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Originally Posted by shirley1929

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!

I have seen BOTH of those.

The older lady on the ep of T&T TOTALLY reminded me of the girl who was still doing cheesy kid pageants at 17.

I found it funny that the other girl and her parents look back on it and say how silly it was that they were so into it.

I might add that 17-year-old beauty queen had no college plans, while the other girl was going away to school.

Interesting, especially since sooo many of these parents think these pageants are going to open acting, modeling, etc doors for their kids. Most of the time, they don't and your kid stops doing them after you've wasted thousands of dollars. lol.