11-Year-Old Willow Smith Has a Tongue Piercing: What’s Next?
Willow Smith Shows Tongue Piercing
by Maria Lloyd
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw 11-year-old rising pop-star Willow Smith’s tongue piercing. The youngest child of Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, made headlines with her banging song “Whip My Hair”. The song became so popular that local night clubs kept it in heavy rotation- although the young star is not old enough to patronize a night club.
Willow has taken her fans and spectators on a roller coaster of fashion from shaving her head to wearing shoes that doubled as pants to an awards show. She has seen and done more things than the average kid (and adult) could ever imagine. I can remember Will and Jada saying that they allow their children to create their own image of beauty, and I applaud that; however, at what point should a parent interject? Children need their parents to mold them into the person they’re going to be throughout the majority of their lives.
If the parents take an “off hands” approach to raising their child, they’re essentially allowing the media, the child’s peers, and the child’s imagination to take over. I can’t help but question what’s to come of Willow Smith. Will she get a tattoo on her face? Butt injections? Botox in her lips? Married at 15? If Will and Jada don’t take more control of her life at 11, she’ll be hell on wheels at 15. I wish the child and the parents the best.
Would you allow your kid to get a tongue piercing at 11? Why or why not?
I will say again that Willow Smith appears to just be growing up without any parental guidance. Parents are there to say no when the child wants to do something that they shouldn’t. This is the same little girl and I say little because she still is, but this is the same little girl who not long ago spoke about how she felt about fame and not in a good way. Her parents may think this is cute, I hope they don’t come to regret their inaction!
Tee
June 25, 2012 at 12:12 am
it may not be real, I hope it’s not real just a fake stud like fake tats.
TeaJae
June 25, 2012 at 12:46 am
Seriously?!!!! It’s a tongue piercing! You sound like the child has just took a nosedive off the deep end of a very shallow pool. IT IS A TONGUE PIERCING, meaning that it doesn’t affect you, (or your judgement of her and her parents “parenting” skills). I have a niece that is now in college ON SCHOLARSHIP, and she has a tongue piercing. I am curious if you would throw this type of fit if Willow has her ears pierced? What really is the big deal?
Nicholaus
June 25, 2012 at 1:16 am
It’s for oral sex, you idiot, and is not the same as earings. This is an 11 year old girl, and she shouldn’t be having oral sex, or any sex at all. Now tell me some b.s. other reason why a person would have this piece of metal inserted into their tongue?
moonhead
June 25, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Her parents need to get a grip on this for real! I’m not against piercings (as I have my ears pierced) but a tongue ring??? An 11 year old does not need such a thing. Most people with a tongue ring are doing other “acts” if you know what I mean.
sasha
June 25, 2012 at 2:07 am
Those tongue piercing, are for one thing, and one thing only, and that’s oral sex, and I don’t care who says anything different. That means that she is already doing it, and her mother knows it.
moonhead
June 25, 2012 at 2:48 am
I agree, a tongue piercing is simply for one to enhance oral sex for the recipient! A tongue piecing with a “tramp stamp” on their back is a sure indication as to what their place is in society.
Elliott
June 25, 2012 at 4:45 pm
MOONHEAD….I HAVE A TONGUE PIERCING…TRUST AND BELIEVE..IT IS BECAUSE I WANTED ONE AND NOT FOR ORAL SEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM ONE OF THOSE SISTA’S THAT DON’T GO DOWN….THANK YOU VERY MUCH…
MOslim
June 25, 2012 at 9:10 pm
It is time that they grow up and be a parent to this child. You can be friends with your child. But there is a time when parenting comes first. This child is in danger. Intervention is needed now. Someone please call Social Service.
Ivy Simms
June 25, 2012 at 3:52 am
It’s just another sign that money doesn’t make you smart. To answer your question. No….my children can’t get any piercings or tatoos. My son can’t even get a haircut other than a fade right now and he’s 15. I told him he can change his haircut when he starts paying his own rent somewhere else. My daughter knows better than to even ask something like that. Seeing stuff like that makes me glad I’m not rich like some others. Looking at this and watching some of the decisions the Smiths and other stars make in life makes me think that money can make you stupid some time. Michael Jackson never grew up and this child is going to be grown at 13.
Bernie
June 25, 2012 at 4:26 am
who gives a fuck
DIABLO
June 25, 2012 at 9:01 am
LOL!!!!!
