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For their eighth birthday most little girls can expect a new doll, or a bike, some clothes or maybe a games console.

Not Poppy Burge. When she wakes up to her special day next month, her mum Sarah will hand her £8,000 of vouchers... to spend on plastic surgery.

And while Poppy is so young her two front teeth have yet to come through, Sarah believes it’s perfectly OK to introduce her daughter to the world of Botox, facelifts, nose-jobs and boob jobs.

Sarah, 51, who has already spent more than £250,000 on her own cosmetic procedures over the last 20 years, insists that the best gift she can give Poppy is the chance to be just like her.

“I’m investing in my child’s future,” she says. “I’m giving Poppy the freedom to do what she wants. That’s what Poppy wants for her ­birthday.

“I think she is beautiful and I don’t think anything needs to change. But the reality of life is people don’t think they look fine as they are.

“It’s ­empowering for her to be able to take charge of the way she wants to look. She’ll be able to use the ­vouchers when she reaches 18. I’m going to keep buying them for her for Christmas and birthdays until then so she’ll have about £120,000 worth.

“People are jealous of my success because I’m creative and fun. The plastic surgery sends them into a wild frenzy.”

Former nurse Sarah has had more than 100 cosmetic procedures. She runs her own cosmetic surgery clinic and regularly holds Botox parties at home in St Neots, Cambridgshire.

Many will think her gift ­outrageous... and Poppy’s birthday ­celebrations ­promise to be just as ­bizarre. Sarah, who has three girls by three different fathers (“Men find it hard to keep up with me,” she says) is throwing a lavish party costing £25,000.

She and husband Anthony, 51, an ­aluminum dealer, have hired a huge 24m x 12m marquee for their garden, which will be decked out in barn-dance style.

And before the party even begins, Poppy will be taken on a procession through the local village in a horse and carriage, while 100 guests await her arrival.

She will walk in on a pink carpet in a new outfit that includes diamond-­encrusted red boots and a designer dress. After ­dancing and a lunch of sausage and beans, there’ll be entertainment from a singer who has been asked to write and perform a song dedicated to Poppy.

The birthday girl will also judge her own X Factor-style show when her friends will be expected to walk down a catwalk like models. Her parents have even hired the world’s largest rabbit, 4ft long, for guests to pet.

Each partygoer will leave with a £200 party bag containing spray-tan vouchers, a signed photo of Poppy and Sarah and luxury chocolates.

Surely in these times of austerity, it’s all a bit over the top? With no hint of irony, well-spoken Sarah says: “My daughter has high standards. Other people might be ­judgmental, but I’m a successful ­businesswoman. I’ll spend my money how I want to. I want to give Poppy the best.

“Kids are growing up a lot quicker these days and turning eight is the new 18.”

In another way of marking the big day, Sarah and Poppy have posed for a series of portraits dressed as ­celebrities. In the main picture here they both dress as pop diva Lady Gaga in nothing but yellow crime-scene tape, like the X-rated video for her song ­Telephone.

Sarah claims the shocking images make a feminist statement. “Posing for these photos was all about about female ­empowerment,” she insists.

Poppy is also indulged with up to five new outfits a week, as well as spray-tans, facials and beauty treatments.

She attends weekly acting classes, ­regularly jets off to Los Angeles for mini-breaks at Disneyland, works as a part-time model and takes part in US beauty ­pageants.

She even has her own make-up artist who is on call for any big occasions.

For her part, Poppy insists she’s ­delighted to be getting the vouchers for her birthday. She even plans to train as a cosmetic surgeon if her dream of becoming an actress and singer doesn’t come off. Asked why she’s so keen on cosmetic surgery, she shrugs and says: “It makes you look nicer.”

What do her friends think? ­“People that don’t actually know me say it’s weird. But people that do know me say that I’m lucky.”

If Poppy told her mum she just wanted to live a normal life, Sarah admits she would find it ­difficult.

“I would try to frown, but I wouldn’t be able to because of the Botox!” she jokes. “But Poppy likes being in the ­limelight. She loves money. She’s even got her own safe in her bedroom.”

Sarah reveals that there’s a dark moment in her past which lies behind some of her plastic surgery. When she was 29, her then boyfriend attacked her and she was left with severe facial injuries.

“My face was literally destroyed,” she says.

She had a string of procedures to repair her looks.

“I knew what it was like to feel ugly... and after surgery I knew what it was like to feel beautiful again.”

Sarah has given her other daughters, ­Hannah, 18, and Charlotte, 27, surgery ­vouchers as presents, too.

“They haven’t used them on full surgery yet, but they may well do in the future,” she says.

“But Charlotte has had Botox and fillers. Hannah works as a ­professional dancer and has had Botox to stop her sweating.

“My children are all well-rounded. I think they’re very fortunate to have a mother like me...”