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Britney A Model Mom

Some would think that Britney Spears does not a model mother make, let`s face it entertainment fans, the fact is if she was a normal person, meaning not a Hollywood A-lister with tons of money, she would not be the first person to look at for your pro-life campaign. She drives with her child on her lap, she walks around public bathroom barefoot whilst very pregnant, and she is thought to be drinking a bit while pregnant with her second child. Yet it seems one pro-life organization thinks that she is the ideal representative for their movement. Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston will be unveiled at New York`s Capla Kesting Art gallery in April.

Gallery co-owner David Kesting said they had received emails from "pro-life" supporters who thought it was degrading to their movement. He added that other people were "upset" the sculpture was a pro-life monument. The life-size work, by artist Daniel Edwards, features Spears crouched on all fours on a bear-skin rug as she gives birth. It will be displayed at the gallery alongside a display case filled with anti-abortion materials.

Edwards said: "This is a new take on pro-life. Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth." The gallery is hiring extra security guards for the free exhibit, which opens on 7 April and runs for two weeks. The sculpture comes six months after 24-year-old Spears gave birth to her first child, Sean Preston, with husband Kevin Federline. Edwards said he has never spoken to or met the star, and that he fashioned her face and figure from photographs. "I admire her. This is an idealized figure," he said. "Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself - seductively. Suddenly, she`s a mom."