Em’s Charity Kiss: Attention Rob Pattinson!
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Megan Jackson is a young Australian woman who struggles with depression. Though she ususally shuns extra attention, she recently felt a strong desire to help others like her, so she founded Em’sCharityKiss. She’s working with a not-for-profit group called OneInFive Australia (after the fact that 1 in 5 Australians suffers from mental illness). Part of her goal is to raise funds and awareness about mental health issues.
And how does she plan to do that? By getting Rob Pattinson to kiss her.
In an interview Jackson did on Celebrity Psychings, blogger Alicia Sparks asked Jackson why she picked Pattinson as the star she’d like to kiss–besides the evident reason, his “obvious swooningly deliciousness.”
No argument there, Alicia! None from Megan, either, though her thoughts on Rob’s appeal go deeper, slipping into an almost poetic poignancy:
I picked Robert Pattinson because I really like him – there’s something kind of offbeat and mysterious about him. I know you can only go by the small window that celebrities offer the public, but he seems like a fascinating person to talk to. And I’ve said before that he sometimes seems as uncomfortable with his life as I am with mine. There’s a melancholy about him I like.
I know exactly what she means. Anyway, Megan’s hoping that her quest to get her first kiss from Rob–preferably by her birthday next month–will help her bring attention to mental health issues. She says:
I think the mental health support community is constantly growing here in Australia, but I think there is still a stigma attached to mental illness. I’ve had people comment on my video that there is more or less ‘no such thing’ as depression and that people need to just ‘get happy’. That’s a very outdated way of thinking, but sadly it is still out there.
She also says she’d be happy if Rob just learned about her efforts. But I hope she gets the whole shebang…publicity, funds, awareness, and a perfect first kiss from a good guy. If any of our readers are in touch with Rob…point him in Megan’s direction!
And then point him in mine!
