Dear Snooki:
This letter is based on the assumption that the recent rumours that you’re
pregnant are true.
Look, you are currently the butt of everyone’s jokes, but I have made a
conscious choice not to do that to you. Not because you’ll ever know if I do or
don’t, but because I remember a time not too long ago when I was in your shoes.
I was once the girl who partied like it was her job, although I guess for you it
actually is a job. I had my share of dancing on tables and drunkenly running off
my mouth for no other reason than because I could and I had nothing to lose. The
only difference between us is that your life is filmed on camera and mine
wasn’t. Although, it’s true that if someone had offered me a reality show, I
would have taken it. I legitimately contemplated signing up for Real World
after a particularly crummy break up. I was also once the girl who,
at twenty-three, was unmarried but very suddenly and so very unexpectedly needed
four pregnancy tests to make me believe that I was pregnant. It was scary as
fuck. From that moment on, it felt like everyone I knew was watching my every
move. I became the girl that everyone expected to fail because party girls make
good gossip but they don’t make good mothers, right? Well, Snooki, the reality
is that now you do have something to lose in this world. And that’s a
game changer. Most people aren’t going to give you the benefit of the doubt,
but even party girls can change their ways, if they want to. So as a former hot,
hot mess, let me tell you two things that nobody else will.
It’s okay to mourn the loss of the life you had. You have the right to cry,
to get mad at yourself, at life, at everyone. It’s perfectly normal to be upset
about the major changes that are coming your way, because there are some
huge-ass changes coming your way. You just have to remember that at the end
of the day, it’s not about you anymore. It’s about the life that’s growing
inside you. From now on, your decisions have to be made based on what’s best for
that child. So here’s my next piece of wisdom.
Get the hell out of dodge. If you stay in the spotlight to raise this kid,
you might as well start telling yourself you’re a bad mother because that’s all
you’re going to hear from those around you. Hollywood is a world where people
not only expect to see you fail, but they want to see you fail, and they will
hang you dry for even the smallest parenting mistakes. And you know what? You’re
going to make a shit-ton of mistakes because, like the rest of us, you will have
no clue what you’re doing. And that’s okay, but Hollywood will make you feel
like it’s not. That’s the other difference between us. Yeah, I had everyone I
knew watching me, but you’ve got everyone in the whole world watching you. My
mistakes don’t get plastered all over Facebook or become a Twitter trend heard
‘round the world. Yours do, and yours will. So go back to Jersey and surround
yourself with family. They might give you some grief but they won’t be waiting
and hoping for you to fail miserably.
I hope it goes without saying that I don’t think you should plan a reality
show around your pregnancy. MTV already did that with a bunch of teenagers, and
look at how well that turned out for those poor girls. Take a page out of Jaime
Lynn Spears’ book - when life hands you an unexpected pregnancy, just turn the
cameras off and go home.
-Alice
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