The tiny buds that appeared on the little girl's chest were gone within a couple of weeks, but three years later, they reappeared, and this time they grew--along with pubic hair and hair in Sharon's armpits. The parents decided to stop the treatment, and by age 9, Sharon had full-blown breasts and was getting her period. Laura Stover took her daughter Karen to a specialist when the girl began growing pubic hair at age 5. The doctor put Karen through a battery of blood tests to rule out ovarian tumors which can force glands to churn out puberty-triggering hormones. But there was no apparent medical problem, and by age 8, Karen had full pubic growth. Clara, now 13, started sprouting breasts and pubic hair when she was 8 and began menstruating a year later, at summer camp. Says her mother: "It was scary and embarrassing because the girls in her cabin didn't have their periods yet. Although Susan's tests were normal, Morton put her on hormone treatments. But it seems as if everywhere you turn these days--outside schools, on soccer fields, at the mall--there are more and more elementary schoolgirls whose bodies look like they belong in high school and more and more middle schoolers who look like college coeds.
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But photos of the Parisian preteen, whose lanky body and gap-toothed pout bring to mind full-grown size-zero magazine cover girls, have reignited the debate over the sexualization of young girls. Wearing makeup, high heels and haute couture, Blondeau looks a far cry from a typical year-old. Even in childish smocks and cotton tees, her expressions are oddly adult -- a product, perhaps, of living half her young life in the fashion world she reportedly hit the runway for Jean-Paul Gauthier at age 5. And some say Blondeau's grown-up beauty is giving other young girls unhealthy ideas about how they should look. But a shot of Blondeau wearing a red dress and stilettos lying on a tiger skin rug had critics crying foul. It's inappropriate, and creepy, and I never want to see a nine-year-old girl in high-heeled leopard print bedroom slippers ever again," wrote Chloe Angyal, editor of Feminsting. Sexualized images can have lasting effects on the young girls who see them. An APA taskforce found that sexualization by the media affects how girls think about femininity and sexuality, promoting "appearance and physical attractiveness" as key values. It's also linked to low self-esteem, eating disorders and depression. In a photo not affiliated with Vogue , Blondeau poses topless on a bed with a young male playmate propositioning a pillow fight.
Thylane Loubry Blondeau's provacative pout in Vogue Paris has created a stir.
A young-looking model raised more than a few eyebrows when she walked the Valentino runway at Paris Fashion Week yesterday with her nipples exposed. The model, who appeared particularly young, took to the catwalk in an extremely sheer dress embellished with sequins, leaving her right breast almost completely uncovered. In France, the Chambre Syndicale, organizers of Paris Fashion Week, have enforced a lower age limit of 16 when it comes to catwalk work.
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