Kells
June 25, 2012 at 2:30 pm
I bet that’s her girlfriend next to her. She’s becoming more and more like a lesbian.
Nativenewyorker
June 25, 2012 at 1:43 pm
The making of a rich thug. It’s sad and Jada should be put under the jail, since Willow lives with her mom.
What is she thinking? Well, it is apparent she’s not thinking, but you can believe that she will regret her hands off, I don’t have time child rearing.
Sad, Sad, Sad!
Angel
June 25, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Train up a child in the way they shall go and when he is old, he will not depart from it. We as parents are held in accountable by God for the children He loaned us. They are not our they belong to God Almighty.No harm intended just thought this as I read about your daughter.
c. Martin
June 25, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Will and Jada are setting themselves and their child up for some rough times later in life. She is moving to fast and doing to much…there’s not going to be much left for her to explore…and her mind will become idle. An Idle mind is the playground for the devil. SMH
Tamara Yeldell
June 25, 2012 at 2:55 pm
We, who are outside looking in, have no idea what celebrity parents have to deal with in the raising, monitoring, controlling of children, especially when they are celebrities themselves. Given all of those issues which can be extraordinarily challenging/perplexing to say the least, there is a baseline or point which must always, always, be in place in the minds and hearts of those that love, guide, and basically have the responsibility of there care. I.e., parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and generally family. There should never ever be an action and or activity that can physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually be allowed to have access to, and or hurt our children. As parents, that is our responsibility! Some parents abrogate this responsibility partially, wholly, or not at all. It’s a fine line, for we do not want to destroy their creativity, but we must monitor/control how it is expressed. In this case, a tongue piercing can have significant medical issues. Health and wellness is about nutrition, and nutrition is about the quality of foods that we eat and our body’s ability to digest food. And digestion starts in the mouth, specifically with the tongue!
It is time to monitor and control!
Bill
June 25, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Black people should be more concern about all the out of control kids of these baby momma’s in our neighborhoods. They will have an impact on your lives by robbing, assaulting and murdering you NOT this idiot. I’m not worried about a kid from multimillionaire celebrity parents.
David2001
June 25, 2012 at 3:18 pm
She looks more of a male child than her brother. Not lookin good! I hope she keeps her feminine side throughout life. GAWDDDDDDDDDDDD!
sherry
June 25, 2012 at 3:49 pm
OMG WHO CARES, IT LOOKS LIKE SHE MAY HAVE SOME OTHER PROBLEMS DOWN THE ROAD WINK, WINK.
TODDIMY
June 25, 2012 at 3:52 pm
The weirdos in hollyweird are about to trick him too.
They want other black kids to do it too.Come on let’s play the game
” follow the leader ” down the road of self destruction.
Peter D. Slaughter
June 25, 2012 at 4:24 pm
So What!!!! I too allowed my children to be free in respect to the image that they wanted to have growing up. What I can attest to you all right now is that each of my children finished higher education and are enjoying fruitful careers. My daughter begged me for a tattoo when she was 12 and a tongue ring when she was 16. Instead of saying “no” and having her sneak and try to do it anyway..I said yes. As far as the tattoo was concerned, she could only get it with a flower or her name and it had to be on her leg. Those were my only conditions. The tongue ring phase passed in no time — I guess the novelty wore off. My children were never buck wild and the freedoms and liberties that I allowed kept them honest. They never had to sneak around, which I believe is the reason they’ve grown up into such lovely, responsible adults. Willow is gonna be okay…there’s nothing wrong with how her parents choose to raise her.
Lori Roberts
June 25, 2012 at 4:31 pm
you are an fucking idiot, and the reason why these kids today are worth their breakfast.
moonhead
June 25, 2012 at 6:50 pm
.You got that right!
Lo Key
June 25, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Sneak and try to do it? My mother said HELL NO and I waited until I was an adult. The fact that you assumed your child would get a tattoo when she was 12 behind your back and a freaking tongue ring at 16 behind your back proves your parenting skills are non existent. You want to be a friend instead of a mother. I wish I might have done something like that behind my mother’s back. You would have been reading about me on the Dreamin’ Demon!
Lo Key
June 25, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Seems that the lamers here who disapprove of your parenting style missed the part about “higher learning” and “fruitful careers”.
