Unfortunately it’s a clay statue, not a viral video. Freaky twist: it’s pro-life art.
“Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the ‘right choice,’” said artist Daniel Edwards.
Shakira’s statue‘s stance on a woman’s right to choose remains unclear. But judging by the photo, it’s anti-feet. (Thanks J!)
In related Britney news, today’s Daily News says that Mrs. Federline was downing shots during Kevin’s birthday party at Tao in Vegas the other day. So no lil’ sibling for Sean Preston … yet.
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what, you think just ’cause she’s downing shots that she’s not pregnant? this from the woman who had baby k-fed in her lap while driving? somehow, i doubt she’s real familiar with fetal alcohol syndrome
you didn’t provide a backshot (thank god)!
Shakira’s statue is clearly pro-bellbottoms (pic at http://www.usmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/17/shakira-honored-with-bell-bottomed-statue/)
Did the guy that make the statue know that she had a C-section? (Like most everyone else that saw that and put that under the comments sections of blogs said.)
Pro-life art complete on skinned bear rug.
Fancy. Ironic, but fancy.
Not only did she have a c section, but she didn’t do it on a bearskin rug either!
As a graphic designer ?? BAAAARRRRFFFFF ?? or worse.
Am I the only one that doesn’t think that statue looks like Britney Spears.
i’ve seen this all over the web today. but nobody is showing the “crowning head shot”. i guess we’ll all have to wait for april 7th. damn.
Uhhh that certainly ain’t Britney Spears
Insane idiots.
“And according to gallery co-director, David Kesting, the artist studied a bearskin rug from Canada ‘to convey the commemoration of the traditional bearskin rug baby picture.’”
To convey the … commemoration …
Jesus fucking Christ.
uh, wtf?!
the facial features looks a little more like Ashley Judd than Britney.
a monumental waste of time and bandwith. a waste of clay in honor of a waste of flesh.
Two words – anal seepage
You guys are gonna get an influx of hits on your site from people googling “nude britney spears”.
She is so trashy, who would want to depict her bringing the seed of the ultimate trash into this world. YUCK – PS an unnecessay C-section screams herpes, not ‘fear of pain’. She’d spread her legs for a ding dong. Poor Sean Preston. His mom will be remembered for enternity for being a dumb slut with her legs always open, know immortilized in clay. Poor child.
She’d spread her legs for a ding dong.
Oh, heck yes. Ding Dongs sound so good right now. Haven’t had one of those in about a decade.
Oh yes, Britney Spears should be applauded for putting family for career and is the model for pro-life. All pregnant women should look to her as an example. It doesn’t matter that most of them do not make millions of dollars like she does and cannot afford to not work.
WTF? Who has a baby on all fours??? I’m sorry this is just fucking ridiculous. A bear-skinned rug, a nude Britney-looking girl, clay, pro-life??? What about the fuckin bear!! I can read into art just fine, and how this represents pro-life or anything is beyond me. Worthless.
In that position she looks like a missle launcher aimed and ready to shoot her puppy across the room. Armed and ready.
“Dedication of the life-sized statue celebrates the recent birth of …”
Woah… hold on a second. Life-sized?
Wow, what a perfect example of how misogynistic and utterly clueless pro-life men are – but at least they don’t discriminate on the basis of class: even celebrity women are really just broodmares that are fun to look at. Wonderful.
Shouldn’t be holding a bucket of chicken?
OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD. People, it’s a joke! It’s absurdist! I’m astounded at the knee-jerk reactions to this. It’s obviously NOT a paean to the Pro-Life movement…I mean, it’s Britney Spears (or someone posingas her, more accurately and less potentially litigiously) NUDE ON A BEARSKIN RUG. Please, read up a little bit about the artists before you light up the torches. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/special/bartlebooth/bartlebooth.asp
It’s really Ashley Judd
um… definitely disturbing if anything, but what’s more disturbing (or enjoyable if you think about it) is this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yFYSHZQfXc0&search=spice%20boys
Love modern art that looks nothing like the subject matter.
