8-year-old taken away from mom who injected her with Botox

Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine
Britney Campbell, whose mother gave her multiple Botox injections to remove her
Britney Campbell, whose mother gave her multiple Botox injections to remove her

Over the weekend, Britney Campbell, the 8-year-old beauty pageant contestant whose mom injects her with Botox to fix her "wrinkles," was removed from her mother's San Francisco home.

"I've spoken with someone very close to the case, she is out of her mother's home. She's doing well,"
Lara Spencer reported on "Good Morning America" today. "The case is under investigation by CPS and we should have new details within a week. But the main thing here -- she's doing well."

The investigation began shortly after 34-year-old Kerry Campbell, a part-time aesthetician, went on "Good Morning America" with her daughter, Britney, to talk about using the anti-aging procedure on the third grader. The segment showed pictures of Campbell administering the shots herself.


Campbell, who boasted in a March interview with The Sun that she also takes Britney for body waxing in order to minimize future hair growth, told the British newspaper: "What I am doing for Britney now will help her become a star."
"I'm proud Britney is getting to have these beauty treatments at such a young age. I wish that I'd had the same advantages when I was younger," she added. "She is a lucky little girl and is going to be famous because of the benefits I am giving her so early."

Child Protective Services decided to take Britney out of her mother's custody during their investigation because there were too many unanswered questions about where Campbell got the Botox, whether Britney's pediatrician had been consulted about the injections, and Campbell's training as an aesthetician. Britney's father, a research scientist, died four years ago at the age of 83, according to The Sun.

"It's pretty unusual for a mom to be injecting an 8-year-old with Botox," Trent Rohrer of the San Francisco Human Services Agency told ABC News last week. "Certainly, it's grounds for an investigation."





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