Recently, we heard that ‘An Education’ actress Carey Mulligan had been offered Botox at just 25-years-old, which sparked the question among the girls here at Talent Management, ‘would you have Botox at 25?’

When baby-faced Mulligan went to see a dermatologist in LA, she was shocked at the treatment suggested.

Mulligan commented: “I said, ‘I have some lines here under my eye and they’re annoying, what can you do?’ He looked at my face and said, ‘We’ll just drop some Botox in here and here…’

“I said, ‘What the —-? I’m only 25, are you joking?’ So I can’t move my face? Isn’t that, well, the antithesis of what I’m trying to do as an actress? Only in LA would someone try and give you Botox when you’re 25 years old.”

Sadly, there are an increasing number of young women who are succumbing to the suggestion of Botox at a ridiculously early age, and not just in LA.

In the UK, where you can get Botox injections at your hairdressers, the number of women resorting to Botox and similar treatments has jumped by 15 percent in a year.

And, according to a Mintel report, of the five million people in the US who had Botox last year, nearly 30 percent were under the age of 30.

BOTOX BABIES

This worrying trend has even been given a catchy label in the US – ‘Botox Babies’.

So-called Botox Babies rumoured to have had the occasional injections, include 24-year-old Hollywood bad girl Lindsay Lohan and 23-year-old Hillary Duff.

Even more worrying, at just 18 years old, Charice Pempengco, who plays foreign exchange student Sunshine Corazon in Glee, was reported as saying she wanted Botox “to look fresh on camera” last year.

Being active in the modelling industry, we at Talent Management are all too aware of the different perceptions of beauty and the pressure models and talent face to maintain a youthful profile.

However, we believe that natural beauty is the way forward. Aside from the fact that Botox has been linked in some cases to adverse reactions, and that the long-term effects of the drug remain to be seen, the contestant fight for ‘celebrity perfection’ is affecting more and more of us each day.

So take our advice and stay healthy and beautiful the natural way!