<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/380308.cms"><img src="/photo/385328.cms" alt="/photo/385328.cms" border="0" /></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Christina Aguilera (Reuters pic)</span><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/380308.cms">Sizzlers 2003</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Shaken.
And stirred too actually, out of a clammy sleep. Dreamt that the young ones look up to <a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/359438.cms">Shefali Zarivala</a>, that spaced-out, hip-swivelling woman made famous by a thin piece of string peeping out of her pants.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Actually it''s not all that outlandish. There are reports that teenage girls in UK have listed <a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/160077.cms">Christina Aguilera</a> as their foremost role model. The UK tabloid </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">The Sun </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">says readers of a magazine, </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">Sugar</span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">, have voted for her "breathtaking talent (and) who isn''t afraid to be who she is."</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">That she certainly isn''t. Aguilera, if memory serves one right, is the young lady out on a world tour called the "Stripped tour 2003". </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">If that conjures up images more raunchy than Zarivala''s electric blue lingerie, it was probably intended to. Aguilera is all things nightmares are made of for mothers of teenage daughters. The latest buzz on the painfully thin, painfully underdressed pop star is that she has vowed to lose more weight. Then there will be lesser Aguilera and lesser clothing to cover that Aguilera. And she is into body piercing.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />No laughing matter this. Though <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Stripped </span>is Aguilera''s hit album and so a legitimate enough name for stage performances the world over, her being picked as a teenage role model is catastrophe. Please consider that to qualify as a teenager, the average girl child from anywhere on the globe is only just emerging from a dangerous phase in life when ambition is defined by the impossible shape of a plastic monster called Barbie.<br /></div> <div align="right" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="right" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/380308.cms"></a></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Shefali Zarivala </span><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/380308.cms">Sizzlers 2003</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">That golden-hair, angel-like devil has five-year-olds sighing at the sight of their little well-fed tums and wondering when they will be "cool" like Barbie. Cool is having a non-existent waist under gravity defying bust and three-fourths of your body being long legs. And then, immediately after, Aguilera?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Drawing the safe conclusion that teenagers seem to think alike in an increasingly shrinking world, 14-year-old Indian girls are then not exactly looking to be the next, say, Anju Bobby George. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Anju who? I rest my case. That is the young woman who leapt great distances to show the world India can produce athletes. She has had problems finding sponsors to fund her training. But the Zarivala of my nightmare, who attempts to swing to a remixed version of </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="" font-style:="" italic="">Kaanta laga </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">shaking all she has as though her life depends on it, is known by everyone for her hectic efforts. </span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">True, she is not a pop star a la Aguilera, but popularity indices show she will probably be one better. A Bollywood star very soon -- doped expression, sulky pout, tattooed cleavage, the works. And young Indian girls will fantasise about being like her, "a breathtaking talent who isn''t afraid to be who she is." Well, at least she is not anorexic.�</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span><br /></div> </div>
