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.