There are hair extensions, but it’s more of a natural glitz than a complete glammed-over glitz. There will be some spray-tanning here, but it’s very minimal. They don’t rely so much on flippers and all that stuff. I think, in general, the Northeast is a different pageant system. Now that I have two little ones, a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old - my oldest just won a title last month, and we’re doing another with the youngest this month. When I won Miss Vermont in ‘94, my whole family got to go to Florida.
The biggest thing for my mom was getting me out of my shyness. My mom was never one of those crazy pageant moms that you see on TV, that has to pump me with Mountain Dew.
I was excited because I got a crown and sash, and wanted to keep going. I was really, really shy growing up, especially at the age of 7, but I ended up first runner-up at my first pageant and Miss Hospitality at my second. Tamara Tobin, 29, student in Colchester, Vermontįifteen pageant titles from ages 7 to 16, including Miss Vermont Junior Queen and Miss Autumn Fest. The moms want it as much as the daughters.ģ. From the makeup to the dress to the spray tan, you’re in it to win it. You practice every week - you eat, sleep, and breathe pageantry. I know this because I now do hair and makeup for pageants for all ages. We Louisianans take our pageants very seriously. My mother participated in one pageant that I know of. I just enjoyed - I know that sounds very odd - but I enjoyed interviewing and telling my story and speaking about suicide awareness.
It allowed me to tell my part of the story, the child’s side of what happens when a parent commits suicide, and the more I talked about it, the better I felt. Getting into the pageant world brought me out of that shell. After my mother committed suicide, I was very antisocial. When I was 10, my mother committed suicide, so my platform was suicide awareness. I started again at 14, and I’ve done at least one a year, up until last year. My mother passed away when I was 10, and that’s who I did my pageants with, because of course Dad’s not going to. I did them from 3 to 7 years old, then stopped. Robbie Meshell, 27, hairstylist and makeup artist in Shreveport, Louisianaġ00-plus pageants from ages 3 to 7 and 14 to 27, including Miss Louisiana Elite USA 2011. There was a whole group of black girls who did the competition together, like as a community, and we would party, have so much fun.Ģ. Those were the girls who won, like, Best Community Leadership and volunteer awards. It was probably half black girls, then a quarter suburban white girls, and then super-podunk back-country girls. There were a lot of really fabulous black girls. And I always befriended the awkward girls, and those girls voted for Best Personality. But the only awards she didn’t win were the ones I took from her. She won the all-around, the most promising model, the talent, the speech category. She had, like, a fucking bridal dress on. And Mindy Rick, like, swept the competition.
Let me teach you the walk.” She bugged me so bad, but I was thankful for her.
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And to me, she was all like, “Well, Marly, I just don’t think you know how to do the walk. So I’d never done a pageant before, and the girl next to me - I was Marly Ramstad, and she was Mindy Rick - Mindy Rick had done the American Coed Pageant since she was, like, young enough to do it, for-fucking-ever. I love pretty dresses I went to prom like nine times when I was in high school. At the time, though, it just felt like something fun to do. Looking back, doing the pageant was a self-esteem thing - I wanted so badly to be pretty and perfect that if I won, then that would confirm my perfect figure, perfect weight. All I remember that summer was eating tomatoes. I got a brochure in the mail and was like, Oh, this looks like fun. Petersburg, FloridaĪmerican Coed Pageants, 1998, age 14: Miss Teen Photogenic, Best Personality. (Of course, this may be informed by the fact that I placed.) But was I the norm or the anomaly? To find out, I interviewed adult alumnae of child pageants about how they feel about it in retrospect - and reconsidered my own experience.ġ. And no feminist is more agog than I am to report that my pageant experience was generally positive. I arrive at this question a little defensively because I am myself the alumna of one child pageant: I placed second runner-up in Miss Preteen Minneapolis 1996. It’s the same way I feel when I watch Toddlers and Tiaras, where hyperprojecting mothers bitch-slap sequins onto eager-to-please daughters, inviting the viewer to wonder, What train wreck of adulthood lies ahead for America’s Honey Boo Boos? After fifteen minutes of Go Go Juice and pageant tantrums, I had to turn it off - not because I disapproved of the Thompson-Shannon family, but because I resented that the show wanted me to disapprove of them. I should be honest: I couldn’t watch Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
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