Words escape meI'm watching a BBC documentary on television right now - Painted Babies at 17.
It's pretty horrific, I find something quite disturbing about these child pageants. Something a bit wrong with parading around these young children covered in make up (including false eyelashes and fake teeth), tacky clothes and singing songs with lyrics that are quite adult, a bit sexual. It's bizarre, freakish and weirdly patriotic.
The first documentary followed two girls aged 5, Brooke and Asia...
This follow-up film picks up 12 years later. Brooke no longer competes, Asia is still competing (accompanied by her pushy stage nana and mum). The pageants are still disturbing, tacky rhinestone-covered and funnily enough, still have the same MC singing bad "love" songs to the shellac-haired contestants. Ugh.
What's also weird about these pageants (apart from the hair, the clothes, the make up, the excessive use of fake crystals) is that the parents of these girls are completely unaware that their children have no talent! The scene with Asia singing so out of tune had me in hysterics LOL.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Tart at 10:06 PM |
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At 2:41 AM, 
Lizzy said........
Lizzy said........
These pageants to me are a mom taking the compliment "oh, your baby is SO cute" a little too far. I swear there is not a mom out there that hasn't heard that compliment. And it's great to hear because every mom thinks their child is the most handsome baby of all (I sure do!). But half the time those compliments are giving more out of kindness than genuineness. It's still nice to hear, but come on. It doesn't mean you should start dressing your child up in heels and a padded bra.