And here I was thinking myself a lucky little girl for intercepting Florida Prepaid College Plan as a young one.
Sarah Burge, an accolade of U.K. tabloid royalty, first caught attention for her questionable parenting when she awarded daughter Poppy with a boob job voucher for her seventh birthday. Naturally, come Christmas, the public expected Burge to top it. “She asks for surgery all the time,” the mother told Daily Mail. “She wants to look good and lipo is one of those procedures that will always come in handy.”
A plastic surgery veteran herself, the gift seems slightly less outlandish. Slightly. And hey, it adheres to Poppy’s wishlist. “I wanted a new computer, a holiday and a voucher for surgery,” the young girl said. “When I got it all, it was a dream come true. All my friends were jealous. I can’t wait to be like Mummy with big boobs. They’re pretty.” [via CBS News]
I know I personally agonized over exactly when my parents would allow me to shave my legs in even kindergarten. Then the fact that I barely maintained an A-cup haunted my middle school years. More than a handful of girls from my high school graduated on honor roll specifically in exchange for a boob job promised by their parents. Is this any different?
Is this just the next generation’s deal? Can we expect this to become at all more normal? What do you think of Burge’s gift? Do you think there is an age more appropriate for such a gift?
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Why can’t she just wait for her daughter to develop fully before jumping into anything? My goodness. Patience is so short these days.
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this is repulsive. I actually saw this lady on a talk show awhile back, she is insane.
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She should be getting a gift certificate for Toys R Us, not liposuction.
rose / 980 posts
Is this another one of those pranks by a British mag?
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Everyone just wants to grow up so fast. What’s wrong with people? Why can’t kids just enjoy life while they’re still young? This is really just disgusting. What kinds of morals and desires are being instilled in young children?
I don’t remember anyone in highschool graduating in the honor roll for a boob job. Then again maybe I just had friends who were more concerned about character and important matters. I wasn’t allowed to shave till my 16th birthday, so I wore pants and long skirts, big deal.
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WOW. Not to be rude but her mom kind of looks like a dude in drag…… I hope she gives her certificates at least to a better surgeon then her own
orchid / 211 posts
The mom looks like a Barbie doll.
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@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - Definitely not, I saw her on a legit talk show a few months ago. Pretty sure it was The Doctors. She was yelling at them defending her side saying her daughter will grow up and do it anyway so she is just supporting her in her decision to look the best she can. I couldn’t even watch the entire show because I was so infuriated that this woman was allowed to procreate.
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This is really creepy.
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Way to teach your daughter how to love herself the way she is.
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*vomits*
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The only “good” thing is they aren’t redeemable until the girl is 18. I saw her on a talk show and I really tried to understand her point of view. The mother herself had her face destroyed when she was attacked by an ex-boyfriend and why she started getting plastic surgery in the first place. That is understandable. But Poppy is a beautiful little girl and her mother was very good looking too before the assault. A per-pubsecent girl shouldn’t be worried about having big boobs. MAYBE she will benefit from not worrying about it because if she doesn’t bloom she’ll shrug it off and say “it’s cool, I have a certificate for a boob job when I turn 18″.
@voodoo_flower_child@xanga - I saw her on the Tyra Show.
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Im buying my own boobjob after I have my 2nd kid (just incase they decide to work next time, I wasnt able to breastfeed) It will be around $5000. I waited throughout middle school, barely any notice in high school and Im in my 4th year of college with a couple guys who “like” them but when I can read shirts that have words on them :/ I need bigger boobs lol. You would think if I was destined to have a kid realitvely young that God would hook me up but NO. I cant wait.
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Good job there, mom. Teach your daughter young that she’s not good enough. I’m sure that will do wonders for her later on in life.
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when’s the expiry date for this voucher ?
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Wow. This makes me incredibly sad. How could someone raise their child to believe that they’re not beautiful the way they are? What a shame.
Getting a boob job after HS Graduation is way different…this little girl is going to grow up thinking something is wrong with her. At least by the time a girl is 18, she can make that decision for herself.
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@TiredSoVeryTired@xanga - nope, sadly this one’s completely genuine :-/
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It took me a while to figure out what the hell lipsuction was.
daisy / 501 posts
Wow. This is bullshit. I’m not talking about the content of the post, either.
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To each their own is what I say. I doubt this will become normal as most people can’t afford to pay for their children to have plastic surgery and most people don’t raise their children to fixate on looks. It is shallow to say the least, but this is no different than people my age whose parents paid for them to have nose jobs, boob jobs etc when they were in high school. It is also no different than people who teach their children to equate material things with love etc. You just have to hope that the children outgrow the upbringing their parents give them.
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*sigh*… People are so stupid….
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You guys stole this from ChicBananas. Funny how you write this two days after she not only wrote it, but submitted it to lovelyish. So you won’t feature what she wrote, but you WILL write your own post?
