The very notion of judging literal children by appearance is so twisted, not to mention the damage this kind of environment this does to kids long-term
right. if you enter your child in a pageant and they lose and then cry, then what? You have to console them and assure them that they are beautiful even if the judges said differently, so why set them up to be judged as not good enough in the first place? This has to be an extension of the parents themselves - the mother who gets the ego boost from having what is considered to be the most beautiful child.
Thats because parents are delusional when it comes to there own kids and pocket books. Od imagine if you asked most of them really think there kid is the best looking kid ever in history@realSimoneCherie
I am shocked that toddlers tiaras actually increased participation in pageants. it seems the universal reaction to this show is horror, concern, disgust , outrage, and mockery
the mom trying to remove the context from the pretty woman costume🤯 ma'am, julia roberts was a s3x worker in that movie. there's no way to talk around it.
From the online article, "Why red states won't ban child pageants": _It’s also telling where these pageants are being held. The states that hold the most contests are Florida, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. All of these states have passed anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including bans on adult drag shows, for the expressed reason that they are protecting children from “inappropriate sexualized conduct.”_ Quelle surprise. 🙄
Pageant PARENTS sexualize female children via competition visuals (adult-like makeup, clothing, accessories, choreographed routines, false teeth, and wigs, spray tan, music, etc), choices associated w/ 18+ ADULT women. Children are controlled, misdirected, and exploited by parents' aforementioned choices in order to remain competitive. Pageant parents, I'm so sorry for the traumatic, ergo-bruising experiences you dealt w/ directly or indirectly in your life, but take care of your emotional and psychological issues, and do not foist them on innocent children.
poor girl would have gotten killed either way. lots of girls who aren’t in the public eye are raped and killed by adult men. toddlers in tiaras is a problem but pageants don’t turn normal tlc viewers in pedophiles. the audience is mostly wine moms. the problem is shoving the camera in the kids face.
@@truthkindahurtsloveyalltho6272Little girls don't dream of this until adults introduce it to them. Kids have no idea what pageants are. They just want to play dress up. Don't defend child abuse.
@@truthkindahurtsloveyalltho6272I'm a woman and I had a little girl who is a grown woman now. Believe me we're not into pageants. You people are weird 😂
I had a friend who was put into pageants as a child. As a teenager she developed a serious eating disorder. As an adult she lives abroad in a hippie commune and no longer speaks to her parents.
@@MaxG-jk8tyhow is drag bile and inappropriate to children? gay people should be normalized for your child now because its so accepted and more and more people are coming out. Drag can be inappropriate but I genuinely remember seeing a drag queen when i was 7 or 8 and just thinking how it looked liked a doll in over the top clothes and makeup that looked good
I mean it’s not just the freakin show! it’s children pageantry in general.. everybody in this clip acts like it’s okay, as long as it’s not on tv. It’s not right at all, in my opinion.
8:28 this lady is straight up disgusting. genuinely comparing, r4pe culture to PARENTS MAKING THE CHOICE, TO DRESS THEIR KIDS LIKE THAT- IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ADULT WOMAN WEARING A SHORT SKIRT. its okay for an adult to dress sexy, cause they ARE AN ADULT. it’s a parents job to protect their kids from the society that perverts exist in,
My mother entered me in one pageant when I was about five or so. I remember the outfit, the hair spray, and the blue eyeshadow. I remember saying I refused to go out on stage. I refused to ever participate in one again. And that was that. I also refused to ice skate after the first attempt.
Omfg I was a kid when I used to watch this show and used to be jealous of all the glam and how pretty they looked. Now that I’m older I’m literally gasping and “pearl clutching” cus wtffff 😭😭😭😭 this is 100000% s3xualizing kids!!!!
People who defend child pageants are the same people who would call a bomb threat in to drag queen story hour, an event where there isn't any objectification of children whatsoever. Frickin' hypocrites. 🙄
Waaaait a minute.. are we being gaslit here?? The drag queens are USING the children as THEIR audience. THEY too are benefiting from children. What a hypocritical statement you make? Pageants AND story hour are BOTH cringe and a form of grooming. BOTH a form of child abuse and altering these innocent childrens reality..
