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"He shot himself in the leg!" Everybody was saying that when Plexico Burris went into the club, his gun slipped, and he tried to grab it. But since he is so smart, he pulled the trigger shooting himself in the leg. Burris was one of the NFL's top wide receivers but his dumb decisions landed him in jail. These celebrities that we look up to are not all they seem to be. They do drugs, get in trouble with the law, and a good number of them claim to have terrible lives. Celebrities these days are just not the best role models.

Now-a-days you see a lot of celebrities doing drugs. Celebrities that you wouldn't normally think would do drugs are doing them too. You can look on the internet and see multiple cases of these type of things. That is not the type of role models that anybody should be looking up to nor letting their children look up to. You can hear countless cases of famous people recently, like Bruno Mars, a popular R&B singer , was caught doing cocaine. He has made lots of great songs but now has recently been sent to jail.

Plexico Burris, sent to jail for having a gun in a club without a lisense. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail. Now he has been kicked out the NFL and might not be able to come back. His career might be over. No more money, no more nice cars or nice houses. If he would have just went to the club, not brought the gun, and hung out with his friends none of that bad stuff would have happened. Celebrities think they are above the law for some odd reason but they just do not get that they are not.

You can look on TV and see shows of these celebrities saying that they have terrible lives. Shia Labeouf was on a talk show talking about his life. He was asked how is living the good life going for him. Shia says,"Im not living the good life, I am an alcoholic that sits home and does nothing all day. I hate my life i have everything i ever wanted but still want more. I always have a sense of emptiness within me." Clearly his life is not great at all.

All of us sit around dreaming about how good we think our lives would be if we were a famous celebrity. We hang pictures of these "super stars" on our walls, wanting our lives to be like theirs. What we do not see is that just because they have a lot of money does not mean that their life is any better than ours. Celebrities are not the best role models because they do not always make the best decisions. We think they are good role models because they have a lot of money, but that is not why we should be looking up to those people. Good role models are people who do things for others when they don't know someone is looking. There are a ton of people in the world doing that everyday and they are not celebrities. Just because we see someone on tv playing sports or acting in a movie, does not make them a good role model. Take time to find out what they do when they do not know the media is watching. That will tell you who the good role models out there are.