what would you do for fame?

I recently read an article about Jessica Simpson and her pregnancy. Apparently her dad (Joe Simpson) has been trying to get a good price on the first baby pictures or the story or some shit. When you think about it, most celebrities sell their pictures for cash. It seems like barely anyone keeps anything from the public and everything they do must involve a cheque. I know this is a business, but at the same time how much of yourself can you sell out before you loose it all? I find it all really sickening. These are people whose lives are already barely their own. Now that their breeding, they feel the need to exploit the poor child. This is a world I may never understand and that my expensive education will make me question and dissect in each given moment. There is nothing wrong with fame, but the question is what would you do for fame? Would you give up all the things that could have meaning? Would you give up your child's rights to a life without notoriety and a practical living? These are people who don't want to lose their position in the spotlight and would sell their souls in order to keep it that way. When I see wedding pictures on the cover of people or in touch, all I can think is that this is one of the most sacred moments for a couple and a family. This is the day that you become one unit and families come together and you are selling it for five extra minutes of fame. When I hear of parents as managers for their children's lives, it makes me sick. Joe Simpson is easily a male Dina Lohan. He would sell any part of his daughter's lives to make a million. In a sense it can be seen as smart business skills but what does your daughter's life mean to you? I wanted an agent and to act when I was a kid. I asked my mom non-stop and she would always say no. I asked her why and she said "I will not sell my children to people. I will not prostitute my children for money." I remember thinking she was overreacting (as anyone does to an over protective mother) but now that I am older I realize how right she was. I realize that this is a real mother, someone who wouldn't put her kids on a pedestal and possibly set them up for rejection. When you look at people like Lindsay Lohan that is exactly what her problem is. Her entire life she has been told she is perfect, or that she isn't thin enough, and whatever other problems. There is so much pressure and so much at once that they resort to drugs, and drinking and they throw it all away. It makes you wonder what the cost of fame is? For a lot of people it costs them their lives. In the end, what would you do for fame? Would you sell out your family and your friends and or your life in order to make a few million? I sometimes wonder if people have no shame anymore, or if that word means nothing at this point.