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Marie Claire news: Miss Bimbo website Missbimbo.com

A new website aimed at girls between 9 and 16 has provoked outrage after parents discovered their little darlings were giving their online characters boob jobs and putting them on diets.

The Miss Bimbo website urges fans (200,000 of them at the last count) to win by creating the 'coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world'.

How to achieve this? Feeding her diet pills, giving her facelifts or boob jobs and dressing her up in sexy lingerie.

Girls who join up can do so for free, but are then charged £1.50 to send text messages which buy them Miss Bimbo dollars to spend dressing their online dolls.

'Children's innocence should be protected as far as possible. It depends on the mindset of the child but the danger is that after playing the game some will then aspire to have breast operations and take diet pills,' Bill Hibberd of Parentkind tells The Times.

'The danger is that a nine-year-old girl fails to appreciate the irony and sees the bimbo as a cool role model. Then the game becomes a hazard and a menace.'

However, the Frenchman behind the game, Nicholas Jacquart, says everyone is taking it far too seriously.

'The game is structured in such a way that it simply mirrors real life in a tongue-in-cheek way. It is not a bad influence for young children. They learn to take care of their bimbos. The missions and goals for the bimbos are morally sound and teach children about the real world,' he said.

'If they eat too much chocolate in the game, it is bad for their bimbos' bodies and their happiness levels compared to if they eat fruit and vegetables, which reinforces positive healthy eating messages.

'The breast operations are just one part of the game and we are not encouraging young girls to have them.'

Tuesday 25 March 2008


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Way cool, The game is just like real life!
Comment by JB on March 25 11:40

i don't have a daughter but i have to sons. i wouldn't want my boys to go on the net knowing there are websites like that. it's worst enough there are sicko on the net everyday trying to pray on our kids. we don't need to have weird website that provoke our children innocent mind into believing what they're doing it normal. i thinks children are being confuse by the media to know what is right to do and what is not. there are too many confusing messages out there.
Comment by nicki on March 25 11:29

Something about the idea that "children's innocence should be protected" totally misses the point. Who cares whether you're talking to children, teenagers or grown women? Suggesting that it's normal to scar beautiful natural breasts by cutting them open and inserting lumpen artificial materials for no real reason other than to attract unappealing types of men (inexperienced manchildren/mid-life crisis crinklies furiously masturbating themselves into a porn-inspired stupor) is madness whatever age the females in question.
But I guess I'm missing the point. The enterprising Nicholas Jacquart says it's all about irony, and of course, he's right: a dangerous, expensive operation designed to make you more attractive that actually makes you less able to experience sexual pleasure is pretty ironic. And of course it's "just one part of the game", the rest is about "healthy eating messages". Because this prince of a man doesn't mind how you go about it, girls, so long as you make damn sure you look perfect and keep your mouth shut.
Comment by Catherine on March 25 10:41

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