Kourtney Kardashian, Single Mother Role Model?

@Recently Newly Redundant: Oh, good call. I forgot about Joan Crawford. Speaking of which, there was an article in I believe Vanity Fair where the other children and Joan's friends said that Tina was lying and exaggerated a lot of those stories just to make Joan seem nastier than she really was. Who knows what the truth is?

heywhat

@pleppy: they say Mozart was crazy because his mother drank heavily during her entire pregnancy but thats probably why Mozart turned out to be a genius

@Big Poppa: a lot of people drink while pregnant when they haven't found out they're preggers yet. Think about it -- there's a whole month there where you don't know!
Hell, you know how many babies are conceived on nights of heavy drinking? And I don't mean just accidental pregnancies of single women -- married couples as well.
The baby will turn out just fine.

pleppy

@DavinSilkworm: I know. Its so insidious. Just another area where the right is winning the rhetorical war.

@BxgrlJeri: no, that would be Khloe, her sister.

jenalicious

She's 30. She's old. She's not a role model to anyone--if so, who could it possibly be? People with misspelled first names beginning in "k"?

ohnothimagain

@heywhat: "Don't you act for me! I want to know: Why did you adopt me?"

"Maybe I did it for a little extra publicity. Tina, that's not true, you know that's not true!"

"Maybe just a little true."

Sorry, "Mommie Dearest" opportunity was calling!

You can thank Ryan Seacrest productions for bringing these skanks to TV. The storylines are made up... Khloe *trying* to find a decent apartment in NYC for 2K a month -- and all they showed her was Hells Kitchen hell holes; sleeping with and breaking up with their boyfriends; giving a monkey to their mom because 'she wants grandchildren' -- and lastly, their 12-year-old daughter wearing makeup that Ali Lohan (bless her 40-year-old heart) would NEVER wear. All produced, edited by Seacrest productions. You would think that with Ryan's contacts in the industry that he could get SOMEONE with a) taste, b) talent and c) an interesting life other than this so-called 'family'. It's so bad that the E! network forums had to remove the chat forum for this show. The tossing of the baby daddy's clothes outside the townhouse prior to leaving for Miami was simply the worst acting that's ever been done. Then there's the admission that "I forgot to take my birth control pills some days." Oh yes, this is going to be a wonderful situation to bring a child into the world.

Cynner

@Big Poppa: She might not have known and I would be willing to bet once she found out she stopped. She was prob only 4-6 weeks when she realized it so I'm sure she's fine.
On another note: She's annoying the holy hell out of me with this "look at me pregnant!" world tour. US cover story made me vomit. Get over yourself, lots of people have babies. Move on.

@BxgrlJeri: That was the *other* sister, Khloe who had the DUI. Of COURSE, she forgot the court date, and had to GO TO JAIL, which was all TELEVISED for the public to see. What a piece of trash, jailed on a DUI, and posing for the cameras -- including her mother.

Cynner

Didn't she also have a DUI? I agree that she's a great role model for the "do whatever the fuck you want" generation.

By the looks of things, Double-K is going to be a Triple-D fairly soon.

Martiniman

Yes, a 30-year old, college-educated, ostensibly well-remunerated reality show star from a relatively wealthy family is a role model to all single moms out there. Yes siree. She's just a young girl!

The whole tone of this makes me retch a little. What, exactly, is her "apparent irresponsibility" about this situation? That she got pregnant out of wedlock? That it was an accident? Is it 1913 all of a sudden? And really, comparing her situation to Bristol Palin's? Why? Because they both received media attention? That is about the only thing these two situations have in common besides resulting in another human on the planet. That is, if Kourteney is fortunate enough to carry to term. I understand you may not know this since you are male and incapable of first-hand knowledge, but pregnancy actually CAN be scary.

@heywhat: I grew up with the Waltons and "Cheaper by the Dozen" and the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family who all made large families look so wholesome. Now we've got Brangelina, Octomom, the Gosselins, the Duggars....they turned it all into a freak show

@Big Poppa: I believe all of this. I guess it was only a matter of time before people starting having babies just to get the publicity from it.

heywhat

@mattchew03: I've been stalking Kourtney for years.

@Big Poppa: Where the hell do you hear all this stuff?

Here's my question for the ladies:

I saw the first few episodes of Kourtney's new reality show (only cause it coincided with my pilates workout) and she's whoring it up in Miami, getting drunk every night, right up to the point where she finds out she's pregnant. Isn't that really bad for the baby in the first trimester?

I've been to baby showers where the mother to be is drinking wine but they always tell me its safe in the final trimester.

From what I saw Kourtney's baby is going to have major problems.

@Mymoustache: 1973. Yup, pretty much done by then.

KittyCarlisle

1973.
Yup, pretty done by then.

KittyCarlisle

Ok - I'm a big Gawker fan.

But please, Gawker, know your role. When it comes to snark, who's hot and outing the occasional fallen out of favor geigh, bring it on. But I think you are acting above your intellectual and cultural pay grade when you try to spell words like moral. Stick to what you know best, who's doing coke off whose cock. Let adults make up their minds about adult affairs, like who's good and who's bad.

Hey_mikey

Change "Kardashian's retail store" to "Wal-Mart" and it's an entirely different story.

HERE'S THE SCOOP:

The father to Kourtney Kardashian's baby is a reality star wannabe named Scott Disick (the "s" is silent) who has never worked a single day on his life, cheats on Kourtney every chance he gets and only got her pregnant when he realized it was the only chance he had to stay on t.v.

There's a website dedicted to providing what a douchebag he is entitled www.scottdisick.com

The website includes a post on how Scott bought drinks and tried hooking up with a blonde in a short black dress the same night Kourtney announced to her family she was having his baby.

When did dignity and self-respect fall out of fashion?

Mymoustache