One of the kids in this show was Kaila Posey who passed away as a teen (you can guess how and why). Her family’s statement was so damn dismissive and cold-hearted about it too, saying they don’t understand why she did something so “rash”. I have no doubt her upbringing in the pageant scene and on TV played a good part in it. She never got to be a child.
Didnt a girl who was on this show tragically commit suicide a few years ago? You will never convince me toddler pagents are good for a young girls development.
If there was a show in which TLC should be criminally sued, this is the ONE!!! From the clips that I saw, I couldn't believe parents would subject their beautiful children to this nightmare. I don't want to see how this type of show affected them!
“The pageants don’t sexualize children, perverts do!” Yeah but no parents should be putting their toddler on stage in fishnets and fake lashes and then acting ignorant as to how that could be sexualizing
I can’t believe the lady that dressed up her child like Julia Roberts gets all that backlash and comes out and tells the world she’s a great mom and the costume was meant to be funny and then sends her child onstage in a leopard one piece with one leg cut off and a biker jacket looking like a stripper. I don’t think that lady has a brain in her head if she thinks this is okay. I feel terrible for her little girl who has to put up with this nonsense. Don’t get me wrong she’s not the only one parent putting their child in these contests in crazy outfits so they can live vicariously through them. Sorry but there’s too many freaks out there that do sexualize children and bcoz of them you really need to protect your children. 🐆 👧👯♀️🤸🏽♀️💄👠👑🏆🥇🫣😳🤢🤑👎
HOLY CRAP!!!! Watching a parent pour packets of sugar down the throat of their child. I am surprised this is the first time I am seeing this. I knew about gogo juice, but wow.
because the toddlers here in no way will be fucked up in their teenage yearsmmhell one kid is even complaining about her stomach,,,its child avuse on a scale,,,notice how the child must be perfect yet the mum looks like a bag of spanners,,,..i feel sorry for all the kids here,
These are the kinda parents that make me think there should be some form of qualifications or people should be forced to meet and maintain some kinda requirements to become a parent....
What’s sick is a country that voted for a dictator with 34 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, 3 failed marriages, 2 impeachment, an insurrection, and multiple sexual assaults.
When did we stop celebrating people reaching for the best of themselves… and instead being their trashiest, slovenliest, uninhibited ‘real’ selves Shame was a great thing… we need to bring that back.
Yes, a pervert sees what he wants to see, but dressing your kid like a stripper shouts "Pick Me!!!!" to a peed-o, the same way leaving your doors unlocked door screams "Rob Me!!!" to a thief.
The mother trying to equate people criticizing child beauty pageants with people who blame rape victims is on a whole other level of delusional. It’s not at all the same thing and people aren’t blaming kids for dressing a certain way, they’re blaming the irresponsible parents for knowing what kind of evil there is in the world and parading their innocent kids out into it dressed up like adults when they’re too innocent to know that how they’re dressed isn’t normal.
It still makes my jaw drop at that mother defending her Pretty Woman decision. It's pretty clear what she was trying to insinuate, not that her daughter in any way resembled Julia Roberts, but was playacting as a character that was a hooker. Not to mention, that's not even one of the most iconic looks from that film. The brown and white polkadot dress she wore to the polo match, or the red gown she wears to the opera, even the white dress and hat she wears out shopping, any of those might have been passable as a little girl parading around in (dated) fashionable clothing. Dressing little girls up in frocks and dresses, and even evening wear or costume jewelry isn't a crime. It's natural for kids to be curious and fascinated by glitzy clothes and makeup and accessories, and them performing for an audience is something that can teach confidence and personal worth. We don't seem to mind as much when competitions are based more on merit of skill, like dance, gymnastics, figure skating, and theatrical performance when it's not directly associated with the evaluation of personal beauty. But when the parents are "dolling" their child up for prize money, pushing them to fad diets, tanning booths, and fake dentures and wigs, it gets weird and uncomfortable. Then drawing a direct line to an obvious, very disturbing movie parallel and saying that people are wrong for criticizing it, is just flabbergasting and deeply upsetting. She openly admitted to doing it to ensure her kid got air time on national TV, so what more can this be chalked up to than the exploitation of her own child for 15 minutes of fame?
