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Bindi really didn’t need to be appointed to a position like that at the age of 8 years old. People claim she is overworked and shouldn’t be doing such a heavy press tour of America so soon after her father’s death (even though she had planned to take this trip with her father), but she has been in front of the cameras from the minute she was born, and that’s where she is most comfortable.
--Australia on the Mind
Steve Irwin's lovely little girl has whipped up a frenzy of opinion over her qualifications to evangelize Australia to us Yanks. Never mind that the late Croc Hunter's fans have been mucking about in the swamps with the Irwin family from day one.
Bindi and mama Terri, who's starting to look more like the Down Under Dina Lohan, are two of the stars of G'Day USA: Australia Week, a 10-day promotion in Los Angeles and New York, highlighting Aussie entertainment, tourism, food, business and fashion--culminating in the showing of Ocean's Deadliest, the doco that killed Steve Irwin.
--TVGasm
Her mom was said to be worried that Bindi was carrying on so well after her famous father, Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, died and took her to a therapist. The therapist said that was dealing with the grief in her own way and that she was well adjusted.
--Celebitchy
Media sources are already - predictably - blasting Mom Terri for encouraging Bindi's booming celebrity.
Clearly studios can see the same talent in her that made her father a household name — the next generation. But a fitness video, a cooking video, an appearance with The Wiggles — is it too much, too soon?†said The Age. “Her affinity with nature, like her father’s, is well documented and those who support her have always said this is the life Bindi wants for herself. Can she understand it? From here, the public is part of her life. So before we make a heroine out of this little girl, as we made a hero of her father, let’s look at her tiny shoulders and wonder how they could support such a burden.
--Times Online
I absolutely can not speak for the stress of showbiz life or to Terri's parenting choices. If I remember correctly, the Irwin household has been in the crosshairs before, criticized for exposing the offspring to dangerous animals. But there's no denying that the family opened the eyes of visitors and wannabe visitors to Oz, worldwide. Bindi's just a little ace right now, but maybe she is that rare child that knows her own mind already. Maybe she will grow up to fill the croc shaped hole Irwin's death left in the world.
Pam blogs about travel and other adventures at Nerd's Eye View.
