Perdita
08-07-2008, 07:34
Like any proud mother, Ashley Hughes wants to do the best for her little girl.
She works at five different cleaning jobs to help 15-year-old daughter Emma achieve her dream.
Which is...to be a surgically enhanced glamour model just like Jordan.
Support: Mum Ashley has spent a fortune helping daughter Emma, 15, fulfill her dream of becoming 'a Barbie doll'
Mrs Hughes has provided nothing but support for Emma's ambitions to follow in the footsteps of her improbably-shaped heroine.
She has already spent £15,000 on salon treatments and is putting money aside for a breast enlargement operation for her daughter when she turns 18.
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Before that happens she is trying to raise £8,000 for tooth veneers to enhance Emma's smile, while she also pays for weekly pole dancing lessons.
And until she is old enough to be allowed into her local tanning salon, Emma will have to make do with the sunbed hired especially for the daily session she needs to keep her skin brown all year round.
Emma's self-confessed obsession with her appearance started at the age of eight when she would flick through magazines at the family home in Sunderland and tell her mum she wanted to be blonde - 'like a Barbie doll'.
Looking the part: Emma has pole-dancing lessons, daily sunbed sessions and a breast enlargement fund
Her mother explained: 'When Emma was 13, we watched a documentary on glamour models, including Jordan. Emma said, "I'm prettier than her. I want to be a glamour model".
'Now I hold down as many jobs as I can to ensure she'll have all the beauty treatments, tanning sessions and cosmetic surgery she needs to achieve her dream.'
Emma is convinced she has to start early to be the next glamour superstar.
Glamorous: Jordan at a perfume launch last year before she had a breast reduction and went brunette
'Jordan's my idol,' she says. 'She's turned a modelling career into books and a TV show. She's made millions.
'I have to look the part. I'm already planning a boob job so they look more like Jordan's, despite the fact that I'm already a 34F.'
When the local tanning salon turned Emma away aged 13 for being too young, she asked her mum to hire her a bed.
She said: 'I usually tan for ten minutes in the morning and the same after school. I'm not worried about the health warnings. I feel great having a tan. I try to remember to use sunscreen but I tan faster without.'
Emma is determined to keep up her beauty regime, intends to sign up with a modelling agency next year and hopes that at 18 she can start doing glamour shots.
Her mother added: 'I'm not worried about this tanorexia nonsense, or skin cancer from sunbeds. It hasn't affected her health. It's making her confident and beautiful.
'All the treatments will give her the edge. They're going to help her be a star.'
Explaining her decision to let her daughter have her hair dyed at the age of ten, Mrs Hughes said: 'I wanted her to have what she wanted and took her to the hairdresser for highlights.
'I think it's fine to have adult treatments at that age - you can't start too early. But I had to sign a waiver because she was too young.'
According to Emma, her boyfriend of nine months thinks 'all the treatments are a bit much'.
And for the father of a future glamour model, her father Anthony might find the coming years something of a trial.
The 49-year-old engineer said: 'She's a beautiful girl who attracts a lot of attention from the boys. I give blokes dirty looks to warn them off.'
A full version of these interviews appears in this week's issue of Closer magazine, on sale now.
:eek: What kind of mother is this that exposes her daughter to surgery and possible skin cancer? She is only young, what if things go wrong in a few years and even more so, what if her dream does not become reality? ::hmm:
Would any of you do the same for your daughters?
She works at five different cleaning jobs to help 15-year-old daughter Emma achieve her dream.
Which is...to be a surgically enhanced glamour model just like Jordan.
Support: Mum Ashley has spent a fortune helping daughter Emma, 15, fulfill her dream of becoming 'a Barbie doll'
Mrs Hughes has provided nothing but support for Emma's ambitions to follow in the footsteps of her improbably-shaped heroine.
She has already spent £15,000 on salon treatments and is putting money aside for a breast enlargement operation for her daughter when she turns 18.
More...
Mummy's little Lolita: The 11-year-old girl whose beauty treatments cost £300 a month to make her look like Barbie
Before that happens she is trying to raise £8,000 for tooth veneers to enhance Emma's smile, while she also pays for weekly pole dancing lessons.
And until she is old enough to be allowed into her local tanning salon, Emma will have to make do with the sunbed hired especially for the daily session she needs to keep her skin brown all year round.
Emma's self-confessed obsession with her appearance started at the age of eight when she would flick through magazines at the family home in Sunderland and tell her mum she wanted to be blonde - 'like a Barbie doll'.
Looking the part: Emma has pole-dancing lessons, daily sunbed sessions and a breast enlargement fund
Her mother explained: 'When Emma was 13, we watched a documentary on glamour models, including Jordan. Emma said, "I'm prettier than her. I want to be a glamour model".
'Now I hold down as many jobs as I can to ensure she'll have all the beauty treatments, tanning sessions and cosmetic surgery she needs to achieve her dream.'
Emma is convinced she has to start early to be the next glamour superstar.
Glamorous: Jordan at a perfume launch last year before she had a breast reduction and went brunette
'Jordan's my idol,' she says. 'She's turned a modelling career into books and a TV show. She's made millions.
'I have to look the part. I'm already planning a boob job so they look more like Jordan's, despite the fact that I'm already a 34F.'
When the local tanning salon turned Emma away aged 13 for being too young, she asked her mum to hire her a bed.
She said: 'I usually tan for ten minutes in the morning and the same after school. I'm not worried about the health warnings. I feel great having a tan. I try to remember to use sunscreen but I tan faster without.'
Emma is determined to keep up her beauty regime, intends to sign up with a modelling agency next year and hopes that at 18 she can start doing glamour shots.
Her mother added: 'I'm not worried about this tanorexia nonsense, or skin cancer from sunbeds. It hasn't affected her health. It's making her confident and beautiful.
'All the treatments will give her the edge. They're going to help her be a star.'
Explaining her decision to let her daughter have her hair dyed at the age of ten, Mrs Hughes said: 'I wanted her to have what she wanted and took her to the hairdresser for highlights.
'I think it's fine to have adult treatments at that age - you can't start too early. But I had to sign a waiver because she was too young.'
According to Emma, her boyfriend of nine months thinks 'all the treatments are a bit much'.
And for the father of a future glamour model, her father Anthony might find the coming years something of a trial.
The 49-year-old engineer said: 'She's a beautiful girl who attracts a lot of attention from the boys. I give blokes dirty looks to warn them off.'
A full version of these interviews appears in this week's issue of Closer magazine, on sale now.
:eek: What kind of mother is this that exposes her daughter to surgery and possible skin cancer? She is only young, what if things go wrong in a few years and even more so, what if her dream does not become reality? ::hmm:
Would any of you do the same for your daughters?