11 year old wannabe model:"I don't need brains"

[Conserative Morality]

AN 11-YEAR-old girl who spends £300 ($600) a month on beauty treatments and travels to beauty pageants all over the world says she doesn't need brains.

Sasha Bennington, 11, is the apple of her mother's eye.

The school girl, from Burnley in Lancashire, had her first set of false nails glued on at eight and now enjoys hair extensions, fake tans and pedicures, London's Daily Mail newspaper reports.

Her mother, Jayne, 31, said she loved her daughter's look.

"All the kids are at it now," Mrs Bennington told the paper.

'We spend about £300 a month on beauty treatments for her. Sasha's friends are the same. All girls their age are. Of course they are. Why else would you be able to buy make-up for pre-teens at Boots?"

Asked how she saw herself, Sasha replied: "Blonde, pretty, dumb - I don't need brains."

Mrs Bennington said she couldn't understand the fuss.

"None of it is permanent. Tans wash off. Hair extensions come out. Why all the fuss?'

Just over a year ago, the fuss was huge when Mrs Bennington entered a 10-year-old Sasha in the junior Miss British Isles competition - Britain's first adult-style beauty pageant for children.

"Because this country doesn't have a tradition of this sort of thing, the organisers didn't quite know how to play things. Looking back, it was all very conservative. They kept saying they wanted the girls to look natural. Why? Let them slap it on! What's the harm?," she said.

Earlier this year Sasha became the first British child to dip a scarlet-tipped toe into the American pageant scene, with her mother at her side.

Sasha didn't win but Mrs Bennington loved the process, describing it as "the best fun ever".

"It was just fantastic," she said.

She believed her daughter was a bona fide celebrity and was proud to have been instrumental in making that happen

"The pageant was like a dream. The girls are encouraged to put on masses of make-up. It was just like a big theatrical event, like being transported to another world."

She was happy with the pageant pictures of Sasha - looking shocking with deep red lips and heavily smoked eyes - probably says more about her than her daughter.

"The pictures are amazing, and Sasha is such a lucky girl to have them. I'd love to have those sort of pictures, nice pictures, rather than ones you hide away because you can't bear to look at them."

She also declared that she wanted her daughter to be the next Jordan.

"Of course. Jordan is her idol and I fully support her in that. She's a great role model, this really down-to-earth woman who has made a big success of her life. She's a better role model than Britney Spears any day."

She maintained it was always been Sasha who had driven her own "career".

Even as a baby she was a "total poser", playing up for the cameras and basking in the attention.

"She's always wanted to be a model, 100 per cent. I'm just helping her do what she wants, like any good parent would. It's not pushing her into anything. I hate it when people say I'm a pushy parent. I'm not. I just want the best for her."

Methinks she doth protest too much.

Anyway, this is.... Shocking and disturbing at the least. $600 a month for an eleven-year-olds BEAUTY TREATMENTS? "I don't need brains"? I'm a bit shocked right now.

So fellow NSGers, what do you think about this mess?
Link:Article.

[Muravyets]

I think this mother is an idiot with profound emotional problems, and there will be trouble when that girl gets older.

[Megaloria]

Well, now I need to go get ice cream or my day is ruined.

[Conserative Morality]

Well, now I need to go get ice cream or my day is ruined.

*Hands Megaloria ice cream* My day is ruined anyway.

[Damor]

So fellow NSGers, what do you think about this mess?

Time for a full lobotomy; I mean, if she doesn't need a brain, why not remove it? We might fill the void with helium, then she has to worry slightly less about her weight as she grows older as well. (Well, not that she'd worry about anything much anymore anyway)

[Call to power]

the mother is a tad loopy (well all mothers think their kids a pretty but yeah) and the kid will rebel like next year so and everything will work out fine

as for what the 11 year old says...well shes 11, at that age I wanted to rule the world >.>

[Partybus]

Can you say...Joan Benet-Ramsey?

[Conserative Morality]

Can you say...Joan Benet-Ramsey?

Joan who?

[Partybus]

Joan who?

She was an American child-model..."kidnapped" and murdered...Just seems a similar parental attitude...

[Damor]

as for what the 11 year old says...well shes 11, at that age I wanted to rule the world >.>

You don't anymore?

[Call to power]

You don't anymore?

like I can be arsed

[Romanar]

"I don't need brains"

Sounds like she takes after her mom.

[Brutland and Norden]

Then I'll get my zombie horde to eat her brains.

[Shining Ys]

Not much worse than Paris Hilton, really. These people have always been around. Marie Antoinette, Cleopatra, that sort of person. She can realistically make a career out of it, if she doesn't turn ugly. The attitude is all wrong, yes, but so are most attitudes.

[Cabra West]

Methinks she doth protest too much.

Anyway, this is.... Shocking and disturbing at the least. $600 a month for an eleven-year-olds BEAUTY TREATMENTS? "I don't need brains"? I'm a bit shocked right now.

So fellow NSGers, what do you think about this mess?
Link:Article.

Is it just me, or does that sound a lot like an article from the Onion?