So she dressed ur toddler like a prostitute and then dressed her up again with removable pieces of clothing and then acted shocked when ppl questioned how she is as a mother...She lit admitted of trying to catch the judges attention..I guess by any means necessary...Women like this sometimes makes me think...making ppl pass a parenting test before being allowed to have kids might be a good idea... Definitely the type of mother that would encourage her daughter to go to a Diddy party....Don't matter what happens, as long as there's a chance u might get famous from it.
You can't deny this makes for extremely compelling television though. The TV show makers only cashed in on the shows already happening, for decades by then.
I only ever saw a handful of kids on this show that actually enjoyed doing it, I hate parents that force their kids into doing stuff they don't even like. I've also heard a few girls from this show have committed suicide.
I was literally in the middle of commenting how I really don’t think these outfits sexualize these kids at all when in the last 40 seconds they show that girl with the tear away skirt and holy crap that’s definitely sexualized. Most of it is not overtly sexual I’d say, but the stuff that is is pretty rough and hard to rationalize. Let kids have their childhood, jeez!
I don't understand what is wrong with these women/moms...it's like they never grew up and are using their little girls as props in the game of Barbie they are still playing.
All I could think about when Dr. Phil was talking about risk vs reward was 'What was the risk to reward ratio of all the botox in your face?' He looks like his face is frozen in a shocked expression.
As I age, the pool of people who think should be parents shrinks smaller and smaller. And yes that probably includes your "kids don't come with a manuel," self.
The amount of moms trying to justify what they did to these little children is sick. They knew better. They had to know there are disgusting men watching. I mean, come on even the judge was a man. Honestly couldn’t even watch the rest of it.
The very notion of judging literal children by appearance is so twisted, not to mention the damage this kind of environment this does to kids long-term
right. if you enter your child in a pageant and they lose and then cry, then what? You have to console them and assure them that they are beautiful even if the judges said differently, so why set them up to be judged as not good enough in the first place? This has to be an extension of the parents themselves - the mother who gets the ego boost from having what is considered to be the most beautiful child.
Thats because parents are delusional when it comes to there own kids and pocket books. Od imagine if you asked most of them really think there kid is the best looking kid ever in history@realSimoneCherie
Exactly
tbh i watched the show a lot and they judged more on biggest hair, most rhinestones, basically just glitz
not to mention the palpable undertones
of pedophilia & grooming :-)
The fact that she dressed her child up in a risqué costume AGAIN tells me all I need to know 😒
She liked the attention and wanted to repeat it. Probably was trying to get her family a show just like they had given to Honey Boo Boo
I am shocked that toddlers tiaras actually increased participation in pageants. it seems the universal reaction to this show is horror, concern, disgust , outrage, and mockery
Exactly!
the mom trying to remove the context from the pretty woman costume🤯 ma'am, julia roberts was a s3x worker in that movie. there's no way to talk around it.
I agree but I was like 8 or 9 when I watched it and I had no idea that is what Julia Roberts did. I just thought he was rich and she was poor.
she wanted a reaction and she got one😅
I’m so shocked about it. "Here comes Pretty Woman!" like what?? That’s supposed to be cute? Americans really have lost their minds
@@randominoh Depends on the American.
She knew what she was doing and it worked out for her unfortunately
So gross. This is a pdf dream and it was on national t.v.
Those mothers are delusional, every last one of them.
I had to read that twice, as I was wondering what you meant by pdf(portable document format).
They’re complicit
you can still say pedophile on youtube
Yep and now PDF-files get all the access to kids they want on instagram... thanks to parents serving them on a silver platter. It's horrific.
This is true grooming of children.....
...brought to you by The Learning Channel. 🤮
YES!
