High Glitz at Child Beauty Pageants
|Who wants to be famous? A lot of people, that’s for sure. And the first ones are the mothers of little American girls.
High Glitz: The extravagant world of Child Beauty Pageants shows images of the children that take part in the different beauty contests around America, bursting as they are with extravagant haircuts, haute-couture dresses, false teeth and all the artificial beauty that you can imagine.
Tagged: portrait photography, strange events
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juli said | 19 March, 2010
sick and wrong!!!
Julietdh said | 21 March, 2010
I naturally recoiled in horror but then thought… why is this any different from all the other things that good parents get their kids to do to take up their free time? If these were ice skating kids or actors or tap dancers would anyone think it was so bad? Don’t lots of kids with so-called pushy parents end up doing something competitive, enjoy it, it works for the parents and it becomes part of their lives until the point when the child rebels?
Is the problem that makes us recoil from child beauty pageants is that those kids are being taught that the world values female beauty? Well that’s true isn’t it? As if they wouldn’t learn that somewhere else. I bet they learn a bunch of other stuff too.
I’m weary of child beauty pageants being blasted by the media. I wouldn’t necessarily do it with my own kids but at least those kids get plenty of their parents’ time and are looked after.
Can’t we all get more worried about war children and abused children and the many unloved kids out there instead of telling these kids that their parents are doing wrong?
s said | 31 May, 2010
There are so many things wrong with that argument that I don’t even know where to begin. These are LITTLE girls who are forced to parade around with fake hair , fake nails, fake teeth, fake tans and even plastic surgery! You cite that it’s ok because “a at least they get plenty of their parents time and are looked after”. REALLY?! The child soldiers being trained for combat at the same ages , get plenty of their parents time too. What these kids are put through is not an act of love, rather selfishness.
Julietdh said | 9 June, 2010
Ok, agreed that plastic surgery is taking it too far but do you really believe that these children are forced into dressing up and showing off? That’s what showy-off little girls DO! I’m sure there are parents involved who get over-excited about it and push their kids harder than they should but honestly these parents exist everywhere. It’s no different to involved parents with the money to spend in any other area. You see it in sports, music, dance, acting etc etc etc. I wouldn’t get my child’s ears pierced but false nails are hardly going to ruin a child. This is just another form of competition. I’d rather a beauty pageant trophy in the hands of a child than a gun. Teaching a child to take a life is incomparable.
Natasha Vince said | 5 October, 2010
One word – WRONG!
Soraya Darwish said | 2 December, 2010
It’s exploitation. Period.
These children should be allowed to live like children, not anorexic 17 year old models.
David said | 23 March, 2011
It’s obvious isn’t it?
Kim said | 6 April, 2011
There isnt anything wrong with little girls doing pageants if “they” want to do it. Whats wrong is parents choosing high-glitz instead of natural pageants. It isnt based on beauty if everything about the child is fake. Sure its fun to dress up and show-off, but natural pageants let you do that too. I would want my children as natural as possible because then they win for beauty not how much money was spent.
Penny said | 6 September, 2011
I totally loathe this whole business, the mothers are sick to do this. Is there not plenty of time later on in life for women to become sexual objects, should they so desire. Child molestors must love watching these shows on television.
Dom said | 25 November, 2011
Kim –
please tell me you’re joking?
Or are you a complete *&%^$#$%%#@@????????
You’re suggesting a competition judging children on their physical beauty – even if it is completely natural – could ever be remotely wholesome?
Lord help us…
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