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Bristol Palin makes a teen pregnancy PSA; Levi Johnston weighs in
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GoogleThis is priceless. In a new public service announcement, Bristol Palin advises teenagers to "pause before you play." She appears holding her son in a lavishly decorated living room, dressed like a 45-year-old politician. "What if I didn't come from a famous family?" she asks solemnly. "What if I didn't have all their support? What if I couldn't finish my education? What if I didn't have all these opportunities?"
The shot then changes to her standing in an empty room in jeans while her son plays on the floor. We understand the important message she's trying to convey, but it comes off sounding more like, "Well, it's a good thing I'm rich and famous so the consequences don't apply!"
Bristol's baby daddy Levi Johnston tells ET that he's frustrated by Bristol's decision to put their son Tripp in the ad, because she wouldn't let Levi bring the baby in front of cameras. "He's happy and he's looking good," Johnston says of Tripp.
Johnston also mentions that he's seeking joint custody of their son, while Bristol is seeking full custody. "I'd never go full custody. I wouldn't try and do what she's doing to me. I wouldn't want to do that to a mother. It's just not right, anyway."
Watch Johnston's response below.
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You call the living room in the picture above "lavishly decorated"? You're joking, right? Matters of taste aside, no piece of furniture or accessories in that room looks of particularly good quality. Even the drapes are just plain, straight curtains, without even a valence. Lavish, it's not.
i agree, it's not "lavishly decorated" in the least.
Bristol is the wrong spoke person. All I get out of it is do as I say not as I do.
Wow, I'm glad we got input from those first two commenters. It sounds like the ad had a profound affect on them.
The ad is fine, people. It shows that she's smart enough to acknowledge her mistake, while also realizing that she's lucky to have support. She realizes it could have been much worse, and IS worse for alot of other teens.
Also, Levi is an idiot. He deserves ZERO custody of his child. The kid is already a Palin - does life need to be any more challenging for him????
Bristol is not the wrong person for this ad. She is exactly the right person and this is a good message. There is an epidemic of young girls wanting to have babies at a young age or not having any thought about the responsibilites of raising a child once the become pregnant. This ad is intended to de-glamorize this idea so young girls will realize how hard it can be for them if they do not have a strong support system such as she has. I don't believe it is hypocritical in any way because she is learning from her actions and trying to make something good come out of this situation by helping to show other young women what the realities of raising a child alone can be.
This ad is "not hypocritical in any way?" Seriously? Most of the ad has the message "if you're poor, having a kid as a teen would suck, but i'm rich so it's cool." Then she goes on to say "pause before you play." But did she stop and think before she played? More importantly, does it really matter for her? She herself claims to have all the opportunity, support, and money that many lack. How is this not hypocritical? Or is she saying, yea, go ahead and have a kid at 16 if your family is willing and able to do all the work for you.
She's hot. I'd do her.
These are 2 people I wish would go away ASAP.
let's stop criticizing the unimportant details such as room decor and admit that a message like this from someone who has experienced the difficulties of single parenthood is a good thing, this is a huge problem and girls need to know that it will make their lives extremely difficult regardless of their economic standing!
why is it that every goof that screws up their life becomes some "now I see the error" spokesperson. Wife cheaters, crack heads, drunks and teen pregnancies. then they spew the "do as i say not as i do" crap. She's a loser who made loser decisions and suffered loser consequences. It must be genetic (or "genetical" as her mother would say).