Toddlers & Tiaras’ Eden Wood, 7, is super rude to Wendy Williams


Little Eden Wood, now 7, was the breakout star of TLC’s sobering look into the world of child pageantry, Toddlers & Tiaras. We covered this child last fall, when it came out that her parents had spent over $150k, and taken out a second mortgage on their home, to make Eden a star. Eden is getting a spinoff show on Logo called Eden’s World. The premise is that she and her mother will be mentoring other would-be child beauty queens. As part of that she did a promotional appearance on The Wendy Williams show that I found a little appalling. (Video is above.) Eden repeatedly talked back to Wendy and gave her a lot of attitude, questioning whether Wendy’s hair was real and asking her not to sing her song. Here’s more, thanks to Radar:

Former pageant queen turned wannabe singer Eden Wood turned out in all of her glory for an appearance on the Wendy Williams show Monday, and RadarOnline.com has video.

The seven-year-old starlet was in a full face of make-up and a head full of hair extensions to promote her new reality show Eden’s World but called the talk show host out on her own fake hair.

“Do I recognize extensions in your hair?” Wendy dared to ask the audacious youngster.

“What about your hair?” Eden cheekily quipped to laughter from the audience before Wendy admitted, “It’s a full wig.”

“Oh yeah baby,” Eden said on her desire to be a pop star and when Wendy started to do her rendition of Eden’s song Cutie Patootie, the bubbly blonde snapped back, “Oh please don’t sing it.”

Eden said that her new reality show is about “helping other kids get to the top of pageantry. So I’m going to Kentucky, Japan, all over. And it’s really fun for me because I love helping other kids.”

Eden then strutted her sassy stuff in front of the “diva fan” and “worked it” in her over-the-top pink outfit.

The Toddlers & Tiaras star recently announced that she was retiring from being in pageants to focus on her other endeavors.

[From Radar Online]

I have a kid who is also seven. Since he was old enough to understand, I have tried to teach him to be respectful, to say “please” and “thank you” and to be thoughtful and kind. (I could gush about what a great kid he is, but all of us who are parents can do that!) I don’t know when I got to be such a mom, but this little girl’s attitude and sense of entitlement are outrageous. She needs to mind her manners. It’s not her fault. Before she was potty trained she was taught that she was special and that she was better than other kids. She’s been trained to dance and act provocatively, despite not being old enough to understand it at all. Now she even has her own show. Her arrogant, ignorant parents are probably so proud. All the cash they sunk into their little moneymaker is starting to pay off.

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  1. Astrid says:

    This is soooo wrong – don’t even get me started.

    • Molly says:

      That poor little girl is going the Lindsay Lohan route. It’ll probably be meth since she’s a Southerner.

    • a twenty-something says:

      I do believe this little girl’s attitude was suppose to be cute, but just came off as rude. I do not necessary like the whole belief on this thread that children are somehow ‘ruder’ today than in the past. The rudeness displayed is just more visible with the advent of reality television.
      I am however thankful to my parents for insisting that my brother and I be polite. Now I do not think about saying thank you or please or sir or ma’am; I am just polite automatically

  2. hollah says:

    Look at the mom beaming after her pride and joy acts like a little brat.

    I had to laugh when the mom blocked the little girl’s shoes with her own on the shoe cam.

  3. Dibba says:

    Should be against the law to sell your child for money. The parents should be ashamed of themselves, but I am sure they are not.

    • d says:

      Completely agree…not sure about the states, but here in the UK you have to have a licence to own an exotic pet, yet people like this girl’s parents are allowed to procreate willy nilly. I despair for the future.

    • lola lola says:

      You took the words out of my mouth. The parents should be grounded forever.

    • Carolyn says:

      Words fail me.

  4. serena says:

    The little girl is really cute and funny (but with no manners), and I think she could be famous even without all that make up, frilly dresses and such. It’s a shame..to have parents like that, but it could be much worse.

  5. Elizabeth says:

    This kid has no chance for a normal life ever. This type of childhood doesn’t seem to prepare her for anything other than getting married and doing the same thing to her child. Rude, self-centered children are not happy children because there is no satisfying them. So sad for the horrid child.

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      Oops. Double post!

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      Yep. Instead of encouraging their child to get an MD or a Ph.D., they’re preparing her for her MRS. Way to focus on what’s important mom and dad!

    • karisma says:

      I wouldn’t even say that! It takes more to be a Mrs. than parading around in frilly dresses. (as a Mrs. in jeans, I’d know!) These pageants prepare these kids for DISAPPOINTMENT and that’s about it. Unless you’re good enough to make it to being Miss America, it’s not a career. Most of them will wind up disaffected and longing for the days when they were treated well by parents who won’t care once these little girls aren’t dress-up dolls anymore.

