From the article:
It sounds to me that mom “suggested” it to the little girl, who didn’t really understand what it meant. The mom was not looking out after this girl’s best interests as a person, either emotionally or physically. She was just trying to make a more perfect little doll to dress up and parade in front of others.
FWIW, Jezebel.com thinks the story (stories?) might be just a hoax. I sure hope so 
Child Beauty Pagents: Complete warping of the future generation by the warped and twisted now generation.
Does Botox not require a prescription? I know aestheticians can administer it (which I think is stupid), but where did she get it from? Is there a doctor out there who seriously believes that the risks of injecting a toxin near the facial nerves of a small child outweigh the benefits of smoothing non-existent wrinkles?
recalls Octomom
Yeah…yeah, there probably is…
I wouldnt be surprised if it was an hoax, or a publicity stunt.
The mother could have just shaved her legs. Waxing is painful.
The mother should be shot (just an expression)for giving her botox injections though.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The majority of these crazy pageant moms are trying to live vicariously through their daughters. The daughter winning pageants serves to inflate the MOTHER’S self-esteem. Most of the pageant mothers are fat and ugly.
I’m not crazy about it but I can understand it.
It’s just another level of the continuing battle of growing up. When I was little, “good girls didn’t wear pierced earrings,” “they didn’t dress like they were ‘asking for it’,” “They didn’t wear make up till they were 16,” and so forth.
Now babies have pierced ears, it doesn’t matter what you wear, and make up is worn by five year old girls.
Botox is somewhat different as it’s a medical procedure but eventually it’ll be looked back on something like 'Why on Earth did we worry about it."
Do I need to start a separate thread about my horror at the idea of “virgin waxing”? A google search shows that it’s listed as a service in at least one NY Day Spa, but it doesn’t seem prevalent. Most of the results relate to “40 Year Old Virgin”
If the story isn’t a hoax I am indeed dismayed. Maybe the 8 year old girl did ask for botox. My son asks for things all the time that he’s too young for, or that are inappropriate for some other reason. I’m the parent. My job is to say no to those things. Kerry should have said no to Brittney (if they exist, and she really did ask for botox).
I will admit that I watch Toddlers & Tiaras, mainly to assure myself that I am not the worst mother in the world. My heart breaks for some of the contestants. Some of them seem to legitimately enjoy it, but not all.
I remember one episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, though I’m sure it happens all the time. A woman had dragged her kids out of bed at something like five am (pre-dawn) to drive to a pageant, because she couldn’t afford a room at the hotel overnight.
This poor little girl, she was about 5 or so, had been up since 5am. She’d been prodded and tweaked and prinked and purled and tweezed to within an inch of her life, and at somewhere in the middle of the afternoon she had a tantrum - as little kids do. She didn’t want to go out onto the stage, she didn’t want to do talent, she was tired.
And there’s mom grabbing her arm and hissing at her that she will NOT do this to her, that she will NOT embarrass her and she was NOT going to go home without at least one crown…
I was so sad.
This behavior (and the child beauty pageants, and really pretty much ALL beauty pageants) is such a horrible way to teach a child to think of themselves in such a shallow, materialistic and ultimately selfish and utterly meaningless way.
How awful.
If you want to personally attack me, take it to the Pit.
“She also has her virgin wax monthly, which gets rid of her fluffy leg hair and makes sure she wont develop pubic hair in the future. It will save her a fortune in waxing when she’s older.” This is creepy as all hell.
“I’d rather she be perfect and have a little frozen face.” This sounds pathological.
Is there a psychological label for pageant moms yet?
Good heavens, what generation are you from? 
I’m just about ready to go full body hair as a protest against this kind of idiocy.
I wasn’t allowed to pierce my ears until I was 14 (I’m 42 now) I think a lot of my friends were around 12. In our neighborhood it was seen as something more grown up then. My mother wanted me to wait until she thought I was old enough to make a decision that would have permanent results.
My mother had hers done at the same time I did. She hadn’t before that because of her grandmother’s declaration that “only gypsies pierce their ears.” My mother, and her mother didn’t agree with that, but niether one wanted to cross her.
A lot of Hispanics in my area pierce the ears of their baby girls, because it wards off the Evil Eye. I’m not sure HOW young these girls are, but the girls aren’t able to walk yet.
You shouldn’t though. You are watching the freakshow which is adding to ratings which is adding to the attention that is driving the attention whores.
He didn’t say *young *girls couldn’t wear earrings. He said “good girls didn’t wear pierced earrings”. :eek: I never heard that one!