As far as Toddlers and Tiaras moms go, this one isn’t as bad as most. She has a son with a two foot rattail, but at least she’s not bleaching her children’s teeth, dressing them up like hookers or giving them Botox and bikini waxes. (That we know of.) Pageant mom Katie tells the camera that she had her two kids, a boy and a girl, specifically so she could put them in pageants. Her son Bob, 6, and daughter Riley, 5, are both little stars and they draw their inspiration from drag queens like RuPaul, according to their mom. They’ve even been to a few drag shows to learn how to be fierce. Well, they’re giving credit where it’s due really. E! has a good recap of last night’s season opener along with a longer clip (honestly I didn’t watch the whole show.):
It’s the holiday season and Toddlers & Tiaras is the gift that keeps on giving.
In the season opener, we meet pageant mom Katie, who tells us: “I had the children so we could do the pageants.”
And where do she and hubby Robert find inspiration for their kids’ talent routines? Why, drag queens, of course!
“We have taken our children to several drag shows,” Katie tells us. “We take a lot of our inspiration from RuPaul. He’s our favorite queen.”
But of course. And kids Bob, 6, and Riley, 5, seem pretty happy with learning how to be fierce. Bob even lets mom glue fake eyelashes on him for fun.
Alas, Katie agreed to her hubby’s nixing of RuPaul as the music selection for Riley’s talent routine, so she is quite upset when another child contestant puts some bass in her walk with Ru’s “Cover Girl.”
Then again, there’s always Lady Gaga, right, Katie? “I’ve had her perform ‘Poker Face’ on the bar at Applebee’s,” she says of daughter Riley, causing the offscreen interviewer to do a double take.
“It’s not like people threw dollars at her or anything,” the mom rationalizes. “She’s not a stripper.”
[From E! Online]
I’ve been to a few drag shows and they may or may not be appropriate for kids. It just depends on if they’re raunchy, campy or both. I like this mom’s attitude, though. She’s like “whatever, the drag queens are fierce, I deliberately had kids to turn them into little mini queens.” I wonder if this is all she does for a living. She probably made her daughter dance on the bar at Applebees so that she could distract everyone while she raided the bartender’s tip jar and stuck a bottle of Smirnoff under her coat.
Before we get all up in arms over this, and people start saying, “PEOPLE NEED TO STOP WATCHING THIS TRASH”….I just have to say…
These shows make me happy because I know that in 10 years when these kids grow up they’ll be needing a therapist…and I’ll be right there waiting for them. Thank you Toddlers and Tiaras for making me always have clients!
Fully respect your comment, but have to say we’re not happy about this stuff and find it incredibly disturbing! From the bits we have seen some of these kids are already on their way to psychotherapy! In 10 years time it will be too late to turn the tide and there you have a ruined life, a child’s life no less, because Mum wanted her 5 minutes!
Oh yeah…but I prefer working with adults so that’s why I like it for the future 🙂 ha. Now if I was really into child psychology then I would be more upset..but a girl has to make a living and pay off graduate loans somehow! (and eventually stop eating hot pockets).
Yup, we’ve been there, done that, lived off hot pots and every sandwich in the book and after between 10 and 25 years paid off our student loans! But! Never let go of the fact that you are dealing with human beings, very vulnerable, emotive human beings – whatever the age. The last thing they need to feel is as though they are your meal ticket, even if it is true (and at the end of the day it is for us all)!
Not a lecture, just experience having seen that scenario explode and the patient win!
Good Luck 🙂
LMAO!
“Bob even lets mom glue fake eyelashes on him for fun”
Speaking about therapy and psychiatrists… Am I the only one who finds that quote disturbing? Looks like this child is sort of being forced into a gender typology without taking his own inclinations into consideration. He may be straight, gay, bi or just feminine, but it seems like none of that matters since mom wants to glue fake lashes on him and make him be “fierce”.
Dammit, I really should have chosen a Psychology major. I would have been set for life, now.
No, you are no alone feeling uncomfortable with that comment.
This show is one of the sickest shows they’ve ever put out there.
You can tell the mom’s are totally trying to live thru their kids with this crap.
Moms? What’s with your apostrophe?
Cheese it! It’s the grammar police!
guess you haven’t been in the stands at a jr high or high school basketball or football game! these pageant moms aren’t the only parents living through their children!
