MTV’s True Life: I Hate My Small Breasts aired this weekend, featuring 18-year-old Shacole — who grew up competing in child beauty pageants — being repeatedly hounded by her mother to get implants…yes by her MOTHER!

Shacole is a 32A, and it’s obvious to everyone around her (except herself and her mom) that she’s beautiful the way that she is. She says her mother Nicole is a “stage mom” who used to stuff Shacole’s bras with gel packs when she was competing in child pageants. Nicole even pressures Shacole to sign up for a website in which you post half-naked pictures of yourself in exchange for someone paying the cost of breast implant surgery.

Shacole’s mother Nicole, who has small breasts, thought her daughter should get her “boobs” enhanced if she wanted a chance at becoming a professional cheerleader—although she was quick to emphasize that wasn’t the reason she thought her daughter should get implants. “You need them,” her mother said. Nicole even suggested that Shacole join her in posting pictures of herself on a website where donors can sponsor breast enhancement surgery for those “in need.” Obviously, Nicole was a terrible mother with no concern over shredding her daughter’s self-esteem.

Although she admits that she has resulting body image issues from her mother (and even cries when she looks at herself in the mirror), Shacole seems determined to not get the surgery. She hires a life coach/counselor to help her work through those problems, and when her mother finds out she tells her daughter, “I’d rather you spend money on getting your boobs done than on some lady who’s telling you to chill out.”

I’m so disturbed by this…what do you think??