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After 300 wins and special features on TLC's 'Toddlers & Tiaras', 6-year-old pageant star Eden Wood is retiring from her short career. However, this does not mean Wood is hanging up the crown and straying away from the spotlight. In fact, she is moving on to bigger and better things in show...
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Toddlers & Tiaras' Pageant Director to Critics: Don't Be Ugly
Universal Royal Beauty Pageants is the pageant circuit that TLC's 'Toddlers & Tiaras' usually features. Annette Hill, who runs the circuit, voiced her opinion regarding the constant criticism in a TV Guide interview. Annette Hill continues to support pageants and does not feel that they...
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'Toddlers & Tiaras' mom talks costs, passion for pageants
Similar to Eden Wood, MaKenzie Myers is another 6-year-old pageant contestant featured in TLC's 'Toddlers & Tiaras', however is not hanging up her crown just yet. MaKenzie has been competing in pageants since she was 18 months old. Her mother, Juana Myers, supports her daughter competing in...
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Mom Gives 8-Year-Old Daughter Botox: How Young Is Too Young?
In TLC's 'Toddlers & Tiaras', spectators have witnessed to what lengths parents and stage coaches go to "beautify" their children. However, an 8-year-old California girl recently underwent Botox as a beauty treatment for pageants. The girl, Britney, and her mother, Kerry, support the idea...
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Are Beauty Contests Harmful to Young Children?
Because young children have yet to mature, they enjoy imitating what they see in movies or on television. Pageants are an easy way for children to believe that true beauty lies on the outside. When seeing all of the contestants in older pageants, children wish to do the same and focus on how...
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When mum takes centre stage
While a moderately pushy parent can help a child achieve, "pagent" moms take the trope of stage mom to a new level. Some pageant parents constantly push their children to do their best in increasingly outrageous ways. In pageants, young girls are subjected to waxing and threading. Now,...
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Look out, stage moms-here come the pageant dads
Stage moms are not the only form of guidance for children and their beauty pageants. Nowadays, pageant dads are helping their children win competitions across the nations. In an interview with the Today Show, pageant dads Lon Enos and David Perez have been in the business for quite some time,...
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'Dance Moms,' as bad as it sounds
Step aside 'Toddlers & Tiaras' because 'Dance Moms' is now airing on Lifetime, showing another side to pushy parents. Apart from stage moms and pageant dads, the world also consists of dance moms, who are constantly spending outrageous amounts of money and time focusing on their children in a...
