14 DAY TRIAL // It’s a tough life out there in the beauty pageant world, and no one knows it better than Britney Campbell, an 8-year-old girl from California. Her mom, a part-time beautician, regularly gives her Botox injections to prevent the appearance of “wrinkles,” she tells Good Morning America.
Kerry Campbell gives herself Botox treatments as well, but it wasn’t until other moms with girls in kiddie beauty pageants told her that Britney had “wrinkles,” that she considered giving them to her as well.
Speaking on GMA to defend herself, Kerry says there’s no risk in the procedure and, at the same time, no distinct change in Britney’s appearance either, as the video below will confirm.
She sees nothing wrong with giving Botox to her daughter because “everybody else is doing it too.” She also believes she was right in agreeing to it when Britney first complained she had “wrinkles” when she laughed (which are actually dimples).
“We were getting into the pageants. I knew she was complaining about her face, having wrinkles, and things like that. When I brought it up to Britney she was all for it,” the mother says.
“She had watched me do it before. So when we first did it she was fine with it,” Kerry adds.
This would contradict photos shown on GMA only seconds before, of Britney with an ice bag on her face, which goes to show that a child doesn’t respond like an adult does when given an adult’s treatment.
Similarly, it would contradict what Britney herself tells GMA, that the injections hurt and that she used to cry a lot before getting used to the pain.
“The few times that we did it, it would lessen the lines. They wouldn’t completely disappear, she’s a kid. And we don’t do so much to where it’s going to make a big difference. Just on the lines,” Kerry says when asked whether the Botox changes Britney’s face in any perceivable manner.
“My friends think it’s cool I have all the treatments and they want to be like me. I check every night for wrinkles, when I see some I want more injections. They used to hurt, but now I don’t cry that much,” the 8-year-old girl says.
And that’s not the only adult procedure she’s been getting: Kerry also waxed her daughter’s upper legs to get rid of fluff, again, because all the other mothers are also doing it.
“It’s a tough world, the pageant world, I’m telling you. The kids are harsh,” she says in her defense.
The impact these things will have on her daughter’s psychological development may be disastrous, experts tell GMA. Check out the interview below.
