last thursday, a story came out about a mother that's been injecting her 8-year-old daughter with botox. yes, botox! apparently, the mother had heard about this practice through the beauty pageant circuit (using the fact that she's not the only one doing this to her defense) and claims that her daughter asked for botox to rid her of wrinkles (which actually appear to be her dimples).
there are several things that bother me about this. for starters, i find it hard to believe that an 8-year-old thinks about wrinkles, but if she does, that she knows about botox. during the interview on GMA, when the daughter was asked why she was receiving botox, her first response was "i don't know," followed by some prompting about the "wrinkles" and "lines" that she believes she has. secondly, the mother would not disclose who or where she was obtaining the botox from, which should almost be a sign that something is amiss. and can we discuss what the heck this mother is thinking? what about the potential psychological effects that could be caused by doing this? isn't she the parent here?
the more i thought about this broadcast over the weekend, the more it aggravated me. on monday, there was a follow-up to the story: the girl was taken from her mother's home upon a CPS investigation.
what ever happened to telling your child she is beautiful just the way she is?
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