'Cindy Brady' teaching her son about hangovers
Categories: Kids 8-11, Celeb kids, Celeb parenting, Behaving badly
They say that experience is the best teacher, but I don't think that applies in all cases. For example, Susan Olsen, better known as Cindy from the Brady Bunch, is teaching her 10-year-old son the dangers of alcohol by binge drinking and showing up for work with a vomit-inducing hangover. The 47-year-old Olsen was being interviewed on a Colorado radio show when she began showing signs of intestinal distress. Clutching her stomach and covering her mouth, the former cutie-pie suddenly bolted for the bathroom. When asked what happened, she proudly told the truth: she drank too much wine the night before and was dealing with a bad hangover. "Of course I threw up in the bathroom. It's better than throwing up on their face," she said. "I'm a very, very, very honest person. I also am a person who doesn't drink."
I agree, cookies are better tossed in the bathroom than on the table. And honesty usually is the best policy. But what about her 10-year-old son, who was with her in the studio? When asked if she was at all bothered by the fact that he witnessed this display, she she insisted she was not. "That's the way kids learn," she said.
The way that kids learn what, exactly? That mom can't hold her booze? That getting drunk the night before you have to work is perfectly acceptable as long as you are honest about it? And if she really never drinks, what prompted her son to invite listeners to come "watch her drink like a pig" at a local bar?
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Georgyne 7-25-2008 @ 5:00AM
It is amazing what twisted press does to a person. What was presented and what really happened were so different. Susan is a fantastic mother, I know first hand, I am a personal friend of hers. The father taught the son about hangovers and drinking not the mother. She was suffering a migranc and altitude sickness and just said that she had a hangover for entertainment value, but it was a wrong call. She is one of the best mother's I have ever known.
Her son has Autism. Also, if she had known there was a camera in there he would have never been in there.
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