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Why would you want to be famous?

 
Melanie Griffith has spoken openly about her drug problems. Being famous may look enticing - the money, the adulation and the glamour all appear to be there for the taking. But why would anyone want to be push themselves into the public eye?
"Famous people have usually experienced a negative event during childhood - often it's the loss of a parent, or rejection from a key figure in their life at a younger age," said Professor Cary Cooper. He suggested that "their 'driver' - or motivator - is therefore to achieve something they thought they couldn't manage".

Senior psychologist Glenn Wilson, who works at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, added that you have to be a bit exhibitionistic and manipulative to desire fame. People pursue the spotlight because they "love to be loved" - although this is "part of the problem", added Prof Cooper. "When they're famous, celebrities begin to wonder if people love them for who they are, or for who they've become," he said. Concluding that it ends up "reinforcing their self-doubts", the professor said few famous people manage to have close relationships.

Painting a bleak picture, he added that their fame often takes them away from "ordinary people", and they're "thrown into a celebrity group of other people who are insecure".

Dr Raj Persaud, a consultant psychiatrist at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals in south London, has also explored the nature of celebrity. He reported that Canadian psychologist Mark Schaller argued that exposure to fame inevitably produces psychological disturbance. The famous become more chronically self-conscious and self-aware because of all the attention, according to Mr Schaller's research.

Famous people constantly experience that "merely momentary discomfort" of heightened self-consciousness you feel when someone points a camera at you, said Dr Persaud. And Prof Cooper said celebrities often suffer from depression, and turning to drink or drugs could be a result of them often feeling "lonely when not on stage". Being away from home a lot, being under the scrutiny of the press, difficulty sustaining relationships - all of this "makes them vulnerable" and often has a "stress-related outcome".

Dr Persaud added that the highs and lows of fame's uncertainty "leave one drained, doing more and more bizarre things in order to court attention" - which eventually leads to losing credibility with your audience.

But despite this, it is not all doom and gloom, as for as Prof Cooper is concerned. "The good news is they have a bounceback factor - they expect to be rejected and not to win. "Celebrities who achieve longevity are people who make it on the basis of bouncing back - their 'driver' is very important," he said.

And, of course, the public's fascination with celebrities helps fuel their fame. But why do people find them so exciting? Prof Cooper said it is all about our need for "communality" - a feeling of belonging. "We talk about people in the public eye and use people as metaphors in public life for our own lives. But he added that we do not actually care about them as individuals - unfortunately for the celebrities we are interested only in "how their own lives might reflect our own".