Split me baby one more time.
where did the rest of stereogum go?
I’ll fuck her with my huge dick during the birthing process and push the baby back in.
Thank God Jason chimed in about the OBVIOUS IRONIC CONTENT. Anyone remember Irony? It was something that became extinct with the G-dub presidency, apparently. Really big in the 90′s, or so I hear.
using irony to justify irrelevancy: the old, tired tactic. a child’s gambit. under the aegis of a wink and a giggle all manner of stinking nonsense is foisted on the public.
This is the proper position and the proper role for any woman, pregnant or not. Notice the upward thrust of the pelvis in the classic “offering” of herself to please and service male needs. Every young female must be repeatedly tutored in the fine arts of pleasing a man. Let this stand in public to train our nubile girls. Lastly, they may now learn where the term “broad” originated and that it describes the rear view of this lovely statue. Congratulations!
That is just scary!
And by the way she was realy huge during the pregnancy and after!
This is a screaming postmodernist GOOF, but it’s hot!
I feel sorry for the bear! Bad enough having that skank spread eagled on top of me without the on-coming after-Bearth.
to Gary at March 25, 2006 11:48 AM :
:) and that position looks just right for *entry* not exit!! 
Too right!!
This is BAD advert for ‘pro-life’… looks more like a pornstar….
maximus: yep, more women could do that…
I think most doctors will say the ‘proper position’ is leaning against a wall, legs spread, to ensure easy birth…
Does anyone else think that this statue looks more like Jessica Simpson then Britney Spears?????
This isn’t Britney its Kevin once he dropped those baggy pants off his skanky ass.
Why anybody would like to do a sculpture on Britney??? And giving BIRTH at that!!!
Just so you know the guy who did the sculpture, had his kids help him with the THING!
Damn! Where’s the air freshener?
What if somebody made a statue of every woman everytime she squeezed something out of her ass!
don’t get all the fuzz ! and don’t recognize Britney from that!
if anyone remembers her c-section was not for any other reason other than a tummy tuck after birth. of course this was never admitted by b.s.f. but plastic surgeons have all said that is one of the only reasons for a unneeded c-section. other than that it is a man’s wet dream of a pose (hiden under a popular train of thought to make it (or try to) more palitable.
PEOPLE!!! THIS IS NOT ABOUT BRITNEY SPEARS!
at all!!!. it’s a mockery on pro-life. you get some shallow artist like britney (hence the skin) and a loser like k-fed and well the combination will be some kind of idiot…sometimes it’s better to abort…
Oh! Baby Baby….Hit me one more time, talk about bending over and giving birth; what about bending over and Britney singing saying: ” Oh baby baby… fuck me one more time..!”
?Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the ?right choice?,? said artist Daniel Edwards, recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from London?s The Art Newspaper.”
Aside from her successful career and millions of dollars, who in their right mind would look to Britney Spears for inspiration for ANY life decision, let alone one so important as whether or not to bring a child into the world? She is a joke. She has become a caricature of herself and reminds me of how lucky I am, however poorer, not to be white trash, mating with other white trash, bringing life into the world which will undoubtedly end up trust fund white trash.
That said, despite the artists claim about this being a serious work trying to make a pro life statement, it simply can’t be. If the model had been some random unknown woman, perhaps. Given that Ms Spears has been selected as the muse, all that this statue says to me is to steer clear of dirty men and stay on the pill. Oh yeah. And if no statement or title had been given to this, my only response would have been creepy. It’s just creepy.
All I want for Christmas is mandatory art education.
The responses are fascinating, and I’m not sure why I’m shocked that people are initially amazed and disgusted. Why is it disgusting to you? What is creepy about it? Britney Spears in a sexualized position (not only that, but on the stereotypical “bearskin rug”)? That’s definitely nothing new. A pop icon’s birth made public? Again, old. The combination of these two ideas together, in a way that simultaneously repulses and intrigues? Hmm!!
