Blog Posts by Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

Botox Mom Kerry Campbell—a.k.a. Sheena Upton—talks to TMZ.com (Photo from TMZ)The Botox Mom-a.k.a. Sheena Upton, who told the world that she gave her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections to make her a better child beauty pageant contestant-has appeared in a set of cringe-inducing videos over at TMZ in an attempt to prove that she never actually gave her daughter Botox. While she's offering up copies of the script she says she was told to read for the "role" of Kerry Campbell (and while the reporters who interviewed her in The Sun, "Good Morning America," and "Inside Edition" scramble for an explanation) the bottom line is that she deliberately duped a lot of people for money-and forced her child to go along with it.

But she isn't the only parent who has made his or her child play a part in a scam. Here are three recent examples of hoaxes where the parents got caught-and the kids ended up paying the price.

The Balloon Boy scam

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Photo: ThinkstockWhat happens when a family is divided by belief? The Haddad family of Middletown, Maryland, is one of many whose faith will be tested tomorrow: The parents whole-heartedly believe that they will be taken up on Saturday, May 21, as part of the Rapture foretold in the Bible. But their three teenagers don't.

"My mom has told me directly that I'm not going to get into heaven," Grace Haddad, 16, told The New York Times. "At first it was really upsetting, but it's what she honestly believes."

Two years ago, Grace's mother, Abby Haddad Carson, quit her job as a nurse in order to dedicate herself to missionary work with her husband, Robert Carson (who kept his job as an engineer for the federal Energy Department). They stopped fixing up their house and stopped saving for their teenagers' college educations, instead putting all of their effort into telling people that the end of the world is coming.

"People look at my family and think I'm like that," said 14-year-old Joseph Haddad. "I don't

Badge from emergency.cdc.govEarlier this week, the CDC-yes, seriously, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-posted a handy guide to zombie apocalypse preparedness.

"There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for," their article says. "Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you'll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you'll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency."

Their advice sounds suspiciously like preparing for hurricane or something but, according to longtime zombie apocalypse aficionado Jenny Lawson, who blogs at The Bloggess, that may be just because we don't have any historic zombie attacks to learn from.

"Yes, I know some people will say that zombies are so 2009 and that I should move on but I'm sorry but cholera was so 1892 but I'm still pretty concerned about that too," she wrote in November. "Plus, cholera won't eat your face off and also

Photo: Screengrab from ABC NewsGet ready for another wave of outrage: Kerry Campbell, the 34-year-old part-time aethestician who told the world that she gave her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections and body waxing in order to help her do better in kiddie beauty pageants, now says that it was all a hoax.

"The truth is that I have never given my daughter Botox, not allowed her to get any type of waxing, nor is she a beauty pageant contestant," the mom-whose real name is Sheena Upton-admitted in a statement.

Upton says that she accepted $200 "to play the role of Kerry Campbell" for an interview that appeared in the British tabloid The Sun on March 23. After appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "Inside Edition" last week, San Francisco Human Services Agency launched an investigation and her daughter, Britney, was removed from her home by Child Protective Services. Upton issued her statement, which is dated May 18th, in order to regain custody of her daughter.

Statement obtained by TMZ.comIn the written statement, which was obtained by

Nails on a chalkboard. A fly buzzing around the room. A child having a tantrum in the next apartment. The drip-drip-drip of a leaking faucet. An overheard cell-phone conversation in a public place. Most people would agree that these things are amazingly annoying, but what is it about them, exactly, that irritates us so much?

According to "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us," some sounds, like the screech-squeak of nails on a chalkboard or the high-pitched drone of a mosquito near one's ear, are irritating because we react to them in a physical way. "It seems to be something intrinsic about that mix of frequencies," said Flora Lichtman, co-author of "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us," in a recent interview with NPR. "The change in volume rapidly-it's called 'rough' in acoustics-most people's ears don't like that stimulus."

We all react to sounds, sensations, and situations differently because of our personal experiences, cultural differences, and emotional associations-it's

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver arrive at an event in February 2011. This week, the former governor revealed that he had an affair and fathered a child with a member of their household staff 10 years ago. (Photo: Chelsea Lauren) When Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver split last week after 25 years of marriage, they didn't give a specific reason. The Governator, 63, seemed ready to return to movies and has a cartoon-and-comic book deal in the works. Shriver, 55, seemed to be mourning the career she gave up in order to be a politician's wife.

Shriver moved out of the family's Brentwood, California, home weeks before they announced their separation. She had been unhappy for years, some said; others speculated that Schwarzenegger's long history of womanizing had led to the split.

Turns out they were right: In a statement sent to the LA Times and the Associated Press on Monday night, the former governor admitted to fathering a child with a household staffer more than 10 years ago.



"After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago," Schwarzenegger said in his statement. "I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for allegedly attempting to rape a hotel maid on Saturday. (AP Photo: Shannon Stapleton, Pool)Officials on Thursday formally indicted banker and diplomat Dominique Strauss-Kahn on seven counts of sexual assault on a hotel maid. (You can read the indictment here.) Bail was set at $1 million, and he will be "confined to a New York City residence, where he will be monitored round the clock by a private security firm and an electronic bracelet," ABC News reported. He had been in isolation and on suicide watch at New York's Riker's Island jail.

"We can't think of conditions more restrictive," said his lawyer, William Taylor.

When the reports came in earlier this week, it sounded like a dramatic episode of "Mad Men"-or maybe "Law and Order: SVU." A maid arrives to clean a luxury hotel suite, thinking that it's unoccupied, and the guest-the powerful head of a global financial giant-emerges from the bathroom naked. His nickname is "The Great Seducer," based on his decades-long reputation with women. He chases her through the suite, pulling her into a bedroom. She resists. There's a