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There was this girl I was friends with in middle school who had been in pageants since she was 5. She was Little Miss Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, etc. Her parents moved every single year so that she could be the Little Miss of that state. When she got to middle school, she started entering the Junior Miss pageants. I just remember her mother being really pushy. It was the mother who wanted her to enter all these pageants, not the girl. She had a really warped body image. At only 11 years old, she was bulimic. Her mother made her take diet pills.
I think that pageants are fine only if the girl wants to enter them. You just hear so much about the mothers who put their girls in pageants to raise their own self-esteem and self-image. They mess up their daughter's emotional well-being in the process. Personally, I would not put my daughter in pageants. She should just enjoy being a child.....she has the rest of her life to put on high-heels, wear make up, and have her hair and nails done. Why start these things at age 5?
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