Mom gives Botox injections to 8-year-old daughter

A San Francisco mom is injecting her 8 year old daughter with botox to get rid of wrinkles and she insists that she's not the only mom who's doing it.

The pain 8-year-old Britney Campbell describes doesn't come from falling off of her bike, or losing a tooth-but from this: Botox injections-administered by her Mother.

Campbell''s mother says she started giving the injections to keep up with the beauty-take-all world of the pageant circuit an idea planted by other pageant moms.

Photos taken during one of Britney's Botox treatments - capture just how uncomfortable an adult cosmetic procedure can be.

Critics like Dr Charles Sophy argue that the potential side effects of Britney's Botox treatments are more than just physical.

"There's a lot of psychological damage that can be caused, and that's where the psychological intervention needs to happen. To be able to make sure that there are no blurred boundaries here, and projections going on, that are going to have a longer psychological ramifications for this child," says Sophy.

Click on the video linked to this article to watch the full story including the actual injection and reaction from the young girl and her mother.

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