Botox your Babies!

[Kooky]

This is terribly wrong, and I can't believe it's not illegal.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/wo ... geant.html

This mother needs a good slap.

(Yes it's the Snu, but I linked through from another site so does that make it OK? )

[Scrummy Mummy]

OH
MY
GOD.

Ironically the Mum looks a bit like Supernanny!

[Tas]

dont' know how this would not be classified as psychological abuse

[slinky]

I couldn't even continue reading the whole thing. Good God, what is the world coming to?? More mothers should do this for their daughters?? FFS. Where is child services when you need them??

[Kooky]

I thought it was bad enough on Toddlers and Tiaras when they plucked the littlies' eyebrows.

[slinky]

These child beauty pageants should be banned. They are sick and wrong and definitely constitute psychological abuse as Tas mentioned. As if girls don't grow up with confused body issues due to the media slamming them with images of what is 'perfect' or 'desired' anyway.

[Tas]

well their own mothers are doing the damage, and that really sickens me. creating an utterly false sense of beauty and relationship to reward. I'm convinced these girls are going to being doing pretty nasty things to themselves by the time they are 28 and nature takes it's course, let alone the state of their mind and souls.

[T2K]

"All I want is for Britney to have the best start in life, so it is easier for her to become a superstar."

Come on, at the end of the day isn't making it easier for our children to become superstars what parenting is really about? I think some of you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and quit condemning your kids to lives sapped by loser jobs like doctors and teachers and astronauts.

[T2K]

OK, serious response now:

She'll be humping the first "talent agent" (who will be a 52 year old guy that co-owns a pub around the block) when she's 15. And her mom will be cheering her on.

[Kooky]

Well as I may have admitted on here already, I am absolutely fascinated by Toddlers & Tiaras. It's car crash TV and the mothers fascinate me far more than the children.

We must get quite old series here because I remember watching one programme that focussed on two little girls, worlds apart. One was pushed into it by her trailer trash grandmother, basically to earn money. The other was far more refined, although her mom did seem to be on happy pills. They were rivals.

Then I saw a follow-up programme where they were about 16. The first one was still doing pageants - a plump teen with big bleached hair and the musical talent of my cats. Still pushed into it by her grandma. Incredibly messed up; I felt sad and embarrassed for her. The other one was at boarding school, not doing pageants and more or less stated she had little to do with her parents; lot of resentment there, for sure. Actually, probably just as messed up but at least she'd escaped.

[slinky]

I think some of you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and quit condemning your kids to lives sapped by loser jobs like doctors and teachers and astronauts.

Thanks, T2K, that made me laugh

[Pinklepurr]

...and waxing...and eyebrow and lip tattoos in the (not too distant) future! Her father was 79 when she was born ?(I'm presuming that since he died age 83 four years ago) Really? OK...the whole thing can't be real. It is too scary to contemplate.


(K, strangely enough I watched that same show a while ago...I didn't plan to, but just couldn't turn it off.)

[Aliya]

That child will never be a model!!! Talk about delusional.

[nev]

I hope the story is a hoax, like this blog claims.

[slinky]

The Sun article says the mother is from Birmingham and gives the impression the pair live in the UK. The blog talks about them being from the Bay Area, which I see no reference to in the article. It would be great if it was a hoax though -- certainly better than it being true.

[nev]

the Sun article says "Shockingly, Kerry, who now lives in San Francisco is not alone in her quest to make her daughter wrinkle-free for life. This behaviour is becoming a trend in the competitive world of American child beauty pageants."

[slinky]

Ah, missed that bit

[nev]

That child will never be a model!!! Talk about delusional.

As a child, my cousin posed with a puppy and people said the puppy was cuter than her. She's now a beautiful woman, a TV presenter and pop singer (google image "Sonja Agustina"). Go figure

[Snaffled]

For some reason I think of the dog in a rehab centre, recovering alcoholic and cocaine addict, pining for the years when they were a famous puppy.

[Lichtgestalt]

That child will never be a model!!! Talk about delusional.

As a child, my cousin posed with a puppy and people said the puppy was cuter than her. She's now a beautiful woman, a TV presenter and pop singer (google image "Sonja Agustina"). Go figure

When were you planning to introduce her?

[slinky]

An update: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfm ... y_id=89044

[Lili Von Shtupp]

I don't understand the disclaimer at the beginning of that story:

"Update: San Francisco Chronicle reporters Matier and Ross learned today that "Botox moms isn't who she says she is." The mother doesn't live in San Francisco and her real name isn't Kerry Campbell. San Francisco Human Services is no longer involved in the case."

Wha? Is this a hoax?