Teresa Giudice of The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Momster of the Year
Giudice earned her award effortlessly: Her spoiling and public flaunting of her daughters was topped only by her abhorrent behavior in their presence. She supposedly pressured her 8-year-old to wiggle her behind alluringly during dance recitals, and bribed her preschoolers with anything a credit card could buy if they would "stop crying and shut up." The impressionable girls witnessed their mom cursing, mistreating her "friends," and finding self-esteem in a new set of "bubbies," or implant-enhanced breasts. Scarier still: Giudice is now mother of a fourth, born in September.
Bristol Palin
"Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Award
Just asking: Should Bristol Palin be pushing abstinence to her peers? After calling chastity "not realistic at all" in a Fox News interview last February, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, who gave birth to son Tripp in December 2008, hit the trail in May to tell girls that saying no is the way to go. "I just think that abstinence is the only... 100 percent foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy," the not-so-sold-herself teenager said on Good Morning America. Words to live by.
"Octomom" Nadya Suleman
Eight (More) Is Enough Award
We can hardly count the ways in which Suleman has earned her poopy Pampers. When the publicity- hungry single mom of six learned she'd have eight babies (all conceived with donated sperm via in vitro), she paraded her engorged midriff for the paparazzi and appeared on Today a week post-cesarean; when the tups' 3-month birthday approached, she began talking about a reality-TV show featuring her brood. Given the spectacular success of Jon and Kate, we say: Good luck with that.
Debbie Rowe
Mercenary-Mama Award
"Do I want the kids? Hell, no," Debbie Rowe, ex-wife of the late Michael Jackson and the mother of his two oldest children, purportedly wrote to a friend who later shared her e-mails with the press. "Does it look good for me to ask for them?" she reportedly added. "Absolutely." Pays good, too. Rowe has received more than $20 million from Jackson and his family in the past 12 years for forfeiting her parental rights. Blood may be thicker than water, but in Rowe's case, it's a whole lot thinner than liquid assets.