FUCKING BULLSHIT on your guys’ part. UNBELIEVABLE.
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@chicbananas@xanga - @DrakonFyre@xanga - I knew this looked familiar. I commented on the original post a few days ago. How will Lovelyish explain this? Very uncool, imo.
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@TigersLovePepper@xanga - I have screenshots of ChicBananas submission (still in queue, might I add..), of this post, and of Bananas’ post.
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@DrakonFyre@xanga - Good! I would love to keep up with how they handle this.
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@TigersLovePepper@xanga - @DrakonFyre@xanga - Won’t be the first time. They stole my Justin briber one too.
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@verified_but_still_denied@xanga - People need to screenshot and post about this stuff or they’ll think they can get away with it.
sunflower / 316 posts
@TigersLovePepper@xanga - @DrakonFyre@xanga - @verified_but_still_denied@xanga - I’ve called them out in the past for posts that appeared to be jacked from Xangans as well… The irony is that the posts never appear on Lovelyish with the quality they had on Xanga. Whether it’s because Lovelyish is trying to disguise the plagiarism or merely is committed to their standard of mediocre quality postings, I can’t be sure. ChicBanana’s post was clearly well-researched and well-written; I’m not sure why you couldn’t just run her post instead of a cheap rip-off of it.
Either way, there have been a fair few incidents lately where I have seriously questioned the judgment of the the editing staff, so I’m just going to throw this one on the stack.
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In a context where Lovelyish’s content is abysmal enough already, you have to resort to stealing actually interesting pieces from Xangans without crediting them? Bravo.
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@Lost_In_Reverie@xanga - @nimbusthedragon@xanga - @DrakonFyre@xanga - Bad form. I will keep this in mind before submitting anything to this sister-site. I would always much rather read the real deal anyway, not some cheap knock-off.
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Is this one of those joke stories?? Holy Christ. Her mom looks like Truck Stop Hooker Barbie. So she is on a fast track to becoming Truck Stop Hooker Skipper or Stacy or whoever Barbie’s little sister is these days. GACK.
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This is freaking ridiculous. Fucking dumbasses now days.
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@chicbananas@xanga - your post was much better, too. longer with more explanation and more pictures. this is just a cheap rip-off.
daisy / 501 posts
@raspberryjade@xanga - awe thanks. I thought it was pretty good and detailed, which is why I submitted it. Ah well.
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Guys, you do a terrible credit by comparing @chicbananas@xanga ‘s post with this article. She actually showed that she did more than regurgitate the first paragraph of another new’s article. She put like, yanno, actual thought into her post. Lovelyish doesn’t do that shit. It’s too much goddamn work. Lovelyish articles are more or less (usually less) 3 quotes and 10 sentences. That crap didn’t even get a passing grade in high school. I wonder if someone made it to 8th grade and decided that math was hard, english was hard, and providing an article with anything new or relevant to say was overrated.
They would have been better off with a post that said, “Look at all these other news sites. We don’t care to put any effort into anything.”
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kind of makes me want to unsubscribe to lovelyish. If you have to rip other peoples blogs off to get a good story then why are you even blogging??
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@voodoo_flower_child@xanga - Yeah I already did.
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What people need to do is stop commenting here and go to @chickbananas page!!!!
(last comment here I promise!)
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WTF is wrong with people?
sunflower / 316 posts
@SasGal@xanga - That’s like how NY1 holds up the newspaper to the camera and calls it reporting. I just call it lazy.
*shrugs* I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. No matter how you slice it, this reflects pretty poorly on Lovelyish. Either they honestly didn’t see the submission and just wrote a crappy post all on their own (which means that whoever is in charge of checking the submissions is failing miserably at their job, as is whoever is in charge of keeping up with current events, as this story is over a week old now), or they did see the submission and decided that instead of going with something well-researched and well-written, they’d just take what was obviously a good post idea and dumb it down to their usual standards.
Like others have said, I’m out. I’m not giving this place any more attention.
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giving your 7 year old a gift to get liposuction is taboo. morally wrong.
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@classyposh@xanga - It certainly misses the fact that beauty goes far deeper than the body. I am deeply, DEEPLY sad for the young girls who are put through such “gifts”. They don’t know any better. I love when a woman encourages a little girl about physical beauty, like having a girl’s night playing with make-up and all (we NEED girl-to-girl deals), but without the HEART, it’s vanity. Horrible, ugly vanity.
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@Rhindon@xanga - absolutely agree. they should be teaching beauty from the inside and good morals and values
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Lovelyish, you all can go fuck yourselves. I see no need to be “polite” to a bunch of lazy thieves who churn out more shit and garbage than 5 minutes of “Toddlers & Tiaras”.
Here’s hoping you get shut down like Mancouch and HardestLevel. Wankers.
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@RazielV@xanga - ALL THE RECS! MORE RECS FOR THE REC GOD.
