I watched a programme last night about Miss Mini UK, a beauty pageant for children.

I was absolutely disgusted. These little girls made it obvious that it was their mums who were pushing them to do these things, not them. At one point, 1 of the girls (aged 9) was asked if she would be more comfortable with glasses, instead of contacts, she replied "yes, glasses are more comfortable" so the interviewer asked her "why dont you wear glasses instead then", to which she replied "my mum would go mad" That pretty much sums it up to me! These kids are losing out on normal child stuff because they are so busy working on looking good. Exploitation is what it is, without a doubt imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijuU_rRCV6E

This is one of the girls who was in it....she lost and took a strop at the end cos her mum had made her believe she would win it.

Let me know ur feelings on this.

Weirdness, just weirdness.

Its scary the things these little girls go thru. an the things the mothers do to the girls.... just wrong if you ask me.

when I was a baby my mom entered me in "the cutest baby" contest..I got 2nd lol woot. But that was it.

I think its more than weird, its very selfish! these parents werent even listening to their kids at all....if they said they were tired, they would push them to practise more. Big hair, fake tan, fake nails, brow plucking, they were basically making them look like little barbies!

These mothers appeared to me like they just didnt care about their kids at all, they cared about how they looked more.

Diabolical.

im shocked, not at these poor young girls made to wear more make up than a clown
but that you can be disgusted, you are with dan arent you?

Yeh, but Dans disgusting in a natural real way lol!

I watched part of a child pagent near where I worked...disgusting seeing a 5-7 year old made up like that...some even had high heels on. Porn!

Well thats 1 of things that made me wanna puke, there was a bit where one of the mothers was showing off her daughters online portfolio, and there was a pic of her looking over her naked shoulder, and she was saying, "yeh, i like to take sexy pictures of her"!! she was 9 yrs old!

I think the whole pageant scene is child abuse.

I have entered my daughter in contest when she was 2yrs old. She won her age category and then won the whole pageant. I only did this once. Would I do it again. No It was just for fun. She is now 21 and has never did it again. I agree, these pageants have went way to far. It is one thing if the child likes doing this, another if it is something the parents want. JMO

I find it disgusting. Child abuse at its finest.

BTW, anyone seen that movie Little Miss Sunshine? Awesome child pagent movie.

I lived in Denver when the Jon Bennet Ramsey murder happened, my daughter was the same age at the time. I could not believe how heavily the mom was into pageants, we thought the mom was more than a bit obsessed with it.

agreed
children should be celabrated for their innosence
not abused to re live their parents warped dreams

Thing is, the parents, or should i say mothers, have brainwashed their kids into believing that image is everything, they r almost groomed from a very young age. One mother proudly announced that her daughter had plastic surgery at 7yrs old to pin back her ears, and said she was pro plastic surgery....the daughter was then interviewed alone and asked if she was ever gonna have surgery again, and she replied " i think not"..

Heres a bit of the programme i watched...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQfMvsQM6A

to be honest, i find these things so beond belife, i cant come up with a deacent opinion.
so lets just shoot these weirdos, and carry on with the rest of our messed up lives.
sorry, i`ll leave now

Well u should watch this bit, its when the winner is announced, and just look at the way the girls react.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbW3UqaR1bs

well i have a dongall, so my connection is to slow
but the fact is, if parents do things wich are obviously taking advantage of their children, are country is far to americanised to be saved.
so lets get a gun and shoot them

Any others wanna post their feelings on this?

i've always found that stuff creepy. little girls should be little girls, not dress up like women and try to act like them .

really, all pageants seem pretty pointless to me. miss america? who cares? it doesn't even seem sexy to me. on the other hand, the hawaiian tropic, silvercash, and reef contests really know how to do it right.