By: Olivia Knott

I was initially going to make this blog post about the wonderful comedy by Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman (AKA Sandy Bigelow Patterson. If you know, you know). But, that last phrase that I have so cheekily inserted into that statement made me recall a certain celebrity that you may or may not know. Her name happens to be Jennifer Lopez, AKA Jenny from the Block (see what I did there?)

I remembered scrolling through my chaotically hilarious explore page on that wonderful site called Instagram and I saw Jenny finishing a workout and reminiscing on the days when she was a young girl, running around the block, and how she would always get a bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll with an orange drink (if you know, you know 🙂 ).

In all seriousness, I don’t mean to mock JLO at all. After all, she is in all of my favorite rom-coms and she is an amazing actress, so I have to give credit where credit is due. Nonetheless, she is an example of a myriad of celebrities that try too hard to be relatable. Hear me out: I hate whenever a celebrity tries to act like that didn’t live a great life with good parents. I hate when celebrities act like they came up from the dirt when they literally grew up in a suburb.

I have always had a good life, and I truly thank God for that. I’ve never had to struggle, my parents worked hard to provide everything for me and make my childhood better than theirs. I can never get on a talk show and yap about my arduous 3 years of life in Brooklyn, NY when I was living in a one bedroom apartment. I don’t know remember anything from that time, so I can’t say I really struggled.

I think celebrities hate looking like spoiled brats that have always had their life together and so they try to act like they have been through the trenches, but in reality, they have a pretty good life, and that isn’t anything to be abashed about, just like having a hard upbringing isn’t anything to be ashamed of either. For example, Gracie Abrams hates when people call her a nepo baby but she is in fact a nepo baby and there’s nothing wrong with that. Her parents worked hard for their position and provided her with a good life. It doesn’t mean she didn’t work hard as the artist she is now, but it is saying that she shouldn’t be ashamed that she had a good life. However you got brought up is chill and you should own up to that.

I think celebrities also try to act like they care about other people when in real life, I highly doubt they think about anyone other than themselves. Celebrities, most of the time, are some of the most narcissistic people ever (at least that’s just my opinion, excluding Tom Holland and Zendaya of course-oh and Sandy Bigelow Patterson). I hate when celebrities try to bring awareness to certain communities because in real life, you know they don’t care. Just be for real. Also when they try to say “Oh I am so committed to this charity here,” be so for real. You do not care, you just want to look good. Now, I’m not trying to stereotype. It’s not everyone who’s like that (especially not Sandy Bigelow Patterson!) but it’s a solid most, in my opinion.

You know what else I wish celebrities wouldn’t do? I wish they would stop lying about cosmetic surgery. Hot take, and I don’t really care how this comes off, but there is literally no way that someone gets plastic surgery if they love themself. God has made us beautiful the first time. Why do we think we need to touch up? When I see people like Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian talk about beauty or loving yourself, it’s just a big joke. They don’t love themselves. I’m not trying to diss them, they are hard workers. They also have very adorable children. But I think that Kylie was pretty with her old features because they were hers’. I think Khloe’s old nose was nicer than the Grinch one she has now because it was hers’. A lot of the reasons why someone is beautiful is because they are themself. I remember my best friend told me she thought about getting her nose done sometimes and I told her she would be ugly if she had a different nose. And it’s true, she would be because it wouldn’t be hers. She’s pretty as she is.

And so is everybody else. I hate that everyone has adopted a Great Value idealization of beauty these days and it’s lowkey because of insecure celebrities. But, also, hear me out on this one: celebrities are people too.

I know this whole blog post is sounding like a huge trash parade on the rich but trust, I think rich people are chill and so are celebrities. At the end of the day, celebrities are people too and they are loved by God just as much as the poor man is, and just as much as the average joe is, and just as much as Sandy Bigelow Patterson is (okay, I’m sorry, I’m done now).

But on a serious note, God seriously loves celebrities just like He loves the rest of us. I think that as people who believe in God, praying for celebrities when we see them doing crazy stuff like licking donuts or cheating on their husbands to date men who look like SpongeBob is something we should do. I know that sounds entirely unserious, but I’m being for real.

As a Christian, I think about how blessed I am to see celebrities and their occasional (or frequent) crash outs because it really gives us the opportunity to pray for them. The perk of having your life on display is that there are believers around the world, and believers are called to be the light of the world. Therefore, when we see these celebrities being ingenuine, insincere, or just lost, we shouldn’t be so quick to condemn them and say “eat the rich,” but we should instead pray for them.

Celebrities and your average middle-class person that you see everyday are on the same level. There is no difference other than the celebrity is just seen more often than your average middle-class bro. Just like how we pray for people in church and in our lives that we know are struggling with things, we should similarly pray for celebrities and cover them with prayer because God loves them deeply and personally, just like how He loves us.