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    Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems

    The Best Child Beauty Pageant Coaches Are Queens
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    Image of HighSchoolFearleader HighSchoolFearleader
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    I can't see how pageants WOULDN'T lead to emotional problems. You're a small, impressionable child being told that you're only valued for what you look like. It doesn't matter if you're funny or smart or interesting, it matters to fit the standards of conventional beauty.
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    Image of The Queen of No The Queen of No
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    Another reason why pageants are bad: they teach young women how to apply makeup wrong. Yikes, Brooke. Makeup is not spackle!
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    Image of La Chica Lucy La Chica Lucy
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    Frankly, I don't really care for that much make-up, fake bake, and crazy-ass hair-dos on grown women, let alone PRE-SCHOOLERS. Oh, but it's not about appearance or beauty. No siree. And the sexy strutting of four-year-olds is downright creepy. They are children, and, being female, they will have PLENTY of time to dress-up and act sexy for the patriarchy, if they so choose, when they are grown adult women.
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    Image of Le Kangourou de Kataroo Le Kangourou de Kataroo
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    ALSO. It's not about beauty? Even though they're being judged on APPEARANCE? REALLY?!

    As they say, "Denial isn't just a river in Egypt."
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    Image of SmallbutMighty SmallbutMighty
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    your name is wood. and you named your kid eden. which sounds an awful lot like "eatin' wood". you also buy her a showgirl outfit. are you trying to set her up for a career in adult entertainment?
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    Image of schoolofloverboy schoolofloverboy
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    Is anyone else a Mr Show/Bob Odenkirk/David Cross fan? Remember the skit about the beauty pageant for fetuses? "Pre-natal-Pretties" Giving your fetus liposuction, plastic surgery, makeup, and a weave. Watching these always makes me wonder what happened to the mothers/fathers as children to make them do this to their kids...
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    It seems that pageants aesthetics have not changed much in 14 years.
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    Image of fluxus flucker fluxus flucker
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    $70 flippin' THOUSAND ?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* By the way Jezzies, please don't blame this on Austin. Its really a fun, laid back city!
    *Yeah, I felt all the exclamation points were necessary.
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    Image of Ting-a-ling Ting-a-ling
    08/13/09

    @fluxus flucker: Goodbye college fund! And even if these parents are setting aside money for Eden's education, think of the activities they could spend their money-- and Eden's time-- on instead, like dance or music lessons. You know, cultivating ACTUAL SKILLS AND TALENTS that can provide the child with a real sense of accomplishment and make her more well-rounded as she grows older.
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    Image of maybeimamazed02 maybeimamazed02
    08/14/09

    @Ting-a-ling: That's one of my biggest problems with these deals--moms who say it's a "confidence booster." Um, there are so many HEALTHIER ways to do this: dance or music, like you said, or theatre, or even sports. In all of those, the kid gets a real sense of accomplishment and empowerment: "I can DO something, not just stand there and be pretty!"
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    A 4-year-old should not have an "arch-rival."
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    08/13/09

    @NefariousNewt: I was just about to post that same thing. One should really wait until at least six.
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    Image of LuvEwan LuvEwan
    08/13/09

    @BabyJane: And ideally, this rival should be a frowning baby with a unibrow who lives down the street.
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    08/13/09


    @LuvEwan:
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    Image of LuvEwan LuvEwan
    08/13/09

    @BabyJane: Boo! Hiss!
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    08/13/09

    I had an arch-rival at four. We went to the same pre-school, and our parents forced us to play together all the time. I can't remember the name of my "boyfriend" at the time, but I do remember my outrage when she would tell people that he was her boyfriend, (so not true, btw).

    Damn you, Anna, I still demand vengeance!
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/13/09

    In reply to Former Child Beauty Queen Says Pageants Led To Emotional Problems
    Eden, who has been competing since she was one? WTF?!?!?!?
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    Image of LuvEwan LuvEwan
    08/13/09

    @NefariousNewt: I know! It's ridiculous! One is waaay past her prime! My kid is starting as soon as she pops out of my crotch! I want someone there judging her ASAP! That's why I plan on swallowing a jar of glitter while I'm in labor--need glitzy afterbirth!
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    Image of Luckwouldhaveit Luckwouldhaveit
    08/13/09

    @LuvEwan: Have you seen my fetus's ultrasound glamour shots? They are. to. die.
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    08/13/09

    @Luckwouldhaveit: pshht, my fetus has a wiglet.
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