Little Beauties or Little Barbies?

Many people who have watched Little Beauties: The Ultimate Kiddie Queen Pageant on VH1, namely girls and their mothers, are shocked. Little six year old girls are put on display like dolls for money. These girls are made up to the point where they look more like miniature twenty year old adults rather than little girls. They wear excessive amounts of make up and have veneers and self tanner. It's absolutely sickening. These girls seem fake in the pictures they have, like giant Barbie dolls. Who would put a cute little girl through all this? What cruel, malicious being would toture an innocent soul in such a way? How about the mothers?

At the heart of all this brutal glamour are the moms of these girls. Behind the scenes, the moms are very pushy and sometimes mean. This behavior encourages the pageant contestants to fight against their mother. This distorts their supposed sweet dispositions into bratty, spoiled tempers. The mothers of these kiddie queens aren't very pretty at all. Often they are obese, frumpy, and otherwise unattractive. The mothers are giving the impression that they are living through their daughters. And that is a horrible thing.

On specktra.net, women talk about the things these girls go through and their experiences whether they were also show pony children or they've met and had to work with these deprived beauty princesses. A woman who worked as a make up artist at a department store recalled a mother who made an appointment for her daughter. The mom walked in with a four year old girl. The mom requested heavy makeup for her daughter so she could be seen under the bright stage lights. None of the artists would touch the girl with makeup. When someone finally did the makeup, the mother was furious. The four year old had sheer colors on her face, not the dramatic theater makeup that the mom had hoped for. So the woman grabbed her daughter by the wrist and pulled her out of the store.

Another woman said that a mother and her eight year old came in looking for name brand make up like M.A.C. and Bobbi Brown and Ulta. Things that were much too old for a young face. The woman showed the mother what sheer, pink, little girl things she had, but wouldn't give the mother any name brand, top shelf items. The mother stomped off dragging the little girl behind.

I beleive anyone could agree that these girls will grow up to be unappreciative, spoiled, demanding teens who will take to thinking that looks are everything and that intellect falls far behind. These young girls should be curious, cute, smiling kids with a childhood, not dolled up, porcelain tooted, mascara and fuschia Barbies. What ever you think, I hope you'll give this article some consideration.