JAS: I've spent probably around the price
mark of £20,000 on Minnie and she's worth every penny.
COMM: Jas Sullivan isn't ashamed to admit
that she spoils her baby daughter Minnie Beau.
COMM: She's spent £15,000 on the tot's wardrobe alone.
JAS: Minnie Beau is my life and I spend every
penny on her. I would literally walk around with holes in my clothes so that she could
be in a beautiful designer dress.
JAS: Hello darling. You coming to mum?
JAS: I love to dress her in Spanish designer outfits, frilly bonnets. I love to have her
dripping in gold and I've spent about £500
on her jewellery. I had her ears pierced at four months old so that she could wear her
lovely gold hoops. I admit I sometimes spoil Minnie but it's hard not to indulge her.
COMM: But Minnie's grandmother Bridget has
concerns about the cost of the cute coture.
BRIDGET: Jasmine kind of hides the spending
on Minnie's dresses away from me. But it's her money isn't it? Yes I suppose Jasmine
do spoil Minnie Beau by buying her expensive dresses and pretty little bows, but isn't
that what mums are supposed to do?
COMM: Minnie Beau is now only eighteen months
old, but Jas recently entered her into her first beauty pageant...
...and the preparation was painstaking!
JAS: Minnie Beau's first pageant cost me around
£600. That was for the outfits and all the accessories. She wore a beauty outfit, an
outfit of choice, a bikini and a crowning outfit.
JAS: I put wigs into Minnie Beau's hair, I
painted her nails. Ah beautiful. I attached false eyelashes and put makeup on her.
She looked absolutely beautiful. She loves having her makeup applied and her hair done, straightened,
curled. If she's a bit tired and she's getting a bit touchy I will sometimes give her a bit
of ice cream or a teddy to hold, just to cheer her up. A little bit of bribery to make her
sit there and let me finish.
COMM: Jas has been criticised for dolling
up her darling daughter for the contest.
JAS: Somebody commented on a picture of Minnie
Beau at her pageant and asked me why I was dressing my daughter inappropriately
and like a prostitute. People have said that I'm sexualising Minnie but this is a controlled
environment pageant and in my eyes it's not at all sexualising your child. Haters gonna
hate, and she's my child and I'll do what I see fit.
JAS: Yes Minnie hang on.
COMM: Jas is resolute she's giving Minnie
Beau the best start in life.
JAS: I don't care what anyone says, I work
hard to provide for Minnie and we do what makes us happy, and that includes pageants.
My life's changed completely for the best since having Minnie and in some senses I'd
say she has completed my life. I don't know where I'd be without her now and she's my
everything and she's my world!