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@RazielV@xanga - Might want to screencap your comment. They have a habit of deleting unfavourable comments.
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@chicbananas@xanga - I am sorry this is happening to you! It’s not right that lovelyish is copying another person’s work.
Thumbs down (or zero eprop) for this entry.
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@DrakonFyre@xanga - Seriously? I’m shocked they even know how to USE the delete function, let alone know what they’re deleting.
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@RazielV@xanga - One of their staff wrote a horribly prejudiced post against celebrity moms, that was not at all journalistic but just flat out mean and nasty. I commented saying that they directly are inferring that I am automatically a shitty mom just because I’ve done work as a pornstar. They deleted my comment and no explanation was ever offered.
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@RazielV@xanga - hahahahahahahaha
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@DrakonFyre@xanga - What do you expect from a group that lacks in any form of integrity and self-thought? Wait, you were a pornstar?
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@RazielV@xanga - Technically it’s called “webcam modelling” but yes.
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It’s strange how people would do this when I clearly remember that when someone wants to publish on lovelyish it’s needs to be a content that is original (meaning by you) and not copying someone else’s entry. Since when have the rules change?
This is still plagiarism even if lovelyish didn’t use all of chicbannas’s entry.
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@DrakonFyre@xanga - #winning
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This actually disgusts me…
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is she on drugs?! SHE’S FUCKING 7 YEARS OLD FOR GOD’S SAKES! WTF does she need liposuction for she ain’t even developed titties and has not gone through puberty yet not even close! that’s just borderline child abuse..
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@classyposh@xanga - Though I’m a man and don’t wear make-up (…except for that one time in college…), I appreciate writers who try to help women with creative make-up tips. I don’t see a problem with wanting to look beautiful, skin-wise. It relates to a natural part of a woman’s psychological/spiritual being. However, I agree with you, as well, that there needs to be MORE than just that. There needs to be encouragement regarding what it means to be a woman. As a Christian, I believe the best way to do that is through Biblical references and the wisdom of Godly women. Still, encouragement that goes beyond the skin is critical. Absolutely.
@DrakonFyre@xanga - I’m NO fan of porn (it’s nearly cost me a wonderful relationship with the most beautiful woman in my life), but even I know that God is forgiving and that someone is more than just the sin they’ve committed. I certainly wouldn’t ever count you out for consideration of being a devoted, loving mom just because you have questionable history. What Lovelyish did was flat out wrong. I’ll gladly back you up on that one, and I don’t even know you.
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@CrAdLe2daGrAve@xanga - LOL While I wouldn’t word it that way, I agree with the child abuse part. Too true. What a way to warp a fragile, developing mind. “Messed up” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
peony / 2 posts
Ha ha ha …thank god for stupid people without them this world would be very boring place.
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She’s just doing it for attention, idk why everyone is actually feeding into this.
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LOL U.K.! KEEP IT UP!
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Dear lovelyish, retire.
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The giving of the surgery to a child at that AGE is the strange part… if the kid were 25 or 30 and the mom gave it to her, I would shake my head but not feel bad about it. Encouraging that kind of serious body modification to look “pretty” at such a young age is going to mentally change her.
rose / 791 posts
I love how Lovelyish is completely ignoring the fact that they plagiarised @chicbananas post. They’re normally all over the comments section.
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Yeah I’m sure it whats she wants, considering she was raised on her mother’s values.
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@written_conversations@xanga - Since Jessica, the Queen of sticking her nose into EVERY SINGLE NOOK OF THE INTERNETS, left they’ve been pretty quiet in the comments section.
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@written_conversations@xanga - I was thinking the same thing
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@written_conversations@xanga - ikr.
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@written_conversations@xanga - And it’s weird that this article is even still up here =/.
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Maybe when her daughter has actually…oh IDK…hit puberty.
This is ridiculous.
rose / 791 posts
@summereque@xanga - @TakingxOverxMe@xanga - @aprilfoools@xanga - maybe they’re hoping if they ignore it, the whole problem will go away and people will forget about it? lol. It’s that people like Beca are normally always replying to comments.
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@written_conversations@xanga - I am not ignoring this at all! Shame on lovelyish!
daisy / 502 posts
Let’s start by teaching your daughter to hate herself before she’s even started to develop. Great.
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I would never give my child anything like that, especially at that young age. Parents should tell their children that they are beautiful and encourage them to love themselves. For goodness sake, she’s 7, they have no clue what her adult body will even look like. Yikes!
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Not only is this completely screwed up, but I don’t know how she could find a plastic surgeon who would perform the surgery. Plus, how can she get a boob job before she hits puberty? I mean I don’t know all of the technicalities, but there isn’t anything there to work with. Plus no fat to suction..why would she need or want a liposuction? Too bad they can’t take kids away who belong to stupid parents.