Mother/daughter pageant with Traci P and daughter Alexa
I watch this program for the sheer entertainment factor. Why aren't these people smart enough to realize that they are being made fun of at the expense of innocent children? I just watched this episode and thought about looking up Traci's phone number so that I could talk some sense into this woman! It was so painfully obvious that Traci was forcing her daughter Alexa to compete in these pageants while vicariouly living through her daughter. Traci needs to realize that her pageant days are over and she shouldn't force her desire for pageantry on her innocent daughter who obviously is only doing it to please her mother! There are more positive ways to interact and bond with a child than to teach her that beauty reigns over brains! This is so evident from the shows title and the fact that you and Alexa won the competition. If anything, the mother/daughter team with Kendall should have won for the simple fact that they were 100% themselves while the fakeness of Traci (boobs, lips, personality, etc.) won over the judges. Why do we continue to send this superficial message to our daughters??? Try competing in academics for goodness sakes. Your looks only take you so far and hopefully you get there honestly! All beauty pageants should be banned for just sending the wrong message.
Too bad that you did not start your "pageantry" until you were older, if you had competed as a child, maybe you would not put your daughter through this. It appeared as if Alexa hated it! You were so harsh and mean to her it absolutely broke my heart. Yes, she seems like a lovely young lady that could be happy with doing well in academics and sports, not some pageant based on superficial beauty.
I am speaking from experience, these pageants will ruin your daughter. Growing up I had a very close friend whose mother forced her to do them too. She was highly successful, making it to first runner up to our state's rep for the Miss America pageant. This poor girl became bulimic, an alcoholic, and a drug addict. She grew to hate her mother, moved away and cut off contact with her. She died almost 9 years ago, HIV positive, an addict, and without talking to her mother for many years. She committed suicide. Several years before she told me she blamed the way she turned out on her mother's pushing her into these type of things. I hope you think hard about what you are doing to your daughter.
Wow. You are in such denial about your daughter and HER desire to be in these superficial and ultimately degrading to women beauty pageants. I could tell she is a sweet girl which is why I've never blogged about anything until I saw this show. I hope she stays sweet and doesn't go beyond what is needed to win like developing an eating disorder just because she wanted to please her mother.
My 12 year old daughter is an all A honor student and recently was sent a letter to participate in a local beauty pageant. But as a parent using my common sense, it is my responsibility to lead my child down a path of positivity. THEY'RE CHILDREN!! There is absolutely nothing positive about the message that is sent from these pageants. You and your daughter won on looks alone and if that's o.k. with you, then so be it. Again, it's just a continuation of negative images presented to our daughters by this show and others that sex sells.
Try asking yourself why gymnastics and basketball isn't enought for you. And then ask Alexa if it's enought for her.
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PLEASE MAKE NOTE THAT ALEXA WANTED TO BE IN THE SHOW--- we had to audition to even get asked... I happen to know Alexa very well as she is my daughter. She is an a-b student, gymnast, basketball player and very sweet child. She also happens to be beautiful as well. Brains and beauty do take you far in life, as well as being a nice person! I have been involved with charity work for over 20 years and have only been doing pageants regularly as an adult at age 36. As far as my pageant days being over, I am still having fun doing them and WINNING. And, Alexa has done 2 more. We truly enjoy the friends we have made through pageantry...as a matter of fact one thing you do not know is Rhonda and I are good friends..no one can really tell that in the show. FYI- Remember I am a personal trainer so I do work hard for my body, but I have nursed 4 children so the girls went south.... I am the same size bra I was before children.. ask anyone who knew me in highschool.(HA) Alexa was shy and over whelmed when we were shooting, but now has come out of her shell. She is almost 9 now and that was shot when she was
7 1/2. I make no bones about being competitve. I am! I know it comes across very harsh and I don't like that. Just know it was shot over 12 days of our lives and you got what the producers wanted you to see. Their were lots of fun family moments on the cutting room floor. It makes good reality TV... that is their job...look for us in Season 2 you won't be disappointed. Peace..