When I imagine the perfect celebrity mother, the first face that pops into my head is Jennifer Garner’s. For some it might be Angelina Jolie, or Gwen Stefani… the possibilities are endless. But I can just about guarantee you that if I asked you to picture the perfect celebrity who should be a mother, Amy Winehouse’s face wouldn’t pop into anyone’s head. But that’s exactly the plan Winehouse has up her sleeve – her spokesman even confirmed it, though he tried to tone it down a bit. Winehouse wants to adopt a child from her favorite Caribbean Island, St. Lucia. And she knows it’s going to be a challenge given her past – what with the (still current) drug addiction, drinking problems, assaults, arrests… do I really need to list more? Nonetheless, she won’t be deterred.

Amy Winehouse is planning to adopt a St Lucian child after telling friends that she wants to make the Caribbean island her permanent home.

The 25-year-old singer now apparently sees herself as the ‘Angelina Jolie of St Lucia’ and wants to help poor and underprivileged children.

‘Amy is seriously thinking about adopting,’ says my source. ‘But she is aware it’s going to be incredibly difficult with her background.’

The news comes just a few weeks after it was revealed that her estranged husband Blake Fielder-Civil had made a woman pregnant at a Sheffield rehabilitation clinic

Adds the source: ‘Amy’s gutted about Blake becoming a dad and moving on so quickly. She has always wanted to be a mother. She loves St Lucia and would move there for good in order to adopt.’

Her spokesman said: ‘Amy was talking about adopting in the context of looking after children on the island, perhaps through some kind of music and education-based project.’

[From the Daily Mail]

I do sort of understand the impulse to want a child of your own when your soon-to-be ex knocks up some random chick before the divorce papers are even signed. But the problem is that while most of us would have the impulse, Amy has the means to follow it, and a history of following her whims. Regardless of Amy’s desires, I seriously doubt the Caribbean has a policy of handing over children to drug addicts. Obviously the article stated that Amy’s realistic enough to realize her past presents some problems for her. But I’d argue that her present does too – is there any reason to believe she’s not doing drugs?

I do appreciate her spokesman not giving us one of the old “no comments,” and actually acknowledging that there’s validity to the story and Amy really has spoken about adoption. Obviously he’s smart enough not to say she’s doing it, and offers up a few reasonable alternatives. It’s safe to say there’s no reason to worry that Winehouse is going to be toting around a baby and a binkie anytime soon. Unless she’s playing dolls. Which also isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Here’s Amy with friends, horses, and kids (!)in Saint Lucia on April 6th. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.