Next time someone argues with me that gay people or single people shouldn’t have children and that the best parents are heterosexual and married? I’m going to refer them right here to this story.
If you thought eyebrow waxing little girls so they could be pageant princesses was unspeakable, you may have to invent your own words to describe the disturbing nature of the woman who is but injecting her 8 year old child with botox so that she can become a “superstar”? And making her have regular full body waxes – including her genitals. For the same reason.
Kerry Campbell is a 34 year old beautician from Birmingham and she wants her daughter Britney to be a star. So how does she do this? Send her to ballet classes? What about singing lessons? Not enough. Kerry buys botox and fillers online and injects it into her daughters forehead, lips and around her eyes. She also takes her routinely to get her body waxed. Her daughter has not yet hit puberty. She is 8.
“What I am doing for Britney now will help her become a star. I know one day she will be a model, actress or singer, and having these treatments now will ensure she stays looking younger and baby-faced for longer” says proud mum.
“I’m sure people reading this will think I am being irresponsible, but I ensure that I test the Botox and fillers I buy online on myself first.” Oh well that’s good. Very important that you try them on yourself before injecting them into your 8 year old daughter.
Irresponsible? How about criminal? This is child abuse plain and simple.
Despite doctors and plastic surgeons recommending Botox only be used by adults, Kerry claims Britney is in no danger.
Kerry, who also regularly administers Botox and fillers on herself, says: “I’m proud Britney is getting to have these beauty treatments at such a young age.
“I wish that I’d had the same advantages when I was younger.
Worryingly, Britney – whose research scientist dad died four years ago aged 83 – regards the injections and waxing as part of normal life.
She demands the top-ups of Botox, complaining she can see wrinkles.
Britney says: “My friends think it’s cool I have all the treatments and they want to be like me. I check every night for wrinkles, when I see some I want more injections.
“They used to hurt, but now I don’t cry that much.
“I also want a boob and nose job soon, so that I can be a star.”.”
Kerry first injected Britney with Botox in May last year, as a present to celebrate her eighth birthday.
It’s really really difficult to find the right words here. You might be more successful than me. But what troubles me most (on a long list of deeply troubling things about this story) is that this societal obsession we have with youth and perfection and erasing wrinkles and hair and all signs that we’re not human Barbie dolls, is trickling down to kids and parents.
This case is extreme but is it symptomatic of a bigger problem?
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We all agree it is child abuse. We all hope that the law in the U.S. is now protecting this little girl. Now what can we do about all those parents in Australia piercing the ears of their children? (Just because it is done at the local pharmacy does not make it any less abusive!) I had mine done when I was 13 and it HURTS! it was my badgering of my mum to get it done, (she was not keen about it at all) but at least I could understand the concept of what was about to happen clearly. Are there Australian laws against ear-piercing of children?
I'm seventeen and a British immigrant to Australia. I remember one of my friends getting her ears pierced in the UK when she was around six, and bugging my Mum to let me have mine done. She told me "when you're twelve" and I held her to it. We went together, and as hers had closed up when she had my little brother, she went first to reassure me. I didn't find it that painful, to be honest, and I have a very low tolerance for pain. So far as I know, the only laws here about piercings on children is they have to have a parent or guardian permission, and one present. I'm not sure if that ends at sixteen or eighteen, but I'm pretty sure it's sixteen as a girl I know got her nose pierced only for her mum to find out days later when she finally noticed. Honestly, I don't think piercings are that big of a deal. If the kids don't want them, most of the time they wont get them. I know plenty of girls my age whose mothers would like them to get their ears pierced, but they have said no consistently. At the same time, I have a seventeen year old (nearly eighteen) friend whose mother will not allow her to have her ears pierced, ever. I don't think this mum realises her daughter is almost legally an adult and will move to another state as soon as she graduates. The same friend is not allowed to watch MA15+ movies, although legally she is allowed to see and buy them without parental permission. This can all go both ways, but in relation to this article, no child should be having Botox. It simply isn't healthy. What really bothers me about this is the "virgin wax" thing, which I hadn't heard of before, but is totally horrifying. I have no problems with whether people have or do not have pubic hair, to me it's the same as shaving armpits, legs, or face. I choose not to, but others are welcome. But for a little girl, to stop her from ever getting that hair? Removing the choice? It's disgusting. She isn't old enough to make a decision like that for herself... no one else should be making it for her.
I think that is so wrong & borders on child abuse.
It doesn't border on child abuse, it has well and truly crossed that border and left it far behind. It sickens me to the core.
It definitely is child abuse for me. And I really don't see the point of forcing your kids to join beauty pageants at a young age of 8. Hope this article will enlighten all the parents out there thinking of the same thing.
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