10000%
That’s exactly what this is
Disgusting reality show
From the online article, "Why red states won't ban child pageants":
_It’s also telling where these pageants are being held. The states that hold the most contests are Florida, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. All of these states have passed anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including bans on adult drag shows, for the expressed reason that they are protecting children from “inappropriate sexualized conduct.”_
Quelle surprise. 🙄
My jaw did not drop. Republican shock factor is now obsolete and it's sad.
Because most real life pageants (like the kind at your county fair), most of the time are nothing like this so called "reality" show.
And yet this is literally drag
That's damn near the same list of states that voted AGAINST the anti child trafficking bill.
The age of consent in Georgia was 14 until 1995. Then they modernized. Made it 16.
The whole thing is gross, exploitative, & predatory
Pageant PARENTS sexualize female children via competition visuals (adult-like makeup, clothing, accessories, choreographed routines, false teeth, and wigs, spray tan, music, etc), choices associated w/ 18+ ADULT women. Children are controlled, misdirected, and exploited by parents' aforementioned choices in order to remain competitive. Pageant parents, I'm so sorry for the traumatic, ergo-bruising experiences you dealt w/ directly or indirectly in your life, but take care of your emotional and psychological issues, and do not foist them on innocent children.
Wendy knew what she was doing. SHE wanted to be on tv, not her daughter and still does.
“Don’t forget to smoke”…🤨
I remember hearing about this, and was like, “We learned nothing from JonBenet Ramsey.”
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw the theory is she was stalked and killed by a man who watched her show and became obsessed with
Her mum paid some freak to abduct her and it went wrong 😑 that’s my theory
poor girl would have gotten killed either way. lots of girls who aren’t in the public eye are raped and killed by adult men. toddlers in tiaras is a problem but pageants don’t turn normal tlc viewers in pedophiles. the audience is mostly wine moms. the problem is shoving the camera in the kids face.
@@snickerdoodles787The brother killed her and the parents covered it up. Everyone knows this.
Was that mom pouring sugar down her mouth 💀 ????
Sure was
Yep! To "give the child energy" - make them hyper/energetic/bouncy!!
This is horrific 😭 @@leannesampson3199
@@leannesampson3199lord have mercy...😦
I'm literally stopped at this and contemplating I should continue watching the video.
I’d like to see a follow up of the contestants and how they are coping as young adults and if the show had an impact on their lives.
Well one of the little girls from this show took her life when she was 16.
@@misterwinkybluffare you serious?? Oh my goodness 😢
@@misterwinkybluffomg
This is just a strange hobby to force your kid into anyway. I doubt your child wants to be doing pageants over playing at the playground…
THIS! And if it's really about performing then they should just do talent shows and stuff
@@truthkindahurtsloveyalltho6272Little girls don't dream of this until adults introduce it to them. Kids have no idea what pageants are. They just want to play dress up. Don't defend child abuse.
@@casspurpliterally no kids in Washington were like this
@@truthkindahurtsloveyalltho6272The devil is a liar and so are you.
@@truthkindahurtsloveyalltho6272I'm a woman and I had a little girl who is a grown woman now. Believe me we're not into pageants. You people are weird 😂
These parents are so bad and should be charged with child abuse
The only thing more sick than the moms putting their kids through these pageants, it’s the ones actually judging them. It’s nauseating
right?? i need to know the qualifications of these pageant judges
Both are sick and a clear detriment to society
@@tori5532the women are all miserable hags and the men are either pedos or misogynistic gay men
I would like to become a judge just so I could sabotage the whole thing, and give the trophy to the most genuinely “toddler” toddler on that stage!
I had a friend who was put into pageants as a child. As a teenager she developed a serious eating disorder. As an adult she lives abroad in a hippie commune and no longer speaks to her parents.
Horrendous. Pimping their children out like this
these typa parents are the same ones who hate on drag, clock THAT tea 😗
Both are vile and inappropriate for children. Sometimes both sides are wrong.
Kids should definitely not be dressing in drag people that think it’s ok are sick in the head
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How is drag vile? Its dramatized crossdressing @@MaxG-jk8ty
@@MaxG-jk8tyhow is drag bile and inappropriate to children? gay people should be normalized for your child now because its so accepted and more and more people are coming out. Drag can be inappropriate but I genuinely remember seeing a drag queen when i was 7 or 8 and just thinking how it looked liked a doll in over the top clothes and makeup that looked good
I mean it’s not just the freakin show! it’s children pageantry in general.. everybody in this clip acts like it’s okay, as long as it’s not on tv. It’s not right at all, in my opinion.
