2:09 pm - 01/07/2013
Farrah Abraham's fixation with beauty has reached an all-time high.
Months after the former MTV reality star received $16,000 worth of plastic surgery, the 20-year-old decided to improve her 3-year-old daughter Sophia's looks, too.
On Saturday, Jan. 5, in a Sulia blog post riddled with spelling and grammar errors,(lol, the shade) Abraham wrote about her decision to remove her toddler's unibrow. "So here I am faced with a standout historical moment in motherhood when I can confirm to myself that my little, adorable, most cuddle-able cutie, baby girl has a unibrow," the Teen Mom star explained. "I felt bad for her."
Realizing that the hair wouldn't go away on its own, Abraham attempted to wax her little girl's eyebrows with limited success. "Sophia was freaking out, so I had to act like it was a cool science project to get the wax off," she wrote of her botched attempt to remove the fuzz.
Once her daughter fell asleep, Abraham used tweezers to remove the remaining hairs. "I got most of it off and the she finally woke up," the author wrote. "The next morning I showed her and told her how well she did and she didn't even know. She was more intrigued now to be OK with [maintaining] her non-unibrow. I could tell she was proud."
Said Abraham, "I feel like a good mom."
Earlier that week, the aspiring model opened up about her decision to go under the knife. (Abraham has received a breast augmentation, a chin implant and rhinoplasty.)
"I did not act upon any enhancements due to peer pressure, being irresponsible with money or secretly trying to imitate someone else," she blogged. "I'm the only person in my family who has ever gotten cosmetic surgery. I do not feel everyone should have enhancements done. I wish everyone would love themselves natural and as beautiful as they are, and if a nose, or boob job is on your mind, you're not alone! Those are the most popular areas that change negatively with age!"
"Furthermore, if I wanted to look like anyone other than me, that would be Jasmine," she said of the Aladdin character. "Princess Jasmine to be exact, because I hear I look like the real life version of her." (lol lawdd)
Abraham added, "Cheers to being ourselves and not wanting to change who we are, our lives [or] our choices!"
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Farrah waxes Sophia's unibrow
Farrah Abraham's fixation with beauty has reached an all-time high.
Months after the former MTV reality star received $16,000 worth of plastic surgery, the 20-year-old decided to improve her 3-year-old daughter Sophia's looks, too.
On Saturday, Jan. 5, in a Sulia blog post riddled with spelling and grammar errors,(lol, the shade) Abraham wrote about her decision to remove her toddler's unibrow. "So here I am faced with a standout historical moment in motherhood when I can confirm to myself that my little, adorable, most cuddle-able cutie, baby girl has a unibrow," the Teen Mom star explained. "I felt bad for her."
Realizing that the hair wouldn't go away on its own, Abraham attempted to wax her little girl's eyebrows with limited success. "Sophia was freaking out, so I had to act like it was a cool science project to get the wax off," she wrote of her botched attempt to remove the fuzz.
Once her daughter fell asleep, Abraham used tweezers to remove the remaining hairs. "I got most of it off and the she finally woke up," the author wrote. "The next morning I showed her and told her how well she did and she didn't even know. She was more intrigued now to be OK with [maintaining] her non-unibrow. I could tell she was proud."
Said Abraham, "I feel like a good mom."
Earlier that week, the aspiring model opened up about her decision to go under the knife. (Abraham has received a breast augmentation, a chin implant and rhinoplasty.)
"I did not act upon any enhancements due to peer pressure, being irresponsible with money or secretly trying to imitate someone else," she blogged. "I'm the only person in my family who has ever gotten cosmetic surgery. I do not feel everyone should have enhancements done. I wish everyone would love themselves natural and as beautiful as they are, and if a nose, or boob job is on your mind, you're not alone! Those are the most popular areas that change negatively with age!"
"Furthermore, if I wanted to look like anyone other than me, that would be Jasmine," she said of the Aladdin character. "Princess Jasmine to be exact, because I hear I look like the real life version of her." (lol lawdd)
Abraham added, "Cheers to being ourselves and not wanting to change who we are, our lives [or] our choices!"
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At 3, kids don't have a real sense of society's idea of "bad" and "good" looks yet. They do have a sense of "different," but anything can be different to them. That's why they can be so blunt on things like skin color, for instance. They don't have all the social baggage that comes with it yet. And that is why parents are supposed to use this time to build up their confidence, make them comfortable and happy in their own skin, so that when they do hit 9 and kids start tearing each other apart, they can make little decisions to fit in, like waxing a unibrow, without constantly doubting their own appearance and worth. Because if the message they've been getting at home since age 3 is that they could use some "fixing up," they are not going to handle it well when the kids at school decided to reinforce that idea with much crueler words.
i wished my parents would've waxed/let me wax my unibrow when i was younger
thank jesus it wasn't that prominent
I'd tweeze my daughter's/son's uni if they were complaining over it. If my parents had let me do so and taught me to, I never would've hacked half my brows off with a razor when I was 13. Shit hurt.
idk idk.
Also I'm bitter because I had HUGE like grown-ass man eyebrows growing up and I always hated them :(
It had never occurred to me until then that in some segments of American society, it is considered wrong & declasse to pierce a child's ears.
This feeling seemed most prevalent among those who identified themselves as being of Northern European descent, especially those who didn't grow up in a major urban center - this realization resolved one of the mysteries of my childhood: namely, why Stacy McGill's pierced ears were repeatedly pointed out in every Babysitters Club book (along with the diabetes & New York upbringing, of course).
However, I do think Farrah will say shitty things to Sophia about her looks as she grows up.
I can see it now. Farrah will be just like her mom and Sophia will be this indie, feminist teenager like Darlene from Roseanne who was teased by her friends from school because of how stupid her mom was on Teen Mom.
I feel like she and I have very different opinions on what a good mom is
but really I had crazy hairy legs. I remember one time it hurt so bad (it was with waxing strips ouchhh) that I refused to let her do the other leg and I went to school with one leg smooth as silk and the other hairy as fuq a haha God. I think I wore a skirt that day too.
but to be honest when i was younger i had a unibrow and was really self conscious of it.
I wish i had started plucking that part of my eyebrows when i was younger
and i mean, its not like she shaped her eyebrows or anything.. i feel like shaping eyebrows for young kids is too much but unibrows.. they can be unfortunate
Now, imo, if she was 8,9,10 etc and said, "Mom, I don't like this, can we fix it?" That's different.
So I agree with you.
I didn't have a unibrow, but I did not know how to do hair or makeup until I was like 17 (I was allowed to, just didn't have anyone to show me how) and I kind of expect that whenever I have kids I will try to instill confidence in them and being a good person but still show them all the beauty and fashion shit starting out young. Because I got tormented for many years and that screwed me up much worse than if my mom would have helped me with that stuff.
Now I when I get my hair dyed, they also do my brows which helps a lot. Plus I obviously have to shape and fill them in.
Where are those elementary school bitches at now? They should see my fierce as hell eyebrows.
Edited at 2013-01-07 07:36 pm (UTC)
it's fucked up to start teaching your 3 year old that they have to adhere to a certain beauty standard to be happy, though.