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TLC should just give this girl her own show already. Plus, she wouldn't get warped by fame like the Gosselins since she already matter-of-factly says stuff like, "I'm four years old and I feel like a superstar." More »
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TLC's child beauty queen series Toddlers & Tiaras is returning for a new season, and with it brings more of Makenzie, the ornery 40-year-old woman trapped in the body of a four-year-old girl. Her mother promises that she's "matured." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5719700&view=rss&microfeed=true On last night's episode, Lisa Fulgham, the director of a child beauty pageant, collected between $15,000 - $20,000 in entry fees, and then left before crowning, without paying her bills or leaving any money for the winning contestants. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5566491&view=rss&microfeed=true On last night's season premiere of T&T, 4-year-old pageant contestant Makenzie initially seemed like a soul-eating, tantrum-throwing nightmare, but through her rubber-necking demands, you could see an assertive, take-no-shit attitude shining through. Sometimes brats grow up to be successful ball-busters. More »
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Remember Eden Wood, the 4-year-old showgirl from Toddlers & Tiaras who's written a book? Her mother Mickie recently posted this photo on her Facebook page: it's Eden donning a Hitler 'stache. It appears that Mickie has since removed the link. More »
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Jeanie Alcalar, whom you may have seen drag her daughter by the arm on the February 17 episode of Toddlers And Tiaras, has had her daycare center's license suspended in light of some pretty upsetting allegations. More »
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Jayne is a 6-year-old who is a total weirdo in that she competes in beauty pageants because she wants to. And despite all the heavy makeup, she's still just a goofy kid who says a lot of delightfully wacky things. More »
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On last night's episode, pageant—and talk show—veteran, 4-year-old Eden and her stage mom Mickie, together with their manager, developed an Eden doll, based on Eden's Vegas showgirl costume. They've deluded themselves into thinking this is a smash hit. More »
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Just as Toddlers & Tiaras started to get stale—and flippers, baby spray tans, and the concept of glitz began to seem normal—the show pulled out a winner last night by featuring an 83-year-old pageant contestant. More »
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On last night's episode, the director of the Southern Glitz Pageant didn't even pretend that "inner beauty" plays into the scoring of the children who competing. So with that in mind, let's judge the following by looks alone. More »
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On last night's episode, one pageant grandma spent a considerable amount of time training her 7-year-old granddaughter to avoid squniting when she smiled. Tyra Banks would be severely disappointed that her tutelage was not heeded. More »
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On last night's episode, one father likened his five-year-old daughter's pageant look to that of a hooker. Lexi, the hooker "lookalike" (hookalike?), is actually hooked on sugar, and her grandmother is not only an enabler, but her supplier. More »
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On last night's season premiere, two of the four children featured were boys whose mothers entered them into the Little Miss Glitz pageant. Of her son, one mother said,"He's so beautiful that he looks like a girl." More »
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Last night's season premiere of We's Little Miss Perfect taught us that not all of the child beauty pageant accoutrements we've gotten to know and hate—mainly those baby dentures called "flippers"—are beneficial to a contestant's score. More »
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Amy Winehouse reportedly wants to be the next Barbie doll and thinks she would be a hit with kids. [Pop Crunch] More »
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Susan Anderson's photography book High Glitz —which includes thought-provoking essays by Simon Doonan and Robert Greene, as well as a guide to everything glitz—presents a portrait of the bizarre American pastime that is the world of child beauty pageants. More »
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On last night's Toddlers & Tiaras, one woman was upset that her 8-year-old daughter no longer fit into her $1,200 custom-made dress, so she put her on a strict, all-fruit diet for the week leading up to the pageant. More »
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Fortunately, the baby didn't have Down Syndrome, and got cute enough for pageantry, according to one mother on last night's Toddlers & Tiaras, who says the documentary Living Dolls inspired her to get her daughter involved in child beauty pageants. More »
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Last night's episode featured a pageant in Hawaii, where one little girl got a (fake?) tattoo, a mother purposely deprived her child of her ADHD meds and then Photoshopped the shit out of her picture until she was unrecognizable. More »
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When Jezebel EIC Anna proposed interviewing beauty pageant coach Cy Frakes (of TLC's new show King of the Crown), I figured I'd seek answers to my burning pageant-related questions. So I did. And it was fine. Until it wasn't. More »
