This mother needs professional help and soon.

Don’t they all?

omg!! Poor child:( Do the father approve of this, I wonder . . .

This is beyond sick! Is this the only way that this mother knows how to spend quality time with her daughter? If she feels that its her out there, then she needs to participate on her own and not put her daughter through this. On top of this she uses threats to get the child to do what she has been told (by taking her iPod away), when clearly the girl does not want to practice. The fact that the mother is more concerned with the way she will be seen by the audience (we are on national TV), then what her child wants is sickening. Not to mention that she encourages and forces the protective mechanisms of the child (multiple personalities) is disgusting. In another video showed by GC (the one with the three year old dressed as a prostitute) one of the mothers says that those outfits give the moms a bed rep. It’s not the outfits that give them the bad reputation, it’s the fact that they put their children through extensive hair and make-up procedures, they force tan them in the middle of December, make them wear high heals and get perms, make them wear ridiculous gowns that only portrays the child as being much older the they really are. That is not normal to put a toddler through. Television reports show almost on a daily basis, young children being kidnapped, molested, killed, and the authorities cry out that we need to protect our children, make sure that they do not draw the attention of twisted minds, when in fact pageants and the media attention given to them, only zeros in on these girls and make them easy prays for pedophiles etc. I do not understand why the authorities do not take action? Why don’t they put an age limit for such competitions? I have watched, out of curiosity two or three episodes (never actually managed to watch a whole one) of T&T and have seen children being paraded across a stage when they were a few months old, all dressed up and ready to be exposed. Disgust is not even the proper word to describe what I feel. Pageants are not necessarily a bad thing, when girls/boys are older (above 16 at least), since they have the free will to decide if they actually want this, or how much exposure they receive. But a toddler is depended on its parents and has to bend to their wishes. This is beyond sick and disgusting and shame on the television network that produces and broadcasts such shows. Is there no one out there to see the in these pageants and put a stop to them? Give these children their childhood back and not turn them into shallow, insecure people? This is outrageous!!!

this women clearly has an eating disorder, first off, and what shes doing is child abuse. That poor poor kid. I wanted to cry. I hope this was scripted a bit. I really hope. I cant imagine what she does to her little girl behind closed doors. probably forces her to diet. I wouldnt be surprised. Someone please CALL CPS!!!!!

I am a Dutch viewer and just saw the episode about Carley…I am shocked!!! This is really crazy, and sooo wrong. I sent an email to the producers, I found an address on google. I hope they can give me an answer. I studied Child Behaviour Studies, and here in the Netherlands, I would call Child Protection on this mother!!