I. Introduction
A. It’s 5:00 p.m. on Friday, and a little girl and her mom have finished with the first of three long days. As the little girl walks off the stage empty handed, she looks at her mom with teary eyes as if she has failed both herself and her mom. Many children like this little girl , are forced into beauty pageants each year. All this girl sees are other children leaving the stage with a sparkling trophy and their parents running over and giving them a big hug while she walks off the stage with nothing and she sees her parents turning away.
Striving to be a beauty queen is a danger to the physical and mental health of our young girls today. Today i will tell you why beauty pageants are harmful and what girls do to become the next beauty queen, and at what cost?
II. Body
A. Facts
1. Child beauty pageants began in the 1960’s as a tourist attraction.
2. Child beauty pageants consist of modeling sportswear & bikinis, evening attire, dance and talent.
3. The children are judged based on individuality in looks, perfection, and confidence
B. Preparation
1 All family members go through financial and emotional stress.
Some mothers lie about their child’s age.
2 Costs – There is a minimum cost of $545 to enter the pageant. Another $395 is needed for the maximum options of this pageant. The average cost of the pageant is about $655 which includes the formal wear, sports wear and dance. The average cost does not include travel, hotel and food, which can be up to an extra two hundred dollars. According to several stage mothers participating in Universal Royalty, dresses for sports and formal wear can cost up to $12,000 with a minimum of $1500. All for a slim chance of winning.
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3 Rigorous training up to 9 hours a week, With all of the time that the child is putting into practicing and reciting, she has very little time to play with the other children school work and learn life skills. Also if children are spending so much time on pageants, they are missing out on years of childhood activities such as trick or treating and Easter egg hunting because they are too busy watching their figures
C. Self Esteem
1. Makeup- It gives girls the impression that there is only one definition of beauty and that without make-up this ideal is unattainable. This is not helping to strengthen our girls, its making them dependent upon an artificial form of happiness and In these pageants
2 Depression- 9 out of 10 girls age 14 and 15 claim to have suffered depression with 6% saying life just is not worth living. Top sources of what produced this feeling was pressure to look good, that’s 94% of our girls trying to fit into the beauty queen image.
Those who are mentally not strong enough, might not be able to bear the pain of losing and not achieving what they want. This can lead them to go in depression. Those who won, might become snobbish and over confident, paying no heed to others.
Alison, age 13, relates the profound disappointment she felt in losing an important contest. “I don’t know what I wanted to do, I just felt so bad. One judge killed me. It’s like she just took a gun and went – BOOM! That’s what they do. One judge can tear you up. They can tear you up.”
3 Eating Disorders A fat girl never wins a pageant. Although regular kids may experience this same sort of issue in school, it’s magnified times ten in these pageants. In our society 15% of young women have some kind of disordered eating patterns. (Random House).
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Miss America 2008 is a recovering anorexic. Who is to blame? Beauty pageants are guilty because of what they promote. More and more these days, children develop eating disorders because they feel that their body is not perfect. The girls in pageants will do anything to get to the perfect size including starting such habits as bulimia and anorexia
III. Conclusion
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Christman, Michelle, and Dawn Schaupert. “The Agony and Defeat of Children’s
Beauty Pageants” Family Saurus.com. Feb. 1996. 12 Dec. 2001.
