Miley, Rihanna are still my role models

CELEBRITIES are the most watched and idolised people. Whether you are a Rihanna, One Direction, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus fan, it’s a common thing now that you might want to do what your idol does. But does that mean these people are ‘role models’ because they are in the public?

I’m not going to trash people who do what their idol does, I mean I went through a phase where I only shopped in Jack Wills and Abercrombie because One Direction had clothes from there (this phase still hasn’t stopped!), so I do get where people come from.

Take Zayn Malik from 1D, for example. When we, the fans, found out he was a smoker there was a mix of outrage and ‘sure it is his life’. I can understand where the outrage came from: smoking is disgusting, it kills etc, but I did get annoyed when people claimed smoking in teenagers increased because Zayn was smoking. Yes I get it’s wrong, but who are we to stop him? To the people who will say they started smoking because they wanted to be cool like Zayn, clearly you aren’t clued in, because even though I get you want to be closer to the band, smoking to be like Zayn is a bit weird and creepy.