  6. paola says:

    Creepy things happen to kids already, with no publicity, do we really need to focus the attention on blonde little girls playing grownups with make up and heels?!
    i know i don’t! after watching these pics all i want is to kick her mother in the butt with some pointy boots.

  7. Princess Lizabeth says:

    Grrrrrrrrrr.

    Why this sort of thing is even allowed on TV is beyond me. It seems like it should be illegal.

  8. Anastasia says:

    Ok I’m getting her mixed up with the kid who has the mom who is REALLY hideous looking and has that giant second chin. Honey Boo Boo Child or something? So I was expecting a different mom.

    And yes, that kid is RUDE. People might think it’s cute(ish) now, but in a few years, that is NOT going to be even remotely cute. She’s just going to be another entitled, snotty teen brat, raised badly by her parents. And then society will have to knock her down a peg or two and it won’t be pretty.

    • Lisa says:

      weird question: Are you the same Anastasia who comments on Skinny vs. Curvy? If so, the internet is smaller than I thought.

  9. Eleonor says:

    This is so wrong to me…and god look at Britney and Lindsay, and every other star who has spent the childood working for their parents on tv or music, they turned out as a mess.

  10. marie says:

    disgusting..she is going to be uncontrollable by the time she hits puberty, she’ll out Lohan Lindsay..

  11. LeeLee says:

    My youngest is 7. While on vacation last week, more than one person complimented the manners of all 3 of my sons. I think whiney, entitled brats are the norm now. Really sad.

    • DeltaJuliet says:

      I think you’re right…..my son also gets compliments on his manner all the time (he’s 8). And while I’m glad people appreciate that he’s being raised well, it also upsets me to think that it should be the norm but it’s not! Not even close.

      • polk8dot says:

        I am really happy and proud for both of you – you have evidently done a great job raising your kids.
        But it is a terrible state of the world when the kids/parents are being complemented on something that used to be, and always should be, the standard of behavior. I long for the days when you did a doubletake after some kid was going ballistic on their parents. Now that is accepted if not expected, and people do a doubletake when they hear a kid’s ‘please’ and ‘thank you’.
        World’s gone to hell in a handbasket already….
        As for this future monster, she has absolutely no hope of ending up well in life. Instead of focusing on starting school, getting an education, all she can talk/think of is ‘her show’ and clearly her favorite subject – herself. With the entitlement already so rampant in her, can you imagine her listening to a teacher? With her penchant for backtalk? Too bad that Mom seems to be as oblivious as the brat to the facts of life – beauty fades, childhood cuteness washes off, dumb and rude are forever. And I also think it is just a matter of time before she develops severe self image issues, and starts frequenting a plastic surgeon’s office by the time she’s in her teens. God knows the dumb mother would not see anything wrong with that.
        This just makes me physicall ill, watching and listening to the little brat with the ‘I’m God’s gift to all of you, ain’t I fantastic?’ attitude.

  12. autumndaze says:

    This will not end well…….

  13. lucy2 says:

    The parents are monsters, and are turning her into one. I’m horrified this show still exists, and that people are giving them even more opportunities.

  14. Masque says:

    She reminds me of Claudia from Interview With A Vampire. I thought she was creepy but this real life version is 100 times worse.

  15. Cathy says:

    Her parents both need a swift kick in the @ss. They’re ruining this child. I think what they are doing is a form of child neglect, and they should be charged with it.

  16. LMS says:

    Planet Hollywood still exists?

  17. Samigirl says:

    The thought that my daughter (who isn’t even here yet) would EVER act like that gives me heart palpatations! Absolutely frickin not. What kind of parent encourages that much rudeness? Makes me want to bang my head against a wall!

    • Veruca says:

      Young lady, you are in no condition to do those things! (Hope you’re feeling ok, too)

      It is so maddening to see kids exploited in this way. It’s rare that I read every post and agree with every negative thing being said, but in this case — it applies.

    • Mr.Smurf says:

      If I had even called a grown woman “girl”, and talked to her like I was her friend, my mom would smack that out of me so fast. It may seem cute now, but in a few years that girl’s gonna be out of control. I can just imagine what she’s going to do by 18.

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      When is that baby going to get here Sami? 😜

    • Samigirl says:

      I’m feeling (mostly) great, thanks! Looking forward to Maternity leave (May 4 is my last day), and looking even more forward to little miss getting here. I’ve got 29 days until my due date! EEK!

  18. Schnauzers!!! says:

    Her mom really should be a parent.

  19. Chell says:

    The parents need to be shot! This little girl is gonna grow up to be a cracked out, famewhore!
    Stories like this make me sick to my stomach & I now hate myslef for even reading it…

  20. Mimi says:

    I didn’t really have an issue with the way that she spoke to Wendy. I think she was just being funny and not intentionally rude. My problem was with how coached she is. She was definitely told what to say and when. Also not a fan of putting a child in the “bread winner” position. Not cool.

