Lisa Marie blasts media
2008-03-08 09:37
Los Angeles - Singer Lisa Marie
Presley, the only daughter of Elvis Presley, blasted the media
on Friday for what she called "degrading stories" and
"manipulated pictures" that forced her to go public with her
pregnancy.
"Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few
days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their
prey whilst eerily howling with delight," Presley, 40, wrote on
her blog at MySpace.com.
"Starting with a London publication and then New York and
Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about
all of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight,"
she added.
On Thursday, People magazine cited Presley's publicist as
saying the singer was pregnant and expecting a child in the
fall with her fourth husband, musician Michael Lockwood, 46,
and that the two were "incredibly overjoyed".
Weeks of speculation
The story was confirmation of the pregnancy after weeks of
stories and pictures in various publications speculating on her
weight gain.
In a MySpace posting entitled "confirmation under the gun",
Presley writes that the tabloid stories forced her to "show my
cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal
attack that I am in fact pregnant".
"Pardon my seething contemptuous tone but ladies, you KNOW
if you were pregnant and you felt you were expanding
uncontrollably by the moment as a result and the worldwide
media started badgering and harassing you for it, plastering
you everywhere in an unflattering light, you would be mortified
as well," Presley added.
Presley already has an 18-year-old daughter and a
15-year-old son from her first marriage to musician to Danny
Keough.
After that union ended in 1994, she briefly married
Michael Jackson and then actor Nicolas Cage.
Presley is following in the musical footsteps of her
father, who died in 1977.
She is working on her third album,
and last year released a version of Elvis' In the Ghetto, in
which she did a duet with her dad.