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Last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras was typical in its display of unorthodox parenting that involves bad advice, spray tans, and sexy bikinis for five year old girls. More »
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Despite Transformers and GI Joe, Hollywood is not done mining our childhood memories: Universal has acquired the rights to make a live-action movie based on Barbie. Details are sketchy, but here's what could happen: More »
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On last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, one woman said that being a pageant mom is "no worse" than being a "welfare mom." Then she explained that she sometimes doesn't make "medical payments" in order to afford pageant fees. More »
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Last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras really illuminated why child beauty pageants might not be the best environment for young girls. More »
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Last night, three sisters entered the Babes of Summer pageant. So they wouldn't compete against each other, their mother lied about her 10-year-old's age so she could be in an older age group. But did she also enhance her dress? More »
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On last night's episode, a 4-year-old girl was in a sexy cop costume, the back of which said, "bad cop, no donut." The mom's explanation of it was way more inappropriate: somehow "donut" is a synonym for "vagina." More »
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On last night's episode, Emily—whose father says he expresses his love by "buying her things"—spent five hours at a spa getting a facial and massage, among other treatments, to "boost her confidence" for an upcoming pageant. More »
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Toddlers & Tiaras's Emily was on Good Day L.A. today. Her father says she's been doing pageants since infancy to learn "poise and self-confidence." Well, she hasn't, as evidenced by the fact that she's afraid to speak without parental prompting. More »
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Today, 19-year-old Brooke Breedwell of the 1995 documentary Painted Babies told Good Morning America competing in child beauty pageants was emotionally damaging. But, current stage moms insist competing is just a healthy "game of dress up." Clip at left. More »
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Because she's in a glitz pageant! At least, that was the reasoning regarding this 6-year-old from last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras. More »
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The latest U.S. export to land on foreign shores? Child pageants. The BBC3 documentary Baby Beauty Queens follows contestants in the first-ever Mini Miss UK contest, and, as Eleanor M. blogs for The F word: it's "surely a new low." More »
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Last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras featured Dwayne, a self-professed "pageant dad," who choreographs his 6-year-old daughter's routines, co-designs her costumes, and does her makeup. He's married to a woman, but the question remains: Is he gay? More »
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Emiri Miyasaka, Japan's Miss Universe, will adjust her official costume (pictured) after pageant organizers received complaints from more than 2,000 people, including one who said the kimono looked like "something a prostitute might wear." Maybe it's the garters? [Bloomberg] More »
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On last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, we spent a lot of time with Madison, the ten-year-old diva whose stage name is "Tootie." "Tootie" is a bitch. More »
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Tracie's away, so last night I had to watch the premiere of Toddlers & Tiaras. It was horrifying! Spoiled brats, fake hair, undermining moms and a 2-week-old infant in a tuxedo?!?! More »
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TLC's reality series about child beauty pageants, Toddlers & Tiaras, returns for a second season on Wednesday. GMA interviewed one stage mom from the show this morning. After the jump, a few preview clips. More »
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The new American Girl, WWI-era Lower-East-Side-dwelling Jewish doll Rebecca Rubin, unfortunately has the same name as a serial arsonist wanted by the F.B.I. "We feel confident that people will clearly see this as nothing more than what it is - an unrelated coincidence," says a spokeswoman. [NYT] More »
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Last night's episode took place at the Darling Diva Pageant in Brooklyn. While it wasn't as "glitz" as its Southern counterparts, pushy parents, inappropriate dance moves, and children with weird names were all on hand. More »
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North Carolina Representative Annie Mobley introduced a bill on April 8 to establish a legislative study committee on the "regulation of beauty pageants for youth under 13," which includes the "use of excessive makeup." More »
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On last night's Toddlers & Tiaras, a daughterless pageant mom said of her young sons,"I'll just turn 'em into girls." She claims this is harmless, because she has a background in childhood development. More »
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