Parenting debate reignites after video resurfaces of mom waxing her three-year-old's eyebrows: 'Mothers are their daughters' first bullies'

A fierce parenting statement has been reignited aft a video resurfaced connected societal media of a parent waxing her three-year-old daughter's eyebrows.

American ma Leah Garcia archetypal went viral successful 2022 aft posting a video to TikTok of herself waxing girl Bliss' unibrow.

Leah, who hails from Texas but is of Hispanic heritage, said astatine the clip that she was ridiculed passim her puerility for having a salient unibrow, truthful she'd taken to waxing Bliss' to forestall past from repeating itself.

The video resurfaced again this week connected X, formerly Twitter, wherever 1 outraged pistillate accused Leah of 'bullying' her girl successful a station that's present been viewed implicit 20 cardinal times.

Reposting the archetypal TikTok video to X, the pistillate wrote, 'Mothers are their daughters' archetypal bullies successful a way.'

The connection sparked a fierce statement successful the comments, with galore arguing implicit whether oregon not Leah was close to wax the youngster's brow. 

'So y'all privation her to nonstop her kid to schoolhouse with a unibrow to beryllium bullied?' wrote one.

'I spot some sides, successful a cleanable satellite she shouldn't person to bash that but kids are CRUEL,' added another.

Pushing backmost against the waxing, 1 wrote, 'Guys, this miss is THREE YEARS OLD!! If she was a preteen, past yes ABSOLUTELY assistance your kid out! But this is simply a preschooler! They don't attraction astir this worldly yet.'

Another added, 'I'd recognize if she was 14. But three? This is disgusting. Poor miss I commune for her.'

The mother-of-two antecedently said her girl Bliss was conscionable two-years-old erstwhile she 'asked' if she could beryllium waxed and the household present person 'waxing day' each week.

After getting backlash erstwhile the archetypal waxing video archetypal went viral successful 2022, Leah said, 'People accidental I'm projecting my ain insecurities onto her, and that I should thatch her not to attraction what radical think, but astatine the extremity of the time she's human, and arsenic overmuch arsenic we privation to accidental what radical accidental doesn't fuss you, it does.

'Bliss was conscionable implicit 2 erstwhile I started waxing her. Bliss and her sister Behautti person 8 years betwixt them, and Bliss would ever spot maine wax her older sister's eyebrows truthful asked maine if she could person it done too,' she continued.

'She asked 2 oregon 3 times earlier I yet gave in, but she ne'er said "I person unibrow,"' she conscionable showed an involvement successful it.

'We person a waxing time each week arsenic I person to wax erstwhile a week, truthful erstwhile I bash it, I inquire if anyone wants their eyebrows waxing, and if they accidental no, I don't bash it.'

Leah said that 1 crushed she waxes the youngster's unibrow is due to the fact that 'the sooner you commencement with waxing, the little it grows back.'

'With Behautti - who's 11 - she hardly has a unibrow present due to the fact that we've been waxing it for truthful long. I don't messiness with immoderate different portion of their eyebrows,' Leah said. 

'It doesn't wounded Bliss immoderate much than pulling disconnected a plaster, it's conscionable basal grooming. Unless you've struggled with it yourself you don't know.'

Intent connected preventing her daughters from suffering the aforesaid cruel jibes that she did arsenic a child, she present regularly waxes the eyebrows of some her daughters.

'I've ne'er seen an big walking astir with a unibrow due to the fact that they emotion it truthful much. 

'When radical say, "Why are you doing that?" I say, "Well I warrant you don't bask having a unibrow."

'My girl is beautiful. I don't attraction if radical person a occupation with maine doing immoderate basal grooming, conscionable similar taking her to get her hairsbreadth cut.

'If they turn up and privation heavy eyebrows again, it's casual to travel backmost from, but being bullied is thing you don't travel backmost from and I'm preventing it from happening successful the archetypal place,' she continued. 

'It is simply a hard happening to travel backmost from and I'm conscionable preventing that trauma, similar immoderate genitor would privation to do.

'I'm not grooming her to beryllium insecure, I conscionable privation my girl to consciousness good. I've ne'er met anyone whose unibrow gives them confidence. Sometimes she volition privation it done and sometimes she won't, I volition ne'er unit her.'