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    New obsession: spoiled celeb toddlers with $850 handbags

    Splash News/Matrix Photos/Ramey PhotoSplash News/Matrix Photos/Ramey PhotoWe're trying to trace our steps and figure out how this all happened. Come along with us, please. Nearly a decade ago, young stars like Lindsay Lohan and the Olsen Twins started infiltrating tabloids and blogs. Who cares about these kids, we wondered? Well, suddenly we did, and we almost unconsciously began following the daily happenings of celebrity teens, including their outfits, their love lives, their social calendar, their photo scandals, and maybe even their careers. Then we downsized in age yet again to youngsters like Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Dakota Fanning. These are child stars, right? Isn't it odd that people are reporting which designers they're wearing on the red carpet, we thought? But soon we did. And where does that leave us now: reading about toddlers like Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Suri Cruise, and Mercy Ciccone.

    Yes, pop culture has shifted so much that we care less about 30-somethings and more about the preschool set. Violet Affleck, Brooklyn Beckham, Coco Cox Arquette, and James Wilkie Broderick are snatching up headlines these days. What's even weirder: fashion has shifted too. Marc Jacobs now has a kids store with mini-me versions of outfits. Madonna's four-year-old daughter, Mercy, has been seen wearing the same Stella McCartney jacket as French first lady Carla Bruni. So of course we care about what celeb kids are wearing!

    Are we obsessed with famous toddlers? Has the media forced this fixation upon us with headlines like "Zahara Jolie-Pitt Rocks a $330 Coat"? Or maybe we're just jealous. Or infuriated, because Zahara IS wearing a $330 double-breasted Alice + Olivia coat. And Suri Cruise toted around--get this--an $850 Salvatore Ferragamo handbag a few weeks ago (her mom carried the matching full-size version which sells for $1,850). Yes. $850. Do you have an $850 handbag? OK, maybe some of you do... but we're guessing you're not THREE.YEARS.OLD. What does a three-year-old keep in her $850 purse?! Lipstick she shouldn't be wearing for another decade? A Tiffany rattle? A Christian Louboutin collector's edition Barbie? Legos made of gold? Or perhaps a BlackBerry to keep their personal stylists at finger's reach? Oh and you know what looks just stunning with an $850 purse? A red Dolce & Gabbana coat and a pair of custom heels--those are Suri's other favorites.

    And this is just a sign of what's to come for famous kids like Suri. Her dad, Tom Cruise, says, "She will not wear trousers, only dresses. I put a pair of trousers on her and turn and leave the room and straight away the trousers are off and a dress is on instead!" And she doesn't want mom Katie Holme's fashion input either. "The other day, Kate showed her some gold-colored sneakers thinking she might like to wear them, and she looked at them and said, 'Oh mommy, these are lovely, but they're boy shoes,'" says Cruise. "She's sweet, but she's very strong-willed."

    Meanwhile, fancy clothes aren't the only amenity these tots have access to. Shiloh-Jolie Pitt just got an expensive new haircut, and celeb stylist Matthew James Fugate says it's reminiscent of "styles once worn by Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams." Cozy Friedman of Cozy's Cuts for Kids in Manhattan boasts a roster of famous young clients like Sofia Coppola's daughter Romy, and gets loads of request for "The Maddox," the faux-hawk Angelina Jolie's son prefers. Friedman claims, "A short haircut on a girl isn't always that easy to carry...Shiloh can carry it. [She] can carry a lot of looks well." Um, excuse us, but can we pause for a moment and recognize that a stylist is talking about what a three-year-old can pull off? Right. Well, perhaps it makes sense: People magazine did pay over $4 million for the first glimpse at baby Shiloh. She obviously has an image to maintain. [US Weekly][US Magazine]

     

