Friday, August 17, 2007

Those embarrasing baby pictures...

I have now built up an impressive collection of embarrassing "Alfie as a baby photos" to dust off when he brings his first girl friend home (... not for a few years yet please Alfie!), I'm sure that they will be a very effective bargaining tool in years to come .... "Dad you're like sooooo embarrassing dude!" (this is how everyone will speak in 2023!)

However after stumbling across the following article I have started to ponder the effect blogging every coo, bath and shower will have on him when he becomes a teenager. We'll try to preserve some of his modesty in future, it's not nice knowing that everyone has seen .... well everything! ;0)



NEARLY two decades after becoming the music world's most famous naked swimming baby, California high school student Spencer Elden says he feels like a porn star.

The 17-year-old Los Angeles teenager was the centrepiece of one of the most iconic record sleeves of all time in 1991, when a photo of him swimming underwater graced the cover of Nirvana's hit album Nevermind.

But Elden admitted in an interview with MTV.com that his small role in music history has given him mixed feelings.

"It's kind of creepy that that many people have seen me naked," Elden said. "I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star."

Nevermind became a huge success for Seattle-based grunge-rock band Nirvana, whose lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994. The album sold more than 10 million copies in the US alone.

While Elden has never seen a penny of royalties, he continues to make money from media requests while attending school and working part-time in a juice bar.

"It's kind of cool, knowing that I've been on an album cover, but I feel pretty normal about it because growing up, I've always known I was the Nirvana baby," he said.

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