That's how all of my ballet competitions worked, and in Irish dance, a feis only counted in your standings if you had a certain number of competitors. Am I the only person that wouldn't want a trophy from a competition that had 2 competitors? Maybe I'm too much of a perfectionist, but I would consider it worthless.

Other than Toddlers and Tiaras, I'm completely unversed in the pageant world. Does anyone know if the bigger pageants that focus on teenagers and young adults also have all of the extra/optional categories? It makes sooo much more sense now why some people had won certain awards at pageants on the show- they were potentially the only one competing for it:rolleyes:

From what I could garner from a show (that just a few episodes) was about a SC Pageant coach, called "King of the Crown". One episode featured the infamous Miss Teen SC, Kaitlin Upton, trying to redeem herself and prove that she wasn't um, less than intelligent - you have to watch it; the scene where she is practicing for the interview is priceless.

Anyway, one of his students was competing in a "glitz" pageant, the type of pageant which most of the T&T episodes feature. He had never been to a glitz pageant. Once at the pageant, he started freaking out when he saw some of the "routines" the contestants (the random flailing) were doing during "outfit of choice" and/or talent part, or whatever they called it.

I wish I could find full episodes. They were well worth the time purely for the snark value.

I agree, the thousands they spend on travel, clothes, and beauty treatments and trainers could be spent on traveling to agencies and professional pictures. It might even be less!

I SAW THAT!! That woman is CRAZY!!! What normal 31 yr old hangs out with and competes with children??? A few of my favorite moments:

Her mom still does her hair and comes with her to her pageants. She wasn't particularly happy with her hair for that pageant. I wouldn't be particularly happy with my daughter.

Brandi's comment at the end that Jesus answers our prayers and she is competing to glorify Jesus. I'm pretty sure Jesus thinks you're a dumbass.

Her talent outfit where she dressed up as Glenda the Good Witch and did a scene from the Wizard of Oz with a 5 yr old. She made some comment about people loving her Glenda outfit. No, they are probably staring at you in horror.

We've got glitter, yes we do! We've got glitter, how 'bout you?:confused:

As bad as she was, I thought that dentist mom who doesn't want a normal life was even worse ...

Back to the question on how each of the three kids featured in each epi usually win something...I wonder if they tape like 10 kids for each pageant, then choose the three who actually end up receiving some crown/award. It might explain why we see so many of the same kids from other episodes in the background.

As for taping the days and week up until the pageant, reality shows often have the people change clothes to make it seem like it's a different day; or vise-versa, if they want a day to look long, they have the people wear the same thing to look like it was a very busy day.

In the case of the former, it's easy to get a week's worth of "preparation time" on video for a bunch of different kids.

ETA:
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TLC casting “Toddlers and Tiaras”

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TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras is filming around the country. If you and your beauty pageant princess wish to appear on an episode of the Toddlers and Tiaras please check the list of states that the show will be filming in and if you live in any of those states, submit your interest in appearing on TLC’s show to the email below.
Toddlers & Tiaras will soon be filming in a town near you!!! So if you want to show off your glitz and glamour, then tell us why you and your pageant kid should be featured on the show.
Toddlers & Tiaras is currently looking for pageant contestants in the following states:
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Submit your application today and you could be one of 3 pageant families featured on an upcoming episode!
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Lurker here...but if you like T&T and LMP (my guilty pleasures too!) go to YouTube and look up "Painted Babies". My TiVo picked up "Painted Babies at 17" the other night. It's a documentary followup on two pageant babies that BBC had followed in 1995 when they were 5 years old. In 2007, they followed up with the two girls to see what they were doing now that they were about to graduate high school. I found it FASCINATING - one girl who was a bratty pro at the whole thing had completely dropped pageants by age 7. The other girl was still doing them in hopes to win $$ and cars for her grandma..sad...

Seriously, look up "Painted Babies" (the whole thing is on YouTube) and then watch "Painted Babies at 17" which was on TLC the other night, but might be on YT as well.

All those shows are trainwrecks I seem to be glued to - a whole underworld I never really knew existed!

Boo. Thought maybe I was giving you something you'd not seen before! :) I was amazed at how poised/smart/pulled together/down to earth the one girl (Brooke?) was. She was the brat when she was 5 and her mother was more than irksome. The Louisiana family just made me sad...really sad.

That girl still cannot sing. "I'm a blond yeah, yeah, yeah"...:eek:

The painted babies were done by the BBC as documentaries.

Completely pathetic. As are all of these pageants - has anyone ever seen a slender mother with anything past a high school education?

Disclaimer! I used to rep several lines that sold those socks with all the frills and matching bows and headbands, and the crinolines that went under those dresses to pageant stores. So even though I was cringing inside I sold a TON of those things. Made very good money. Those mothers can't afford clothes for themselves but they'll drop hundreds on one dress.

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.

Too true. I mean, look at their parents. And can you imagine what would happen if Makenzie went through rush someday and acted entitled? Who would even give her recs anyway? The good kind, that is.

Didn't know that they did not go to college. I wonder why not?

Oh and can you imagine Danielle going through Recruitment? Only to not get a top house? But, a lesser second tier chapter, bottom tier chapter or no chapter at all? Perish the thought! Especially, when she considers herself to be prettier than the other girls and feels sorry for them. I would love to see that crying fit when that happens. Looking forward to that reality television show.

Seriously, I can not believe that these parents allow their kids to be filmed like this. I would never want to my kid to shown like the screaming brats these kids are. I would be bloody ashamed of them and me as a parent. And that these parents just let it happen and dismiss it on television is beyond me. Five minutes of so-called-fame is not worth the stupidity of their actions or lack of.

The mother is responsible. 100%. She doesn't have the brains to come in out of the rain and I honestly believe she thinks she gave birth to a toy instead of a person.

Is it too late to give HER a spanking?

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$600 for Mia's dress!!! Holy shit! I don't even spend that much on my formals. The kid will wear it once or twice. Maybe more if they are really into the whole pageant tour thing. But that is just so much for such a little girl! That money could go for so many more things.

Some of these Texas towns are so small. I guess that they do not have much to do than practice for pageants. I know Jarrell, Texas is small. They were nearly wiped off the map five years ago after a tornado hit.

Wonder if there is a second hand shop for pageant dresses? Then again, that would be a major faux pas.

Yes, Ava's dad is on my gaydar.

Loved the term "Pageant Cocaine" for Pixie Sticks.

I've seen that kid Mia on a different episode with the same Madonna getup. It offended me as much this time around as last. Call me a prude, but I thought it was nasty.

Agreed! It was tacky too!

I've never had anything to do with pageants, but I know that in Irish dance, most dresses are second hand, until you get to about prelim champion. I paid $2500 for my dress + shipping from Ireland, so I made sure I took more care of that thing than I did myself. I wore my dress for the minimum amount of time I had to at a feis, kept it in the double layer protective case at home, and made sure it was always safe. While it might be so extreme, I'm guessing it's a similar situation in pageant dresses. Once you retire from Irish dance, or you want a new dress, you sell the old one to pay for the new one. It's pretty common to see ID dresses that were owned for 2+ years, but only worn 4-7 times.