Katie Price criticised for posting photo of 'glammed up' 10-year-old daughter

Katie Price’s parenting skills have caused debate for many years. Yet the 39-year-old TV personality continues to do her thing.

On Sunday, the well-known star posted a photo of her 10-year-old daughter, Princess, on Instagram.

With her blonde hair styled in cascading curls and lashings of mascara (along with other make-up), Princess looked much older than her 10 years.

Unsurprisingly, some of Katie’s 1.6 million followers weren’t too happy with the photo, telling the star to let her daughter “be a child.”

“Way to young to be made up like this. A beautiful child. Let them be just that,” one person commented.

“Beautiful but she looks 13. Let her be natural. Let her be a kid. Let her be young and not want to look older than herself. Don’t let her be you,” said another.

Others, however, were quick to defend Katie, saying that they too have let their young daughters experiment with make-up.

“Girls love make-up and that starts at a young age, it’s perfectly natural. I don’t see any problem. She’s not exactly plastered in it and she looks beautiful with it and without it,” wrote one supporter.

Another echoed the statement, writing: “Why do you get the backlash for curling your daughter’s hair and making her feel special? Is it such a crime to pamper our kids and make them feel pretty?! She looks gorgeous!”

One of Katie’s own children, 12-year-old Junior, has even criticised his mother for her social media decisions.

In March, Junior (whose father is Peter Andre) said that posting photos of his younger sister in make-up could attract the wrong kind of people.

Appearing on an episode of ‘Loose Women’, the youngster gave some wise words to his mum, saying: “I think if I had a daughter my age, I wouldn’t let her post it on social media. I would let her have little kid make-up like lipstick but not in public.”

“Say you put it on social media, lots of people like paedophiles will get attracted to her more likely, because not only is she well known, it will make her look more beautiful so they will be attracted to her and want to get to her. Yes it does [worry me] because I don’t want to lose my sister,” he admitted.

Katie previously defended her decision to post ‘sultry’ photos of her daughter, commenting: “People say they’re too sexy. If I said, ‘Don’t pose like that, it’s too sexy,’ she wouldn’t know what I meant, because she doesn’t know what sexy is.”

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