models- 13 year olds on the runway looking like women

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<p>ewwwww, this irks me to no end</p>

<p>A 12-year-old has caused a media frenzy after she was chosen to front one of the world’s largest fashion shows.
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Maddison Gabriel was picked as the official ambassador of Gold Coast Fashion Week in Australia and has also worn a number of revealing outfits for the Queensland event.</p>

<p>Maddison Gabriel insists she can ‘fit into women’s clothes’</p>

<p>He said: “Catapulting girls as young as 12 into something like that is outrageous.”</p>

<p>Mr Howard wants Australia to follow the example of Europe and ban models younger than 16 appearing on catwalks.</p>

<p>“There should be age limits, I mean there has to be, we do have to preserve some notion of innocence in our society,” he said.</p>

<p>But the 5ft 7ins youngster, who turned 13 yesterday, believed she deserved to win the modelling competition to become the ‘face’ of the show.</p>

<p>“I believe that I can fit into women’s clothes. I can model women’s clothes, so I should be able to do it,” she said.</p>

<p>“It doesn’t matter about age, it matters that you can do the job. Modelling is all I’ve wanted to do since I was six - I don’t think I’m too young.”</p>

<p>Maddison has signed an exclusive media deal and contracted an experienced celebrity agent since the furore broke.</p>

<p>Her mother Michelle Gabriel has defended her child’s right to model and demanded an apology from the Prime Minister.</p>

<p>“I believe the Prime Minister is getting very doddery,” she said.</p>

<p>“He does not know exactly what 13 and 14-year-old girls are like. I used to vote for him. We’re trying to get our teenage daughters to act older. I am so happy that I’ve got a daughter who has got a good head on her shoulders.”</p>

<p>And Fashion Week spokesman Kelly Wieler said Maddison was not too young.</p>

<p>“Maddy got in because she was the best contestant - the judges saw that she was fit to do the job.”</p>

<p>She added that the schoolgirl would not be modelling swimwear or lingerie</p>

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<p>Helicopter parents have nothing on stage mothers. Ugh.</p>

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<p>The photos of this 13 year old are lovely for a 21 year old. Particularly the bathing suite.</p>

<p>So this is what Jon Benet could have been . . .</p>

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<p>This is nothing new. When I was in junior high, a somewhat bare Brooke Shields (who was born in my birth year) was gracing billboards and layouts everywhere stating nothing came between “her and her Calvins”.</p>

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<p>Remember Brooke Shields? That young girl could be her sister (or daughter, or granddaughter?). Dead ringer.</p>

<p>How old was Brooke when she said “nothing comes between me and my Calvins”? Or appeared in the movie about the brothel (or the deserted island)?</p>

<p>crossposted…</p>

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<p>“Little Miss Sunshine” was a great spoof on this…</p>

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<p>Remember Brooke Shields?</p>

<p>Yes… but what ever happend to her…</p>

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<p>She continues to have a successful career and still looks wonderful!</p>

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<p>Didn’t Brooke Shields inspire Tom Cruise to jump up and down on Oprahs couch?</p>

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<p>Remember the controversy that commercial caused? And Brooke was 15. I think there’s still a big difference between 13 and 15. Not to mention the fact that there wasn’t an ogling audience that she could see while doing the commercial. Very different than walking down a catwalk with an audience on both sides.</p>

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<p>No, Brooke’s ad was just broadcast on the Times Square billboard for only the discerning fashion-conscious eye to see.</p>

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<p>Honestly, what’s the hurry? She’s wanted to be a model for a whole 6 yrs. Sounds like Mom has no control, or she’s too starry-eyed to see what a misery her daughter’s life will be. Late hours, drugs everywhere, people who don’t give a hoot about her happiness only about her ‘look’, no childhood, and the endless drive to be perfect. </p>

<p>I like Lauren Hutton…when moms come up to her with their daughters to ask if the daughters should be models, LH says ‘why don’t you just shoot her now?’</p>

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<p>Motherdear, I just meant the impact on the child. Playing adult in front of a camera is different than doing it in front of an audience, for the child.</p>

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<p>What bothers me is that the girl seems to think that just because she can fit in the clothes she should be doing this. And it doesn’t sound like her mother is a fountain of wisdom to guide her through the pitfalls of the fashion industry.</p>

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<p>Girls nowadays are about two years ahead of where they were when I was a teen (I’m just a little older than Brooke) ;).</p>

<p>Really, when I was growing up, 15 was a shocking age to do a lot of things that girls do now at 13. Why should modeling be any different? Maybe it’s because I have boys so I don’t understand the slimate (oh I mean climate) of today’s social and cultural mores. But I am constantly shocked at the way girls in elementary school are allowed to dress and act with their parent’s tacit approval. Has anyone LOOKED at what the little girls are wearing/look like??? I used to cringe when I watched my own boys, bewildered, at the tender age of 11 and 12, trying to maneuver themselves and act cool around the young women who were so much more knowing than they were. </p>

<p>Next time you’re in the store look at the newstand- the magazines that are geared toward young women and young girls. It’s shocking- how to turn guys on, better O’s, etc.</p>

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<p>When I was 17 (back in the dark ages,) Seventeen Magazine was geared towards the 17-19 year old girl. I remember my mother being concerned with me reading the magazine. The girls that are currently in college were reading Seventeen in middle school, and Cosmopolitan in high school!</p>

<p>Times sure have changed!</p>

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<p>But the reason this girl makes news is because it IS still unusual. I know many girls in middle and even in High School that are involved in Girl Scouts, youth groups and marching band. Those girls are out there too.</p>

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<p>If she is old enough to decide to have an abortion, how can she not be old enough to decide whether to appear as a model? No medical procedures are required to pose and smile.</p>

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<p>when I read 17- I was 14, this was 36 years ago.
When I was 17, I read Cosmopolitan-</p>

<p>I think if you are 12 you are old enough to decide if you want to model.
We try children as adults for murder when they are that age- so it seems that society accepts that 12 year olds know their own mind</p>

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<p>The decision for this girl to model (or not) should lie within the confines of her own family.</p>