Celebrity Privacy And Mental Health

Privacy for Mental and Physical Health

The recent Celebrity 4chan hack that released hundreds of private photos of celebrities has called into question the ethics of the paparazzi and created a controversy on Celebrity privacy. With the Internet full of gossip columns and tabloids that cover every aspect of celebrity’s lives, from interviews and exclusive photos to stars caught with no make-up on or walking their children to school it creates questions about privacy. Is there a line where some information should never be exposed? What can the public not see? Perhaps the most important question of all, Do celebrities have a right to privacy? I would say yes; celebrities have a right to privacy for their mental and physical well-being, and having the privacy most celebrities desire would be easier if there wasn’t a market for tabloids.

In this controversy some celebrities and columnists accept that publicity comes with the job and fully accept the perks and the drawbacks of being famous. Though it should be noted that some celebrities, have accepted the public attention but feel like their children are out of bounds. Another opinion is yes, celebrities deserve privacy they are humans too. Celebrities are “just like us,” as so many tabloids like to point out; they do their grocery shopping, they pump their own gas. They are just like everyone else

In Spears’s case a string events led up to her rechecking into rehab in 2007. Some of these events included the paparazzi getting pictures of Britney driving in her car with her child on her lap then escalated to the paparazzi getting multiple “crotch shot” pictures of up Spears’s skirt. It got to a point where Britney Spears was constantly followed paparazzi and it wasn’t until, after Britney shaved her head, went to rehab, and took an umbrella to a paparazzi’s car that the public started to question Britney’s need for