“It doesn’t matter if you can breathe or not. It matters if it looks good,” said a mother of a beauty pageant child. “Child beauty pageant have gained in popularity in recent years. Currently, more than 5.000 child pageants are held annually in the U.S., amounting to a $5 billion industry (Child Beauty Pageants).
Here are 7 truths of child beauty pageants that are scary and sad at the same moment….
1. Unregulated by Law
All beauty pageants have internal structures and are regulated by specific guidelines. There are few laws for child beauty pageants, but most states have no laws at all for this topic. In some states, for example Wisconsin and South Dakota, there are cautions for parents and if they go with her child …show more content…
The World Health Organization defines a healthy BMI for women as between 20 and 25; those with a BMI under 20 are considered undernourished. (Are beauty pageants beneficial for women and society?) Children who attend pageants mostly get eating disorders.
7. The Sexualisation of Girls
Opponents of child pageants believe the events promote the hypersexualization of little girls who do not customarily wear makeup, bejeweled evening wear or manicured acrylic nails. Those critics thus deem pageants grotesque and nearly pornographic in the way they encourage little girls to act far older than their years. Documentarian Treays has called pageants "bizarre contests in which children are painted and pompadoured to look like mini-hookers."
At the end, children should concentrate on things for their age, for example to build friendships, and they should have a jauntily childhood.
Beauty competitions is not in the best interest of children and their parents because parents have to pay everything and the risk that the own child get a disorder or is aggrieved for the rest of their life is very