I hate this show. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Because even if it is fake as shit, there are children being exploited. And it's hosted by Danny fucking Bonaduce, who is the ultimate train wreck child actor. RUN! RUN CHILDREN! SAVE YOURSELVES!

This is a little White Oleander: on the surface, the mom and daughter look really hip and cool and artsy and close.

But it quickly becomes obvious that the mom is fucking her daughter up like woah. But at least daughter looks her age and her face isn't being eaten, destroyed, and aged with make-up.

hayley should have flipped off her mom, not the camera. i hope she does win, because mama is gonna need to pay for some therapy.

@hortense: I was going to say, "How can Danny, who knows the dangers of childhood stardom, condone such a thing?" And then I remember that he's so fucked up that he thinks he's ok.

The mom looks like Alexis Arquette!!!

Wasn't Mom in a Motley Crue video? That poor kid.

OH MY GOD what has that woman done to her face! and her boobs! and her body! and her voice! and now she's doing it to her children!!!! How is this not child abuse?

I have not seen this show, but someone tell me, are all the parents like that, or are there any normal ones? Who am I kidding, normal parents wouldn't put their kids on this show.

@ak1219: i'm glad someone else said it first.

rocky, you know you ain't wearing no tampon!

I keep trying to convince my boyfriend that we should move to Vermont and start a farm for needy kitties, puppies, and babies. We'll save a spot for you, precious little Spawn-of-Rocky!

Seriously, having Danny Bonaduce as the host is a bit of a warning sign. Run kids, don't walk, in the opposite direction. Join a soccer team or read a good book! Get out now before you're addicted to prescription drugs and flash the paparazzi twice daily!!!

Why don't they just name this show "I Am Still Holding On To Delusional Dreams of Reality TV Stardom But I Didn't Qualify For Rock of Love 2 So I'll Just Whore Out My Kid Instead."

When did the emotional abuse of children become entertainment?

Oh god, that woman made me feel so embarrassed. Your tampon string isn't showing, it's hiding somewhere with your dignity.

@hortense: Maybe all the kids will run away together, stow away on a ship and sail across the Atlantic and then live in a hippy commune in France, far from their fucking crazed parents.

I feel bad for these kids. That is all I can say.
I think during lunch I am gonna call my kid and tell him I love him and that he is perfect. Then I am going to tell him not put Play-doh on the cat anymore, but that is kind of a habit.

@hortense: Because that would be too easy...

It always creeps me out when kids sing songs that are vaguely inappropriate. Like for example "Son of a Preacher Man". Apparently this mom thinks there's a deep public need to see a 9-year-old hug herself and stare into a camera with dead eyes while childishly singing the lyrics "He'd kiss and tell me everything is all right--And can we get away again tonight?"

Isn't there maybe something from Annie that would be better?

@ak1219: I think she's the lovechild of Alexis Arquette and Melissa Rivers.

OH MY GOD. This is horrific! The look on that girl's face when her mom tells her they need to buy the dream house! No kid should be put under that kind of pressure. She should not be forced to be the breadwinner. And, I'd want to practice in private too.

That Mom would have been in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. "But I KNOW I'm going to make it!", ah, but you didn't and now your spawn has to pay. Run little one, RUN!

Gross. And I mean her janky star necklace.

No, wait. I think I mean her, in all it's skankalicious glory. I hope that poor child grows up to look at her mom and just kind of shake her head.

i kinda don't like how Rocky adds "i'm a single mom" like it's the reason for winning, and laying it on her daughter too. something about that really bothered me.

This show makes me want to vomit all over these parents.

@BeckyIva: I love the order/hierarchy of your happy little farm. Kitties, then puppies, then babies.

Actually, if you need someone to take care of the mutilated animals on your farm: dogs with no teeth and three legs, cats with one eye, puppies with harelips, etc, please call me. People are always making fun of me for my love of damaged animals, but I think you and I are on the same page.

Perhaps if she gave up her plastic surgery addiction she could afford the big house, WITHOUT using/abusing her daugher.

@eeva: It's possible. VH1 loves their reality show spin-offs.

@eeva: "Oh god, that woman made me feel so embarrassed. Your tampon string isn't showing, it's hiding somewhere with your dignity." = Awesome

@BDizzy: Yes

Aww, that poor little girl is really cute. Can we adopt her and keep her safe from her very scary, apparently emotional abusive mother?

No woman, your tampon is not showing. Your kid just realized that if she doesn't get away now, you'll force her into a crash diet and plastic surgery in about two years.

@LaComtesse: When I was 7 I bought a teddy bear from a jumble sale because I felt sorry for it - it was missing an eye, had bare patches all over its body, and its head was hanging off. I used to keep it next to my pillow because I felt so bad for it.
This is a long-winded way of saying that I know exactly what you mean about the damaged-animal love. Bleeding hearts, unite.

I saw a couple of minutes of this last night, and I have to say this seems like one of the most unethical of all reality shows. It's set up to make fools of the contestants (like all reality shows) but half of them are children. It's not the fault of these kids that their parents are completely fucked up. And yet they're being documented and branded forever when all they're trying to do is please their crazy parents. And the show obviously went completely out of the way to find the trashiest most disturbed people possible for the show. Most reality TV I just don't care or don't watch but I have serious issues with this one.

There are so many things wrong in that clip I don't know where to start.

