Suri Cruise's Heels: Good Enough for Your Kid?
Let’s face it: I’m old. And I chase a four-year-old around. I don’t get to wear anything higher than a sneaker these days. So call it jealousy . . . or sanity . . . I was a tad disturbed when I saw Suri Cruise strutting her stuff in kitten heels the other day.
Reported by our own Sunny Chanel over on Babble’s Droolicious, the picture shows the world’s most famous three-year-old in a pair of sparkly heels that are definitely higher than anything I’ve worn in the past five years (four years of my child’s life PLUS pregnancy).
According to definitions, a kitten heel is defined as a stiletto somewhere between three and five centimeters high (thank you Wikipedia!). So here’s the question: who buys their kid high heels?
I’m not talking about the plastic dress-up pairs that are ubiquitous to every trunk on the market (my daughter has seven pairs of those – count ‘em, seven, Grandma and Grandpa). Dress up is a fun part of nearly every kid’s childhood – boy or girl. But the little Cruise-bot wasn’t teetering around in the dress-up shoes that she just “had” to wear outside, please, oh please, oh please, mommy. Those look an awful lot like regular heels to me.
Which leads me to my second question: who MAKES high heels for kids that age?
Known for causing the spine to curve forward and the pelvis to tip, grown women are advised to lay off the style and go for comfort, comfort, comfort when it comes to picking their footwear. A study in England showed a twenty-nine million pound industry for foot surgeons off of high heel wearers, and another found four in ten women wearing high heels end up with twisted ankles.
So let’s refresh: back problems, foot problems, ankle problems. And they’re making these ready-made for itty bitty feet?
I told you, I’m old. And jealous. And not really thinking about the sexi-fication of a toddler (the shocker of the year came to me last year when a three-year-old strutted into my daughter’s pre-school in high-heeled boots which she had dubbed her “f–k me boots.”). I’m still caught up on teeny weeny, still fragile ankles, feet and backs all at risk because someone thought kitten heels would be cute for their little kitten.
Anyone else thinking this is ick-tastic?
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Suri probably likes to wear heels to be as tall as her dad. Seriously tho… your story of the three year old and the boots? OMFG.
This kind of stuff drives me crazy! As if our daughters weren’t being pressured to grow up too fast by the fashion industry already, but stiletto heels for pre-schoolers? Give me a flipping break… Kate and tom, what are you thinking? And where the hell does a three year old hear the term “f*** me boots”?
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Heels? So, so wrong. I saw a g-string for 8 year olds in a children’s clothing shop. Words escape me…
im more concerned with the ad on the right. a pregnant lady with a toddler in a front seat, riding a bike. That sounds soooo dangerous!!
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As a mom of a three year old princess, I cannot put heels on myself without my daughter whining that she wants to wear them…on and on…I am not saying I would buy her heels…NO WAY..but I bet little Suri also won’t shut her cute little trap about wanting to wear heels also..So instead of buying the Pink Plastic dress up heels that most lil girls fashion (My daughter actually broke me down and I let her wear them out …in public) Katie probably bought suri a designer pair so she would not have to be seen by the paparazzi in dress up toy shoes…sounds logical no?
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Suri needs to lose the heels and go back to going barefoot, it is healthier for her and she looks better in bare feet.
I agree, Suri needs to go barefoot more, it suits her better. I raised my daughter to go barefoot from when she was born, now she is 6 years old and only wears shoes when she goes to school, when she comes home, she sits down and pulls her shoes and socks off as the first thing she does when she walks in. Yes, I take Hannah barefoot shopping too, her feet are tough enough to run around in parking lots barefoot. So far the worst in six years has been an occasional splinter after she has been walking around in the woods. She loves to be outside.
the shoes are not even that high people need to stop hating on the child and i bet its all the frumpy moms are makeing those comments i am a mother my self i have a 12 year old daughter.