Britney Spears Almost Drops Baby Again (Video

Britney Spears Almost Drops Baby Again (Video - Photos)

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, May 19, 2006

Poor Britney Spears can’t go a week without tabloids making her out to be a bad mom.

The pregnant young mum has had yet another mishap - this time outside the New York City Ritz Carlton hotel. Leaving the hotel’s cafe, she tripped while carring baby Sean and holding a glass of water at the same time. Onlookers watched as the Toxic singer, who was trying to manoeuvre her way through a crowd, managed to regain her balance with the help of her security guards. Eight-month-old Sean’s head snapped back, although he didn’t seem harmed by the incident.

Understandably annoyed, Britney was heard saying, “This is why I need a gun,” as she fought her way past dozens of staring eyes.

I’m not sure how a gun would help her coordination. But, yes, I could see why she’d be annoyed at every incident being scrutinized in the press.

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Everyone should just leave her alone.

Update: CNN weighs in:

Britney Spears stumbled outside a Manhattan hotel, nearly dropping her 8-month-old son and further fueling the ever-growing media scrutiny of her parenting skills. In photos splashed across the front page and inside the New York Post on Friday, the 24-year-old pop star is shown exiting The Ritz-Carlton hotel with Sean Preston in one hand and a glass in the other. As her bodyguards walked Spears to her car, she stumbled — her long pants apparently getting tangled in her open-toed shoes — and bent low as Sean Preston’s head flung backward, knocking off his orange hat. Spears, though, was able to keep her balance and hold on to her son, with help from a bodyguard, who reacted quickly.

The NY Post made this the cover story. The article, “BOOB BRIT’S BABY BOBBLE - ‘OOPS’ #3 IN N.Y. FOR RITZ DITZ,” is dripping with contempt.

Britney Spears’ child-care techniques seem to be growing positively “Toxic” - she nearly dropped her 8-month-old son on his head yesterday as she tottered out of a posh Manhattan hotel with a glass in one hand and the tyke in another.

The baby-bobbling bungle began at about 6 p.m., as the “Not That Innocent” pop tart left the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Central Park South, holding her kid, Sean Preston, and what witnesses said was a tumbler of water and ice (photo, far left). While heading to a car, her long pants appeared to get tangled in her open-toed shoes (inset, far left) just as she stepped past a pothole, witnesses said. Then - oops! - Britney started to tumble. Sean Preston’s head whipped back in what a witness called a “violent manner,” his chubby arm swung up and his little hat went flying off.

“Her bodyguard had some good reactions,” an onlooker said of the quick catch . “[He] grabbed the baby before he hit the floor.”

Despite the tumble, Britney managed not to spill a drop of her drink. Then she muttered to fotogs in her Louisiana accent, “This is why I need a gun.”

The incident left her clearly shaken up - afterwards she was seen in tears at FAO Schwarz (right inset).

The referenced photos are not in the online edition.

Update: Miu has post-near-drop photos of Spears crying. Here is a video of the incident:

Britney Spears Crying after Nearly Dropping Baby

via TMZ

Update: trikc thinks TMZ missed a good opportunity to riff on a Spears song for the lead-in.

Update: Hollywood Rag has yet more photos, including a closeup of the offending shoes. It occurs to me that Spears is not accustomed to walking in shoes, so that may indeed be the root cause of her clumsiness.

Britney Spears Almost Drops Baby Again (Video - Photos)

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