A fierce debate over parenting has been reignited after a video of a mother plucking her three-year-old daughter’s eyebrows resurfaced on social media.
American mother Leah Garcia first went viral in 2022 after posting a TikTok video of her plucking her daughter Bliss’s unibrow.
Leah, originally from Texas but of Hispanic descent, said at the time that she was ridiculed during her childhood for having a prominent unibrow, so she had decided to wax Bliss to prevent history from repeating itself.
The video resurfaced again this week on X, formerly Twitter, where an outraged woman accused Leah of “bullying” her daughter in a post that has now been viewed more than 20 million times.
Reposting the original TikTok video on X, the woman wrote: “In a way, mothers are their daughters’ first bullies.”
American mother Leah Garcia first went viral in 2022 after posting a TikTok video of her plucking her daughter Bliss’s unibrow.
Leah, originally from Texas but of Hispanic descent, said at the time that she was ridiculed throughout her childhood for having a prominent unibrow (pictured with Bliss).
The statement sparked fierce debate in the comments, with many arguing over whether or not Leah was right to wax the young woman’s forehead.
‘So everyone wants her to send her son to school with a unibrow so he can be bullied?’ wrote one.
“I see both sides, in a perfect world she shouldn’t have to do that but kids are CRUEL,” another added.
Slamming back against waxing, one wrote: ‘Guys, this girl is THREE YEARS OLD!! If it was a tween, then yes, ABSOLUTELY help your child! But this is a preschooler! They still don’t care about these things.
Another added: ‘I would understand if I was 14. But three? This is disgusting. Poor girl, I pray for her.’
The mother-of-two previously said her daughter Bliss was just two years old when she “asked” if she could be waxed and that the family now has a “wax day” every week.
After receiving backlash when the original waxing video first went viral in 2022, Leah said: “People say I’m projecting my own insecurities on her and that I should teach her not to worry about what people think, but at the end of the day she is human, and as much as we want to say what people say doesn’t bother you, it does bother you.
‘Bliss was just over two years old when I started waxing her. “Bliss and her sister Behautti have eight years between them, and Bliss always saw me plucking her older sister’s eyebrows, so she asked me if she could do it too,” she continued.
The video resurfaced again this week on X, formerly Twitter, where an outraged woman accused Leah of “bullying” her daughter in a post that has now been viewed more than 20 million times.
The statement sparked fierce debate in the comments, with many arguing over whether or not Leah was right to wax the young woman’s forehead.
“He asked me two or three times before I finally relented, but he never said ‘I have a unibrow’, he just showed interest in it.
“We have a waxing day every week as I have to wax once a week, so when I do I ask if anyone wants to wax their eyebrows and if they say no I don’t.”
Leah said one of the reasons she plucks the young man’s unibrow is because “the sooner you start plucking, the less it grows back.”
‘With Behautti, who is 11 years old, she barely has a unibrow because we have been plucking her for a long time. “I don’t mess with any other part of his eyebrows,” Leah said.
It doesn’t hurt Bliss any more than ripping off a Band-Aid, it’s just basic grooming. Unless you’ve struggled with it yourself, you don’t know.’
In order to prevent her daughters from suffering the same cruel teasing that she suffered as a child, she now regularly plucks her two daughters’ eyebrows.
Bliss can be seen in the viral waxing video, which first took the internet by storm in 2022.
Leah previously said she’s not ashamed of plucking her two daughters’ eyebrows.
‘I’ve never seen an adult walking around with a unibrow because they love it.
‘When people say, “Why do you do that?” I say, “Well, I guarantee you don’t like having a unibrow.”
‘My daughter is beautiful. I don’t care if people have problems with me making some basic arrangements, like taking them to get their hair cut.
“If they grow up and want to have bushy eyebrows again, it’s easy to recover from, but being bullied is something you don’t come back from and I’m preventing it from happening in the first place,” she continued.
“It’s a hard thing to get through and I’m just preventing that trauma, like any parent would want to do.”
‘I’m not training her to be insecure, I just want my daughter to feel good. I’ve never met anyone whose unibrow gives them confidence. Sometimes she will want it done and sometimes she won’t, I will never force her.