Is is High Fashion or Risk by using a 10-Year-Old Model’s looking grown up !

An article by KATIE MOISSE at ABC News discusses whether using a 10year old girl with a grown up look could be high fashion or a huge risk

Thylane Loubry Blondeau, a 10-year-old model with a sultry stare beyond her years, had the fashion industry drooling after posing for French Vogue. 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 10-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.

“We don’t want kids to grow up too fast,” said Shari Miles-Cohen, senior director of women’s programs for the American Psychological Association. “We want them to be able to develop physically, emotionally, psychologically and socially at appropriate rates for their age.”

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What are your thoughts on this issue would you like to see your child, whether girl or boy, dressed in this fashion?