Who'd want to be a mega-selling music star?
Sure, they make a lot of money, but they are also in the spotlight 24-7, even more so than actors, because musicians have to perform on stage every night before screaming fans.
Take a look at any rock star from the time they were young to the present day (assuming they are still living), and depending on the type of music they dispense (usually) their faces will tell the tale.
Latest tragedy, Whitney Houston. She grew up singing gospel music and was presumably a sweet religious girl. Then she got into the "big wide world" thanks to her records, and all of a sudden she's surrounded by folks who introduce her to drugs and drink. Most notably, her husband Bobby Brown.
And then and there begins the downward spiral, culminating in her death a week or so ago at age 48.
Take a look at her photos at her Wikipedia biography article.
Has she gained so much weight just because she's 48 and her body metabolism has slown down? I think not. I'd say the drink and the drugs did it to her.
There are many mistakes in our lives that we can make and that we can recover from.
But doing drugs, and drinking to excess? No. I think not. And it's so much harder to give up these things than to not take them to begin with - even with the peer pressure kids - and college-aged adults - are put under by their peers...
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