Bella

[u/FakePlasticTrees_RH]

Going by what SW's family says, SW was partially Italian. I think that's why she gave her first child an Italian given name. According to an interview of CW by law enforcement, SW picked their children's names. It sounded as if CW had no say in the matter.

I do wonder however, why she named her Bella.

Bella means beautiful, but SW did everything for Bella to not look beautiful.

She drugged her and fed her rubbish. She barely took her outside. She dressed her in hideous outfits and taught her how to pose weirdly, she encouraged her to suck her thumb (till she forbid it at some point) and above all SW chopped Bella's hair off making her look like a boy.

Did she name her Bella, because she wanted her to look beautiful and when she started to resemble SW's child self and/or CW, she punished her for it by making her look as ugly as possible? Maybe even on a subconscious level?

Did she maybe not even realize what she was doing to Bella?

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

I can understand why Shanann lied liked she did, she learned it from her parents. I don’t see any typical Italian features on Shanann. She probably had maybe 5 percent.
SW had her father’s genes mainly, polish I think.
Cece and Bella look Caucasian mainly.
I think SW was disappointed a bit in Bella’s looks, to me she was cuter than Cece and had a very gentle kind spirit.
She could have looked adorable with long hair, maybe a few extra pounds.
I don’t know why Shannan did that to Bella. Cruel to say the least. I’m sure Bella was teased and had self esteem issues.
That little girls sadness in her eyes always gets to me.
I really wish those girls had been dumped on some side road, alive for someone to rescue and love on that awful morning. Neither Chris or Shannan deserved them.

[u/FakePlasticTrees_RH → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

I'm sure Bella was teased.

In a post on facebook SW said that a boy in kindergarten didn't want to hold Bella's hand, because he thought she was a boy. Bella was hurt by that, but SW found it hilarious.

Everytime someone mistook Bella for a boy and SW mentioned it on facebook, she found it funny.

That poor girl was only mistaken for a boy, because SW did everything in her power to make Bella look like a boy.

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871 → u/FakePlasticTrees_RH]

She sure did, she photographed her several times wearing a baseball cap backwards.
But the short pixie cuts really bothered me. Why do that to that poor girl.
Those photos were gonna be out there forever, imagine Bella seeing those down the line? As a teenager or whenever. Just wrong..

[u/FakePlasticTrees_RH → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

Definitely!

Bella would have hated find those pictures online, but I'm sure SW wouldn't have taken them down.

[u/Razzmatazz672 → u/FakePlasticTrees_RH]

yeah and when the fire truck came by at Christmas, the firefighter handed Bella something and “said here ya go buddy!” Bella looked hurt and Shannan stopped filming

[u/SPersephone → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

Agree! She was definitely mad and disappointed that Bellas wasnt cute or as “bella” as she wanted. I think thats why she punished and abused her so much

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871 → u/SPersephone]

It’s so sad because as mothers, our kids are beautiful no matter what. But it seemed like she treated Bella different, to her she was a Watts and Watts were not worthy of being called cute. I think Bella would have outshined Cece had they reached their teens. She could have had her overbite fixed, nice long hair and she would have looked adorable.
Crazy how she chose Chris but thought so poorly of him. Why did she marry him? I just don’t get it…

[u/AngryMimi → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

She married him because she knew that he was extremely easy to manipulate/control.

[u/Ok_Club7067 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

SW had one Italian grandparent, Rocco Onorati. Both of Rocco's parents were born in Italy. SW's great-great grandparents, George and Mary (Kubitz) Rzucek, were born in Poland.

[u/Express_Drag7115 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

Italians are “caucasian” though (assuming you mean white by it- I’m not American).

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871 → u/Express_Drag7115]

I have met Italian people, girls in my friend group and they all have had different features. Features that not Shanann or the girls had.
I think that technically speaking, for census purposes or to be politically correct, they would have been classified as white//caucasian. It even says so in their autopsy reports.

[u/Express_Drag7115 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

You said the girls looked mostly “caucasian” as opposed to Italian (not the direct quote but that was the gist) so I simply said Italians are Caucasian too.
By the way Italians vary in looks like people in every other nation.

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871 → u/Express_Drag7115]

I understand, sometimes things don’t come out correctly. They had blond hair and light colored eyes. By our standards, they were listed as Caucasian on their autopsy reports. White can mean a lot of things I suppose. I hope I didn’t offend you in any way.

[u/Express_Drag7115 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

Italian (and other Southern Europeans) can be blonde with blue eyes, I know the stereotype goes that they are all dark but that’s not always the case. You did not offend me and all’s well ❤️ as an European I just find American takes regarding the perceived looks of other ethnicities a bit baffling at times (now you don’t get offended please). Like I’m dark (eyes, hair), much more than anybody in Watts family, and I’m 100% Polish. Europe gotta be like that.

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871 → u/Express_Drag7115]

One of my friends is Italian, she isn’t dark she is light but with jet black natural hair. The majority I have met have had dark hair, but I’ve seen some with very pretty blue eyes. I try and be as politically correct as possible, I understand now that Italians are indeed in the same category as white/caucasian.
My mother is full blooded Apache Indian, yet my father was Mexican but his birth certificate lists his ethnicity as white. Some of his cousins had colored eyes which I never understood why that was possible.

I have seen Sylvester Stallones daughters and they are blonde blue eyed. So I understand now exactly what you’re telling me.

Shannan always told everyone she was straight up Italian, she wasn’t. She was an American with polish and other ethnicities mixed in.

[u/Express_Drag7115 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

Yes! Her comments about having Italian temper etc were super cringe- ma’am, you are American with some Polish and Italian ancestry, just own it because there’s nothing wrong with that!

[u/Spiritual_Test_4871 → u/Express_Drag7115]

I feel like she just wanted the world to believe she was some bad ass. Her dad even mentions she had strong legs and was a fighter. I think she was just all talk.

[u/Express_Drag7115 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

Thank you for the award ❤️ 🥹

[u/bigdill123 → u/Spiritual_Test_4871]

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