An edgy mother. Farrah Abraham celebrated her daughter’s 14th birthday by taking her to get her sixth piercing.
“HAPPY 14th Birthday! #snakebite & #earlobe piercing occasion! 6 piercings later #snakebitepiercings you match your snake 🎂,” the Teen Mother alum, 31, captioned a video of Sophia getting her lip pierced on Thursday, February 23. “Are you able to even eat your cake?”
After posting the clip, the MTV character’s followers flocked to the feedback part to share their opinions over her parenting decisions.
“Y’all are wild considering that is regular conduct between a mother and a 14 yr previous … all these piercings on her face are an excessive amount of at 14,” one consumer replied. One other retorted, “As should you want 1 extra causes to not be mom of the yr.”
Abraham, for her half, defended her choice and clapped again at her haters.
“I received’t be shaming my daughter, I LOVE and help Sophia 100% on who and what she desires to develop into,” she informed In Contact hours after receiving the web backlash. “The mother shamers ought to acknowledge what some youngsters will develop out of and what they [will not]. That’s a part of a teen journey as I don’t have my stomach button piercing anymore.”
This wasn’t the primary event that the truth star was criticized for letting her daughter get a piercing. In February 2022, she opened up about her reasoning for why she let Sophia get her nostril septum pierced.
“I might fairly or not it’s by an expert, sanitized and clear, than my teen sneaking off and doing it herself and getting an an infection,” Abraham informed TMZ on the time. “To those that would possibly really feel it’s inappropriate that my daughter received her nostril professionally legally carried out, I’m all about being authorized. We abided by the legislation. I’m doing my finest as a father or mother to make it possible for she is wholesome and completely satisfied, and I lined these bases. So, congratulations to Sophia. I’m wishing her the very best in her teen years, and if she desires to get extra piercings, extra energy to her.”
Together with the piercings, the Teen Mother OG alum completely informed Us Weekly in February 2021 that she has given Sophia a chat on the birds and the bees since her teen has “gone by puberty.”
“Oh, my God. The world is rushing up on me. … When tweens undergo puberty, they should study, to start with, about being pregnant exams. So I wanted to let her know stuff as a result of I’m all about healthcare. And I’m not about shaming,” she stated on the time.
The Nebraska native rose to fame as one of many stars of 16 and Pregnant. Throughout filming for the MTV actuality sequence, Abraham’s associate on the time, Derek Underwood — who was additionally Sophia’s father — tragically died in a automotive accident earlier than she gave delivery to their daughter in February 2009.
