Sadly, I have finished every available episode of Toddlers and Tiaras on Netflix. {Sad face.} I must confess, I loved every. single. minute. I can’t wait until the next season is available on Netflix!
I wasn’t just entertained by T&T, I was educated. And because I love you, my dear readers, so very much, I am going to share with you, the top ten gems of knowledge I gleaned from three heart-stopping seasons of Toddlers & Tiaras. Here goes!
1) If your daughter’s name is Kayleigh (many, many spellings), Kylee, or anything that rhymes with those two names, she will do well in pageants. Keep that in mind, pregos of the world.
2) People who like to put their daughters in pageants also like to give their daughters crazy-a$$ names like “Cealy” and “Salee” (pronounced See-lee and Say-lee). (These two girls were of course BEST FRIENDS, also.) Listen people, if “Cealy” or “Salee” was not your mother’s maiden name, or your maiden name, YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS NAMING YOUR KID THAT. It’s just ridiculous. Quit making up names! (I’m talking to you, mother of Sparkal Queenz.)
3) Many three-year-old “divas” will scream and cry when you glue fake eyelashes onto them and pierce their scalps with hairpins. WEIRD!! Also, they don’t like getting their eyebrows plucked. Wusses.
4) Pageant moms are either a) crazy b) their child’s slaves or c) living vicariously through their daughters. Although I am not sure why they would want to wear a short, 70-pound dress covered in heavy stones with six petticoats, a weave, fake eyelashes, and fake teeth, but…THEY DO.
5) If you let your four-year-old throw screaming fits during her sessions with her pageant coach and use a pacifier, she will NOT do well in pageants. But, she will still be your princess. And, her failure to succeed will always be the judges fault.
6) If you dress your daughter like a slutty pop star for the talent competition, she will do well. Even if she is a two-year-old in a Madonna-esque cone bra bustier. Yay for YOU!
7) Spray tanning a dancing four-year-old is “challenging”.
8 ) When a pageant mom sees her five-year-old onstage dressed up like a twenty-five-year-old (in a short dress), she will cry. Because apparently that’s touching?
9) Every pageant mom thinks her daughter stands out in a crowd because of her “personality”. Every. Last. One. Also, their personalities all SHINE when they’re onstage. SHINE, I tell you!
10) All the judges are looking for the “total package”. What is the total package? It’s like, the total package. DUH.
Share the wealth! What have YOU learned from watching all those pageant princesses?