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Too much Too Young - ITV1 now - I feel a bitch fest comin on!

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MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:08

Who's gonna get the ball rolling then! Oooh me! Jordan is her roll model!!!!

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KezzaG · 24/07/2007 22:13

LOL I just looked to see if there was a thread on this. I am open mouthed.

Her mother is just awful.

MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:14

Shes a pretty enough girl, but not special!

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KezzaG · 24/07/2007 22:15

But its so important to be pretty or no one will like you!!!

And this from someone who is bullied at school for the way she looks, how strange.

HairyToe · 24/07/2007 22:15

Makes me v. sad. My baby girls are tiny but I hate to think of them being subjected to this kind of pressure. Please tell mw that isn't a typical 10 year old?

MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:17

It most definately isn't! My dd is 11 and she knows whats right and wrong about her body!

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KezzaG · 24/07/2007 22:19

quite ironic that they have just showed an add for Heat magazine showing their article on stars freaky bodies.

No wonder poor girls today are so critical of themselves.

Practicalpet · 24/07/2007 22:20

Counting calories at 14

MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:20

If these kids have issues about their weight and the way they look, it can only have come from one place - their mothers!! I have been sooo careful about the way I talk about food and my body in front of my dd. The mothers must have issues to pass onto their dds. It makes me so cross!

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MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:23

This woman is deluded! Who the hell is in charge in this house - clearly not her!

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brimfull · 24/07/2007 22:24

shameless bump for my own thread

sadly dd has quite a few friends who restrict their eating

MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:26

OMG!!!!! Is that not child abuse!

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MaureenMLove · 24/07/2007 22:32

Thank god thats over! I don't think I could have stood an hours worth of child abuse.

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MummyPenguin · 24/07/2007 22:36

Bollox wanted to watch this. Anyone know if/when it's repeated. It will probably turn up on ITV2 at some stage.

EsmeWeatherwax · 24/07/2007 22:57

Made me really sad too. Not to mention angry...what was that girl's mum thinking! Spray tans, Jordan for a role model...and thats ok? Made me fear for my wee baby, if thats the way lassies go on these days. Lol...when did I turn into my mother...

angmarie · 25/07/2007 07:25

I couldnt believe a child going for a spray tan , no way would my husband let me treat my daughter like that , I know most girls like putting on lip gloss for parties and there hair nice and nail varnish but that was way over the top . Those children were being made to grow up too quickly by there parents , they grow up too quickly as it is withouy being encouraged .

That one that was anorexic was awful it made me feel sick when they shown the photos of her how can you let your child get like that .

electra · 25/07/2007 07:51

I found this programme very disturbing indeed. The mother of the child mentioned in the OP is behaving in a way that is simply irresponsible imo (judgemental though that is).

Scary thing is, I have noticed how easily children absorb messages from almost anywhere. Once I was flicking through the Sky channels (in the day) and a picture of a pole dancer in a silver bikini came on for a second. Dd2 (aged barely 3 at the time) looked up to me and said "Mummy is that called beautiful?"

MaureenMLove · 25/07/2007 08:10

I think you just have to hope that you bring up your own dd's with the love and encouragement to be happy about the way she looks and also teach her rights and wrongs of eating and food in general. So far, my dd is 11 and she is well balanced, understands healthy living and does not have issues with her body. SO FAR. I can only go through the next, and probably the most influential years of her life, hoping that things don't change.

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Malfoynomore · 25/07/2007 11:22

I thought it was awful to listen to that 10 year old and how she believes you got to be pretty to have friends and that if you are ugly/chubby you are going to be firendless and no one will like you, but well, it's all from her mohter isn't it....stupid cow...think is that poor girl will get a major shock, because like someone else said, yes she is pretty enough , but she isn't anyhting special the way they made out, and in the adult world of modelling forinstance people will not just say nice things because they don't want to hurt the other persons feeling, which undoubtedly still happens otherwise they wouldn't be as disillusioned.

To angmarie...feel your last comment was rather unfair, because anorexia, well, it's difficult to beat and very difficult to help your child when they have this illness....and it became really obvious that the pressure did come from the outside, not from the familyhome, her parents did really well to help her as they did. Anorexia is not just soul destroying to the vitim but also the family. I really did feel so bad for the poor girl though, I mena, she wasn't big to start of with but it goes to show that when something is put into your head how it becomes part of the person.

The tanning obcessive...now, I can understand why the mum says at least she isn't taking drugs...of course....but well, she already looked old skin wise, what will she look like in her early twenties/midtwenties...never mind her thirties....and truely hope she will not have to deal with skincancer...

angmarie · 25/07/2007 16:00

Sorry if you found what I said unfair but as a parent I hope that I could do whatever I could to stop my child getting like that . Surly there must behelp that they can get from NHS etc to stop it getting as bad as it did.
Also why did her own GPnot do something about it surely somebody must of picked up that things werent right.

My friend was going aneroxic and it got pickedup before things got serious by her parents and also by her friends and she got help

Malfoynomore · 25/07/2007 16:54

Thing is, they mentioned, in this case, that it happened within 1/2 year that she lost so much weight, which is very fast, so, I owuld htink that at first they may not have been that worried, just thinking it's a phase, especially as anorexics are brilliant at covering it up, then say after 3 month they noticed and probably appealed to their daughter and hoped and woops...iykwim...
It's not always that easy to find help fast, and also the person that is anorexic needs to want the help too, to make it possible to help....there are so many issues...and of course we would all like to believe we notice quickly, but it can't happen like that all the time...due to the nature of the beast....

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