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Your child is not your best friend

Beyonce says in a Vogue interview that her one-year old daughter Blue Ivy is her best friend.  Ouch!  Not only do I feel bad for her husband Jay-Z, but you have to be a moron to believe that a little girl can be the best friend of a grownup woman (it actually sounds fairly unhealthy and I would advise a woman with similar thoughts to see a therapist and expand her circle of friends). 

I am all for love between a mother and her child (I speak to my mom every other day often for an hour or more, we enjoy conversations about a variety of topics, and we both love each other, but neither one of us believes that we are best friends) but when moms spew out nonsense like this, they just make you laugh (there was a time that Katie Holmes claimed that her three-year old daughter Suri helped her get ready for red carpet by picking her outfits).  Ladies, look, you might want to believe that by giving birth somehow you have popped out Jesus Christ, but think about it, there are some 7 billion people on the planet, and as special as you might think you or your offspring are, accept it that they are yet one more human being.