My Super Sweet Sixteen (as submitted to Highestwire)

Submitted by Jackie Olesko on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 05:05:53 AM EST.

I don’t know about anyone else’s sixteenth birthday, but mine was nothing like the birthdays that are aired on MTV’s show My Super Sweet Sixteen.

The program is about these 15-year-old girls that have more money than God and their upcoming birthdays. They plan these outrageous parties while the cameras follow them around. These parties cost from $40,000 up to $150,000.

To show an example of how unrealistic these parties are, there was a show where a girl was turning 16 and her arrival into the party consisted of her flying in on a helicopter. She invited people to the party by going up to each house in a limo and had hired inviters go up to the doors and hand out invitations. The invitations also stated that if a present was brought to the party that the guest wasn’t allowed in. As if the girl didn’t have enough stuff already.

Most girls on this show go all out on their outfits too. The girls can’t buy their dress from anywhere local; most of them can’t even buy it in the same country. One girl had to take a weekend trip to Las Vegas because nothing close would be good enough for her. Another girl had her parents fly her all the way to Paris, where still nothing was good enough for her, so she had to have it custom made.

The thing that makes me most mad about the show is how ungrateful and stuck up these girls are. If I ever treated my parents the way they do, I wouldn’t even be getting a “happy birthday” from them, let alone a $100,000 party. One girl went to Santa Barbara without telling her mom she was even leaving and came back and yelled at her mom for canceling her credit card while she was there. Later in that show the girl cried at her birthday dinner with her parents because daddy didn’t get the Range Rover that she wanted. But don’t worry -- it showed up a couple days later.

The last thing that ticks me off is how far up in the clouds these girl’s heads are. One girl told the camera that she was spoiled and she knew it, but she said it was justified because she deserved everything she has. I don’t understand how she could ever think she deserves any of what she has. She has never worked a day in her life and she doesn’t treat anyone with respect. At her party (remember she is probably a sophomore since she was turning 16) she didn’t allow any freshman to attend because she is so much more mature and sophisticated than any freshman. In fact, she felt her party should consist mostly of only seniors, who I’m betting must be her true friends.

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