"Celebrities" right to privacy what about blogger

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The public has an insatiable thirst for knowledge about celebrities, their lives and in particular intimate details about their problems, including family difficulties, weight-loss issues, drug addictions, legal woes and so on. Is this fair? Do they sign up for it when they choose that career path? What makes a celebrity? Is an author, simply by virtue of writing a book, then accepting the drama that comes with it? Look at the author of "A Thousand Little Pieces" and "The Da Vinci Code" - their legal problems, book criticisms and personal details of their lives were in the news for months and still are. So, does a self-published author have any more right to privacy? If a journalist for a big newspaper writes a crappy story (or a lot of crappy stories) or is caught plagiarizing work, the media is all over that...so should we treat "Internet journalists" who blog and, join discussion groups and post articles all over the Internet any differently? Should they be open to the same criticisms and attention any "known" person is? After all, they are known on the net. The net is filled with "anti-author/celebrity/poet/writer/actor/policitian/party-girl (like Paris Hilton) sites" and I'm not saying it's right, but if I take my craft to the net, have 100 articles posted online, join discussion groups to promote my expertise and my website, then what right would I have to more privacy than anyone else who thrusts herself intentionally into the public eye? Lots of bloggers write controversial blogs, go to great lengths to promote them and move them up the search engine rankings, so are they then not accepting the risks of "celebrity?" I think they are. I think if someone has a blog, posts articles, joins forums to promote that blog or site then they are going to have to accept the downside of that so-called "fame."