She’s gotta do something cuz those are some tough looking kids – they look just like their mom – fug.
That mum is hideously ugly. Gosh, she looks exactly like a peroxided horse.
WHERE do these people come from? I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Only in America.
thank God they weren’t from West Virginia! We have got enough inbreds here!
She had children specifically to put them in pageants? What is this world coming to?
Selfish people have kids all the time. Nothing new here.
I don’t like the show (well, I’ve never watched it, but I still don’t like it), but she’s got a point. I love drag queens!
Also, calling children “fug” or ugly, or any other rendition of that is just rude. I hope you feel like a bigger, better person now that you’ve gotten that out of your system.
i did like how the boy said his rat tail gave him pageant power. he checked it before he went onstage and said it was filled up! i admit i do watch the show, and while it seems this mom has some issues, she wasn’t bitchy to her kids. i liked how the dad was trying to get the kids to do hulk faces when the judges weren’t watching.
there are some pretty great kids on this show, honestly. it all depends on the parents.
let’s not forget the burning cig in the ashtray in the hotel! who knew you could still do that in a public place!
i don’t even watch this piece of crap i saw a commercial on the learning channel where a mother was grasping her kids’ trophies exclaiming how much she loves trophies. bitch please if you love them so much go take a fencing lesson or bake the best pie in your town or something. why take it out on your kids. it’s not their fault that you have complexes about your inherent shortcomings. i feel sorry for the kids and i hope by a miracle or something they don’t end up having mommy issues
I wonder why God just doesn’t just wipe the human race from the face of the earth? Hope I guess.
Her kids may be cute now but they certainly don’t have good genes in their future… Its gonna be bad when they are ugly, especially the daughter.
I couldn’t care less about children seeing a drag show. Some are R-rated and beyond obviously but not all are.
What bothers me is the comment that she had her children specifically so they can be in pageants. Did I read that wrong? That is the sickest shit I’ve heard in I don’t know how long.
Maybe she was joking? I once said that I had my second child so that I would always be eligible to go in our city’s high-occupancy lanes — to a child psychologist — who laughed uproariously! (Of course that isn’t why I had her.)
At any rate, at least this family gives credit where credit is due to drag queens and pageantry.
exactaly i was kidding, they just edited to make me seem serious
I wish MY mom had done that! Shoooooot.
(It totally explains their ridiculous catwalking, though.)
Sidenote: I’m with Samigirl – can we please stop calling people ugly? Children especially.
I have mixed feelings about the whole toddlers/tiaras thing. Sometimes I think it is OK and then I will turn around and disagree with myself.
I do think it is the mothers who have some mental/emotional problems and are trying to achieve/accomplish something they believe they are lacking but getting it through their children.
Also, I did not know boys competed and have similar shows.
I am just shaking my head today over all this as I really dont know what to think about it. Maybe the rest of the posters can help me decide! (CELEBITCHY – we need smilies – can we have them on this site – yes they are somewhat childish but, hey, so am I!!)
We had a smiley plugin, but then it messed up and made all the comments go into moderation. I’m not sure why. I think that we do have smilies though that just come through when you make one manually. I’ll test it. 😎
-edit- that worked. Just make a manual smiley and it will make an icon of it for you.
TLC’s going to burn in Hell for this!
The mother says: “Don’t worry about what other people think. Because what other people think is none of your business.”
Ummmm, you’re in a pageant to be judged…on how you look. Mixed message?
Favorite line from CB: She probably made her daughter dance on the bar at Applebees so that she could distract everyone while she raided the bartender’s tip jar and stuck a bottle of Smirnoff under her coat. 🙂
I really think that CPS or someone needs to investigate the mental welfare of these parents. My mom had me in a couple of baby pageants when I was little, but they were nothing like this. We wore a cute dress or suit, sang a song if we could and then went back to this side. It wasn’t this insane. I feel bad for these kids, because they don’t even realize that they’re messed up.
These two do not belong in pageants, the looks just aren’t there. Their Mom is wacked.
they have been in pageants all their lives and they have won a great many of them, this was their first full glitz and we still had to work out the kinks, but riley got ultimate grand supreme at the next one she did!
