A fierce parenting debate has been reignited after a video surfaced on social media of a mother waxing her three-year-old daughter’s eyebrows.
American mother Leah Garcia first went viral in 2022 after posting a video on TikTok of herself waxing daughter Bliss’ unibrow.
Leah, who is from Texas but is of Hispanic descent, said at the time that she was ridiculed throughout her childhood for having a prominent unibrow, so she started waxing Bliss to prevent history from repeating itself.
The video resurfaced this week on X, formerly Twitter, where an angry woman accused Leah of ‘bullying’ her daughter in a post that has now been viewed more than 20 million times.
The woman reposted the original TikTok video to
American mother Leah Garcia first went viral in 2022 after posting a video on TikTok of herself waxing daughter Bliss’ unibrow
Leah, who is 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 a fierce debate in the comments, with many arguing over whether or not Leah was right to wax the youngster’s eyebrows.
“So you all want her to send her kid to school with a single forehead to be bullied?” wrote one.
“I can see both sides, in a perfect world she shouldn’t do that, but children are cruel,” another added.
One person who opposed the waxing wrote: ‘Guys, this girl is THREE YEARS OLD!! If she was a preteen, ABSOLUTELY help your child! But this is a toddler! They don’t care yet.’
Another added: “I would understand if she was fourteen. 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’ to be waxed and the family now has ‘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 onto her, and that I have to teach her that she doesn’t care what people think, but ultimately she is a human being, and as much as we want to say what people say, it doesn’t bother you, it does.
‘Bliss was a little over two when I started waxing her. The difference between Bliss and her sister Behautti is eight years, and Bliss always saw me waxing her older sister’s eyebrows, so she asked me if she could have it done too,” she continued.
The video resurfaced this week on
The statement sparked a fierce debate in the comments, with many arguing over whether or not Leah was right to wax the youngster’s eyebrows.
‘She asked two or three times before I finally gave in, but she never said, ‘I have an eyebrow,’ she just showed interest in it.
“We have a wax day every week because I have to wax once a week, so when I do it I ask if anyone wants to wax their eyebrows, and if they say no, I don’t do it.”
Leah said one of the reasons she waxes the youngster’s eyebrows is because “the sooner you start waxing, the less it grows back.”
‘With Behautti – who is 11 – she barely has a unibrow now because we’ve been waxing it for so long. I don’t mess with any other part of their eyebrows,” Leah said.
‘It doesn’t hurt Bliss any more than removing a plaster, it’s just basic care. Unless you’ve struggled with it yourself, you don’t know.’
To prevent her daughters from making the same cruel jokes she did as a child, she now regularly waxes both her daughters’ eyebrows.
Bliss is featured in the viral waxing video, which first took the internet by storm in 2022
Leah previously said she isn’t ashamed of waxing both of her daughters’ eyebrows
‘I’ve never seen an adult walking around with a unibrow because they love it so much.
‘When people say, “Why are you doing that?” I say, “Well, I guarantee you won’t like having a unibrow.”
‘My daughter is beautiful. I don’t care if people have a problem with me doing some basic grooming, just like I take her to get her hair cut.
“When they grow up and want thick eyebrows again, it’s easy to get rid of that, but being bullied is something you can’t come back from and I prevent it from happening in the first place,” she continued.
‘It’s hard to get rid of and I’m just preventing that trauma, as any parent would want to do.
‘I don’t train her to be insecure, I just want my daughter to feel good. I’ve never met anyone whose unibrow gives them confidence. Sometimes she wants it done and sometimes she doesn’t. I will never force her.’