I happen to know a lot of pageant girls from college that were competing at the state/national level...interestingly I can't think of one that participated in that stuff as a child.

The "big girl" ones have merit...I don't get it, but a lot of my friends treated it as a hobby and had fun. The ones who "made it" really did get some college money out of it. To each his own. But at least an 18 year old has some say so in whether or not she WANTS to participate in the first place. Some of these kids might enjoy the pageant thing but I'm somehow betting they don't take it as seriously as their moms do.

ETA: I forgot that last week at some point I was catching up with a girl who participated in pageants and she told me how much she's making to coach kids in her down time. It is outrageous what these parents pay for what is essentially a hobby.

LOL! These trashy kids aren't going to college! Every 'professional' pageant kid I've known has barely made it through high school. Like y'all were saying: look at the moms! Do you think that an education is a priority for them?

And I don't think we have to worry about them going Greek if they do squeak into college.

One little girl (Brooke) featured in a documentary 12-plus years ago ended up at the University of Tennessee, and I believe she went ZTA. But her family never acted as trashy and ignorant as the stars of this show.
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Did you watch last week? One little girl dressed as Madonna with gold pointed boobs, and another dressed like Michael Jackson while grabbing her crotch and gyrating. I knew it would be featured on "The Soup" and praise be to Joel McHale, it was. I always knew that some of these parents were messed up, but those two were disgusting to me.

On young children, the pointy boobs and the crotch-grabbing were offensive to me - and I'm not easily offended. It was just majorly inappropriate.

The mother of a 3-year old (who has been competing since 13 months and has done around 70 pageants - she admitted to doing 2-3 a week in the beginning) said that they have spent around $200,000 so far. And what is up with the name "Aniston"? SHM.

The mother of the other 3-year old, whose husband is in the armed forces, lies and sneaks new expenditures for pageants into the house. I mean, her husband is likely putting his life on the line as a pilot, and his "fixed income" as she calls it, is wasted on this crap. And what kind of "talent" is riding a four-wheeled airplane-shaped scooter? The pageant director made a big deal explaining that the minimum age for talent is 3 because you have to have "real talent".

Craziness abounds.

I loved it when Aniston kissed her stick horse and then just dropped him and refused to do anything else! ROTFLMAO!

I loved the mom who was like "she's already had 3 pixie sticks but she needs more so she doesn't crash" :rolleyes:

Bumping - Toddlers and Tiaras is back tonight!

One mom said that she's spent around $250,000 for her twin daughters to be in pageants so far. The girls are 1! :eek:

If you google-image "Fairuza Balk" AND "The Craft", you will get a dead ringer of that demon-child, MaKenzie, see? :D

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I can't stand hearing Mackenzie screaming and hollering all the time. Her voice just grates on me. And that freaking pacifier stuck in her mouth - will she still have it when she's 10?? It's so ridiculous and the mother knows it. How these mothers allow their kids to be brats then shrug their shoulders is beyond my comprehension. It doesn't even take clever editing to show the kids at their worst.

This show makes me think some people shouldn't be parents. Some kids will turn out bratty no matter how they're raised, but a lot of these little girls are being carefully raised to be horrible prissy princesses that will likely make those around them miserable because they're convinced that the world revolves around them.

Blech.

Just think, Mackenzie will probably be going through Recruitment in about 14 years! Bet you can't wait (sic) for her to be your new member class! NiNi and all.

When I saw Mackenzie, her fits and her NiNi, the first thing that I wanted to do was call the Super Nanny. She needed the Naughty Stool and the Time Out area. Super Nanny would have a damn field day on that show.

I also would have snapped that binky NiNi right on the spot. Forget weaning her off of it. Cold turkey all the way.

As for Danielle, her mom could totally use some work. I see this with a lot of the parents on the show. They are morbidly obese. Perhaps the best thing that they can do is to spend more time on themselves. Instead they build their kids up, making the kids look good in an effort to build themselves up and live vicariously through them.

I don't care how much money you have, the tattoos on the twin's mom were nasty. I pray that her kids never get that many, if any, tattoos.