Angelina Jolie Takes Daughters to Get Their Ears Pierced: Are They Too Young?
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2011/10/14 13:00:00
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Angelina Jolie took her 5 and 6-year-old daughters Shiloh and Zahara to get their ears pierced recently, according to a tabloid report -- but Shiloh backed out.
"The eldest girl picked out some pretty 18-carat gold studs and gave them to her mom," a source told The Sun. "The piercing gun was a bit too painful for her and she screamed then burst into tears. She was saying it felt like a stapler, so her little sister changed her mind about having hers done."
They all reportedly left the small salon in London "with big smiles on their faces," but Shiloh's about-face got us thinking: How young is too young for girls to get their ears pierced? Julie Weingarden Dubin, a writer for the "Today" show, looked at both sides of the issue.
"For some, it's a cultural thing. Others just want their little girls' ears pierced. Maybe it's so people know without a doubt that the bald bundle in the Bugaboo is a girl, or maybe it's so sweet pea won't remember the pain of the piercing gun when she's older," she writes. But the author regrets piercing her own ears so young.
"My parents made me wait until I was 10, which seemed like FOREVER because my girlfriends all had their ears pierced in kindergarten. Looking back, I wish they made me wait longer. My pierced ears were victims of the big, heavy, dangling baubles of the eighties -- chunky hoops, clanking metal triangles and long beaded styles that took their toll on delicate teenage earlobes," she writes.
As for us, we were also 10, which also felt old at the time, but we've never had any regrets. When do you think girls are old enough to get their ears pierced?
"The eldest girl picked out some pretty 18-carat gold studs and gave them to her mom," a source told The Sun. "The piercing gun was a bit too painful for her and she screamed then burst into tears. She was saying it felt like a stapler, so her little sister changed her mind about having hers done."
They all reportedly left the small salon in London "with big smiles on their faces," but Shiloh's about-face got us thinking: How young is too young for girls to get their ears pierced? Julie Weingarden Dubin, a writer for the "Today" show, looked at both sides of the issue.
"For some, it's a cultural thing. Others just want their little girls' ears pierced. Maybe it's so people know without a doubt that the bald bundle in the Bugaboo is a girl, or maybe it's so sweet pea won't remember the pain of the piercing gun when she's older," she writes. But the author regrets piercing her own ears so young.
"My parents made me wait until I was 10, which seemed like FOREVER because my girlfriends all had their ears pierced in kindergarten. Looking back, I wish they made me wait longer. My pierced ears were victims of the big, heavy, dangling baubles of the eighties -- chunky hoops, clanking metal triangles and long beaded styles that took their toll on delicate teenage earlobes," she writes.
As for us, we were also 10, which also felt old at the time, but we've never had any regrets. When do you think girls are old enough to get their ears pierced?
Don't know if I could have done it when I was older... I am a wimp for pain!
in fact, I would just like to say that's it's sad that someone actually took time from their day to look at the year lobes of angelina jolie's kids and then knew enough about her that something was off. I can literally see them now: "Hmm, something's not right....AHA!!!! the girls are wearing earrings!!!!"
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Not that I'm much better by voting, but you know...
BUT the custom of drilling a hole through your ear and then actually hanging metal and stones etc through it seems so... i dunno.... 3000 BC???