I’m not trying to be condescending, simply asking people to go a little deeper before tossing it aside.
To me it looks like she is doing the bear,not giving birth.Thats horrible..
I think it’s a gorgeous sculpture, really. The only thing that bothers me is that her arms really aren’t that skinny…and the face does need some work. But other than that, I think it’s pretty cool, albeit unrealistic
Women give birth on “all fours” all the time around the world. Only in North America women are routinely confined to birth on a bed lying down.
I have no idea why they decided to name the statue after Britney since she was “too posh to push” and had an elective caesarean!
Oh wow. Someone explain to me how that’s art? And Britney Spears of all people? I’m sure they could have done better. Many many other women more worthy than Britney Spears have given birth also. Why not them? Really sad.
This is natural. This is the way I had my baby… well, minus the bearskin rug, and I wasn’t on all fours, hmmm come to think of it I wasnt nude either, and I was on a hospital bed instead of a dead bear… and a bunch a drugs pumping through my veins… oh and I was screaming… hmm perhaps this is statue is a little odd.
You see guys, to me it seems that it isn’t the sculpture that’s the problem…it’s the fact that the artist chose BS for his muse…sad but true! Still a bit off…but it could have been worse…
Um…I never thought I’d say this, but poor, poor Britney Spears. I mean, while she has been a bit trash-tastic throughout the years, what female pop star hasn’t. And suddenly, since she’s gotten married and had a baby, the media acts like she’s a beverly hillbilly. And now, the birth of her first child has been, without her consent, sexualized and made a mockery of. And to call the sculpture pro-life. What a joke. Sexualizing the act of giving birth does not display the sanctity of life to the slightest degree. This sculpture was made in very bad taste, to say the least.
Sorry, mate… as much as you wish to publicize your pro-found infatuation with the VERY MARRIED Ms. Spears, you obviously missed the bus on her birth… see, MRS. FEDERLINE had a pre-scheduled C-Section because MRS. F. didn’t want to experience the REAL pains of any woman. Yet, she claims she wants to be treated as such.
I personally look at this statue and think dirty nasty thoughts. And I am a woman, myself!! I beared childbirth!.. so I KNOW I am a full-blown woman!!… but I look at this statue and I wish I had a HUGE one, b-cuz the way the artist depicted this ‘masterpiece’ triggers my brain into overdive. I wish I WAS a man just so I could stand behind this statue and whistle the words of how many times I could scream “oops… I did it again!~!”
Talk about erotica!! I haven’t felt this excited since the Pamela and Tommy Lee video hit the internet. Free porn pixx of Britney.. without her consent.. and it’s legal??? (albiet: distasteful)but who cares… I’ll visit this showing simply b-cuz I want to see the rear end of the sculpture!!!!
Sorry brit.. you lost cred when you stole another woman’s man… you are free game now!! And I can’t wait to picture you on all fours from the receiving end!! Super-stardom at its finest!!!
I’m totaly pro choice now!
Britney got me thinking that when complete morons have babys bad things happen.
OMG! That is just bad art.
Some of you guys need help. To use the F word with Jesus is SICK. And to say you would F her and push the baby back in, Dude you need help.
It`s simply incredible in which way some “vips” try to stay in peoples mind!!!
Sorry britney that`s bullshit!
greeez from germany
I,ve had 2 children natural and 1 by c-section and I don’t believe even at my worst I looked anything like the horible display of Brittany, and if she has looked at it she was probably dumbfounded at just how men actually see child birth. If this man truely has 3 kids he should know better, and letting his children help with the statue thats pretty strange and just a little sickning. I truely do feel sorry for his wife, he obviosly doesnt care about what shes gone through having his 3 kids. As for your next statue stick to something you know about!!!
