A shocking internet survey has revealed that more and more teenage girls aspire to be glamour models rather than teachers or doctors.
The survey that was created by mobile entertainment providers www.thelab.TV, asked 1000 girls aged between 15 to 19 what kind of career they hoped for in the future. The results were published on the Manchester Evening News website. 63% of girls who participated saw glamour modelling as a decent job as apposed to the 3% that chose teaching. Despite being taken three years ago, the survey shows the shocking changes in what young girls consider to be good careers and how the constant bombardment of images of glamour models on the cover of men’s magazines.
Out of the 63% that chose glamour modelling as their goal, 33% saw Katie Price as their role model whereas only 9% of the girls in the whole survey chose J.K.Rowling as their role model. Among other popular role models were Chantelle, Abi Titmuss and Jodie Marsh.
Not only has this survey given some unbelievable results but they seem to be coming true. The number of girls aged 18 to 19 who are having breast enlargements has risen to 150% it was reported by cosmetic surgery clinics across Britain.
Spokesman Shami Choudhry was quoted by The Sun saying that he blames the influence of famous female celebrities who have had breast augmentations for this alarming increase.
What is even more saddening is the fact that 15 year olds are not the youngest that are being affected. The extreme case of 11 year old Sasha Bennington was made into a documentary called ‘Sasha: Beauty Queen at 11’ which aired earlier this year. It told the tragic story of an 11 year old girl whose mother, Jayne, had drilled into her daughter that being a glamour model was all her daughter could do. Since the tender age of 8 her mother had been covering her daughter face in make up and applying false eyelashes. Now that she has just turned 12, Sasha has her hair bleached monthly and a fake tan each week along with other beauty treatments leading to a £300 bill each month. Sasha’s modelling portfolio looks more like what an 18 year old model would look like as Sasha is pictured wearing a lot of make up and very un-childlike. Her mother then parades her around the world in various beauty pageants.
When Jayne was asked by the Daily Mail for her response to the accusations of child cruelty she replied “People can say what they want. I know there is nothing bad about what I'm doing. I'm just helping my daughter make something of her life. Any good mum would do the same.”
Sasha is one of the very rare cases but as more and more women become glamour models and pose on the front covers of magazines more and more teenage girls will aspire to be like them.
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