A mum who caught her 15-year-old daughter discussing how to make and leak a sex tape has condemned a book that is encouraging girls to do this.

The single mum, from Epsom, caught her daughter discussing the best way of making a sex tape to get famous with her best friend earlier this month.

She said she was shocked to find her teenager had downloaded It’s All About the Sex Face: A Guide to Becoming a Celebrity, on her Kindle – a manual that claims you “really don’t need talent to become famous”.

In a description on Amazon, which is selling the book, said: “From front-row seats at the MTV awards to the release of a sex tape. From having a public feud with another celebrity to making the paparazzi your best friend. This book has it all.

“Does it really take talent to become a celebrity? Well, as countless reality shows have proven, you really don’t.”

The Epsom Guardian was contacted by the concerned mum at the weekend wanting to warn other parents about the book.

She said: “My daughter found out about it on Twitter and passed it among her friends. They are supposed to be focusing on their GCSEs so I was shocked.

“These days girls look up to people like Paris Hilton and that is worrying because along the way they will lose their integrity, morals and self-esteem.”

“When I was growing up it was all about being a child, then you went on to university, college or got a job.

“We looked up to people who had a talent. Now teenagers look up to people who don’t have much substance and they think they can take an easy route to be successful.”

She grounded her daughter, who said she read the book “for a laugh” and deleted it from her Kindle.

She said: “I sat her down and told her if people have got talents they should hone them, but sleeping around and making a sex tape isn’t the way.

“It is disgusting and there are all the health risks with it. I don’t want to have to think about my 15-year-old child actually hunting for a celebrity to sleep with.

“Parents need to be aware. It is hard to censor what children read because we can’t know what the message is inside the pages, but we need to instil certain values in our children so they can make their own judgements.”

The book has also been condemned on the popular mumsnet website. One mother said it “makes me utterly sick”.

It has also been criticised by Dr Linda Papadopoulos, a leading psychologist who has appeared on shows such as Big Brother, Celebrity Fit Club and GMTV.

She said it was another example of the “commercialisation and commodification of the female form”.

She was commissioned by the Government to conduct an independent review on the sexualisation of young girls on violence against women in 2010.

She told this newspaper: “The message is that girls can use their physical assets to become famous and it’s worrying.

"We live in a society which objectifies women and sees them in third person.

“Very sadly, the message is that your value lies in your beauty and sexuality and ultimately the reward for this is those front row tickets to the MTV concert.”

Dr Papadopoulos said these messages can leave children who have dreams of becoming the next Kim Kardashian with “terribly low self-esteem”.

She said: “A lot of this comes from a drip, drip, drip effect. It’s everywhere in our society.

“But we need a change in attitude. Take the example of racism. We went from Rosa Parks sitting in the back of a bus to Obama becoming president, via everyone from Michael Jackson to Oprah.

“We’ve seen the drip, drip, drip effect happening the other way to change perceptions and that’s what we need to do with women.”

A spokesman for the book’s publishers, Already Famous, said: “It has come to our attention that parents have been making complaints against our book on forums and other social media networks.

"While it is not our intention to offend, the book was written to further feed the public’s appetite for celebrity culture.

“The creators of the book are not responsible for the parenting of children and hope that people appreciate the book’s tongue-in-cheek humour.”