Monique Rivera

Pregnant at 16?!

Ok, maybe it’s not so bad if your name is Jamie Lynn Spears.

Rumor has it that this young mommy to be will receive $1 million for her baby’s first pictures. Wow! That’ll put a child through college!

Angelina Jolie was paid a whopping $4.1 million back in 2006 for pictures of her beautiful baby girl Shiloh. That’s a record!

Now that Jolie is pregnant again, I wonder how much her new baby’s pictures will be worth?

And talk about being loaded with cash, Jennifer Lopez is set to make between $4 to $6 million for her twins. Cha-ching! Christina Aguilera was paid $1.5 million for the first pictures of her newborn son Max. Bring in the money baby!

But naturally, not all that money goes into celebrity’s pockets. Many of them are donating the money to charity. Like Angelina Jolie, who donated the $4 million from baby daughter’s Shiloh’s pictures to a favorite charitable cause.

•   Nicole Richie’s baby Harlow’s pics went for a bid of $1 million
•   Jessica Alba will indeed get a nice load of cash for her baby’s pictures
•   Gwen Stefani’s little Kingston racked in $575,000.

So why is it that celebrities make so much money selling their babies’ pictures? Is it simply because we love babies? Well, maybe it is. I mean, what could be better than seeing a beautiful newborn baby on the cover of a magazine? It’s much better than seeing that train wreck Britney on every cover.

And speaking of Spears, her oldest son, Sean Preston, was the number four, top-paid baby according to Forbes’ magazine’s Top-selling Celebrity Babies of 2007. Her younger son, Jayden James, didn’t quite make the list.

And yes, Angelina’s beautiful baby girl Shiloh was number one on that list.

Pictures of babies on tabloid covers sell magazines. Why? Are stars actually having babies because it pays? What are the social implications of the material costs of babies?

Photograph Credit:
Mitch Pellechia