Toddlers & Tiaras

Sometimes i utterly despair of what the younger generation are aspiring to be and things they say regarding looks / weight - when i say younger generation i am talking about the pre-teens. 

I have just read this article : 'Facial beauty is the most important thing in life'
Basically an 8 year old pageant queen has been filmed infront of cameras for the US tv show Toddlers & Tiaras saying:

'If you think your kid is ugly or something, you might not want to do pageants because you're not going to win or anything.'

 I just think it is a complete sad state of affairs when an 8 year old girl believe that to go anywhere in life you have to be attractive and do pageants!  Obviously you have to question the parents in all of this too, as of course she won't know any better since she will have been brought up in the pageant lifestyle and around the film crews when doing them.

Although i have to admit i find the whole toddler beauty pageant thing rather bizarre, it's kind of a bit wrong in my opinion to 'doll' all these young girls up (most around 5 years old i believe) in fake tan and make up! It's kind of instilling in them from a young age that they need to wear make up to get somewhere in life - which is exactly what this young girl has proven that it is doing.

 xoxo