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Persuasive Essay “What a scandal!” “He cheated on her!”and “Her worst drug night”, these headlines were printed in thick, capital letters on the newspapers as I passed them in the supermarket. “Nothing else, but a swamp of drugs, lies and people who pretend that they are innocent angels,” I said to myself, having enough of ‘hot stories’. These people, as known as celebrities, disgust me and still have a huge impact on the youth. Celebrities are bad role models because they become famous and rich for scandals, they cheat on the people they pretend to love, and they take drugs. When we take a look back in history, most of the celebrities from over 30 years ago were famous for their great competences and accomplishments for our society. When one turns on the TV nowadays, l look frightened to the future. The people that are rich and famous these days have no achievements to their names. This new generation of celebrities forms out of rich and powerful people’s children and ‘publicity junkies’. Best example is Paris Hilton, great-granddaughter of the Hilton hotel founder Conrad Hilton. She got everything she wanted since she was born, wasting hundreds of dollars on clothes for her puppy. This girl has never even heard of the word ‘labor’ before, but she still earns more money for saying this stupid “That’s hot!” than an honest American citizen would make in a decade of hard work. Paris Hilton is getting more and more influential every year, even though she never contributed to the public good or did anything beneficial for our society. Now think of her in a leading position in this country. Something must be wrong in this world when the media reports more about rich hotel-heirs then about the biggest issues we face at the moment. My mother always told me that she would kick me out of the house if I started smoking or taking drugs. She was right, and I wish that everybody could follow her principles. Apparently drugs are the biggest issue in the world of the rich and famous. There are numerous reports of it every week. Rehab has regulars like Amy Winehouse, or a drunken driving Lindsay Lohan. Both are just few examples of famous drug addicts. These people must have lost all their pride to show off in such a bad way. They live in their own small world and glorify their addiction, influencing thousands of people to try dangerous substances like ecstasy. This is a crime, and, we, the people, should not tolerate this. Even though these celebrities end in jail or rehab, they still give the youth a wrong image of getting away with everything. The other new and disgusting fashion in the celebrity world is how the stars deal with their weight. Being thin is not good enough anymore and the models in the fashion magazines put young women under an immense pressure. Teenage girls all over the world start to think more and more about their body balance and begin to lose weight, just to look like their idols. It is sickening to watch how young women turn their healthy body into a skin-covered skeleton because some model set new standards. The same applies for the new wave of after-pregnancy diets that have become so popular. Female stars simply cannot live with a rounder stomach after their pregnancy. They do everything to look as ‘perfect’ as before the pregnancy and definitively create the wrong image for young women who will put themselves under pressure. This delusion has to stop or we all will think in absurd categories. Celebrities try to twist the reality with their crazy and careless lifestyles, but we have to remind ourselves and our friends to keep both feet on the ground. Remember that celebrities are very influential people and have a huge impact on our society. However, we also cannot forget how likely they abuse the rights and give the youth the wrong impression of life. Sure, not all celebrities are evil drug addicts that are in the news every week for their escapades. But the focus of the media and the world concentrates on the outlaws and ‘publicity junkies’, rather then on the warm-hearted people that could be considered true role models. There is only one thing to do as a responsible and reasonable citizen: boycott the celebrities! Stop watching their shows, stop listening to their music or reading their bad autobiographies. Stop paying attention to the famous and they might realize that they are less important to us than they think.