Toddlers & Tiaras: Stop Exploiting Baby Girls
- by: Angie E.
- recipient: Eileen O'Neil, Group President of TLC
Julia Roberts looks fine in a tight, blue miniskirt and black thigh-high boots - but she was 23 when she wore them.
TLC's hit show, Toddlers and Tiaras, aired footage of a three-year old wearing the same outfit (complete with blond wig) and strutting her little stuff across the stage in a pageant. She won, too - the title of "Grand Supreme" for her age group.
Exploiting and sexualizing tiny girls is never OK. It sends the public a message that says your value mainly lies in how you look - and that it's acceptable to make kids seem like tiny adults. One pageant mom puts fake breasts and a stuffed bottom on her toddler daughter to make her more voluptuous while TLC rakes in the dough from advertisers.
Sign our petition to get TLC to take this exploitative and twisted show off the air - no one should make money trafficking in the sexualization of little girls.
Please take Toddlers and Tiaras off TLC. Once a respectable network, TLC is a place people go to learn -- and Toddlers and Tiaras teaches the American public that a person's value lies in how attractive and sexy they are, even if they are three years old.
Stay true to Discovery's statement "Dedicated to making a difference where we live and where we work." Make a difference for young people all over the country by promoting healthy self-images, not sexualizing little girls.
