A couple of years ago, Bristol Palin was pregnant with a child, famously (thanks in part to boyfriend Levi Johnston), but today she is pregnant with possibilities. She has become famous through her stint on Dancing With the Stars (where, oddly, she was cast as a star), and now she has more options than she knows what to do with. Should she run for office? Write a book? Be a motivational speaker? It seems like she might do all of the above.
Recently, Bristol Palin told E! Online that she would probably run for political office “further down the road.” [Source: “Bristol Palin: I’ll ‘Probably’ Run For Political Office ‘Down The Road’,” Huffington Post, 2/8/11. Downloaded from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/08/bristol-palin-political-office_n_820148.html] Apparently, political ambition is in her blood. Mother Sarah Palin was Governor of Alaska and a Vice Presidential candidate, so apparently Bristol sees know reason why she can’t do the same.
Bristol Palin will also be an author soon, we learned yesterday. On June 21 (according to Amazon.com’s listing), an as-yet-unnamed Bristol autobiography will be released. We know it is 304 pages in length, but little other information is available at the moment. [Source: Dionne, Zach. “Bristol Palin, 20, Set to Release Memoir,” Popeater.com, 2/7/11. Downloaded from: http://www.popeater.com/2011/02/07/bristol-palin-memoir/]. Also, Bristol Palin has not made any formal announcement about the project yet.
It also appears that Bristol Palin intends to become a motivational speaker. Like her mother, Sarah Palin, she has filed papers to trademark her own name, reportedly for use as a motivational speaker. [Source: Knickerbocker, Brad. “Sarah Palin Inc. Can she trademark her name?,” Christian Science Monitor, 2/6/11, downloaded at: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0206/Sarah-Palin-Inc.-Can-she-trademark-her-name]
In short, Bristol Palin is making the most of her time in the limelight. It appears that she is on the verge of parlaying her accidental fame into a lasting career. As long as she keeps doing things to attract media attention, we will all probably keep on watching her.
Sources
“Bristol Palin: I’ll ‘Probably’ Run For Political Office ‘Down The Road’,” Huffington Post, 2/8/11. Downloaded from: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/08/bristol-palin-political-office_n_820148.html
Dionne, Zach. “Bristol Palin, 20, Set to Release Memoir,” Popeater.com, 2/7/11. Downloaded from: http://www.popeater.com/2011/02/07/bristol-palin-memoir/
Knickerbocker, Brad. “Sarah Palin Inc. Can she trademark her name?,” Christian Science Monitor, 2/6/11, downloaded at: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0206/Sarah-Palin-Inc.-Can-she-trademark-her-name
