By Claire 16th May 2011
After appearing on the Good Morning America show and admitting to giving Botox injects to her eight year old daughter Britney Campbell , her mother Kerry faced a wave of complaints and criticisms from outraged viewers, has now had her daughter taken away by social workers.
Kerry Campbell was originally from Birmingham, but moved across to the US and is now living in San Francisco, where she enters her daughter into pageant competitions. She stated on the US TV show that to give her daughter a competitive edge she injected the eight year old with Botox injections.
She also stated the she got the idea from other pageant parents who had admitted to her to using injections on their own children, she said: “When Britney takes part in pageants, parents talk about how they have given their daughter an extra jab to plump her lips or lose a wrinkle. Everyone is doing it and talking about it. We are not doing anything illegal, and I don’t want my daughter being the only one who doesn’t have a bit of extra help.”
Officials in San Francisco acted after they received hundreds of calls from concerned views through their child abuse hotline, after which they took the child into care over the weekend, speaking about the situation, Trent Rohrer of the San Francisco social services department stated: “It’s pretty unusual for a mom to be injecting an eight-year-old with Botox and certainly is grounds for an investigation.”
Kerry Campbell also admitted that she waxes her daughter’s legs to prevent hair growth, as well as injecting her with painful Botox injections which her daughter said ‘hurt her face’. Kerry said: “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. All I want is for Britney to have the best start in life, so it is easier for her to become a superstar. More mothers should do it for their daughters. I wish that I’d had the same advantages when I was younger.”
Barbara Thomas, a director with California Gold Coast Pageants said: “I’ve never, ever heard of a child getting that. It’s ridiculous. What would a child have need of Botox for? They don’t have a wrinkle on their face. That woman must be off her rocker.” After organizers of child beauty pageants denied that the young competitors have had to use Botox.
I believe this is the definition of ridiculous. Are you serious... What would provoke any one in their right minds to go and get a child's face injected with fillers just to make the child more attractive. Botox is used to make people look younger, so I don't understand why she would ever go injecting a child with something like this (or the doctor for that matter). She got exactly what she deserves, because if she had the nerve to get an 8 year old botox, what would stop her from getting a 10 year old a nose job, and a 12 year old breast implants!
ReplyDeleteShe is a/her CHILD. She is not a show horse. Pageants have been out of control for a long time and I'm honestly surprised to see something like this took so long to surface.
ReplyDeleteNot only should this woman lose her child and be barred from_all_pageants permanently, I'd have her locked up. She doesn't understand what she did was wrong, so WHAT exactly is to stop her from having another child and doing it again - but not getting caught?