When Good Girls Go Bad (And Badder. And Worse.)

Is it just me or is anyone else really disappointed with the role models that our young girls have to look up to? I swear, every single young female celebrity has issues. Drug issues, alcohol issues, daddy issues...they're dressing like tramps and acting like truants. Yikes!

Probably the most hated girl celebrity on my list is Miley Cyrus. I've never really liked her, even when she was "cute" Hannah Montana. Maybe it's because I don't like her achy, breaky mullet sporting honkey tonk yokel of a dad. Or maybe it's because even at age 12 she sounded like Great Aunt Myrtle who smoked 2 packs a day for 20 years. There was something about her voice that set my teeth on edge. I was glad that my daughter never fully jumped on that band wagon because here we are at age 20 and she's gone the way of all the other child stars before her: a little crazy, a little rebellious, and a lot stupid.

Have you seen her recently? She's chopped her hair into some space alien meets Sharon Stone 'do and has taken to wearing very little clothing and doing videos that feature her on stripper poles. Um, yeah, some possible daddy issues with a touch of overt sexuality frothing into an angstful (I really think this is a word but spell check is disagreeing.) teenage star with more money than sense. Good Lord what are her parents thinking letting her act like that?

Sadly, there seems to come a certain point in the lives of these child stars where they have a melt down and turn into every (normal, non-celebrity) parent's version of a nightmare. Lindsay Lohan? Holy crap! There's a hot mess. How many times has she not gone to rehab now? 19? 26? Granted, she was heading towards the "Where Are They Now?" show on VH1 when her bad behavior netted her the infamy that's keeping her fresh in our minds. But boy, this girl needs some help. Every picture shows her looking like she's on the back end of a 3 day bender. Scary!

And have you heard about Amanda Bynes? This one makes me so sad. Both my older kids used to watch "The Amanda Show". (If you're unfamiliar, it's basically a kid's version of SNL.) Now she's tweeting pics of herself (Um, put some clothes on please.) and advocating eating disorders, but not the one she thinks. She says she has an eating disorder and has a hard time staying thin (So I'm thinking, "Okay, she's an eater, I can totally relate!") and yet weighs 114 pounds. Which, by the way, is still 14 pounds away from her goal weight. Add in that those half naked pics really advertise the boob job and the lip plumping she's had (You can't tell me she hasn't!), she's heading straight past hot mess into "What the hell?" territory.

I can't even blame it on all these new stars. Remember Drew Barrymore? Let me go on record saying that I LOVE Drew. She's adorable in the quirky, girl next door kind of way. But she was a star at age 6 and a drug addict by 13. I'll say that again: thirteen. My daughter is almost 13 and I don't even like her to wear eye shadow, let alone be a drug addict. On the other hand, I don't want her to be like Taylor Swift either, whose sole purpose in life is to date as many boys as she can, get dumped, and turn it into a hit song. Can you really not find any other song inspiration?

Right now, Selena Gomez is the current allowable teen idol. Keep your fingers crossed that the Biebs doesn't knock her up or she'll have to get crossed off the list too. And it's getting pretty short.