Little Miss Perfect/Toddlers and Tiaras

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

This episode was just classic. I haven't laughed this much in a while. Some thoughts:

1. A two-year old has done 85 pageants? Were some of them in the womb?

2. Did you hear the 6-year old? She said that her favorite part of doing pageants is swimwear, because she gets to show her stomach and shake her butt.

This is her fifteen years from now:




3. Why would the mom of the two girls want them to look like drag queens?

4. Why does a 6-yo need a facial?

5. Nice wig, mom. The braids are really your style.

6. The entree fee is $375, but there was a coupon in the paper for $100 off. The director wouldn't honor the coupon because the mom registered before the coupon was advertised. She said that she felt "scammed". You're just coming to that conclusion now?

7. "Dolls" has no "Z". I missed the enhanced spelling of "Treasures".

8. Don't you think the "before" pics are much cuter than the "after" pics?

9. If I hear "the total package" one more time, I'm going to bedazzle my ears shut.

10. Enough with the kissy face, the snorkling "Wipe out" move, and holding up their feet with their hands as they hop around.

Lolz @

- the pageant being late - three times, then the director stealing all the money.
- the brothers laughing when mom said they like to make their sister feel like a princess.
- the coached kid saying with a frown on her face "I'm really excited to go on stage."
-Mom: "Kennedy was in a great mood this morning, playful, ready to go!" Kennedy: "I want to go hoooome!"
-Mom to a 2-year old "Why did you cry (after seeing a table full of pink toys that you can't get and mama yelling at you on stage?)."
- the pageant director - "These people drive me f'n crazy."
- crowning when you have 2 participants in your age range.
- IOUs for prizes.

Yeah, 85 pageants at 2 years old is a bit much. I can see that if she's been doing one every 2 weeks or so since BIRTH. lol.

I can tell you right now, I wouldn't have been sticking around for any event that was running two hours late.

I'd actually be interested in the stats of how many of these kids end up on the pole later in life.

I STILL don't quite understand how these things work (and I have known kids who do them). I don't really get how EVERY kid always ends up with a crown or a prize (even though some of the crowns are bigger if you win the higher title or something). There'll be like 3 kids in an age group and they'll all get a crown. How does that work?

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Yeah, 85 pageants at 2 years old is a bit much. I can see that if she's been doing one every 2 weeks or so since BIRTH. lol.

I can tell you right now, I wouldn't have been sticking around for any event that was running two hours late.

I'd actually be interested in the stats of how many of these kids end up on the pole later in life.

I STILL don't quite understand how these things work (and I have known kids who do them). I don't really get how EVERY kid always ends up with a crown or a prize (even though some of the crowns are bigger if you win the higher title or something). There'll be like 3 kids in an age group and they'll all get a crown. How does that work?

One thing I realized while watching one of the epsodes - the "best eyes", "prettiest hair" and similar awards are only given to those kids whose parents paid extra to be in these "optional" contests. So if only one of the kids had entered the category, they win. I caught it on an episode last year, when the dad ended up entering the kid into the optionals after the he and the mom had decided not to (getting one more chance for a crown).

I just googled beauty pageant fees "optionals" and found this application:
http://www.goldcoastpageants.com/entryform.html

Save now and enter all optionals for just $150 more!! PS. Talent entry fee is $40 extra.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

One thing I realized while watching one of the epsodes - the "best eyes", "prettiest hair" and similar awards are only given to those kids whose parents paid extra to be in these "optional" contests. So if only one of the kids had entered the category, they win. I caught it on an episode last year, when the dad ended up entering the kid into the optionals after the he and the mom had decided not to (getting one more chance for a crown).

I just googled beauty pageant fees "optionals" and found this application:
http://www.goldcoastpageants.com/entryform.html

Save now and enter all optionals for just $150 more!! PS. Talent entry fee is $40 extra.

Yeah that's dumb. It's like, you could've just bought a certificate and printed "prettiest hair" on it rather than paying $x to be the winner because you know your kid is the only one entering it.

Also--I don't get why they don't combine age divisions or something where there are like 2 kids in one of them.

For example, my cousin was into dance. At her dance comps, if there were only like 2 teams in a division, they combined it with a bigger division so the kids would have some legit competition. Parents didn't like to pay $ and drive all the all the way to a comp for their kids to compete against one team.

It's like pageants are opposite, parents don't mind paying a ton of money for their kid to compete against like two girls because it means their "special little snowflake" is guaranteed a prize.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

I thought the EXACT same thing! Where is that going to get you when that's your biggest goal @ 6?! She did do amazing, but what a shame!

Also, she had on so much makeup and they kept saying she was 6 and if I didn't know what show I was watching I'd swear by her face alone she was 22!

[Honeykiss1974]

/\ well in this day and age when its "bad" for kids to actually lose something, I'm not shocked.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

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!

[MUSK81]

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

[ree-Xi]

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”

2 April, 2010 (22:43) |
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:
West Virginia
Nevada
Montana
Oklahoma
Texas
Mississippi
Arizona
Submit your application today and you could be one of 3 pageant families featured on an upcoming episode!
To apply, xxxxxxxxxxxx
Send in your completed application and requested photos to xxxxxxxxx

[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!

[KSUViolet06]

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.

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

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.

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.

[ree-Xi]

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

[AnchorAlum]

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.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

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?

Nope.

And yeah, it's ridiculous how much money goes toward that. One mom on one ep said flat out "I'd like to fix our house, sell it, and move to something bigger, but pageants are more important."

It's funny how so many moms say "pageants are an investment in my daughter's future."

No. Just be honest and say "she does this because I'm fat and ugly and I'm living vicariously."

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Nope.

And yeah, it's ridiculous how much money goes toward that. One mom on one ep said flat out "I'd like to fix our house, sell it, and move to something bigger, but pageants are more important."

It's funny how so many moms say "pageants are an investment in my daughter's future."

No. Just be honest and say "she does this because I'm fat and ugly and I'm living vicariously."

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.