It’s also quite the mystery why she hasn’t married good old Levi yet. Her lack of enthusiasm for that eventuality pretty much oozes out of the screen, and the only time she ever brings him up is when the interviewer directly asks her about him. Otherwise, when she talks about her daily life as a mom and student, it’s all about her family. Particularly stupid question from the interviewer: “So you had no idea what raising a baby would be like?” Bristol stares at her and then clarifies that no, what she had no idea like was what it would feel like to have to change her own personal priorities to include how they would affect her son during his upbringing. When the interviewer returns to that theme again later in the interview, Bristol basically reminds her that not only has she been Mother’s little helper in terms of her younger siblings as far back as she can remember, her mother just gave birth to yet another child not too long before she got knocked up herself–so yeah, she really knew her way around a “onesie” already.
Interesting interview. Lots of nuance.
*Faux News has a, er, helpful feature under its embedded videos, described as “Automatically Generated Transcript (may not be 100% accurate).” Wow, it’s a good thing they include that disclaimer! Though you can have lots of fun with it–here’s a small sample of Bristol Palin talking about being a new mother:
“That’s what I expected. It’s just — different. He had no hint of led the short of the demands have been in Atlanta but not just that they — it’s just like I’m not living for myself meaning like flake. For another person that’s different. If you — talking a year ago and I said that — gonna happen in line with the UN told me.”