Dude same! I’m sitting here like, “you ladies are the bad guys, too.”
Yes all of it is bad/exploitative/predatory, including those adults watching it while it aired 😢
8:28 this lady is straight up disgusting. genuinely comparing, r4pe culture to PARENTS MAKING THE CHOICE, TO DRESS THEIR KIDS LIKE THAT- IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ADULT WOMAN WEARING A SHORT SKIRT. its okay for an adult to dress sexy, cause they ARE AN ADULT. it’s a parents job to protect their kids from the society that perverts exist in,
…..when they started talking about putting sugar down their kids throats as if they were drugging them….that was crazy.
Pageants of all kind are wack. Especially kid pageants. They should stop them all
How about instead of beauty pageants they have distinguished programs.
TLC is so fucking evil.
It's sad what it became. When I was a kid, it was "The Learning Channel," and it actually had educational content.
How is this not considered child abuse?
America is strange and confusing to me.
Join the club, dude.
Other countries do this too, idiot.
America ain’t the only country with pervs
It’s some old freaky man in china searching young American girls online😂
Us too.
-A lot of Americans
Yes, it is sexualized. The pageants are giving the world permission to sexualize.
Only one section of the world even does this, the so called "good guys"
Get those babies in therapy FAST!
What kind of parent watches a show like that and thinks “Oh yeah. I should enter my kid in a pageant!” These people are messed up.
Saw one episode. I remember creepy judges and sad mom's trying to live through their children because they were unhappy with how they looked.
It is absolutely sexualizing children, and it is disturbing any parent that would put their young child through this
can't believe i use to love watching this show as a kid. 😭
The parents who subject their children to this should absolutely be investigated for child abuse.
My mother entered me in one pageant when I was about five or so. I remember the outfit, the hair spray, and the blue eyeshadow. I remember saying I refused to go out on stage. I refused to ever participate in one again. And that was that. I also refused to ice skate after the first attempt.
This should never never happen or be happening
Omfg I was a kid when I used to watch this show and used to be jealous of all the glam and how pretty they looked. Now that I’m older I’m literally gasping and “pearl clutching” cus wtffff 😭😭😭😭 this is 100000% s3xualizing kids!!!!
The fact that the mother is in this interview and the daughter isnt speaks volume
People who defend child pageants are the same people who would call a bomb threat in to drag queen story hour, an event where there isn't any objectification of children whatsoever. Frickin' hypocrites. 🙄
Waaaait a minute.. are we being gaslit here?? The drag queens are USING the children as THEIR audience. THEY too are benefiting from children. What a hypocritical statement you make? Pageants AND story hour are BOTH cringe and a form of grooming. BOTH a form of child abuse and altering these innocent childrens reality..
One of the kids in this show was Kaila Posey who passed away as a teen (you can guess how and why). Her family’s statement was so damn dismissive and cold-hearted about it too, saying they don’t understand why she did something so “rash”.
I have no doubt her upbringing in the pageant scene and on TV played a good part in it. She never got to be a child.
Didnt a girl who was on this show tragically commit suicide a few years ago? You will never convince me toddler pagents are good for a young girls development.
The pretty woman mama did that on purpose because she was desperate for attention, she wasn't aiming for fun or whatever
This was sick to watch. Wild that people do this to thier kids.
If there was a show in which TLC should be criminally sued, this is the ONE!!! From the clips that I saw, I couldn't believe parents would subject their beautiful children to this nightmare. I don't want to see how this type of show affected them!
Poor kids! It was all about those "parents!" 😒😡
…Thank you for your service Georgia…Your contribution to this country is inexplicable
I actually burst out laughing at "inexplicable."
