Now that is just bizarre. Bizarre and kinda gross, quite frankly. {:-(

OH BALONEY!!!!!! Britney is going to kill her kids one of these days through her lack of maturity. She is no model for pro life or otherwise. It's not like she accidentally got pregnant and made a choice to keep the baby. She's made it clear that she's wanted a baby since she was pre-pubescent. And now that she's got one and another on the way she's finding that motherhood in itself does not make her special nor does it make her a star. This is just a blatant attempt to rally support/interest in a cause by attracting celebrity gawkers.

I'm going to have frigging NIGHTMARES about how that looks from behind. Thanks a LOT Kevin! ;)

Thousands of years from now, people are going to dig that thing up and think it's some kind of fertility goddess or something...

Quite frankly, I think it's gross. Nobody wants to see a statue of Britney Spears, NUDE, giving birth in that position.... Just nasty...

Um, last I checked, Britney had a voluntary c-section and wouldn't even consider the possibility of birthing Sean the old-fashioned way... so shouldn't this be a statue of Brit lying on a table while doctors cut into her belly?

I'd hit it.

Howzabout the fact she HAD this baby with a guy who abandoned his two OTHER babies to be with her?
rhetorical question: does ANYTHING the pro-life movement does make any sense??

I'm still trying to figure out if this was actually sanctioned by Britney Spears - if it was, well damn! Is brain damage genetic? This is an unholy alliance between kitch, extreme bad taste and a fantasy-land view of birthing only someone who had never experienced it could sculpt. Best to melt it down for scrap and draw the curtains...

I would like to know why there are no pictures from the rear (no pun intended) I read it shows the child "crowning". Could be an interesting site. Maybe its to graphic for TV. But for the internet? I don't think so. I just what to see HOW detailed this statue really is. Or do I?

Britney, you're the BEST!

Yeah... C-section... voluntary at that. This statue upsets me because she didn't even try to give birth vaginally. She never even labored. This statue is wrong in many different ways. I used to be a fan, but when I heard she took the pu$$y way out of giving birth, that was it for me and it's only gone downhill since with the driving stunt and K-Fed in all his glory... *sigh*

Of course, by now you must all realize that this artist is a frigging hilarious brilliant genius, and the gallery involved is going to be jam-packed with patrons as long as this show is up. That is the funniest shit I have seen in a long time.

it's easy to be pro life when you have several million in the bank-you don't have to worry about how your going to get food and clothing and proper care-I'm not for abortion but the pro lifers need to get a grip-and the statue is disgusting

she wishes her arms were that cut.

I want to see her a$$ and Pu$$y! I bet they are just as disgusting as her face... Narley

Does anyone realize how retarded this is? Pro-life? She is on the corpse of a fucking dead bear. Not to mention she had a c-section... it looks likes ashley judd... and i'm not 100% sure, but i dont think anybody gives birth on all fours. All this statue is, is a nude stripper with a "pro life" sticker slapped on it. piece of fucking trash

I think it is actually quite attractive, but it looks nothing like Britney. I witnessed birth before and it is not that attractive at all. Her face seems too surreal and if the baby is crowning she should look like she is screaming "you mother f...ker - how could you do this to me?????" However, the position on the hands and knees seems quite realistic as I am told it is more comfortable than lying on you back with your legs in the air. (My sister had 6 kids, so I think she has had enough experience.) I do not know why Britney was chosen to be the model as she did have the C-section. It is probably some fantasy the sculptor had.

Also I don't get the bear skin rug with the head still in tact. If this is an example of pro-life then why is there a dead bear under her that had no chance at life as some hunter wanted to shoot it and skin it??? I think it is a bit of a contradition.

I think that it is great that Britney wanted kids earlier in life. But I don't think her reasons were for pro-life - I think it was all about what Britney wanted. I think a good role model for pro-life would be someone who does it hard in life and gets pregnant by mistake, but changes their life around to look after their new baby. Anyway just my opinion.

By what criteria should an object d'art be judged? Seems whole careers exist for debate on the subject. Let's define this point by point.
1. Can the sculpture be identified as classical, romantic, rennaissance, impressionist, realistic, modern, post-something or other, or other?
2. Can you create something resembling it yourself? If not, shouldn't we as observers admire the talent it takes to manipulate metal into something resembling a pregnant woman on all fours holding a bearhead?
3. Would you show it to children or your parents? If not, doesn't that censorship say something of your proprieties? And should those proprieties be forced upon others by denying them the experience of even looking at such a creation?

Seems to me somebody took an awful lot of time to produce something that they wanted to see forever or to make lots of cash from its sale. Pro-life/Pro-choice... I don't see a connection with the sculpture either way. I do see a very canny artist making a name and increasing their prices by using good old ballyhoo.

