An 8-year-old California girl is getting botox injections and leg waxing and the procedures are being done by her own mom.
Kerry, who asked that her family’s last name not be used, told Good Morning America that it was actually her daughter, Britney, who wanted to try Botox.
But Botox is a beauty treatment that older women get – not young, growing girls who are too young to understand what Botox really is,
Kerry, a part-time esthetician, has done the treatments to her own face and then started injected her daughter with the anti-wrinkle solution. Kerry gives Britney the Botox in three locations on her face, five shots in total. All this for beauty pageants reportedly.
Kerry says that she is not the first to do this; in a competitive industry such as beauty pageants, waxing and botox has become the norm. Just yesterday, I wrote about young girls being sexualized in magazines and television shows.
What I’d like to know is – WHY?
How would Botox make a difference on a young girl who doesn’t even have any wrinkles yet? She is a child! She’s only eight years old. How detrimental is this doing to her young, growing mind?
“It hurts sometimes,” said Britney. “It makes me nervous. But I get used to it.”
When asked about the waxing, Britney described it as “super super hard”.
The problem isn’t the physical pain – although some would argue that the mother is bordering on criminal behavior – it is the psychological and emotional damage all of this is doing to the child.
This girl is being encouraged by her mother that she needs Botox and waxing in order to be beautiful… I feel sorry for this young girl who will likely spend her life having poor body image issues.
Her mother is supposed to be the parent here, guiding and protecting her daughter. She should be allowing her daughter to be a kid and enjoy her childhood. She should be showing her the right way in growing up to be a confident young woman.
But instead, this mother has introduced her child to a life of superficial views, that beauty is plastic and simply not real.
Has our world become that shallow?
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Absolutely not. this is unacceptable. Child Welfare services visit the homes of many responsible parents who do nothing wrong, yet THIS? this goes unnoticed as child abuse??? unbelieveable and unacceptable.