At 11, Sasha Bennington is too adolescent to bethink the canicule aback Jordan was aloof a country and actuality branded 'fake' was article to be abashed of.
But maybe the youngster's bigger tragedy is that her mother, Jayne, 31, is in no bustle to acrylic a account of how it acclimated to be.
All about the look: Sasha Bennington is aloof 11 but her mother loves the way she looks
Jayne is talking agilely about how Sasha had her aboriginal set of apocryphal nails alert on at eight, and now enjoys the array of accurate adorableness regime - beard extensions, affected tans, pedicures - that was already the bottle of porn stars and Dolly Parton, not academy accouchement from Burnley in Lancashire.
Still, times accept changed. 'All the kids are at it now,' insists Jayne. 'We absorb about £300 a ages on adorableness treatments for her.
'Sasha's accompany are the same. All girls their age are. Of advance they are! Why abroad would you be able to buy composition for pre-teens at Boots?
'Perhaps it's adapted in country areas, area they don't charge to abound up so fast. But, about big cities, girls accept got to be added advanced and act beforehand than they are. That's aloof the way it is.
'I don't accept why bodies get so agitated about it. None of it is permanent. Tans ablution off. Beard extensions appear out. Why all the fuss?'
Just over a year ago, there was fuss abounding aback Jayne entered Sasha (then ten) in the inferior Miss British Isles competition - Britain's aboriginal adult-style adorableness celebration for children.
Former allure archetypal Jayne and babe Sasha appear adorableness pageants all over the world
It wasn't an altogether admirable experience. Jayne tells me she was afraid about the way the challenge was run, citation odd rules about how abundant composition should be activated to those pre-pubescent faces and including ambagious clauses about how contestants could accompany composition artists but should try to attending 'natural'.
At first, I anticipate she is criticising the organisers for auspicious the accouchement to attending too adult. Wrong!
She bureau the girls - some of whom were still toddling - weren't accustomed to attending developed enough.
'Because this country doesn't accept a attitude of this array of thing, the organisers didn't absolutely apperceive how to comedy things. Attractive back, it was all actual conservative. They kept adage they capital the girls to attending natural. Why? Let them bang it on! What's the harm?'
Earlier this year, Jayne was accustomed chargeless rein with the blusher aback Sasha became the aboriginal British adolescent to dip a scarlet-tipped toe into the American celebration scene.
Jayne was at her side, allowance her practise her sashay.
The brace took a documentary aggregation with them, and begin what you'd apprehend at a U.S. adorableness celebration captivated in a down-market-looking Texan hotel: mums affectation their daughters like award-winning poodles, kids who attending awfully like mini Celine Dions, and abundant lipgloss to affectation a drowning accident to the atomic entrants.
Jayne says: 'Sasha's accompany are the same. All girls their age are. Of advance they are! Why abroad would you be able to buy composition for pre-teens at Boots?'
There was a jaw-dropping moment in the film - Sasha, Adorableness Queen At 11, to be apparent on July 14 on BBC3 at 9pm - aback the celebration adept answerable with assuming Sasha the ropes demonstrates how to airing like a adorableness queen.
She explains how to about-face your anatomy annular while captivation the judges' eyes, afore flipping your arch annular at the aftermost minute 'like that Exorcist child'.
Sasha ability not accept won, but Jayne admired the process, anecdotic it as 'the best fun ever'. 'It was aloof fantastic,' she says.
'What you see in U.S. pageants absolutely is what you get. It's weird, but brilliant. They booty it so seriously, which can alone be acceptable for addition like Sasha.
'All the mums were up at 6am so they could get started on beard and make-up.
'And aggregate is aloof the best. No amount is spared. You accept to absorb £2,000 on a celebration dress over there. I anticipation £500 for one actuality was a lot. The one we bought Sasha was out of this world.
'We went to this huge boutique area there was every colour and appearance you could imagine. Sasha aloof ran through all the dresses, she was in her element.
Jayne talks about Sasha's media 'career', assertive her babe is a bona fide celebrity, and is appreciative to accept been active in authoritative that happen
'Back home, we accept to buy an developed dress and get it adapted to fit, but there they are absolutely geared up for girls her age.
'The celebration was like a dream. The girls are encouraged to put on masses of make-up. It was aloof like a big affected event, like actuality transported to addition world.'
Underpinning the bogie tale, though, was a abysmal admiration to win.
'I fell in adulation with a blush dress that fabricated her attending like a princess, but the bodies advising us told us you should consistently bout the dress to the eyes - so we went for green.
'That was OK, though. I wasn't there to accept the dress I wanted. I was there so that Sasha could win. I was afraid at how abundant there was to learn, but I knew I was in the easily of the experts.'
Jayne and her husband, Martin, spent £26,000 on Sasha's presents, which included a pond pool
It seems that the capital assignment abstruse was that her angel babe could attending like a artificial Barbie, and be adored with a bandage to prove it.
'People consistently said she looked like a Barbie in Miss British Isles, but the girls in Texas absolutely did,' enthuses Jayne.
'It was wonderful. I watched them on the catwalk, with their accoutrements captivated so precisely, walking boring and axis aloof so. They reminded me of little ballerina dolls.'
What array of mother wants her babe to attending like a doll? The angel I accept in my arch is of Exorcist Barbie, but Jayne sees article abroad entirely.
Her acknowledgment to the celebration pictures of Sasha - attractive abominable with abysmal red aperture and heavily smoked eyes - apparently says added about her than her daughter.
'The pictures are amazing, and Sasha is such a advantageous babe to accept them. I'd adulation to accept those array of pictures, nice pictures, rather than ones you adumbrate abroad because you can't buck to attending at them.'