I’ve heard this position is good for early labor to relieve back pain, but I doubt any woman could give birth in that postion. I think it’s well done and kinda sexy, but to say it’s Britney Spears and pro-life were just two ploys by the sculptor to get his work viewed by millions in a day, and it worked! Tacky, yes. Good publicity, definitely!
1st her facial expression looks more like she is bored than having a baby. Second who births a child in that position. 3rd if you were going to convince someone to not abort their baby would you show them child birth? How would showing a women in labor pains of child birth and showing a baby’s head tearing through a small hole convince someone how wonderful having a baby is? Besides shouldn’t a pro-life statment be more about the baby and not about a naked pregnant women on all fours.
I don’t believe that Britney is pro life, if she was she will never drive a car with her son on the front seat.
This so called “artist” should have this in mind before named a piece of bizarre porn a “pro life art”.
Maybe he was just trying to be ironic or something.
All right, stop the ignorant bullshit about “what kind of position is this to give birth in”. Oppressive idiot medical obstetrics in this fucking country have convinced y’all that birthing lying down is correct, when it is the LEAST physiologically correct birthing position. I was just at a homebirth, baby born on hands and knees and it was the easiest birth I’ve seen, of eleven (the rest in hospital with misogynist docs trying to call the shots). Women around the world have always given birth on hands and knees, and squatting, and guess what, BIRTH IS SEXUAL! It’s hard work, it’s painful, and I know women that have orgasms as their baby slips out. You men think this is hot? OR you’re scared to call it hot so you call it slutty? Guess what? It is fucking hot, to see a woman do the most intense work of her life and let a human being into the world through her pussy. Too bad Britney didn’t.
i wanna see pro-life groups protesting in front of cemeteries… that would give me a hard on.
Somebody get me a saddle. Maybe they’ll put it on a postage stamp. Or make a poster with the caption “You might be a redneck if……”
I love it. It encapsulates sex, birth, Geia, Womanhood,then patronises celebrity idolisation and social hierachy. It’s powerfull and draws attention.
Also the obvious Romulus connection the wolfmother, who symbolically gives birth to the founding father of Rome. And I commend Brittney for her courage. This is art which is made to be experienced by as many people as possible. The celebrity model increased it’s effect.
A friend of mine who actually frames at the CKFA gallery helped move the statue into the building and said that the backside has a little poop coming out (which is normal when giving birth..sick!) Now that is some realism for you!! Dont you think he could of at least left that part out?
As my sister kindly brought to my attention…..Britney had a C-section!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
It’s ironic that this is meant to promote the pro life view, because when I think about bringing the white trash spawn of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline into the world, abortion always come to my mind.
“Women give birth on “all fours” all the time around the world. Only in North America women are routinely confined to birth on a bed lying down.”
BULLSHIT! LOOK at the bad “art” statue…NO ONE can give birth in this position. Gravity is working against her here and forcing the child AWAY from the birth canal. One can be sitting up and that lets gravity help…or one can be lying on one’s back…but the sculpture’s position would make birth harder. And speaking of harder…that’s why the artist had her in this postition…so her tits are hanging down…to excite himself. Reminds me of a nude yoga tape I saw once…instead of showing women from the side so you could see well what they were doing, they showed them from the front so you could see their tits hanging down.
I’m no prude but there is hardly any diff between pornography and this very bad sculpture.
“Women give birth on “all fours” all the time around the world. Only in North America women are routinely confined to birth on a bed lying down.”
BULLSHIT! LOOK at the bad “art” statue…NO ONE can give birth in this position. Gravity is working against her here and forcign the child AWAY from the birth canal. One can be sitting up and that lets gravity help…or one can be lying on one’s back…but the sculpture’s position would make birth harder. And speaking of harder…that’s why the artist had her in this postition…so her tits are hanging down…to excite himself. Reminds me of a nude yoga tape I saw once…instead of showing women from the side so you could see well what they were doing, they showed them from the front so you could see their tits hanging down.
