Explaining The Disturbing Image: Rosie O'Donnell Explains Why Her 4-Year-Old Has Chos

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In the end, hosting The Price is Right would remain a wish unfulfilled for Rosie O'Donnell, who recently announced on her blog that after having met with producers, the stress of uprooting her family and relocating to the West Coast would be too much for the former co-host of The View. (Or as one relieved executive put it once she was safely out of the building, "Oh well--I guess we'll have to find some other clinically depressed, rageoholic military-hater to man the Big Wheel!") O'Donnell, meanwhile, posted a photo of daughter Vivienne Rose yesterday, uniformed like a baby Fallujah insurgent preparing to rise up with her like-minded brothers and sisters against the corrupt Hasselbeckian regime. Rosie e-mailed The ShowBuzz to explain how the controversial image was taken during an afternoon of innocent, backyard dress-up:

The kids pick a new costume from buycostumes.com every few weeks. "They don't watch TV -- this is how they play/the boys had fatigues and were playing war/the girls wanted some/they run around the house with water guns/shooting each other," she said.​

"It's fascinating to me/that an image of a child dressed up as a soldier/evokes so much attention/yet the real soldiers - their deaths - their wounded bodies/doesn't seem to faze most/or make news," she wrote.​

So effective has the image been in eliciting public uproar, O'Donnell has since decided that all family activities will now have to incorporate a strong political message with viral potential. It's a fun plan with a dual purpose, hopefully helping to further her anti-Bush agenda, while giving her kids the thrill of burning their most recent purchases from Pinatas.com in effegy for mom's video camera.

• Rosie Explains Controversial Photo [Showbuzz]

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