Troll Hunter
June 27, 2012 at 4:44 am
Well, the apple does not fall far from the tree. Will and Jada have eluded to their rather “unorthodox lifestyle” of an open marriage and swinging. Also, I heard Jada say (facetiously?) once on the Oprah show that if things did not work out with Will, that she would marry or hook up with Charlize Theron because she thought she was so beautiful.
Oprah looked shocked and Jada stated that she was serious because it was either Will or else. There have been numerous rumors that both parents live a bisexual lifestyle so it is not surprising to me that they would raise their daughter and son to choose freedom of individual expression to include sexuality.
Of course, just because she has a tongue piercing and possesses a rather avant garde clothing and hair does not mean that she is actually living a wild, swinging lifestyle at 11 years old. However, people who don’t know her will come to their own conclusions based on her actions and personal style.
Anja
June 25, 2012 at 5:00 pm
TO NATIVENEWYORKER I AGREE WITH YOU. I FEEL THAT YES A CHILD CAN EXPRESS THEMSELVES BUT TO A CERTAIN DEGREE. I DON’T LATE IF YOU ARE A CELEBRITY. A CHILD NEEDS TO STILL REMAIN A DAMN CHILD AND STOP MAKING THESE DAMN KIDSSSSS GROW UP TO DAMN FAST. NEXT WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN SHE GETS PREGNANT THEN WHAT.. IT’S JUST A DAMN SHAME PARENTS ARENT BEING PARENTS BUT TOO BUSY BEING THEIR CHILD FUCKING FRIENDDDDD!!!!!
APHRODITE ROCKAZ
June 25, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Its a form of expression. I commend Will and Jada for allowing their daughter to express herself… That is one of our major issues as a people.. we often stunt the growth of our own children by not allowing them to be who they are… and forcing them to conform to who we THINK they should be. And impose our own insecurities of what we think others will think. This way of child rearing is what holds us back once we grow up..because then our minds are filled with nothing but limitations and worries about what “they” might think of us. and so we wont take risks.. which is a large ingredient in being successful in many facets of our lives. Keep up the good work Will&Jada…Willow seems to be a beautiful,respectful,bright and destined for greatness girl. i hope that this example of a lesser need to control everything regarding our children..and conform to false standards…which was created by hypocrites to begin with…..and only leads to dimming their God given light….spreads into the rest of our community…Our children generations on will be be greater for it.
former free spirit child and now mother of successful and happy adult son
June 25, 2012 at 5:31 pm
what do you expect
the parents are scientologists….they lets their kids do anything!
they try to keep mum about it and pretend they are not —yet they open a school that has scientologists as teachers and the doctrine is all of its philosophy……
they keep it mum as the “black” community would find it kooky…but lets be honest all of us blk or whatever ind it kooky…i try to respects all religions …but as i do not find this to be a valid religion…all gloves are off!
Kooky religion supposedly started by aliens….find it hard to believe the smiths are into this …but Jada’s always been a kooky ..”trying” to find herself individual…and Will just seems like a bit of a followerer…and it obvious she rules the roost!
Mary
June 25, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Willow does not have a piercing,this is a fake, I know for a fact, the girl next to her is Bobbi Debarge, who I know does not have a piercing(her mother would never go for that), this is a pic of them clowning… it’s obvious some clown decide to build a lie from it, you have to be really careful what you believe these days.
FOLKS GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU START SPEWING DISRESPECT AND MISINFORMATION!!!!
Black Lion
June 25, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Does she know this signifies oral sex. Personally, I blame Will and Jada. If they need a role models there’s POTUS and FLOTUS children.
ARNEADER
June 25, 2012 at 7:29 pm
If it is true that the parents are swingers then I guess lil Willow is on her way to the freak fest of lesbianism………..her new found group is the LGBT…..good luck wit dat!
Vanessa
June 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm
Vanessa hit the nail on the head, Jada likes the girls and ole Will flip flops so I guess they’re freaks of the industry.. Damn shame
1blkmnsopn
June 26, 2012 at 1:48 pm
As an 11 year old, a child is still learning right from wrong. There is a time and place for everything and at 11 yrs old, getting a piercing anywhere other than the ears is highly inappropriate. I’d take caution in letting a child loose too early. Unless parents are ready for the repercussions of mistakes made by a freewheeling child, I’d stick to keeping her involved in age appropriate activities for now. This is not a new scene. We have seen where growing up too fast leads children. God bless the family.
luluu
August 19, 2012 at 3:35 am