I’m no prude but there is hardly any diff between pornography and this very bad sculpture. (If you ask me, it looks like she’s trying to fart.)
interesting statue…don’t much care about Spears…had read about this online wanted to check out “art” for myself…from what i’ve heard childbirth is not this calm…i find the bear skin rug disturbing…i understand the “tradition” of bar skin rug for photos, but i think they’re usually more for family portraits when everyone is already birthed and dressed…am also anti fur so seems sick to display “pro life” item on the skin of a dead animal…also bear looks like he’s channeling the stress of the birth they way her hands are on it’s head and it’s teeth are barred like that…could also double as a “pro sex” statue if baby was removable
“seems sick to display “pro life” item on the skin of a dead animal”
Good point.
Here’s the best depiction of this horrendous “work o’ fart”:
http://tinyurl.com/kgs3h
(scroll down)
I love it.
I want one to make a glass-topped coffee table out of.
Putting the subject matter aside is it good sculpture? I think it is quite a good effort in clay. Sculpture in the round, although not having had the experience of actually walking around it, I can see why many people would find it confronting. It isn’t a work from life, quite obviously, and it would appear to have been made for a purpose other than just being a piece of art work, therefore can we really call it art? My guess is no we can’t. That should cause as many howls as the work itself.
Wait if this is pro-life, than what ever happend to animal pro-life. Shes on a freakin bear skin rug!
My Opinion: That looks nothing like Britney Spears. It’s a repulsive statue that had potential. When I first read the news about the statue, I was shocked in disbelief. Once I saw it, I realized there was no need to be shocked. It looks like about a 40-50 year old woman, rather than Britney Spears age with that hair style that was sculpted. I should have known the statue would not resemble her in any way. Nothing more than another modern day example of a scam in getting people to believe a lie for the sole purpose of exploiting citizens somehow, and in return, giving someone more power or money. It’s a sad day we live in today folks. Don’t let them fool you, research anything you question the truth about extensively! Believe what you know first hand from experiance or scientific data. Remain skeptical of everything your told that you know nothing about from personal research.
Happy media watching 
I love media, its enriches my life, so I learned a lot about it simply by being exposed to so much of the media I enjoy.
Funny. I don’t know what to say other than i think this is wonderful art. I’ve always felt that art should elicit an emotional reaction. This certainly does that.
My only other points are just rephrasing what other people have already said.
A. B.S. had a C-Section, so what’s the point?
B. B.S. showed her pregnancy all over, so this thin replica doesn’t even portray the reality of pregnancy.
C. That doesn’t even look like a thinner BS.
D. I’ve watched plenty of National Geographic shows (not joking here) to know that all 4 birthing methods are not natural, squating down in a method that allows the woman to “bear down” IS.
E. I’m so glad they have a lot of money, because when they get bored with this baby they can hire someone who knows how to take good care of it.
I dont think it looks like Britney Spears.
I think its funny to have her having a vaginal birth
its funnier that a pro life statue is on a bear skin rug
the position is obviously sexual, bc its certainly not good for giving birth, which generaly does not go against the laws of gravity!
i can not believe what peeps put on theses comment .
Britney Spears pre-pregnancy was the prototype for the biologically perfect woman. Definately a hot bitch. All of you femenist dykes out there can go screw your 9-irons cause you aint worth a pinch of coon sh1t. I love that statue even though it doesnt look like Britney.
why don’t they show you the back side?
i wanna see how wide her pussy is during child-birth, thats hot.
It’s not pro-life for the bear!
I don’t think it looks like either one of them.