Oh so you are the mom? Well let me tell you something mom…your children while they seemed like total sweethearts could never compete against the big wigs in these things. You had them so incredibly unprepared they didn’t know what to do. You said you try to make your house look like it is out of a magazine? Your house was full of clutter and beat up furniture. Your son struggled with 4 year old phonics and he’s what, 6?
Your daughter is adorable and I love her spunk. At least her outfits “fit”..Bob’s were horrible, cheaply made, and way too big on him.
Thanks for the laughs, though.
@lisa:
what’s with the pot shots at katie’s home and her child’s struggle with phonics? that was completely rude and unnecessary.
When I was five I used to dance on the tables of a Bob’s Big Boy to Michael Jackson songs….it does make you feel like a sexy b*tch.
Make any money off it? 😛
I feel sorry for these poor kids. Do they ever win? Yet another wacked out show from TLC exploiting yet more children. TLC just has no shame. People are crazy these days and so hungry for fame.
I think its funny how people freak out and are all shocked over these shows: Todddlers’, Sister Wives, the Duggar’s show…These people have been around for awhile.
They didn’t just all spring up out of nowhere.
Our jaws were in our laps last night watching this episode.
Bob/Riley- what unfortunate looking children. Riley was somewhat cute but I totally picture her growing up to be like Avril Lavigne full of angst and pent up frustration. When she said she was afraid a teacher would throw her in a locker with rats, bats, and vampires I had to wonder just WHERE IS SHE GETTING THAT IDEA? Kids don’t grow up naturally fearing TEACHERS. Someone put that in that little girls head. Bob didn’t even need the elf costume as he looked like an elf anyway.
Anna Maria- This girls mother is ruining her. She already has a terrible attitude and she’s only 9. Sad.
Laila- I thought she was sweet and cute but obviously was not as into all this as her mother is. I hate, hate, hate seeing the kids who are scared to death on stage. Poor thing.
I LOVE RUPAUL!! Drag Queens for the win!!
LeeAnn Rimes’mother? oh yes, for sure. It’s the family jaw…
That’s his Jedi padawan braid. It helps him channel the force to influence the judges. (I stopped watching after he started talking about his braid making him king of pageants. He’s a cutie-pie and I didn’t want to want anymore.)
Nothing but fodder for pedophiles. Sick.
Normally I disagree, because ANYTHING is fodder for pedophiles, but this show pretty much hands it to them. So creepy. Any time I find myself watching it, I’m always hiding my eyes when the kids start gyrating and slapping their asses because I feel like the FBI could show up at my door any second.
Dear god, all the mothers on this show are such fat, cornfed slobs.
I thought I was the only one that noticed that these fugly psycho heffer mommas are ginormous white trash pigs iving vicariously through these girls. These girls better enjoy it while they can if their mothers are any predictor of what the future holds for them!
Whatever happened to TLC? It used to be such a nice station with shows like Trading Spaces, Wedding Story, Baby Story, etc. Now it’s got nothing but child exploitation and polygamy and cultish religions. Uber Fail to TLC.
Bob and Riley’s mom is an example of why homeschooling should be abolished.
OKAY first of all beauty teaches a child self confidence UNLIKE THESE KIDS HAVE NOW AND DAYS why look at it in a negative way!? Yes parents do go over board but that’s them you canT say that all beauty pagents are wrong BUT I do feel like some parents take it to seriously but also the kid gets something out of it YOU PEOPLE WHO LOOK AT IT IN A NEGATIVE WAY ARE PERVS KIDS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN ISENT FOOTBALL CONSIDERED A GAY SPORT SHOULD WE TAKE THAT OFF AIR!? you need to look on the brought side sometimes it’s not all about being grown yes some parents take it seriously but oh well thats them you can’t say the whole show is bad because of some wanna be grown kids it’s not like they grown so why are you sitting here looking at it in a pedophile way!? I mean kids needs self confidence and need to learn how to perform and feel beautiful they have just as much confidence as you will ver have in your life!
ok, it’s not nice to call little children ugly… I totally agree with that. Let’s just say that both parents look absolutely hideous. Enough said. I found some of the mother’s comments quite disturbing, like “I was upset when I found out I was carrying a boy. I actually had these children so we could do pageants together. But then I found out that boys can do pageants, so that’s all right”. :-/