Is it just me or does anyone else find this of concern?

[torchthebitch]

Portrait of a VERY modern 14-year-old

She's got two tattoos, body piercings, drinks alcohol and sleeps with boys (and the middle-class mother who allows it all to happen)By Rachel Porter
Last updated at 3:59 PM on 18th November 2010


From her rock-chick black hair, with its green and blonde streaks, to her Doc Marten boots, nine body-piercings, a faceful of *permanent make-up and two tattoos, there is little about Sophie Watson’s appearance to suggest her true age.

But, aside from her disturbingly adult appearance, it is the conversation that really makes the jaw drop.

Ask Sophie about her social life and she’ll tell you that she drinks and parties with Mum’s blessing. Ask about her sex life and there are no mortified blushes. Instead, she’ll tell you *— again, in the presence of her mother — that she’s slept with four boys in just six months.
Wild child: Sophie's rock-chick hair and make-up belie her tender years
‘But I was either seeing them or in a relationship with them. It wasn’t a case of a pick-up here and a pick-up there,’ she says, with utter nonchalance.

Indeed, her boyfriends have all been welcome to spend the night in her room, under her mother’s roof.

‘As long as I haven’t got *anything to get up early for the next day,’ says Sophie.

So how old do you think Sophie might be? Eighteen, perhaps? A rebellious 17?

No, she is just 14 years old — an age at which she should still be gossiping with friends in the *playground, not sleeping with *boyfriends and spending pocket money on piercings and tattoos.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...piercings-drinking-alcohol.html#ixzz15eTTBqUz

 

[laZilla]

Yes of course it's disturbing. Good luck in life Sophie. You're gonna need it.

 

[where]

the mother is a dimwit desperate to be trendy. she's not liberal, just stupid.

 

[torchthebitch]

Or is she caught up in the whole celebrity thing? The child seems to have been used by the mother to live her life by proxy.

 

[Peregrinator]

Disturbing.


In one set of pictures, posted on Sophie’s public Facebook fan page, she wears nothing but heavy make-up, a black lace teddy and bondage-style spike heels. In others, she tugs provocatively at her tiny unzipped hotpants, like a seasoned glamour model.


But then, unlike most ordinary 14-year-olds, Sophie doesn’t even have to go to school.
Since May, when she declared that she was ‘sick and tired’ of getting up for lessons every day, Sophie has been home-educated by her mum Joy, 39, who somehow squeezes in tutorials around Sophie’s regular evening gigs as a singer on the local pub circuit and her own full-time job, training beauty therapists in the art of hair, nails and massage.

 

[where]

Or is she caught up in the whole celebrity thing? The child seems to have been used by the mother to live her life by proxy.

to be honest, I think it's a bit of a set up. there is something very orchestrated about this.

Disturbing.


In one set of pictures, posted on Sophie’s public Facebook fan page, she wears nothing but heavy make-up, a black lace teddy and bondage-style spike heels. In others, she tugs provocatively at her tiny unzipped hotpants, like a seasoned glamour model.


But then, unlike most ordinary 14-year-olds, Sophie doesn’t even have to go to school.
Since May, when she declared that she was ‘sick and tired’ of getting up for lessons every day, Sophie has been home-educated by her mum Joy, 39, who somehow squeezes in tutorials around Sophie’s regular evening gigs as a singer on the local pub circuit and her own full-time job, training beauty therapists in the art of hair, nails and massage.

sweets, we can read the article!

 

[OO00oo_Yes]

Yes of course it's disturbing. Good luck in life Sophie. You're gonna need it.

On the other hand, why should we jump to conclusions?

 

[Peregrinator]

to be honest, I think it's a bit of a set up. there is something very orchestrated about this.


sweets, we can read the article!

And?


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[Peregrinator]

Some of the comments on her Facebook page are pretty entertaining:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sophie-Watson/80282649182

 

[torchthebitch]

to be honest, I think it's a bit of a set up. there is something very orchestrated about this.

That was my first thought since it is the Daily Mail, but I think it is even more worrying that I couldn't quite shake the feeling that there might be more than a kernal of truth in it.

The whole thing does seem to be playing into their hands if the child is trying to break into the pop music industry. The comment about not having a record deal yet seemed placed.

 

[berry juice]

eh, She wants all that stuff and her mother let her do it. Big deal. Most teenagers probably do it behind their parents back anyway. It's not right, but it happens.

What I find more disturbing is the kids beauty pageants with all those little 4-years old girls wearing lipstick, fake tan, heavy make up, false eyelashes and patheticaly styled hair, shaking hips on the podium. That majorly sucks.