“The pageants don’t sexualize children, perverts do!” Yeah but no parents should be putting their toddler on stage in fishnets and fake lashes and then acting ignorant as to how that could be sexualizing
I can’t believe the lady that dressed up her child like Julia Roberts gets all that backlash and comes out and tells the world she’s a great mom and the costume was meant to be funny and then sends her child onstage in a leopard one piece with one leg cut off and a biker jacket looking like a stripper. I don’t think that lady has a brain in her head if she thinks this is okay. I feel terrible for her little girl who has to put up with this nonsense. Don’t get me wrong she’s not the only one parent putting their child in these contests in crazy outfits so they can live vicariously through them. Sorry but there’s too many freaks out there that do sexualize children and bcoz of them you really need to protect your children. 🐆 👧👯♀️🤸🏽♀️💄👠👑🏆🥇🫣😳🤢🤑👎
9:22 who ever did that should be arrested.
HOLY CRAP!!!! Watching a parent pour packets of sugar down the throat of their child. I am surprised this is the first time I am seeing this. I knew about gogo juice, but wow.
"Don't forget to smoke!"
I smoke cigarettes and I'm blown away by this.
I’m mad they didn’t mention Kailia Posey who was on the show and took her own life at just 16 years old. RIP 🙏🏾😞
because the toddlers here in no way will be fucked up in their teenage yearsmmhell one kid is even complaining about her stomach,,,its child avuse on a scale,,,notice how the child must be perfect yet the mum looks like a bag of spanners,,,..i feel sorry for all the kids here,
Shouldn't make a child do that. Their kids let them be kids.
Hey if i want my kid to be trans im going to make it trans!
Idiocracy! Poverty and fame is always a recipe for disaster
This is the female equivalent of baseball dads with their sons
Ah yes because baseball is sexualizing little boys
Interesting, I’ve never heard of that
@ really? you’ve never heard of baseball?
@@whiteprivilege2665 no like I know baseball I just am not familiar with the culture around little league
Nope it's not. This is sexual
The psychological affect this will have one those young girls........for what!?
These are the kinda parents that make me think there should be some form of qualifications or people should be forced to meet and maintain some kinda requirements to become a parent....
It was the ultimate train wreck of a TV show until we got Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
I have never watched these shows, there's a grossness about them that keeps me away.
5:30 why are we platforming this woman at all that is insane
There is a difference between making your child pretty and sexualizing them.
I'm sorry, but 'prosti-tot' is a hell of an insult. Dear lord, who comes with these? 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
😅😅😅😅
Wish they interviewed the grown kids
8:10 …..that’s LITERALLY the point t of the whole pageant. To make little girls look like grown women. The one who looks most grown wins.
This is truly sick
What’s sick is a country that voted for a dictator with 34 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, 3 failed marriages, 2 impeachment, an insurrection, and multiple sexual assaults.
Where are the boy pageants ?
*it's called little league
There were occasionally boys featured on the show that competed alongside the girls, but not very many.
Nobody had child protective custody called on them tho I’m shocked
When did we stop celebrating people reaching for the best of themselves… and instead being their trashiest, slovenliest, uninhibited ‘real’ selves
Shame was a great thing… we need to bring that back.
America is so anti intellectual and predatory
Yes, a pervert sees what he wants to see, but dressing your kid like a stripper shouts "Pick Me!!!!" to a peed-o, the same way leaving your doors unlocked door screams "Rob Me!!!" to a thief.
They are pimping their kids out, kinda like family vloggers
It’s sad watching this and knowing the train wreck that Alana’s mother became. I’m glad she, miraculously, has become a very grounded young woman.
The mother trying to equate people criticizing child beauty pageants with people who blame rape victims is on a whole other level of delusional. It’s not at all the same thing and people aren’t blaming kids for dressing a certain way, they’re blaming the irresponsible parents for knowing what kind of evil there is in the world and parading their innocent kids out into it dressed up like adults when they’re too innocent to know that how they’re dressed isn’t normal.
It still makes my jaw drop at that mother defending her Pretty Woman decision. It's pretty clear what she was trying to insinuate, not that her daughter in any way resembled Julia Roberts, but was playacting as a character that was a hooker. Not to mention, that's not even one of the most iconic looks from that film. The brown and white polkadot dress she wore to the polo match, or the red gown she wears to the opera, even the white dress and hat she wears out shopping, any of those might have been passable as a little girl parading around in (dated) fashionable clothing.
