Mother bets on daughter, 1, to become 2023 Miss World

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2003-09-15 06:39am

We all get hit by the ugly stick after a couple of years of life. Looks like this mother thinks otherwise.

Mother bets on daughter, 1, to become 2023 Miss World
September 15, 2003

A mother has placed a £5 ($12) bet on her one-year-old daughter being crowned Miss World by the time she reaches 21.

Pharmacy worker Arlene Osman, 33, placed the stake at odds of 10,000 to one that her bonny baby will become Miss Wales and then Miss World in 20 years' time.

Ms Osman, from Pontypridd, South Wales, will win £50,000 from William Hill bookmakers if baby Kloe grows up to be officially named as the world's most beautiful woman.

She said blue-eyed, blonde-haired Kloe has already developed a bubbly personality.

She said: "She's a pretty girl. She's always smiling at everyone.

"I went on a cruise and everyone was really taken with her. If people walk past her, she can't understand why."

Ms Osman, originally from Motherwell in Scotland, won a beauty pageant when she was a child.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-09-15 06:41am

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-15 07:02am

that poor child is going to live a miseable life being forced to act out her mother's delusions of grandeur.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-09-15 07:15am

I forsee a lot of those crash diet things for this poor kid.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-09-15 07:25am

I don't know, £50000 isnt enough to retire on, you would think that if she was planning to enforce it, she would bet slightly more on the daughter - say £100 or something, this could be just a whimsy bet (albeit a bit of a dodgy one as far as the child's future welfare goes).

EDIT: It could have been that £5 was the maxium William Hill allowed her to place, now I think about it.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-09-15 07:28am

Vanity spares no one, it seems.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-09-15 08:16am

Another bitch who want to live her trough her daughter.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-09-15 08:33am

She's either psychic, really lucky or downright bloody stupid.

Guess which one I vote for...

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2003-09-15 11:11am

The Stupid is indeed strong with this one...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-09-15 11:18am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:She's either psychic, really lucky or downright bloody stupid.

Guess which one I vote for...

And the first two don't count

?

Yeah...the saddest part is this poor girl will be subjected to all sorts of nonsense because the mother will want her deluded dream to come true.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-09-15 11:27am

Cheap bet I would guess is the reason. Doesn't hurt too much.

Kid's life is still probably going to be pretty crappy from this though.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-09-15 11:29am

Erk. Wonder what the father thinks, assuming there's one present.