Bullying on camera, chemical castration, hunger strikes: what parents go to for the glory of their children

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

What are parents ready for to make a profit from their child? Carrying him around shooting or training for hours, not letting go from rehearsals, keeping him hungry (so that there is no criminal gain for ballet or gymnastics) … And much more, and horrible stories are behind the successes of little stars.

Michael Jackson's father raised him to castrate

As you know, eunuchs retain high, sonorous and, moreover, strong voices. However, in our time, it is forbidden to castrate children in order to grow them into a stage star. Michael Jackson's father found a way out. Before Michael's voice began to break, Jackson Sr. ordered - also not quite legally - a doctor he knew "special injections", which were actually chemical castration. The boy was told that he was receiving hormones that would save him from acne.

Michael kept his voice high. And castration was not the only measure Jackson Sr. took to raise his sons - and especially the quiet, obedient youngest - into stars. Beatings every day (almost always before the children were forced to strip naked), insults, intimidation. Growing up, the Jacksons fell out with their father, and only Michael continued on stage. All his life he suffered from neuroses and showed strange behavior.

Already becoming an adult, one of Michael's sisters admitted that her father and the other sister had been raped. After Michael's death, it turned out that the will contains a mother, but no father. For some reason, Jackson Sr. was surprised, and he tried to sue part of the inheritance of his own son. Fortunately, he did not succeed.

Polina Osetinskaya's father raped teenage girls in front of her

Everywhere and everywhere Oleg Osetinsky, known as the screenwriter of "Mikhailo Lomonosov" and "Stars of Captivating Happiness", claimed that he had invented a special technique that made it possible to make a child prodigy out of any child. He called it double stress.

In addition to the usual beatings and grueling rehearsals for such ambitious fathers, the method included long, hard hunger strikes. Once an Ossetian threw his daughter headlong on a bench on a grand scale, and blood gushed out of her ear. Oleg simply left, and a stranger called the girl "Ambulance". Later it turned out that Osetinsky had overlooked the development of a terrible abscess in his daughter's ear. A terrible blow by pure chance saved the girl from an even more terrible death from the rupture of an abscess inside, into the brain.

Thanks to the very active promotion from her father, Polina traveled all over the Soviet Union with concerts. Many parents tried to persuade Ossetian to study with their children. Oleg took only teenage girls and only on the condition that they lived with him and Polina for some time. And then, not ashamed of his daughter, he raped these girls.

At the age of thirteen, Polina managed to escape from home to her mother. Among other things, it turned out that she absolutely does not know how to perform truly adult things on the piano - being afraid of her father, she did not even try, but simplified them under her clumsy palm, tired from constant excessive tension. Many even believed that she would not be able to become a real pianist, but caring teachers took up her. Now Osetinskaya is a famous performer. She wrote the book Farewell to Sadness about her childhood! and in an interview he mentions that the book has not yet included many more terrible things described.

Britney Campbell's mother stabbed her with Botox at age eight

Little Britney Campbell participated in many beauty contests, and Britney's mother in her dreams saw her as Miss America. Since some procedures, such as Botox injections and painful waxing, flatly refused to do to the little girl in all beauty salons, the mother began to do it all herself, at home, proudly showing her daughter's swollen face immobilized by Botox on social networks.

Netizens were deeply outraged by this treatment of a child. Some criticized the mother, others directly contacted social services. In the end, the girl was removed from the family. Campbell Sr. did not understand why. According to her, almost all mothers of participants in children's beauty contests do this. It's just that the rest of us guess to keep it a secret.

Among the reasons that forced her to carry out painful manipulations with the child, Campbell Sr. named the fear that otherwise other children would call her daughter ugly. She also stated that Britney was worried about her wrinkles.

Boy Cody's parents filmed bullying for YouTube

Spouses named Mike and Heather decided to get rich on children not by developing their talent, but filming for the YouTube channel bullying them, especially the most sensitive of the boys, Cody. The bullying ranged from brutal pranks - when, for example, Cody was shouted at for a terrible mess, which he did not make, until he began to cry in despair - to beatings and a broken nose.

The channel was very popular, the parents had 800,000 subscribers. But some viewers found this treatment of children, fortunately, abnormal and turned to social services. At first, the parents tried to assert that all the scenes, including those in which Cody's nose was broken, were staged, then they resigned themselves and deleted all the videos with the participation of children. But they were still stripped of their rights in relation to Cody and his older sister Emily and gave the children to their biological mother, Mike's first wife. Mike and Heather are survived by their three common children.

Over the course of a year, Cody and Emily came to their senses, became cheerful and sociable again. It turned out that they did not try to contact their mother, because Mike convinced them that she hated her son and daughter, abandoned them of her own free will and did not want to see them. As it turned out, on roller skates with their tears, the father and stepmother earned at least $ 20,000 a month.

See also: Money for Children: How "Star" Parents Build Their Fortune on Their Siblings.