This seems to be the year of new levels of dedication to beauty and fashion; stories recently have ranged from the slightly obnoxious but innocuous toddler pageants to the full on crazed dedication to plastic surgery for children who have just learned to speak in full sentences and are using them to ask for girdles. The newest story to push the line of children negligence? "Human Barbie", also known as Sarah Burge recently gave her seven year old daughter the birthday present of a voucher for a boob job when she is 16, "when it's legal". According to Fashionista, upon receiving the present the daughter, Poppy, said, "I can't wait to be like Mummy with big boobs. They're pretty." Unlike many of the other scandalous stories that have come out this year, and simply waited for the repercussions, Burge has already made a statement defending her actions saying, "Girls don’t want Snow White and Cinderella any more. They want to be WAGs and famous like Cheryl Cole and Lady Gaga. I’m just supporting her and making her dreams come true."Sure, pop culture icons are definitely becoming the idols for a lot of the young girls today, but is the response to this really fostering their desire to change themselves at such an early age or trying to create a self confidence in the child that could get them THROUGH to the age of seventeen. Plastic surgery shouldn't be something that is taken so lightly; at what point does the daughter negotiate with her mom and get the years pushed up to fourteen? Or earlier? Is plastic surgery really something this girl can discuss intelligently enough with her mom to consider? Or possibly is it the mother who's intelligence matches her daughters and she should be declared unable to make a decision like that for her daughter?
With the Botox mom currently under investigation for child negligence, which section of the line does this cross as well?
Text Corinna Fabre
Source(s): Fashionsta
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