Dressing little girls up in frocks and dresses, and even evening wear or costume jewelry isn't a crime. It's natural for kids to be curious and fascinated by glitzy clothes and makeup and accessories, and them performing for an audience is something that can teach confidence and personal worth. We don't seem to mind as much when competitions are based more on merit of skill, like dance, gymnastics, figure skating, and theatrical performance when it's not directly associated with the evaluation of personal beauty. But when the parents are "dolling" their child up for prize money, pushing them to fad diets, tanning booths, and fake dentures and wigs, it gets weird and uncomfortable. Then drawing a direct line to an obvious, very disturbing movie parallel and saying that people are wrong for criticizing it, is just flabbergasting and deeply upsetting. She openly admitted to doing it to ensure her kid got air time on national TV, so what more can this be chalked up to than the exploitation of her own child for 15 minutes of fame?
So she dressed ur toddler like a prostitute and then dressed her up again with removable pieces of clothing and then acted shocked when ppl questioned how she is as a mother...She lit admitted of trying to catch the judges attention..I guess by any means necessary...Women like this sometimes makes me think...making ppl pass a parenting test before being allowed to have kids might be a good idea... Definitely the type of mother that would encourage her daughter to go to a Diddy party....Don't matter what happens, as long as there's a chance u might get famous from it.
You can't deny this makes for extremely compelling television though. The TV show makers only cashed in on the shows already happening, for decades by then.
Can you imagine a predator watching these shows? The mere thought makes you horrified
Or attend the pagents?
Parents have only graduated to RUclips for this
Southern states want their pageants and their underage consent laws.
I only ever saw a handful of kids on this show that actually enjoyed doing it, I hate parents that force their kids into doing stuff they don't even like. I've also heard a few girls from this show have committed suicide.
Being a mother to a little girl, watching this made me physically ill...
I was literally in the middle of commenting how I really don’t think these outfits sexualize these kids at all when in the last 40 seconds they show that girl with the tear away skirt and holy crap that’s definitely sexualized. Most of it is not overtly sexual I’d say, but the stuff that is is pretty rough and hard to rationalize. Let kids have their childhood, jeez!
People only watch these types of shows to make themselves feel better about themselves! 🙄
Nah people watch because how ridiculous it is and can't fathom, plus the mothers get sooooo chaotic and are pretty much out for blood!!
I don't understand what is wrong with these women/moms...it's like they never grew up and are using their little girls as props in the game of Barbie they are still playing.
This show is everything that is wrong with this country
Making your toddler wear snap on veneers is criminal. Kids are not supposed to have perfect teeth!!
Like a month ago I watched the movie "little miss sunshine" and apparently its a direct critique towards pageants like these.
Fantastic movie. Abigail Breslin is just awesome in it.
We already know what group of people came up with this, are we even surprised?
What was going through the mother's mind when they were doing this?
The number of excuses people are willing to make just to twist the truth in their favor is astounding. And disgusting.
All I could think about when Dr. Phil was talking about risk vs reward was 'What was the risk to reward ratio of all the botox in your face?' He looks like his face is frozen in a shocked expression.
As I age, the pool of people who think should be parents shrinks smaller and smaller. And yes that probably includes your "kids don't come with a manuel," self.
wendy dickey pronounces it "toddlers in tears"
I remember how shocked we were at first, bruh this was bad from the beginning
7:23 you can think you know what you are but your actions for money and fame....let us KNOW who you are.
'Pageant crack' 😂
The amount of moms trying to justify what they did to these little children is sick. They knew better. They had to know there are disgusting men watching. I mean, come on even the judge was a man. Honestly couldn’t even watch the rest of it.
“Everybody wanted to put their child in a beauty pageant” … actually no.
This show should have been outlawed,
It's disturbing how the parents don't acknowledge what's wrong with pageants even after all these years
People doesn't know what they gettin themselves into until it's too late, for real.