Alicia Douvall Is Nuts
I don't actually know Alicia Douvall but apparently she is some big deal in the UK. Alicia has made a career out of sleeping with celebrities, reality shows like Love Island and posing topless in magazines and is thrilled that her daughter is following in her footsteps.
In an interview with Closer magazine, Alicia says that for her 13th birthday her daughter Destiny wanted an iPhone, Kate Moss perfume and a boob job.
I know that Alicia is going to bear the brunt of my rant here, and we will get to the boob job thing in a minute, but when I was 12 years old I got like gifts and prizes valued at like $50 for my birthday. Forgetting that stupid, and highly addictive MTV show about birthdays, I want to know if parents as a matter of course are really dropping $1000 on gifts for a 13 year old on her birthday. Why does a 13 year old need an iPhone? If the kid tells me that every kid in her class has one, I want to know why. Why do 12 and 13 year old kids need an iPhone? I am okay with them having a cell phone for emergencies. I actually think a prepaid cell phone is a very good idea. That is like $50. Not $50 a month, or $500 for the phone and $100 a month, but just $50.
Now, before I go off on the boob job thing, Destiny used to be known as Georgia. Mom changed her name to Destiny so she would have a better chance at becoming an adult star. Isn't that sweet of mom. Now mom does have some standards and feels that no 13 year old girl should get a boob job. Nope. She is a firm believer that Destiny can't have one until her 16th birthday.
"I think a 16-year-old with a nice, sexy figure will do really well as a model as long as she's managed well. That's why I'm happy for Destiny to have a boob job because it will give her a career. She's been at a modelling agency since she was about six. She'll be more famous than Britney!”
That certainly is a career goal that all young women should aspire to. I seriously worry for this world. Maybe I am just old and my rants are no different from the rants of my elders when faced with youth and their demands, but to me at least it seems as if the parents are just as bad, if not worse. In my opinion, a kid would only ask for these things if mom was okay with them, and had encouraged her to put them on a list. Will today's kids talk about having to make do with just $1000 worth of birthday presents while their kids expect $10,000 a year.
I'm just so sick of me, me, me, and wanting to be famous like Britney and Paris and Lindsay, and The Whore. I just can't believe these are the women that all little girls want to grow up to be. And then to have the parents encouraging them to be just like these women just makes it worse. Lindsay made a couple of Disney movies that are appropriate for a kid, but name me anything else any of these four have done that you would want your kid to do. Anyone? Anyone? Now go ask your kid if they know who each of these four women are, and with the possible exception of The Whore, they will know who they all are.
In an interview with Closer magazine, Alicia says that for her 13th birthday her daughter Destiny wanted an iPhone, Kate Moss perfume and a boob job.
I know that Alicia is going to bear the brunt of my rant here, and we will get to the boob job thing in a minute, but when I was 12 years old I got like gifts and prizes valued at like $50 for my birthday. Forgetting that stupid, and highly addictive MTV show about birthdays, I want to know if parents as a matter of course are really dropping $1000 on gifts for a 13 year old on her birthday. Why does a 13 year old need an iPhone? If the kid tells me that every kid in her class has one, I want to know why. Why do 12 and 13 year old kids need an iPhone? I am okay with them having a cell phone for emergencies. I actually think a prepaid cell phone is a very good idea. That is like $50. Not $50 a month, or $500 for the phone and $100 a month, but just $50.
Now, before I go off on the boob job thing, Destiny used to be known as Georgia. Mom changed her name to Destiny so she would have a better chance at becoming an adult star. Isn't that sweet of mom. Now mom does have some standards and feels that no 13 year old girl should get a boob job. Nope. She is a firm believer that Destiny can't have one until her 16th birthday.
"I think a 16-year-old with a nice, sexy figure will do really well as a model as long as she's managed well. That's why I'm happy for Destiny to have a boob job because it will give her a career. She's been at a modelling agency since she was about six. She'll be more famous than Britney!”
That certainly is a career goal that all young women should aspire to. I seriously worry for this world. Maybe I am just old and my rants are no different from the rants of my elders when faced with youth and their demands, but to me at least it seems as if the parents are just as bad, if not worse. In my opinion, a kid would only ask for these things if mom was okay with them, and had encouraged her to put them on a list. Will today's kids talk about having to make do with just $1000 worth of birthday presents while their kids expect $10,000 a year.
I'm just so sick of me, me, me, and wanting to be famous like Britney and Paris and Lindsay, and The Whore. I just can't believe these are the women that all little girls want to grow up to be. And then to have the parents encouraging them to be just like these women just makes it worse. Lindsay made a couple of Disney movies that are appropriate for a kid, but name me anything else any of these four have done that you would want your kid to do. Anyone? Anyone? Now go ask your kid if they know who each of these four women are, and with the possible exception of The Whore, they will know who they all are.
