YOUR THOUGHTS ON CHILDREN'S BEAUTY PAGEANTS ?

12/28/2009


Hi Everyone..


What are your thoughts on Mother's having
their 5,6,7,8,9,10 year old daughters in beauty pageants ?
There's a show on cable and I found it disgusting having a
young girl at any of those ages mentioned dressed and made up
as a adult, to me children should have a child's life not try to
have them look like a sex kitten ? What are your thoughts ? It
reminded me of Jo Beth Ramsey, same thing, over zealot mothers!

Cheers...Joe...

Hi...

I'm a former beauty queen...I see nothing wrong
with it , I grew up to be a burlesque sex goddess.
Men adore me, ahhhhhhhhhhh...Being beautiful is
tough at the top...

Love Fi Fi

It puts too much pressure on the kids. Kids should be allowed to be kids. Besides there is no absolute beauty. All beauty is relative to the perspective of the observer. Yep, all beauty is relative.

12/28/2009

Gordon..

You are right..To me beauty comes from
within , I believe it's from the soul....

Cheers..Joe

Fi Fi wrote:

Hi...

I'm a former beauty queen...I see nothing wrong
with it , I grew up to be a burlesque sex goddess.
Men adore me, ahhhhhhhhhhh...Being beautiful is
tough at the top...

Love Fi Fi

How about a current photo?

Abe F. March wrote:

Fi Fi wrote:

Hi...

I'm a former beauty queen...I see nothing wrong
with it , I grew up to be a burlesque sex goddess.
Men adore me, ahhhhhhhhhhh...Being beautiful is
tough at the top...

Love Fi Fi

How about a current photo?

Abe, if FiFi is who I think he is, you don't want that to happen!

SICK parents...

Domenic

Hi..

I'm so stiken by Abe's question, that is my photo
from two years ago. Ann..I'n who I am, Fi Fi , I'm
not somebody else..Right now I'm appearing at The
Pink Pussycat Club in Chicago....It's wonderful..


Fi Fi

I love and admire parents who place their children in beauty pageants.

Might as well separate the sheep from the goats early on.
If the chlld does not win first place--give them to another family-- an ugly one.

12/29/2009


Alice....


.....Joe

Again beauty and ugliness are relative to the perspective of the observer. There is no absolute beauty and no absolute ugliness. Kids should be allowed to be kids. I said it before and I'm saying it again, putting kids in beauty pagents only serves to put undue pressure on the kids.

Undue pressure? Walking about with an ugly kid is undue pressure

There is no absolute beauty and no absolute ugliness. All beauty and all ugliness is relative to the perspective of the observer!

NYT? FiFi? Makes one wonder....
What hath domenic wrought?



Ann

alj wrote:

NYT? FiFi? Makes one wonder....
What hath domenic wrought?



Ann

????What does that mean.

Domenic

Hi....

Ohhhhhh, I just love that name Domenic, sounds so
european , I knew a Domenic once, Oh what a man.
Thought I drop in to see what the guys were up to, I
must run , I must do my next act......Oh yes don't
forget to come up and see me some time at the club.


Fi Fi

My BIL and his wife were big into pageants for a long time with their daughter. Or should I say, his wife was. She got my niece into modeling as a baby and she modeled until she was about eight (she's 13 now). Really impressive portfolio -she's been in full-page magazine ads, on product packaging, even on a billboard.

They just trickled off with it, though, as the competitiveness of it all was just too much. It was a positive experience, though, the kids who participate develop poise and confidence.

P. Gordon Kennedy wrote:

There is no absolute beauty and no absolute ugliness. All beauty and all ugliness is relative to the perspective of the observer!

That's really not true. If it were, magazine models and pageant winners wouldn't, to a large extent, all look alike. Sure, personal taste is an issue, but most people are drawn to certain features, like symmetry and height/weight proportion.

The beauty industry isn't the trillion-dollar business it is selling people stuff that will make them look short, fat, and coarse-featured.

So, why do so many magazine models and pageant winners have eating disorders?

Preoccupation with body image is not a good thing.

And not all kids come away with positive experiences. Generally, at that age, they are not in it because it's what they want for themselves, but because of their parents' expectations. They are being exploited.

And how many actually look the way their make-up and air-brushed photos present them?

Ann

Eating disorder is a strawman -the way so many ordinary people are overweight, one could call that an eating disorder, too. Not all models have eating disorders, anyhow, and preoccupation with any ambitious goal isn't a bad thing.

Re exploitation, while there are famous cases of it, I don't believe that parents who foster ambition and high achievement in modeling, sports, or anything else are exploiting their kids. I think more kids could benefit from such exploitation, personally. It beats the ocean of mediocrity that most of us swim in.

It's also my observation that extremely attractive people look that way with or without makeup.