I really feel sorry for that child. Putting pressure on your kid to buy a big house and asking her if your tampon is showing is just a form of abuse and neglect.

She's a CHILD being raised by a self-centered, child/woman who unfortunately is her mother.

@TheUptightMidwesterner: If the cat doesn't mind no one else should either. ;)

Oh god, that is so sad. That poor little girl's face! JEsus, that is abusive - "I'm a single mom. It's up to YOU to get us a big house." THIS IS A LITTLE GIRL! YOU ARE THE PARENT! YOU PROVIDE FOR HER, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

@LaComtesse: I have a soft spot for damaged animals too...My family has a couple of goofy, runty pets we've adopted and they are just the best. I also have some awkward house plants, but that's probably due to my inept gardening skills, but whatever.

@ExtensionOfBob: Ooooh, good call - I really like that book (I've read it like 5 or 6 times for some reason). Like you can almost imagine her telling her kid that they are the daughters of Norse Goddesses like Ingrid tells Astrid.

@LaComtesse: @eeva: Yeah, whenever I'm in the mood for a good cry, I go on petfinder.com and look at all the cats and dogs who are older or handicapped in some way, and therefore waaaay less likely to get adopted, and just weep. I used to have a coworker who dreamed of opening a shelter for unloved cats, but she also dreamed of taking her two children to live on Neverland Ranch with Blanket, et al, and she had a MJ tattoo on her arse.

Rocky should be the mom voted "most likely to seduce her daughter's boyfriend" in about 5 years. Either that, or look for her mugshot when she's arrested for providing alcohol and weed at parties for her daughter and her friends. So sad. She's giving single moms a bad name!

christ. you need a licence to get a DOG, but any halfwit with a uterus can become the next lynn spears...

@EdnasEdibles: And I love how when Rocky sang it, it was basically one iota away from a full-on stage orgasm. Basically strip-singing.

But I guess if you ARE going to strip-sing in front of your 9-year old daughter, soul/gospel/blues is the place to start. Keeps it a bit classy.

gotta love how she's judging the appearances of the other women! her face looks like it was photoshopped together from different people.

@eeva: That is the cutest, sweetest thing I have ever heard. Maybe my love of the damaged comes from my favorite doll as a girl: Barbara. Barbra looked like... know the spider-doll head-creature from "Toy Story"? Her head looked like that. 1 eye, gross, patchy hair, no clothes, and her voice box that made her say "mama" no longer worked. When my mom asked if I wanted to take her to the "doll hospital" to get her fixed, I admimantly refused, saying I didn't want her to think I didn't love her just because she looked different.

@KathrynwithaY: YAY for adopting gimpy pets! And "awkward house plants" sounds like a band out of Brooklyn.

@BeckyIva: Wow. Just wow.

@NolitaLolita: Maybe this is Vince Neil's child!!!!

I went on an audition for a disney show once (I play 18 to look younger, baby) and I noticed something about the ACTUAL teenagers who were there with their midwestern stage moms: all of the moms were skinnier than their daughters. And their daughters were NOT FAT. In my personal opinion, a grown woman who's birthed other humans should weigh more than a 14 year old girl.

Also, if I fail to become a successful working actress, then none of this desperate stage mom shit. The dream DIES WITH ME.

I can't watch this because I'm supposed to be working or something, but how short does a skirt have to be to show a tampon string? Seriously.

One word, peeps: GIAN!
I can't not watch this show... there is a shortage of world champion ballroom dancing, oscar award winning actors in the world and I want that rectified.

this is so perversely fascinating. poor kid. totally tivo-ing this.

wait - does that mean if the string is visible there's a possibility she's not wearing undies? in that skirt?!

@BeckyIva: Forget the boyfriend, I am THERE! Can we also bake bread and grow flowers? And raise chickens?

@ddg: Sometimes the string pops out, yo. Especially if you're wearing a thong.

First of all, Rocky is an idiot if she thinks her child is going to learn how to be a 'star' or at least sing on key with her as a mentor. And secondly, anyone who has to ask anyone "What? Is my tampon showing?" has no business raising a child!

I simply refuse to watch this show! I know I'm missing out, but I don't want to be a co-signer to what is sure to be some lifelong trauma for these kids.

@redrover189: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure Rocky has no clue who Freya is, you know? Also: if you want that big house so bad, stop spending money on tanning beds, skirts from Forever 21, and fugly-ass cowboy hats? You know when her daughter hits dating age, she's going to try to be the "cool mom" and wander around topless in the secret hopes that the boys will like her more.

I saw a 2-minute preview of this recently and was just floored. Maybe if there was a licensed therapist involved and on camera working with the parents, it would be more entertaining.

Ma'am, maybe they're calling you "Rocky" because your name is RAQUELLE. 'Rock-El'. Just a thought.

@Bliz: Sure! And we can make fresh gourmet baby food, just like Diane Keaton!

Shouldn't that say something more like, "I Know My Kid's a Star is an elimination-based reality show consisting of teams of children and their wannabe famous wannabe stage moms?"

@Bliz: Braid one another's hair. I'm actually really good at baking sweet-stuff and cooking nutritous dinners.

This just made me want to cry for Hayley.

I think some of the contestants confused this show with Crowned as a few of them had some stupid joint team name shit. I miss the Sincere Sexy Reds. A lot.

Rocky, if there is a question as to whether or not your tampon is showing your skirt is probably a wee bit short to wear in public, on TV, in front of other children and their parents.