Do children beauty pageant contestents get plastic surgery?

[MGKrebs]

Or maybe just a lift and a tuck here and there?

While googling a name from a political contribution disclosure form, I came across this site, and it kind of shocked me. Maybe I am mistaken, but some of those girls look like they have had some work done.

http://www.americasmodelmiss.com/barbiegallery.html

[JI7]

1. that just seems so wrong

looking at many of these girl's pictures if i just saw their face i could easily believe many were in their 20s. the ones who aren't even teenagers yet is the most disturbing.

[guinivere]

2. Eeeek!

Scary photos.

I don't know about the surgery. It may just be waaaay too much makeup.

[MADem]

4. The Katherine Harris School of Cosmetology look is a bit freaky, eh? NT

[Cleita]

9. I think it's a lot of make-up too. I can't imagine any stage mother

so wacky as to get unnecessary surgery on her child nor any plastic surgeon who would touch anything like that.

[progressivebydesign]

14. Oh.. they'd do it.. are you kidding? They'd do it..

kids in my daughter's high school, by 10th grade have already had breast implants.. and nose jobs. If you have enough money you can find a 'friendly' doctor to do the work. it's sick.

[grannylib]

3. OMG, they don't even look human...that's frightening. Who would be so

crual as to subject kids to unnecessary plastic surgery???
Yikes...stage moms....

[MGKrebs]

5. I want to say this carefully,

because these are real girls out there somewhere and I have no desire to hurt or even offend them.

My probably mistaken impression is also that in some of those pictures, the girls heads look a little larger in proportion to their bodies than some other girls. Maybe it's just the hair, but I hope it's not a reflection of excessive dieting or some other situation that impairs natural growth.

[TahitiNut]

8. It'd be interesting to know the rate of eating disorders ...

... among such kids in later years. The parents probably supply pretty feathers. :puke:

[TahitiNut]

6. The parents might as well put those kids on Hollywood Boulevard

... around 10pm. :puke:

Hey, gals! Want to talk about objectification? :grr:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

21. nothing like turning your little girl into a vacuous tart

before the age of 8.

:puke:

[TheWraith]

7. I seriously doubt it.

I'm not even aware of any doctors who would be willing to do such a thing--plastic surgeons make more than enough money without endangering their license by doing something that extreme. More likely, these poor girls are simply burdened by neurotic, hateful mothers, and far too much makeup.

[bluedeminredstate]

15. There are doctors that "fix"

children's ears that stick out. I could see how a less than scrupulous doctor could be talked into a nose job or ear pinning or fixing some other supposedly non-perfect feature by justifying it as a self-esteem issue. Cosmetic surgery is a cash business. No insurance to deal with and the money is great...As far as licenses go, doctors police themselves, and it's an old boy's club in most states.

Completely OT, but just to show how obssessive people can be, my neighbors had braces put on their show dog b/c his teeth weren't perfect and he wasn't winning enough. I always wondered how the vet justified that procedure. Poor dog. It seemed so cruel.

:crazy:

[kittykitty]

10. They have little fake teeth they slip over their baby teeth or teeth

that are growing in if they are getting permanent teeth. It gives them the perfect smile. Dr. Phil or Oprah did a show on the little beauty queens and their neurotic mothers.

[Skidmore]

18. Then they become teenagers and all get the same orthodontists.

[jmowreader]

11. Here's a fun article to peruse...

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/06.08/beauty.html

A Harvard grad student (whose mom was Miss America 1970, according to the article) studies child beauty pageants.

Best line in the piece: "One mother told Levey, 'I know people who have spent so much on pageants, they lost their trailers.'"

Trailer = home to these folks. Imagine being so driven to enter your child in beauty pageants, you'd give up your home. I see strange pathologies here...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. when I taught 4th grade, I had one in my class

She wasn't interested in school, only in pagents. I have no idea how much of it was brought on by the mother (who was also fixated on pagents) but I kept wondering what would happen to her later on. She was a weak student, mainly because she'd apparently been taught that all it takes is beauty to have a wonderful life, and so didn't try to do well in school.

[Cleita]

19. Beauty queens usually marry well. One of my classmates

in high school was a beauty queen. She got a rich husband, had a couple of kids, divorced him and got a nice settlement and alimony and moved on to the next rich guy. It's sort of like ZsaZsa said once about being a great housekeeper, "Everytime I marry and divorce, I keep the house."

[readmoreoften]

13. Like the tasteless David Spade joke:

"I saw JonBenet Ramsey. She's not so hot without her makeup."

What exactly are they trying to achieve making these girls look like 40 year old News Anchors? Why do they have make up on at all? They are little girls. Their skin is still perfect. There is nothing to "make up".

[Cleita]

20. Do you see the outfits they put on them?

Wasn't one of the costumes Jon Benet wore a showgirl outfit? Didn't she also wear something like a blues singer would in a night club?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. I don't see evidence of plastic surgery in those photos

I do see false eye-lashes, blush, lipstick, eye shadow, plucked and penciled brows ... all inappropriate for 6 and 7 year old girls, which they approximately appear to be. I once read an article in anthropology that claimed female make-up is intended to suggest and mimic a woman's arousal on a subconscious level. It takes the place of a mating call or the emitting of mating scents in the animal kingdom. That is, when a woman has an orgasm, her lips turn red, her cheeks get flushed, and her pupils dilate, which is vaguely recreated and suggested through make-up and sends a subconscious message that the female is open for business. It's the same idea with high heels, as they make a woman's feet flex straight, the same way a woman's feet sometimes flex in arousal and orgasm.

At any rate, make-up in my opinion is not appropriate for girls of this young an age as it is a mark of sexual maturity, which these girls clearly have not reached.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

23. actually the high-heel thing is because

it makes the calf stand out, and the butt wiggle more when you walk. I do like your explaination better for pure entertainment value though. :)

[madaboutharry]

17. self-delete

[tinfoil tiaras]

22. Thats scary

My aunt is into beauty pagents (well, they're called "Sweetheart" Pagents, she claims my cousin wants to do them and that she isnt making her-fat chance) and all that shit. Eeek.


That girl is particularly scary. SHE looks like a real live barbie, imho.

I think I saw the dr. phil or whatever with the neurotic beauty pagent moms...one lady made her 3 year old daughter get fucking BRACES. Some people...grr

[MissB]

24. IIRC, the photos have been retouched

using some computer software. These aren't "live" pageant shots - these are akin to the type of photos that a model would have in her portfolio.

Yeah, they do doll them up for the pageants (:puke:) but the kids don't actually look like this in real life.

Little plastic barbie pics.

[mitchum]

25. Child abuse comes in many forms...

this is one of them

[AlCzervik]

26. children's beauty pageant is just so fing wrong and beyond creepy

what the hell is wrong with the parent that thinks that activity is ok?

[LeftyMom]

27. The bottom one looks like Katherine Harris.

:scared: