Does celebrity culture help or hurt society?

Celebrity culture for long has been seen as amazing and it definitely lives up to it's expectations of glitz and glam but what goes on behind closed doors can make the average person cringe in disgust. Being a celebrity come's with a lot of perks and a luxurious lifestyle that seems like heaven on earth, but the demons that lurk within are far from perfect.

Celebrities lead perfect lives or so it seems and can have the masses follow their every move which is not always positive. People look up to celebrities as role models and are inspired by their work ethic and just what it took to gain so much popularity and success.

They have the power to lead and make changes in their respective communities and are able to reach a large number of people. Celebrities also work with human rights associations like the united nations to bring to light issues that are affecting the world like poverty, AIDS, wars etc. As the average person would rather listen to what their favorite action movie star is saying rather then some guy in a suit they don't know. People often feel like they know celebrities personally and this allows for specific agenda's to be pushed using the celebrity as a medium. 

However celebrities are human before they are famous, so they make stupid mistakes like every body else and those decisions should not looked up to. The pressures of always having to look perfect, and having people they do not relate to in the slightest bit wanting to be like them can destructive to celebrities. That's why most of them end up using drugs, or go on ridiculous diets that their fan's follow with them. Fan's will do anything for their favorite celebrity and idealize them as perfect beings with no flaws, which is unrealistic if you think of it.

People get so involved in the lives of their favorite celebrities that they abandon their own dreams

to those presented by celebrities which is usually that of money and how it can solve all your problems in an instant. Well this is a misrepresentation of what true success is, and most celebrities who have all the materialistic things they want are still so miserable and lonely. Celebrity culture can be very destructive to a young person who come's from a poor background and see's how their favorite joined a ganged to get wealthy, thus leading to young people joining gang's as a easy route to success.

So many young people when asked who their favorite hero or idol is will say someone famous who they have most likely never met, instead of a relative, friend or mentor from their own life. To say someone you have never met is your hero is like assuming they are the exactly the same way they present themselves on camera, which is usually false just a way to sell products and make money.

Young people often have a low self esteem, when they see how wealthy celebrities live and often strive for wealth rather than personal happiness. The celebrities they worship undergo plastic surgery. Which is often not their own ideals but those of their record labels and agencies as a strategy to sell records or get booked for shows. This leads to fans undergoing surgery themselves to look like their idols, adapting these toxic traits.

Celebrity culture has become a disease rather than entertainment, there is a thirst for fame. Young children from as little as two years are being groomed into actors and singers, before they can choose which career path they want to take. The appreciation for true talent and art has been blurred by the want of luxury items often caused by the depictions by celebrities in media.

The portrayal of being a celebrity and what true fame is has been lost, people have become so fame hungry that they'll do anything to achieve it. Celebrity culture does indeed hurt society as celebrities objectify themselves for money, and spreading the belief that you can use your body to get money and fame. This message get's out into society and getting rich by any means becomes a motive.

Lindsey Lohan is a classic example of the celebrity culture and how celebrities can crumble under their own fame. Lindsey was put into the world of acting at a very young age, all she knew was her acting career. She abused drugs (Cocaine) for most of her adulthood, this type of behavior can easily be adapted by someone who is a huge fan of Lindsey. It can be easy for someone who is not a fan to be like, no that's stupid. But you would be surprised by the lengths fan's of celebrities are willing to go just so they can relate to what their favorite celeb is going through. Money and fame does not equal happiness, Lindsey is a clear example of how celebrities can crumble under their own success.