Moms: Please Don't Do This.

[bettyellen]

85. No, but I have worked with kids as models in NYC, and it did bother me the way some kids were

treated as a commodity- and very sexualized at a young age. Full makeup, padded bras, and encoraged to flirt with grownups at 10 yrs old.
I had one idiot parent who kept sending boyfriends and drunk teenagers to escort her child to fittings. The kid was allowed to attend a party with Puff Daddy and j Lo without an adult escort. She wore what would normally be seen in music videos, with false eyelashes and full heavy makeup all the time. Her family was not supervising her, but instead exploiting her, so this poor kid was kind of pushing the limits with her families consent. She made most people around her really uncomfortable- concerned that she might be treated more as a consenting adult than the child she was because those were the "signals" her clothes and behaviour gave off.
The same things that are okay at the beach or a video shoot or circus performance- don;t feel okay in the office or subeways of NYC. They just do not. Context.