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The Career Downfall Of 5 Celebrity Moms

The internet is gushing yet again with news of another celebrity baby. With a three year old already in tow, Jennifer Garner is now expecting her second child. It seems as if resurrecting her ailing career will have to wait another nine months.

Don’t get it twisted—we’re pro-parenthood all day. But for celebrity chicks, it seems like having a child is the easiest road to destroying the career that they spent so many years building up. For every mom like Heidi Klum who keeps her career on course, there are 10 more who pop out a baby and are never heard from again. Jennifer Garner was on top of when Alias was on the air, but now she seems dangerously close to being known as “Ben Affleck’s formerly famous wife.” After the jump, we’ve compiled 5 other women who fell victim to the dangers of motherhood.

1. BRITNEY SPEARS

BEFORE: Nubile Pop Superstar/Teen Wet Dream Fantasy
AFTER: Flabby-As-Fuck Train Wreck Without Visitation Rights

If bearing KFED’s children wasn’t enough of an L, Brit lost custody of her sons Jayden James and Sean Preston, and failed to resurrect her career after she looked like a confused plus-sized pole dancer while opening up last year’s VMAs.

2. NIA LONG

BEFORE: The Baddest Black Actress In Hollywood
AFTER: Occasional On-Screen Mom

Before her son Massai was born, Nia was the epitomy of sexy/smart eye candy in ’90s classics like Boyz N The Hood, Friday, Love Jones and The Best Man. Since then she’s gone from top ten to not mentioned at all, directing the occasional mediocre music video or starring as the mom in family comedies like Are We There Yet?

3. GWEN STEFANI

BEFORE: Trend-Setting No Doubt Hit-Maker
AFTER: Dilligent Babymaker For Washed-Up British Alt-Rocker

After flipping No Doubt into massive solo success with “Hollaback Girl,” Gwen’s career cooled way down down. If she’s in the news now, it’s probably because a new photo of her walking around with her son Kingston and her faux-hawk husband Gavin Rossdale surfaced. Her second child is due next month, so maybe she’ll resurface one of these days.

4. DENISE RICHARDS

BEFORE: Bond Girl/Ultimate White Girl Sex Symbol.
AFTER: Boyfriend Stealing Reality Show Tramp.

Her tabloid-wet-dream divorce with Charlie Sheen had the couple’s two daughters caught in the middle. But then Richards upped her tackiness by including her kids in her new reality show—something Sheen tried to fight in court. For some reason she was much more appealing when she was pretending to be a scheming trick in Wild Things.

5. LAURYN HILL

BEFORE: Grammy Award Winning International Superstar/Best Female Rapper Alive
AFTER: Creatively-Stunted Vagabond

L-Boogie was the epitomy of a strong, beautiful, talented woman—then she got involved with a Marley brother had 4 kids. Since then, she’s put out an album of rambling half-baked acoustic songs and prevented the Fugees from reuniting. We suspect she’s hiding in the same cave as Bin Laden.