If this wasn't Botox, what was it? Sugar water?

There’s no doubt the so-called Botox mom is full of something, but as it turns out, it might not be needles filled with wrinkle-smoothing injectables.

A new story alleges that Kerry Campbell might have stretched the truth about giving her 8-year-old daughter Botox because she was desperate for publicity. And by stretched the truth, she lied.

Campbell recently made news — big time — after going on TV to own up to giving her daughter Britney the liquid magic so she’d have an edge in beauty competitions. So disturbing was her story that Child Protective Services took her daughter from her and launched an investigation.

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Botox mom under investigation in San Francisco.

This could certainly cause worry lines:

The San Francisco mother who went on Good Morning America yesterday to defend her 8-year-old daughter’s botox treatments is being investigated. The mother was completely unapologetic, Rebecca wrote yesterday, and said the wrinkle-minimizing treatments were necessary for success in the cut-throat kid beauty pageant circuit. Continue reading »

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Mom Defends Giving Daughter Botox on TV

A month or so ago, I wrote about Kerry Campbell, the San Francisco mom who injects her 8 year-old daughter with Botox to minimize her “wrinkles”. Today, Campbell made an appearance on Good Morning America to explain herself. Campbell was completely unapologetic about her choices, saying flatly that if Britney is to succeed in the cut-throat world of kiddie beauty pageants, she’s going to have to have Botox.

In a heartbreaking interview with GMA correspondent Lara Spencer, Britney is asked why she gets the injections. Her first answer: “I don’t know.” After a bit of coaching from her mom, she acknowledges that she doesn’t like the wrinkles on her face, a puzzling concept, until we learn that she’s actually talking about the lines that appear on her face when she’s smiling.

Kerry Campbell is adamant in her stance, which is, essentially: “Everybody’s doing it”.

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If you watch TLC’s “Toddlers and Tiaras,” you’re probably already familiar with Lon Enos, dad of 11-year-old Hali’a, and David Perez, dad of 4-year-old Ava.

Instead of the classic stage moms, they are “pageant dads,” a new breed of dads who bond with their little girls over beauty pageant competitions, according to MSNBC.com. Is that a refreshing change of gender roles or is it sending the wrong message to these little girls? Continue reading »

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She was just a kid when we first saw her, and now Drew Barrymore is a mom of sorts – she sent her first baby out onto DVD last week. Whip It is Barrymore’s first film as a director, a coming of age tale that’s tailor made for opening doors between teens and their parents.

Babble spoke with Barrymore about a few topics she knows a bit about – main character Bliss Cavendar’s teenage rebellion (in the form of running off from pageants to become a rollerderby queen), growing up in the spotlight and her relationship with her mom. Continue reading »

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In January, she took to the stage in a black bikini to compete for the Miss America crown. This week, Miss Virginia 2008 Tara Wheeler sat down to shave her hair off to help fight kid’s cancer.

She passed her crown on in June, so Wheeler doesn’t need the locks that will be shorn to  hold it up anymore. Instead, she’s turning her head into a walking billboard of sorts for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a national non-profit which raises money for children’s cancer research and treatment. Continue reading »

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