Why Britney Spears' Career Tanked

Now, I'm not saying that it's Kevin's fault, entirely, because we're all responsible for ourselves. But, some of the first photos of Brit with Kevin showed her romping on the beach with him in torn up shorts, smoking a cigarette, and wearing a trucker hat. Classy. ;) Since that first photo, she never really seemed to ditch the whole trucker-chick image. "Breaker, breaker, 1-9!"

Poor little SPF was seen being driven around in a front-facing carseat when he should've been facing the rear, losing his little orange hat while nearly being dropped on his head, and being propped on his mom's lap, in the driver's seat of her SUV, as she sped down the road. Although there haven't been any pics of the younger Federline brother going through similar life-threatening events, it's still early.

Nevermind the fact that the woman lost her damn mind and sheared all of her hair off, with a crazed look on her face, in the middle of a small salon - she should've known that the skinhead look was soooo last week. ;)

Okay, normally, most guys would think that the above would be a career move in the right direction. I mean, sex tapes have been reliable career-boosters since the invention of the camcorder and that's because people want to see stars naked! However, Britney . . . tsk, tsk . . . her kitty was flashed so often that it almost got its own star on the Walk of Fame. Skankiness is not attractive and flashing your no-nos every night can be considered just a tad skanky. Not to mention the fact that her c-section scar was clearly visible.

She threw a few mini-concerts, in preparation for her (*ahem*) "big comeback" and, concert-goers reported that she appeared to be lip-synching all of her material. Didn't she learn from Ashley and her SNL hoedown? These things ALWAYS end badly.

You remember the one that I'm talking about. She wiped chicken grease on an expensive gown, went to the bathroom with the door open, her dog pooped on a designer dress, she refused to have professionals do her hair and insisted on letting her friends do it, she bitched that the clothes weren't "sexy" enough, and stormed off, taking things with her that didn't belong to her. Yeah. That photo shoot. Who could forget that?

She checked herself into rehab. She checked out. She checked back into rehab. She checked out. She checked in again, stayed 30 days, checked out, and then made a sarcastic video implying that she was forced to go to rehab by her management. M'kay.

Brit and Fed-Ex are in the middle of a custody battle for their children because, according to some celebrity gossip columnists, he is concerned for the children's well-being if they stay with Britney. At the beginning of this whole thing, I think that the majority of America wanted her to get the kids. Now, however, it seems like most people are rooting for K-Fed and that's . . . well . . . kinda scary.

Her performance at the VMAs can best be described as being reminiscent of a zombie movie, minus the zombie hunters. The audience looked on in horror as she swayed around the stage, appearing to forget some of the lyrics, while her dancers kept time with the music. Her outfit - a black, sparkly bra & panty set with fishnets - would've probably been really hot on her before two kids and Taco Bell started taking their toll. As it is, someone should tell her that it's time to grow up and recognize when some things just don't look good on her anymore.