The big story on MSN right now is in regards to J-Lo’s apparent fixation with wigs. It has been reported by an insider that she has a whole room filled with them in Carmel and that the room is locked. Not even latin crooner hubby Marc Anthony can enter.

You know… call me crazy but… somehow I just don’t care about this tidbit of information. I know… right?

It never occurred to me the extent that we are fixated on celebrities until I read that article. How many of us care that J-Lo has a wig fetish…?

Still, we read these articles in hopes of finding some normalcy with which to connect celebrities. We want to know that they are “just like us”. But really… they aren’t. Because how many of us can afford a wig fetish? Not many… and in that way there are almost two planets. Planet celebrity and planet reality.

I always find it laughable when celebrities comment on politics. Not that they aren’t entitled to their opinion. I mean… aren’t we all? But still… they cannot even fathom the struggles that the common person deals with and in the same breath, we can’t even begin to understand their lives. So when they give their vote for president or try to input their own thoughts on our political system, it always seems laden with popularity undertones instead of intelligent and original thought.

It is in that way, that I am actually offended when I see drivel on Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, John Mayer or any of the other Hollywood stars starving for attention and a cheeseburger.

So why do we care about them? Why do we want to know that they lost 15 pounds on a liquid diet consisting of water, pepper and lemon? Why do we crave to know that they have married, divorced, became pregnant, adopted from Africa or caught strung out on a drug binge?

Simply… because focusing on celebrities and their version of reality is much easier than focusing on our own lives and on our own problems. It is not that we want to be celebrities ourselves (although some people are always looking for 15 minutes of fame and then some), it is that we need an escape from reality.

What better escape than to focus on the train wreck that is Hollywood?