Guest Author - Previous BellaOnline Editor

I will be the first to admit that celebrity gossip is just not all that interesting to me. Sure, I read the cover of US Weekly when standing in line at the grocery store, but I’ve never in my life bought a copy.

I admit, I did binge on Entertainment Tonight after Anna Nicole Smith died, of which I am not proud. But I know I wasn’t the only one wondering who Dannylyn’s father was!

So when I saw on Yahoo that Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera were pregnant, I yawned and thought, "I really couldn’t care less."

What I did care about was why so many other people seem to care.

Hollywood is obsessed with pretty young starlets of “child bearing age” who should be pregnant by now. I mean, really – hasn’t J Lo been married long enough? Shouldn’t she have started procreating years ago?

These days, marriage isn’t a prerequisite for parenthood, so the speculation often starts immediately after people start dating.

One article I read was making fun of the entire obsession by saying that the “bump” people start watching could just as easily be a bloated tummy from too much soda!

In all seriousness, the message here is clear.

When you are a pretty young thing in your 20s, you should be popping out babies. Never mind the Brittany Spears of the world whose parenting skills point directly to sterilization. Celebrities are just like the rest of us – everyone expects them to get pregnant!

I am into my 30s now, and of course I am at the peak of harassment age for having kids. I find myself wistfully staring down 40 in hopes that people will realize I’m “too old” and will stop bugging me about it.

Then I get resentful. Why should I wish my life away just so friends and strangers alike will stop asking when I’m going to have a baby?

Bottom line is this. If celebrities want kids, then great – go out and have a few. But the way pop culture hounds them until they confirm their bulging tummies is just ridiculous.

I only wish so many people cared about poverty, our crumbling education system, homelessness, health care, and the list goes on and on…