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Hannah Burge started getting Botox injections when she was 15. Credit: Masons News Service
Hey, all you 25-year-olds: A British teenager is trying to avoid looking as "haggard" as you do by getting Botox injections, some of which are administered by her mom, the so-called "Human Barbie."
Hannah Burge, now 16, was just 15 years old when she got her first injection of Botox in a Spanish clinic with approval from her mom, Sarah, according to London's Daily Mail. Sarah Burge is known the world over as the Human Barbie, thanks to the myriad plastic surgery procedures she has undergone in her quest to resemble the iconic doll.
Hannah has had two more treatments since her visit to Spain, both of which were administered by her mom. The schoolgirl says all the kids are doing the "B" and that she wants to thwart the wrinkles she already has. Yes, you read that right -- this 16-year-old says she has wrinkles.
Hannah Burge, now 16, was just 15 years old when she got her first injection of Botox in a Spanish clinic with approval from her mom, Sarah, according to London's Daily Mail. Sarah Burge is known the world over as the Human Barbie, thanks to the myriad plastic surgery procedures she has undergone in her quest to resemble the iconic doll.
Hannah has had two more treatments since her visit to Spain, both of which were administered by her mom. The schoolgirl says all the kids are doing the "B" and that she wants to thwart the wrinkles she already has. Yes, you read that right -- this 16-year-old says she has wrinkles.
"I had a couple of lines on my forehead and around my mouth, which I was unhappy about," the teen tells the Mail. "Appearance is important to me and I don't want to look haggard and ugly by the time I'm 25."
Mom Sarah tells the Mail she fully supports her daughter's quest to maintain her youthful appearance, and that she prefers to inject Hannah herself. A trained aesthetic practitioner, she calls herself an "expert" in Botox. She also uses the same formula on herself.
"I was thrilled Hannah was open and honest with me about having Botox," Sarah tells the Mail. "I'd much rather know about it than have her do it behind my back."
Hannah Burge started getting Botox injections when she was 15. Credit: Masons News Service
She adds that she would rather inject her teen with Botox herself than take the risk that Hannah would turn to "back-street" practitioners. She also says forbidding Hannah from getting the shots would be hypocritical, considering that she, herself, has had more than 100 plastic surgeries, including breast augmentation, cheek and chin implants and liposuction, just to name a few.
Not everyone is as lassiez-faire about the idea of teen Botox as this mother-daughter duo. Experts tell the Mail that Botox injections must be administered by professionals in a sterile environment.
"It is shocking to me, as an experienced surgeon, that anyone would buy from the Internet and administer Botox into the face of a 16-year-old," Fazel Fatah, president-elect of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, tells the newspaper.
But Sarah and her mom don't care about the raised eyebrows -- and they certainly aren't raising their own. They both plan to continue Sarah's course of injections.
"Teen Toxing is just part of life these days, which is why I share it with my mum," Sarah tells the Mail. "With her help, I won't get that frozen-face look when I'm older and will never have a line or wrinkle on my face."
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Not everyone is as lassiez-faire about the idea of teen Botox as this mother-daughter duo. Experts tell the Mail that Botox injections must be administered by professionals in a sterile environment.
"It is shocking to me, as an experienced surgeon, that anyone would buy from the Internet and administer Botox into the face of a 16-year-old," Fazel Fatah, president-elect of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, tells the newspaper.
But Sarah and her mom don't care about the raised eyebrows -- and they certainly aren't raising their own. They both plan to continue Sarah's course of injections.
"Teen Toxing is just part of life these days, which is why I share it with my mum," Sarah tells the Mail. "With her help, I won't get that frozen-face look when I'm older and will never have a line or wrinkle on my face."
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3-03-2010 @ 6:03PM
Haxlily said...That is insane to me! What about just nurturing and caring for your skin? Her mom should know that based on her career. Yes take care of yourself, love yourself, but don't be hyper critical of yourself and think you need something you don't. I'd rather reinforce my kid's self esteem and confidence in other ways than falsely reinforce wrinkles and lines that aren't there. And I don't know if it is just me or not, but it seems to me that women who frequently use the "B" get this texture to the underlying of their skin. It almost looks like face cellulite. As if the muscle is frozen but not the natural face fat and it ripples and dimples a little and the skin shifts. It just seems like your own skin over a long stretch of time begins to look more and more unnatural. Youth is for the young, let her have her youthful skin and natural beauty now. If it wasn't a good thing, the way she,her mom and friends seem to think. People wouldn't pay so much to try and recapture it back. I just hope her mom puts a limit and doesn't let her change her appearance so much like a lot of celebrities and socialites have done that they are no longer recognizable and have ruined an already good thing.
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3-03-2010 @ 10:20PM
robert said...Poor Kid to be so lacking inside, she is just like mom
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3-04-2010 @ 8:45PM
janeane said...Unbelievable. The poor kid doesn't know any better, look at the example her mom has set for her. I am 41, and while I am not without vanity, I have yet to inject anything in my face. And, I would never, ever allow my child to put her health at risk for unneeded botox!
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3-05-2010 @ 11:17PM
nelly said...BOTOX from now 'til death do us part....
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3-08-2010 @ 4:03PM
BlahBlahBlah said...A prominent doctor told me that if you use Botox for many years (which is what happens when you start at 15) it will eventually do to your liver what it does to your forhead. And "once it does that, your goose is cooked!"
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5-03-2010 @ 1:54AM
Jehnavi said...If I remember my university anatomy correctly, the brain is covered by an out membrane called the dura, and two inner membranes, the pia and the arachnoid.
Does the blood-brain barrier protect against these neurotoxins? How much of this substance is absorbed into the bloodstream, and stored in the liver? What are the long-term effects of botox?This "fad" reminds me of men injecting silicone directly into their penis in the Sixties, and some women injecting it into their breasts and faces. The result? Dreadful scarring, and a horrific, lumpy body(I'm not making this up -- there have been a number of documentaries covering the silicone injecting fad, showing what these people look like today). Scarred for life, charming www.womenhealthline.com
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