Thursday, 30 July 2009
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Baby Beauty Queens
by Mama Ladybug 
I watched a preview for the show "Toddlers & Tiaras" where parents stage their children with gowns, hairspray and Loads of make up....the thing that caught my attention is that these children are babies! Some like the Pageants they compete in, others would rather play outside in the sand box.
I understand us mommies like showing off our babies once in a while, but where's the limit?
Looking at these pictures, some mothers see beauty, but I couldn't help but feel so sad for them. My child is beautiful, yes... but she's got her whole life to wear make-up, and hairspray. Preschool isn't the time.
Baby Beauty Pageants: Hot Or Not? Would you do this to your child?
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Those kids look CREEPY!!!
No way! This is like some from of prostitution.
i would put my daughter in pageants but not glitz like these i would do the natural ones with no makeup ands stuff
I seriously think there should be a law against this crap. Ever since what happened with Jon Benet Ramsey, i don't think this kind of stuff should be allowed anymore. Let the child be a child for goodness sake. This is child abuse.
that is a terrible thing to do to children.
Hell NO!
No. I think these would be fine if they weren't wearing make up. I think pageants for young children should be all natural.
I wouldn't put my baby in pageant at all. But, if I did, I wouldn't want her looking like a little adult!
My daughter at the age of about 8 wanted to be in a Young Miss pageant. I said yes because it was being held fairly close by, and because the paper work said, "age appropriate" dress, and no make up necessary. Well, she was all excited, worked up a dance routine all on her own, her big sister took her pictures that were supposed to be submitted and we bought a nice simple "age appropriate" dress.
Well, that was all a crock! The girls who were supposed to be like 8 - 10 or 12 looked like the were 21 or older! Hair, make up, gowns! And professional pictures of course!
Needless to say she didn't place in any category and that was the last time we did that!
Those pictures are creepy!
I think this is child abuse. Simple and to the point child abuse. Also this allows perverts to watch and is pretty much putting on display what turns those types of people on. I really think something like this needs to stop.
It is CHILD ABUSE and the parents pushing these children to do this should be charged for child endangerment, because they are potentially placing thier child in danger.
However, they will see the out come of thier mistakes when these children grow up with all kinds of problems.
Illyria
hell no i wouldn't put my daughter through that. those kids are wearing more make-up than i ever would, and that's scary. all the routines they have to go through, the pressure,...i don't know how they handle it all. i would hate being the kid having to go through that stuff. i mean, it's one thing when they want to do it, but when you see a mom who maybe never got to be a beauty queen and force it upon her daughter,...that's just plain wrong.
i agree with werewolf_of_london with allowing the girls to be kids and not forcing them to grow up so fast!!!
I watched a show like this last night, and was appalled by most of it. There was one little girl who was very natural and the MOM did not make her do anything that she did not want to do, but the rest were even doing things like wearing fake teeth!That does not send a very good message to you child!
This is scary.
No, I won't be signing Megan up for it. I think the people that do it...well...look at them...
Little Miss Sunshine anyone?
This is just disgusting, plain and simple. I really don't see any of the good in this.
@iStephanieMarie@xanga - Totally agree, I think i will have nightmares.
NO! These girls don't even look like toddlers, they have so much makeup on.
My daughter is beautiful. People stop us everywhere we go to tell us so. I don't feel comfortable putting her in those flashy costumes and caking her face with animal by-products, but I think she might enjoy the idea of a pageant. I'll wait until she asks to participate. No entering her. One catch: she'll be the only contestant to look like an actual child. I'm very disturbed by the fact that adults are judging these things and setting the standards for the spray tans, fake teeth, and terribly gaudy costumes. If I go to a kids' pageant, I expect to see missing teeth, skinned knees, and pigtails, but I guess I'm old fashioned that way.
Yuck. I would never do that to my daughter.
I watched the show out of sick curiosity and its really terrible. One mom said she spent upwards of 60 thousand dollars on her 4 year old daughter's beauty career. Of course this is the girl that won everything at the end. At four and had a room just overflowing with crowns and trophies and dresses. Another mom had all 5 of her daughters participate even a set of twins who had to compete against each other. She talked about how the one always beat the other cause she was the most like herself. You can see it in the kids faces when the give out awards for "most beautiful" and only one wins - the rest keep smiling but you see the pain they feel by not being beautiful. It makes the girls forever mentally put themselves into ranks of attractiveness when around other girls. It sexualizes them at way too young an age. What kind of people do you think hang out at child beauty pageants?
Child modeling or acting is one thing, beauty pageants are just sick and twisted.
@LiberalArmyWife@xanga - you will never see one like that unless you start it yourself
they look like barbie's little sister or kid or whatever. kelly. or whatever her name was.
ok not saying that i am againt pagents whether your 2 or 20...they really do make your wicked superficial...especially when your young...all they do is turn your sweet daughter into a stuckup..princess who only cares about winning and looking pretty
i watched that show too - it happened to be on at the same moment i sat down to have a tv tune-out for the evening... and it was the mom with the twins who really irked me. You could see on that one little girl's face how sad she was, how she felt about herself because her twin sister always won. and their attitudes! catty vicious little girls at the age of 6!! its disgusting!
My oldest son is a model. He loves it. Propelled himself into the career and has been doing it for three years now. He's on tv and in stores. BUT, I think the WHOLE problem can come from why the parents have their kids in it. I have met some parents at auditions who are doing this because they need some kind of validation from the outside world that their kid is gorgeous. And you see the pressure they put their kids under to get the part, to perform better than others. However, I could care less. We allow him to do it because he says he loves it. As long as he loves it, we will let him do it. We turn some jobs down. And I have said numerous times, if I had girls I wouldn't dare have them in the industry at all! The girls are pushed to look perfect, older, made-up... its crazy. Boys can just be boys.
Last thing I'll say: we were at a photo shoot and there were two other moms with daughters who were cast as my son's sisters in the shoot. The one mom says to the other, "Your daughter is so cute - she will go far with modeling. I don't think mine will ever be able to do runway though because she's just a little thicker. But your daughter is so slim! Its a shame, but I guess that's just the way it is..."
Thicker? I said. She's 6!!!! Really? Are we judging their body types at 6 years of age now? Already figuring out where their careers are going to go? god. Again I say, ridiculous.
These girls are prostitutes in the making is how I see it. That show disgusts me. And people freak out when their girls get kidnapped from these things and end up raped or dead. What do you expect to happen when you dress your daughter up like a street walker? These people don't deserve kids. It is just moms living out their dreams through their daughters. Fake teeth, fake nails, plastic surgery, etc. all to make girls look "sexy". This stuff is a peophile's dream in the making.
I would never put Mariam or Basma through that nonsense. There is no way Mohammad and Abdullah would enter something like that either. That is digusting how adults judge these little girls. Pressuring them to sell their bodies from birth just turns my stomach. And the pain on the girls who don't win a trophy? That just saddens me.
They look like they have super imposed adult faces on them. WTF! These kinds of pagents have always made me feel sick to my stomach.