elective c-sections.)

    I also hold the hospital responsible for not watching out for their other patients.

    --Melissa

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  9. LOL about the child bearing hips - I didn't even think about that. Good one! The whole elective c-section thing gets to me, probably stemming from my women's study days in college. I remember having to read an article titled "To Posh to Push" that I will have to post if I can find it. I knew those old notebooks would come in handy!

    I'm glad that other's are agreeing with me on this one. I hope that they end up at least issuing an apology, regardless of whether or not it happened. I also hope that they make a hefty donation to the March of Dimes. I think they can afford it.

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  10. Heather - Thank you for that! I appreciate all of your support :)

    PS - your son is adorable.

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  11. When I first read the news on it, I too was outraged and looked into it. Barging a parenting from a NICU is a huge hospital violation and surely cause reviews and investigations. And sure enough I found this :

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/n-y-state-health-department-launches-probe-mistreatment-parents-beyonce-hospital-stay-article-1.1004654#ixzz1jFdNtTh0

    This is the hospital's official statement on the matter:

    http://prnewswire.com/news-releases/lenox-hill-hospital-clears-the-record-on-beyonce-birth-136968058.html

    I am no fan of Beyonce. But I do want to give her the benefit of the doubt. I want to believe that someone cannot be that damn narcissistic

    If this father is right, I hope to God he sues the hell out of the hospital and beyonce. And in that case we shall hear more on it.

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  12. I completely agree with you, Beyonce and Jay Z are loaded they had no need to behave that way. Look at Angelina Jolia and Brad, shit they had some of those kids in the middle of Boffu and avoided being totasl douche' bag assholes, but hey Marci raised Jay Z and to quote one of his songs.."you might have money, but that don't buy class."

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