It was about the aforementioned time she started dabbling in adorableness pageants that Jayne declared she capital her babe to be the abutting Jordan. She still does.
'Of course. Jordan is her idol and I absolutely abutment her in that. She's a abundant role model, this absolutely common woman who has fabricated a big success of her life. She's a bigger role archetypal than Britney Spears - any day.'
Jayne consistently saw the accessible affectation of Sasha as acute to this goal, so maybe it's not hasty that she pushed the adolescent Stateside, into a apple few in Britain understand.
She chatters abroad about Sasha's media 'career', assertive her babe is a bona fide celebrity, and is appreciative to accept been active in authoritative that happen.
'She's been on TV with Lorraine Kelly. What babe of her age can say that?
''I'm absolutely appreciative that I've helped her get to this date by giving her all the opportunities I can. Going to the States was aloof the abutting date in all of this, and it's been worthwhile.
'We've been told she could accept a absolutely acceptable approaching in American pageants, but annihilation is possible - film, adverts, boilerplate modelling. I appetite Sasha to accept all the options.'
In the accessible documentary, Jayne takes Sasha to a above agency, in the achievement that she will be active up.
'People say she looks like Barbie' - Jayne is so appreciative of her daughter's success
The archetypal booker says a angry 'no', abashed by her portfolio, and tells Jayne that audience appetite their adolescent models to attending like children, and that for this array of career success she would accept to stop acerbic Sasha's beard and auspicious her to abrasion artificial nails. Jayne refuses to comply.
It comes as no abruptness that Jayne acclimated to be a archetypal herself, and one who formed in the 'glamour' ancillary of the business.
She started at 23 - which, she explains, was 'far too late' for absolute career success - and now believes that beforehand is better, in adjustment to maximise accumulation and notoriety.
One of her own happiest memories is of entering a adorableness celebration and acceptable the coveted sash. 'I was on top of the world. One day I was an accustomed accounting worker, the abutting anybody was attractive at me. It was wonderful.
'I'd never been a decidedly appealing child. I was consistently abbreviate and fat - not like Sasha - but I did OK with the modelling. Who knows what would accept happened if I'd started earlier?'
Is it a accompaniment that Jayne would accept been alive as a promotional archetypal aback Jordan came forth and afflicted all the rules about how akin such a career can be.
She boasts she has met the aeriform queen of the allure world, and was alike photographed with her.
They were both articles of their time. As she watched Jordan accomplish amazing boilerplate success, Jayne approved to coin her own aisle in the new world, area aggregate crass and boastful was acclaimed rather than shunned.
She set up a limo appoint business, and approved to get a ballast in the absoluteness TV world, actualization on Wife Swap. Again she angry her attentions to Sasha - accepting her in advanced of the cameras became paramount.
When I ask whether this latest celebration business is aloof about her aggravating to realise her own baffled ambitions through her daughter, she is offended - but alone because the catechism assumes her career is over, which she denies.
'I ability go aback and do some added modelling. Who knows? If article comes up. I'm not accomplished it yet.'
She maintains it has consistently been Sasha who has apprenticed her own 'career' forward. Alike as a babyish she was a 'total poser', arena up for the cameras and basking in the attention.
'She's consistently capital to be a model, 100per cent. I'm aloof allowance her do what she wants, like any acceptable ancestor would. It's not blame her into anything. I abhorrence it aback bodies say I'm a ambitious parent. I'm not. I aloof appetite the best for her.'
Yet can 'the best' absolutely absorb captivation her duke as she accomplish into a terrifyingly sexualised world? It is Jayne herself who says that her babe looks 'about 18' aback she has abounding composition on.
'But, alike after make-up, she looks about 13 or 14, absolutely beforehand than her age.'
She thinks this is a acceptable affair and brushes off questions about blackballed macho attention.
'People go on about the paedophile thing, but they've got that one wrong. Paedophiles don't appetite girls who attending 18. If anything, it's the fresh-faced adolescent ones they want.
'And so what if she poses in a bikini? There are affluence of 11-year-old girls on beaches in bikinis. If bodies accept a botheration with it, I'd say it is their problem, not mine.
'Besides, as I accumulate saying, this is what Sasha wants.'
And what Sasha wants, Sasha acutely gets. Aftermost Christmas, Jayne and her husband, Martin, a architect who works all over the UK and is almost at home, spent £26,000 on Sasha's presents, which included a pond pool.
Martin seems to apply no access at all - 'I leave all that to Jayne,' he says.
Has Jayne anytime chock-full Sasha accomplishing anything? 'She capital to get her abdomen button broken and I said no,' she says.
This is puzzling. Sasha acutely has her abdomen button pierced, and is blessed to affectation the affirmation in her photo shoots. What happened? She sniggers. 'Maybe I gave in. Yeah. I'm not consistently that austere with her.
'People can say what they want. I apperceive there is annihilation bad about what I'm doing. I'm aloof allowance my babe accomplish article of her life. Any acceptable mum would do the same.'
After our interview, Jayne will be demography Sasha to cheerleading classes, in a added bid to realise that all-American dream.
She makes Sasha practise her cheerleading wherever she goes - alike blame her into the average of the attic in restaurants. Why?
'You accept to be out there, actuality noticed, alike at a bus stop. What if Andrew Lloyd Webber walks past?'
What will become of the child, who turns aloof 12 in two weeks? We ability achievement for a about-face boyish rebellion - one in which she dyes her beard mousey amber and professes a admiration to abstraction political science at university - but it's unlikely.
Ask Sasha how she sees herself and she replies: 'Blonde, pretty, dumb - I don't charge brains.' Her mum action her arch off at this, appreciative that the adolescent is so like her.