Giving birth is a wonderful experience. but, this is a little out there. Know all the men can go see what she exposed and well Britney your gross and all the guys are gonna finger you.
for those (few) of you who think it is admirable of britney to participate in this misogynist piece of trash sculpture, you might note that she did not pose for it and the artist specifically states that he has never met or talked to her.
personally, i think this artist has done a much better job of capturing her tender and beautiful essence:
http://galleryoftheabsurd.typepad.com/14/britney_spears/index.html
and though i do not suggest that a woman couldn’t birth in that position, i have a difficult time believing that a woman in a “fuck-me” position on a goddamned bear-skin rug is meant to be representative of the beauty of childbirth. i think that this artist obviously did this either to shock people, or get himself off. he is the guy whose sculpture of the “death mask” of ted williams’s severed head caused “controversy” not so long ago.
http://www.firststreetgallery.net/edwards.html
the statue bores me, i see worse than that in the previews before disney movies. i just think it is in very poor taste. and if he isn’t joking about the pro-life stance, he is a total moron.
this says to me: instead of abortion, why don’t you just fuck a bear…problem solved!
clearly, bestiality obviates the need for abortion; especially when the bear is dead…both bestiality and necrophilia, certainly revealing the essential character of the pro-life philosophy, which is essentially a death cult. What a wonderful parody of the fundamentalist right and it’s unconsciousness.
I don’t feel bad at all for Britney Spears. =/ Her marriage and child (children now?) were publicity stunts. I feel bad for the boy.
first off, i think calling the poor kid of B.S. and KFed names is rediculous… he didn’t ask to be born to such rediculously immature parents, so why should we assume he’ll follow in their footsteps? Is this to assume that all of you are exactly the same as your parents? Even the ones of us with murderous, alcoholic, drug abusing, fathers and ex prostitute, cracked out, cheating, stealing mothers? I’d guess that’s a negative
But hey, sterotype all you want if it makes it easier to log off your laptop and jog across your trailer to the shitter before bed. Lifes a bitch and if you are too, it’ll kick ya in the ass eventually.
2.) Women can have birth this way. It’s not as “impossible” as many of you make it out to be. It’s really fucking hard and it takes a whole different breed of woman to pull it off. Not for my tastes (I loved my epidural) but some women are empowered by knowing they can do it on their own and i hear it’s a hella rush. on the other hand, we all know miss Brit didn’t have a vagdeliv… we ALL know (as the 7,000 posts before me stated) that she had an elective c-section. I love how b/c of the few ways brit has portrayed herself in the past (skimpy clothes, dating a guy who was separated, etc) we all ASSUME she got the c-section b/c it was easier… and we all know peopel with money are lazy… hell… isn’t that why people like Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are in the positions they are? From takings the easy way out OF COURSE! Again… Not likely
im 11 years old and im one of her big fans i think who ever did the sculptur is wrong its horrible. i bet britney is anoyed tottaly with him who made it it shouldnt be in a art museum its not art its horrible.
First of all you don?t have to be an artist to appreciate a good piece of work. But this statue of supposed Britney Spears on all fours on a bear skin rug is just sad and a waste to time and talent. First of all Britney Spears is a horrible example of a mother, Second of all this statute should be kept in a private collection and not shown to the world. Britney Spears is the last woman in the world to be idolized as a young mother, and the one opinion of an artist is not the opinion of the world. Its funny most celebrities think they should be worshiped, but like all thing it must come to an end. She?s on the road to her own destruction; her actions speak louder than other?s words.
Peace out bitches!
here is the back shot
here is the back shot
OK, ok – I know how to clear up this whole thing. Everyone read this was a depiction of the BIRTH. No, no, no….this is actually a depiction of the CONCEPTION!! Just imagine K-Fed….well, you get the idea.
Hillary is just a socialist communist supporter.
Ban the Hillary. Like the new world order ?
Hillary is just a socialist communist supporter.
Ban the Hillary. Like the new world order ?
this is most disguttign statue I have ever seen. what could be the motive behind it. To show the britney naked or just to show how a mother give birth. by the way a woman can not give birth in this position. So the artisian wanted to show nude britney. If artisian wanted to show Briteny nude, he can show her in any other position, other than, this holly moment.