Suri Cruise
For 10 points, to which celebrities do these children belong: Colin, Elizabeth, Chester, Truman, Lily-Rose and Jack?
Any idea? Nope. That’s because their dads, despite being two of Hollywood’s top three highest earners, have never paraded their kids as accessories to their own fame. Congrats Mr Depp and Mr Hanks. In fact, double cheers to Tom who’s just become a grandad. I trust little Olivia Jane is doing well?
Compare them to Willow Smith, Suri Cruise, Lourdes Ciccone Leon and Romeo Beckham who, thanks to some pretty intense parental showcasing, are now being heralded as style icons. You heard right – we’re now supposed to admire the dress sense of a five-year-old.
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When my little cousin waltzes into my room and asks me for nail polish, it doesn’t really bother me. Perhaps her decision to forego my sexy reds and vixen blacks for the playschool razzle dazzle of my fluro pinks and purples fills me with a little confidence that her safe and happy childhood is very much intact.
Then there are the other times, when she waltzes in my room wearing blue eye shadow and shiny pink lip gloss, and asks me for help in adding more artificial crap to her face.
Those are the times I know we have a colouring-outside-the-lines situation – and not just because she misses the outline of her lips.
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BB says:
This article is absolute nonsense. Childhood play is mostly about learning to be an adult in a gradual way - whether it is playing with dolls or playing cops and robbers. Girls have been dressing up and pretending to be women for thousands of years. Girls were probably far more… Read more »
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Laura says:
How can the problem “be at stake”...end of paragraph 5 and How is something “more prettier”. ....last paragraph. Sarah there were more see if you can find them. Read more »
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