    22 comments

    • Colby  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Simone, the difference between your story and Suris's is that she wears those sort of outfits out everyday. It's not "dress up time" for her, it's her everyday wear. I think that is where the shock value comes in. The parents need to be responsible and not let their kids make every decision for themselves. They're kids, they don't know what is good and and bad for them. They need a parent, not a friend. That's how train wrecks like Lohan happen.
    • MandatoryFields  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Do you really think Suri cares about how much her handbag or stilettos are? Do you think she understands the value of it? Not at her age. Tom and Katie are just trying to stay in the headlines....
    • GlamourGirl  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Their all cute, but Shiloh's dressed like a little boy. I guess she's going through a tom-boy phase.
    • ClaraR  •  2 years 3 months ago
      All I have to say about this is that the parents can do whatever they want its their money and all...........the one thing is that they are buying things as expensive as an $850 bag......when many people in other parts of the world are starving to death.....................but everybody does what ever they want...........its just my opinion.........
    • Simone  •  2 years 3 months ago
      My cousins (not just the girls) and I played dress up every day in heels, purses, furs, pearls and rhinestones, dresses, lipstick and anything else we could get our hands on...the only difference...there weren't paparazzi scrambling to take our pictures! We had a blast just role playing and looking glamorous like the superstars of the day that graced the covers of our mother's Vogue or Harper's Bazar magazines...we are all in our early forties now and we are all quite adjusted and 'normal'....no harm done by playing dress up with our mom's expensive clothes.
    • !Shanksta-Gangsta!  •  2 years 3 months ago
      their parents are buying them $850 handbags? what could they possible need a bag for anyway. when i was a toddler and carried a bag, all i had was lip gloss and sunglasses.
    • KIm  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Who cares if they wear expensive clothes and have fancy purses? Their parents can afford it. As long as they’re buying it and I’m not, I could care less. Grow up.
    • Melinda  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Who cares? The dumb people who report this stuff and force feed it in magazines and stupid celebrity blogs and shows. Responsible celebrity parents try to keep their children's lives separate from the limelight. It's also a sad commentary on what we think is interesting. Faux celebrities, celebrity kids, and making celebrities out of no talent morons is fuel to this obsession.
    • Mia  •  2 years 3 months ago
      $850 to the Cruises is like 85 cents to you and me. Get over it.
    • lovey  •  2 years 3 months ago
      If their parents don't come down to earth and start treating them like the kids they are, they'll trainwrecks by the time they're 15.
    • Ashley W  •  2 years 3 months ago
      well, they have the money and they can do whatever they want with it... whatever happens to them in the future will be their problem.
    • tisha  •  2 years 3 months ago
      anna your a bitch... your daughter will be a fucked up drug addict....get over yourself hater
    • Minty Me  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Aren't you old enough to remember Tiger Beat Magazine? It was started in 1965 -- "Tiger Beat has as its forte teen idol gossip, movies, music and fashion. Girls ranging from the age of 9 to 18 are buying the magazine due to the recent featuring of "pre-teen" teen idols."

      This is nothing new. But what is new is that the teens who read Tiger Beat grew up (so to speak) and now continue their obsession with the children of the stars they obsessed over as teens.
    • Y! Shine Staff Joanna Douglas, Senior Fa ...  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Mims- When I read Tiger Beat and Bop and those magazines I was 10. Kids being interested in what celeb kids wear seems a bit more normal to me, because it's your peer group. I'm just amazed at how the media presents (and we all read about) what famous three-year-olds wear when we're in our 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.
    • The Foster's  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Suri will never be down to earth, she is spoiled, and willful, even more her parents father-has made her that way. You hardly ever see his other children anymore. And for Shiloh why are they trying to make that child a boy. Please they have sons, let her be a little girl, just because mom has issues don't make Shiloh have an identity crisis before she is four.
    • LA  •  2 years 3 months ago
      When I saw Suri had an $850 purse I almost spit my coffee. I guess it's chump change to their well-off parents but maybe it has to do with: the kid sees it, likes it, wants it, throws a small tantrum and then mommy or daddy buys it for them?
    • Anna  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Wow, the Cruise girl will grow up to be a fucked up drug addict...

      So much freedom is bound to backfire
    • PennyLane  •  2 years 3 months ago
      I had that Shiloh hair cut when I was seven years old (now 24). I was teased and told I looked like a boy. I hated it.
    • Anitra  •  2 years 3 months ago
      Why do they keep making Shiloh look like a boy? Are they trying to make her a lesbian to round out the family....a Black, an Asian and a Lesbian!
    • Ginger  •  2 years 3 months ago
      they are kids! leave them alone. but their parents should watch out they dont grow up to be shallow and stupid like that hilton girl. sometimes giving the kids everything you want them to have leads to trouble as adults.

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