It's been a good couple of days for people who like seeing little girls dressed up like terrifying showgirl-clown babies. Yesterday, it was announced that breakout star of Toddlers & Tiaras Alana "Honey Boo Boo Child" Thompson was getting her own spin-off show on TLC and now the Shift has published an interesting profile…
Human Barbie Sarah Burge—you know, the one who stuffed her 7-year-old kid's Christmas stocking with a liposuction voucher and gifted her with a breast implant fund for her birthday—is coming stateside with daughter Poppy with two specific goals in mind: winning Toddlers & Tiaras and competing together in pageants all…
In today's Tweet Beat, RuPaul puts her faith in child pageant prodigy Eden Wood, Andy Cohen untapped sources of Jamaican comedy, Solange Knowles finds new uses for The Great Gatsby and George Wallace calls out John Oates.
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Remember when living doll Eden Wood, who first rose to fame on Toddlers & Tiaras, retired from doing pageants at the tender age of six? Even though she announced vague plans to take over the world back then, we all kind of hoped someone would freeze her in time and set her on a shelf where she would increase in value…
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Kiernan Shipka stars in Funny Or Die's latest video about psychologists for child stars — but instead of being in treatment, she's the doctor. Just one day at Kiernan's office features a look at sessions with Modern Family's Nolan Gould, Raising Hope's Baby Hope, and former child star Danielle Fishel (Boy Meets World's …
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Anderson Cooper invited pageant kids, their moms, and a disgruntled ex-pageant girl onto his daytime show for an intelligent discussion about the child pageant circuit. Okay, maybe it wasn't that intelligent, but Eden Wood did do a little song and dance!
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For its art issue, W approached Steven Meisel to shoot nine advertisements for fake products and sprinkle them in with the real ads. The results are arresting, funny, and occasionally subversive. Behold: Linda Evangelista shilling shampoo, Joan Rivers in fur, and Toddlers & Tiara's Eden Wood fronting for a children's…
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Who is Eden Wood's publicist? She keeps landing all these big deal interviews since announcing that she's retiring from beauty pageants at age 6. Today she was on The View, where she and her mother Mickie were grilled about their aspirations for her career. Eden, while cute, doesn't seem to have much to say for…
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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…
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What happens when you slow down pageant princess Eden Wood's thoughts on how much she hates hair spray? You get a creature that sounds an awful lot like a drunk, life-long chain smoker with emphysema with a pinch of a Jabba The Hut-like monster. In other words, slightly terrifying.
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For the premiere of its fourth season on June 15, TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras is pulling out the big guns by re-featuring past stars of the show—namely Eden Wood and Makenzie—who will go head-to-head, competing in the same pageant. In this sneak peek clip, Eden is following the path of many reality stars, decades her…
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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.