I think that Britney Spears is definately the worst model for this, as yes she did freely decide to have this baby and it frustrates me to know that i am now 19 and have already had one abortion pretty much forced uppon me. I know that it was my choice at the end of the day but hey the thing that people dont realise is, yea it is pretty fuckin hard when you have two huge families and not one person out of those families is even going to look at you again if you have that baby... let alone no money at all to support it and no help at all.

Yes it was my decision but it has taken alot of time for me to be able to get over the fact that i killed my own helpless child. I am open viewed on the decision to abort or not to abort but when you have done it you cant help feel the pain... i am now pregnant again while using contraception and am still with the same partner from 4 years ago when i had my first abortion. We have choosen to keep this child as there was no way in hell either of us could go through our life knowing that i had had two abortions i am working my ass off everyday and saving like there is no tommorrow as so is my partner... there is no doubt they hey this is gonna be hard but i am gonna fight for what this baby wants and needs..

The point is it pisses me off to see Britney as the symbol for my experience and others experiences of abortion and birth when i am working my ass off wanting the best for my kid when she aint struggling at all the only thing shes struggling with is her dumb husband whom she should never have married in the first place, she choose to have her kid and she has enough money for 20! Shes got it easy the complete opposite to what women who have accidentally gotten pregnant usually have it.

She doesnt even care about her kid enough to strap it in a car seat. I think more soon to be mothers in my situtaion should be praised and encouraged with at least a suitable model. Let alone a model on a dead bear. when your trying to represent birth not death! what is wrong with this world... it should be named "celebrities and sex are everything" as this is the only message i see in this waste of a sculpture. Portraying Sex and birth in the same message is wrong in itself!

It hurts me to see this sculpture as the artist has talent but a completely sick and digusting mind. Where is he working from the mental institute???

Britney had a PLANNED C-Section. Anyone know how this "statue" depicts Britney's actual labor and "supposed" example of Pro-Life????? The article states she's a great role model of a "young, successful Hollywood figure who chose family over career." She was DYING to get pregnant cause K. Federline had 2 already and nobody outdoes Brit!! She and all future offspring and future husbands are set for life. She's not abnormally BRAVE, she just chose not to abort. That's all it takes to be a Pro-Life role model?? Oh, and the statue itself is pretty freaky and perverted on many levels. Make a statue of her sedated during her "I don't HAVE to push... I'm Britney Spears" Ceasarean and I doubt it will have the same 'message'. Some perv will love it just as much, though.

Comment by Bianca -- 3/29/2006 @ 11:11 pm

Oh, I forgot to add a question. Where are all her skanky tattoos if this is such a real depiction? And the dead bear thing is such horrible irony.

A friend of mine who actually helped move the statue into the CKFA gallery told me that the backside has a little poop coming out (which is natural at birth! SICK!) Now that is some realism for you!!

i'd love to see as to what the rear looks like, as they won't publish that photo over the internet.....

while i can appreciate the artistic integrity of the piece, it certainly doesn't look like britney spears, and yes, the bear is incredibly ironic. i have, in fact, seen/heard of women who give birth while kneeling or squatting, and even on all fours, but it seems to me that her back is too arched to be a realistic birthing position. i'm no pro, obviously, but i think the artist couldn't decide whether he wanted to create a beautiful silhouette or if he wanted to be somewhat true to a real birth.

i just wish he used a different person to model his work after; at the very least someone who has actually given birth naturally.

i'm no britney spears fan, and i'm not really a fan of this particular piece of art, but that's not really the point is it? this is art. it is an expression of the artists views. i once saw an exibit of an old mattress stuffed with rotting cake suspended from the ceiling of an art museum. not my taste either, but once again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so it art. and as for pro-lifers choosing britney spears as their "model", why not? she isn't anything special just for having a child, but isn't having a child always special? but i do have to give her this: she is in a very unforgiving buisness. after pregnancy and birth, she has no assurances that she will ever work again. she realized that and made the conscious decision to have her baby, and now everywhere you look she is getting put down for being a little heavy and unkempt. and furthermore, britney spears did not make herself rich and famous, we (the public) did.

here's an interview video that I took of Daniel Edwards regarding the sculpture.

if you want to see the rear of the statue, go and look at a GAWKER site, although i wouldn't reccomend it, i've seen it, and i still have trouble sleeping at night and keeping food down. shouldn't she be screaming? and strangling Kevin yelling:" you arsehole! look what you've done to me!" (and holding a bucket of fried chicken)? and she looks more like , like....oh, i don't know, i just took a big handful of pills this morning and now i'm not even sure what i'm talking about.............well, bye, i have to go throw myself of a building just to say hello to my buddy, Jesus.