My only grandchild, 18 year old grand-daughter Shelle, is in the Miss Teen Texas International beauty pageant. She and her mother are stressed out from the tanning sessions, the work out sessions, the dieting, the shopping for gowns and shoes, the whole nine yards of the beauty pageant scene.
Each Teen Texas contestant must have a topic platform, such as heart disease or breast cancer. Shelle chose diabetes--I'm proud of that; it's a devastating and under diagnosed disease.


I've seen the TLC series "Little Miss Perfect" about little girls in beauty pageants. I was once acquainted with a mother who had her little girl in the pageant circuit. The mother spent thousands on specialty made dresses, wigs, spray tans, spacers for missing front teeth, trainers, etc. to help the child learn routines to impress the judges.

My grand daughter is old enough to have a say in whether she wants to be in this or other pageants, but the little girls are obviously impelled by their mothers, to fulfill the mother's need for approbation, praise, and attention.
Watch that show and you'll see the tunnel visioned ego these mother's have. Poor kids!

susil