How young is too young for lipstick and tiaras, really? An Indiana mother entered her adorable 2-year-old daughter in an upcoming kiddie pageant and now her neighbors are calling for her head.
Child beauty pageants are fucked up enough without adding a weird racial dimension to them, but if you're going to be terrible, you might as well be all-the-way terrible, right? The Little Miss Hispanic Delaware pageant — which exists because apparently the world doesn't mess with little girls' brains enough as-is —…
A bill seeking to outlaw child beauty pageants—arguing that they hypersexualize minors—has passed in the French Senate 196 to 146 votes. If the bill is passed by the National Assembly it will officially become law, leaving hordes of purposeless stage mères to drift the narrow French lanes in feral packs, hawking used…
"Her!? She's ugly!" I didn't say that aloud, thankfully. But I thought it—about a baby. What a horrible thing to think about an infant, even if it's totally true. Oh, how far I'd fallen from my lofty position of being "above it all," only to land in a stackable banquet chair in the ballroom of an airport hotel in…
When Tricia and her daughter SammiJo were first featured on an episode of Toddlers & Tiaras last year, she and her husband fought in front of the cameras about money. He believed that the estimated $100,000 that they'd spent on pageants was a waste. Oddly, he had included the expense of his wife's "boob job" into…
On last night's episode of T&T, there was a lot of bad blood between two moms whose young daughters (Gabby and Alaska) often compete in the same age division of the same pageants. On camera, they repeatedly made barbed comments each other—about Alaska's mom's missing teeth, bitchy judgement about the color of a…
On last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras, one pageant mom admitted that she regularly puts her 8-year-old daughter Ever Rose on a calorie-counting diet leading up to competitions. There's nothing wrong with teaching your kid about making healthy food choices, but making a little girl so aware of her weight and…
Last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras was extra special because this particular episode featured "one of us." Rich Juzwiak—co-creator of Pot Psychology and owner of Winston the cat—was asked to judge the Universal Royalty Hollywood pageant, so he donned a tux and became something of a Greek chorus for the…
Following Toddlers & Tiaras for the past few seasons, we know that pageant moms give their kids Pixy Stix and even Red Bull to pump up their energy, but none of the little beauty queens ever seemed to really have an understanding about their forced relationship with mood altering substances—until last night's…
This morning, Toddlers & Tiaras star Eden Wood and her mother Mickie appeared on GMA to announce that 6-year-old Eden is leaving the pageant world behind to pursue greener (as in, more lucrative) pastures, which evidently means entertaining crowds at shopping malls across the country, recording a song aimed at her…
In a sort of conflation of reality television concepts, last night's episode of Intervention may have provided a peek into what the future could hold for some of those career kiddie pageant contestants we see on Toddlers & Tiaras. Tiffany began competing in pageants when she was 9 months old, and continued to do so…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
