Are we really supposed to feel sorry for her?

I'll be honest. I've never seen her in a movie or anywhere else except the commercials for the idiotic drivel she somehow got the lead role in. But I do not like Kristin Stewart. It has always seemed to me that she would find it confounding to rub two sticks together. Maybe it's the sunken eyes, or the blankness in her stare. Or that she and her boyfriend look like they haven't bathed for weeks any time they appear in public. (Yeah, I admit it...I read TMZ and keep up with the gossip But I am NOT obsessive about it. It's just something mindless to read to unwind for the day.)

But this one really takes the cake: She said that seeing the photos of herself in her day to day life is like seeing watching someone get raped.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...-rape-comment/

I get what she's saying. No one needs to spell it out for me. She feels violated by the press & paparazzi.

Still, no one put a gun to her head and made her try out for that role in Twilight. No one made her follow up by auditioning for the role of Joan Jett. No one held a knife to her throat and forced her into acting, or to Hollywood. She wanted to be an actress. Part of being successful, even for your 15 minutes (which I hope is all this Twilight craze lasts for!), is that you lose your own identity and privacy to the bloodsuckers in the press/paparazzi. She doesn't want her private life in the press, and she's done an admirable job of it considering who she's dating and all. But the paparazzi is part and parcel with the job, IMO.

There are at least 1,000 young aspiring actresses who would love to be in her position, press and all. Seriously - look at the "faux-celebrities" who want cameras in every part of their lives (reality shows). And when the show is over, will do anything to stay in the limelight (i.e. Heidi Montag and her additiction to plastics, or the celeb-reality shows that bring them back from the celebrity grave for just one more taste of fame).

Comparing being successful to rape? This isn't like the older Hollywood stars who didn't know anything like this kind of intrusion until recently. She KNEW what she was walking into, and if she didn't then she's more of a moron than a chick who can't decide between loving a bat or a wolf.

I probably should have named the thread differently. Something like, "Being famous is like being raped?"

I've been raped, as have many on this forum. I'm pretty sure the statistic is 1 out of 4 women is sexually assaulted or raped in their lifetime. To say that her comment about seeing a picture of herself is "like seeing someone being raped" is insensitive and offensive to a good number of her fans as well as women everywhere would be an understatement. It diminishes being a victim of a violent crime, to having a photo taken of you when you would prefer not.

I never said it was pleasant or comfortable. I'm sure it's not. I certainly never said she deserves it - no one does. You're right that the press' behavior toward celebrities borders on if not is criminal. Or it should be. But it isn't, so they get away with it. I did say, however, that it is pretty much the norm and I think she was minimally naive, at most an idiot, to think that this wouldn't happen. If she was remotely successful in her acting career, it was going to happen. As they say, if you can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen.

No one says that their goal in life is to get to middle management and then stop. There are always down sides to success in any field. In film acting you know what it is starting out. She knew what it was starting out. Now she's saying it's like rape?

If she still wanted to act and make a reasonable living without being hounded day and night by the media there were other avenues she could have pursued. Independent films. Television (though a completely different type of work). Stage acting, eventually leading to Broadway. While there are "stars" in each of these venues of acting work, they aren't the norm. If you try out for the lead in a film that is pretty well set for at least 2 sequels, based on an already popular book series, geared toward teenage girls then you had better think that this kind of fame may well be a possibility.

Granted, no one could foresee the whole "Twilight Moms" thing happening. I don't mean that no one over 13 should see it & like it. I mean the ones who are completely and utterly obsessed, esp. with Robert Pattinson & Taylor Lautner.