Some people I truly think should be visited by child protective services.  Sarah Burge would be one of those people.

Back in early June of this past year I read this post on Babble about Sarah giving her daughter a voucher to get a boob job…for her SEVENTH birthday. You read that right, that was no typo, this was the gift she gave her 7(just 7 not 1-7) year old daughter, who was apparently excited to get such a gift. I remember excitedly getting my first(and very unnecessary) bra at age 8, but I can’t imagine I would have been too happy about being offered surgically enhanced breasts to fill out said bra. It would have just added to the body image issues I was starting to develop at that age since nothing says your body isn’t good enough like a certificate to have it surgically “fixed”.

But now Ms. Burge has managed to out do herself. Today on Babble I read this post about what she gave her 7 year old daughter for Christmas, a $7,000 voucher for..wait for it..liposuction! So first she basically tells her daughter, “your boobs won’t be good enough once, you know, you actually grow them,” but now she’s also telling her, “you’ll also be fat, but we can have that fixed for you too,”(or maybe she means to tell her “you don’t have to take care of yourself and eat right or exercise, we will just have the fat sucked out of you later so it really won’t matter”).

It’s a known fact that most girls, at some point, have body image issues and it is being seen in girls younger and younger. Most people blame the media for this phenomenon, with all of it’s photo shopping and over sexualization, and to some extent I can agree with this. But I’m 19 so it hasn’t been all that long since I was her age, and I can tell you that my body image issues hardly had anything to do with what I saw on television and on the covers of magazines. Most of it came from the judgment of other mean little kids. When most people think of bullying the movie “Mean Girls” comes to mind, but trust me when I tell you, kids(that’s right, not just girls) start being mean like that years before high school.

So now not only does this girl have to deal with the body image issues she may have already had from one(or more) of the many different sources that typically causes such a thing, but she also has her mom, the person she should be able to count on to build her up and make her feel good about herself, telling her she can never possibly turn out looking good enough to not need surgery.

The whole thing makes me want to fricken vomit.