"Toddler beauty pageants set a superficial expectation about what makes someone beautiful – that beauty is primarily about your pose, your smile, your hair, and the clothes you wear.

In the TLC network's 'Toddlers and Tiaras' pageant world, kids are dolled up, even spray tanned for beauty pageants. They are coached to look and move – in some cases – like miniature women.

Glitz pageants are a multibillion-dollar business now, having exploded since Toddlers & Tiaras came on in 2009, says Cartwright, a registered dietitian who started researching pageants as a result ...

Behind the scenes with toddlers, tiaras, tantrums and tough competition. Aug. 11, 2009— -- The Texas State Beauty Pageant in Austin, Texas, is home to pint-size beauty queens with big ...

Toddlers & Tiaras is back for Season 7, as two camps of child beauty pageant contestants — Cambrie's Court and the Sassy Supremes — get ready for a clash.

The French Senate votes to ban child beauty pageants for kids under the age of 16. Should the U.S. outlaw them too?

Toddlers and Tiaras is a televised beauty pageant for very young children which appears weekly ironically on The Learning Channel. The Web site for the show describes it this way: "On any given ...

Child Beauty Pageant Dreams Crushed: Toddlers & Tiaras — The Show That Created Honey Boo Boo & Eden Wood — Canceled! atereszcuk. Oct. 3 2013, Published 12:16 p.m. ET.

Temper tantrums, fame-seeking moms and sexy costumes are all part of the recipe that makes “Toddlers & Tiaras” one of the most controversial shows on TV. But much of the drama is manufactured … ...

Laila also is learning to speak Spanish, her mother said. As she learns, Roberts hopes the pageants build Laila's self-confidence. Founded in Florida in 1978, the Sunburst Beauty Pageant has ...

'Toddlers & Tiaras' moms worried child beauty pageants can be used against them in custody cases By Fox News Published August 24, 2012 8:54am EDT | Updated April 13, 2016 10:48am EDT ...

But now, the 19-year-old is prepping for photo shoots and musicals, not beauty pageants. The Selden, NY, resident is returning to screens on January 21 in “Toddlers in Tiaras: Where Are They Now?” ...