The Many Roles of K-Fed

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

06 Sep 2006 11:59 PM

"K-Fed," "Mrs. Britney Spears," "Eminem wannabe," whatever you want to call him Kevin Federline will likely answer... at least that's what he told Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show today. He'll answer because he wants the attention. (Okay, that's just my humble opinion.) Despite the fact that Federline has been on the scene for a while, I still don't know what to make of him.

Yes, he is married to pop princess Britney Spears. And, yes, they have an 11-month-old son Sean Preston together and are expecting baby number two any day now (and no, he swears he doesn't know the gender of the soon-to-be arrival). And, yes, he is also the father to two other young children (daughter, Kori, 4, and son Kaleb, 2 by actress Shar Jackson), but at 28-years-old is the role of "father" what defines him?

Federline told DeGeneres he likes being a young father. "My father was young with me," said Federline. "He was, like, 22. I had a good relationship with my father. He was able to keep up with me."

But is Federline able to keep up with his wife's immense professional success? After all, he went from being Brit's back-up dancer to aspiring rap star. Federline told DeGeneres it's been tough. "I think the expectation is real high for me, you know," said Federline. "It's like you see my wife, here she is this huge superstar, everybody loves her, all of her music is just hit, hit, hit after hit, and it's hard to compete."

Federline and Spears can also duke it out on the small screen (remember Spear's guest stint on "Will and Grace" last season) now that the mister has been offered a guest spot on CBS's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." Federline will make his acting debut playing "an arrogant teen who gets in the way of forensic agents Nick Stokes (George Eads) and Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan)."

Federline told DeGeneres that he was approached to do the role while he was rehearsing for his national rapping debut on the Teen Choice (Awards). "I said, 'Yes.' There was no way I'd turn that down,'" he said.

Rapper-in-training, husband, father, "actor," Federline seems to have a lot on his plate right now, but the title DeGeneres said he really needs to add to his growing list of monikers is "ex-smoker." Federline told the talk show hostess (who reminded him how bad second hand smoke is for children) that he is trying to give up smoking cigarettes prior to the birth of his fourth child. Gee, I sure hope he can at least succeed in accomplishing that.

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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