Like most parents in the growing Australian child beauty pageant industry, Swift believes she is unfairly stigmatised because of the reality-TV series Toddlers & Tiaras (screened here on Foxtel).

In the 2000s, TLC had taken a heavy focus on reality TV and in 2009, the massive subculture of child beauty pageants caught their attention. Toddlers & Tiaras presented itself as more of a ...