    • MayaMae says:

      I agree. She was being “country cute”, so people could laugh at the hillbilly. But everything she said had been coached by her mother, “right baby?”

  21. bondbabe says:

    Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!! Talk about pedophile paradise….

    • Dany says:

      Agreed. These were my first thoughts. What kind of mothers would raise their daughters to be a sobbering pedophile’s imaginary real doll?! These contests are so wrong and should be banned.

      • wunder says:

        Uh, the kind of mothers who need some serious psychotherapy in order to work out thier OWN past childhood issues.

        These so-called ‘moms’ are acting out thier unresolved psychological problems by projecting them on thier innocent daughters who are treated as extensions of thier wounded selves.

  22. j says:

    The lack of manners is annoying, but the real issue is the sexualization of young children. This whole subculture is disgusting and wrong.

  23. kazoo says:

    creepy ass kid.

    • 5280 says:

      And the term snot-nosed-brat comes to mind.

    • Deb says:

      If you really want to see something creepy, Google this girl and take alook at some of the heavily retouched photos of her. She looks like a plastic love doll.

  24. fabgrrl says:

    Yikes! Nothing wrong with teaching your kid that s/he is special, but I will not tolerate children being rude to adults! So far, my little boy is quite well mannered in public – inquisitive and talkative but polite. He saves his sass for home.

  25. Lady LaLa says:

    OMG I just fast-forwarded 10 years and burst into tears…I feel sick

    • Lari says:

      In ten years…this will be the new Courtney Sodoneon…whatever the hell that girl’s name is. The 16 year old who married that 50 year old!

  26. dahlianoir says:

    A women helped me with all my luggages in the airport and my two year old son told her ” thank you for mommy”. Manners come from parents and this kid is CLEARLY Lohan material.

    • Lissa says:

      Awwww… I think I would picked him up and kissed him! Or I would have really wanted to!!!

      • dahlianoir says:

        Thanks! I won’t say he’s my best accomplishment because I’m no pageant mom but I’m pretty proud when he behaves. His chocolate handprints on the wall is another story though loool

  27. Blondey says:

    Logo should be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating this exploitation.

  28. randand00 says:

    Here’s the deal…Eden looks JUST LIKE HER mother (down to her smirky mouth). And while she is an adorable baby girl at the moment (less make-up PLEASE!!!), it’s easy to see how she will look as an adult simply by looking at her mother. At which point, the money train ends, because pageants are out of the question. God help them. And bless their hearts… Sad. As my Momma used to say (God rest her soul), “Pretty is as pretty DOES” – and there’s nothing very pretty about this mother/daughter duo.

  29. Ell says:

    Hey, did you see Mum pulling the string out of her back every time she spoke. I always wanted a doll like that;)

    Seriously, I can’t believe people are clapping and cheering this mind blowing sh*t.

  30. crazymary says:

    Will I go directly to hell for saying that this kid will forever have “fat face”? You know those girls/women that no matter how skinny their bodies are, they still have the fat girl face all the time.

    That’s her. Fat Face Kid.

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      Yep. Like Kelly “moon face” Osborne.

    • Lisa says:

      Word. I didn’t want to be the one to say it.

    • polk8dot says:

      You took these words right out of my mouth. This brat will be running to the plastic surgeon’s office by the time she’s in her teens, and the moron mom will be holding the door for her. Once all this make-up is off, the hair extensions out, and the puberty hits, she will be hating life just like any regular teenager. Only she will have much farther too fall, since she built her ‘life/career’ on her ‘beauty’, and apparently beauty is all she values and aspires to. Probably will end up in rehab by 12 years old, and preggers at 15.

  31. tru tru says:

    I love kids but I do not tolerate sassy ones, I hope her show flops and they go back to wherever they came from.

    her tude is not cute and not to be praised, she’s not just acting.

    horrid, what will she look like “skinwise” wearing all of that junk now.

    Meet “BABY JANE” Betty Davis rendition, LOL

  32. Suzy (from Ontario, Canada) says:

    I think she was coached to respond like that because her Mom thinks it’s funny and “sassy”…that’s the new word for trying to turn something bad into something good. You see these kids acting rude and smart- mouthed on Toddlers and Tiaras and their Moms call them “Divas” and explain they’re just “sassy” but they say it like it’s a cute and good thing. Not so cute really.

    I think manners are becoming a thing of the past, which is too bad, but it’s the parents that are at fault. I’ve held doors open for the next person behind me and they walk through without so much as a glance at me much less a thank you. It’s like I’m a doorman and of course I’d hold the door for them. Everyone seems to think they are a celebrity these days and that it’s cool to act like an entitled Diva. When parents act like that how can kids learn manners?

    • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

      ITA Re:the door thing. I go out of my way to hold the door for the person behind me (often times with my back, while holding the hand of my 3 year old and carrying my 1 year old) and there are times I get no acknowledgement. Most times I loudly say “you’re welcome,” which is usually followed by a dirty look from the rude person.

    • Lisa says:

      That sucks. It’s true, though. I always hold the door for people and sometimes I get a thank you, sometimes not. Is this an Ontario phenomenon? 😛

      • MorticiansDoItDeader says:

        @Lisa, I live on the Easf Coast of the US. Sadly, there are rude people everywhere.

  33. Anon says:

    She did that to Wendy Williams? Normally I’ll advocate for good manners but in this case.” Good Girl”

  34. RelaxDon'tDoIt says:

    That last photo with a sundae screams Baby Anna Nicole Smith.

    • randand00 says:

      Oooooh! I thought that too! And we all know how THAT individual’s life worked out. Sad. Or, if you plop a red wig on this girl, she’s Tammy Faye Baker! Praise be!

    • Carolyn says:

      Yes. Thanks – couldn’t figure who she reminded me of until I read your post.

  35. lolaluvsu2 says:

    I’m embarrassed to say but the kid creeps me out.

  36. TXCinderella says:

    She’s a pretty little girl. I saw her on some show besides WW and she was a brat. Confidence is good, but she was so full of herself. The “diva” and “sassy” nicknames are the way these idiot moms gloss over the fact that their kids are spoiled brats.

  37. bagladey says:

    That brat is rude and disrespectful. I saw her in another interview where she was unco-operative and was mocking her mother as her mother was speaking. Why is she appearing everywhere in full make-up including red lipstick, hair extensions and adult earrings etc. if she has retired from pageantry? Shouldn’t she be appearing as herself?

    • polk8dot says:

      Were you really expecting logic and signs of intelligence from both the little and the old brat? Oh, you funny you 🙂

  38. Sarah says:

    I thought she was pretty funny

  39. truetalk says:

    That child creeps me out. Epic fail on the parenting front.

  40. Hannah says:

    JonBenet. Sick.

  41. smith says:

    Fast forward ten years from now and this kid is going to be an epic trainwreck – and she will be one of those kids who ends up hating her parents. Book it.

    There is always someone prettier, better, more talented, etc. who will come along and knock her off her so-called throne.

  42. lower-case deb says:

    ever since i saw that tiara program on tv, i always hope that the kid (or the parents, although i’m not betting on the parents, they’re supposed to be the grown up here), well anyway, the kid to be hit by the proverbial clue bus, between now and pre-puberty.

    if not, in a few years time we will be looking back and saying. “gosh. remember when we’re all up in arms about lindsay lohan and amanda bynes. those girls have got none on these kids (eden etc).”

    gosh. i hope not. LL and AB are bad enough. Or someone who will out-gaga Lady Gaga’s “fashion”, Madonna’s trendsetting ways?

  43. Lissa says:

    To everyone who finds this child’s behavior repulsive…This world is cruel, cruel place and in a few short years this kid will get a hard smack of reality and it will be devastating. Kids like this grow up having a ton of attention and truly believe they deserve it & anything else they want, once that is gone they have a hard time living a normal life and maintaing normal relationships. No matter how cute she once was…no one wants to hire, work with or marry a jerk.

    Don’t get me wrong, I don’t wish ill for this kid, but everything comes back to bite you in the end. Sad

  44. Newtsgal says:

    I would be shocked if this trick doesn’t end up on a stripper pole, Jerry Springer or Maury…
    Probably all 3!

    • Lissa says:

      She’s not a “trick”, she is just a little kid, albeit an annoying one, but still just a kid. That word is too harsh for her, now her mother on the other hand…

      Anyway, I unfortunately see more than a glimmer of possibility in your prediction and that is sad for this child, her mother is a fool not to see it.

  45. Jayna says:

    Disgusting. Talk about sexualizing a child. Her mom is crass.

  46. Abby says:

    Hello, Britney…the sequel.

  47. judyjudy says:

    Kentucky and Japan. LOL!

  48. Shaniqua Nunyadambidness says:

    See ya on “Teen Mom” in about 10 years, you little beastie.

  49. Jaded says:

    I see a future involving serious mental/emotional problems, addiction issues and multitudinous sex partners all before the age of 16. Oh, and she’ll detest her parents.

  50. holly hobby says:

    I don’t like making fun of children but that looks like a demon baby. Especially the pic w/ the ice cream dribbling down her chin.

    I bet she doesn’t look cute when she grows up. Oh noes, what to do?

  51. Lisa says:

    Seven going on thirty. Meanwhile, the mother is forty going on seven.

    • Tara_Green says:

      YES, and the blame for this child’s ultimate downfall can be placed directly on her MOTHER. Unbelievable.

  52. ezra says:

    A horrid child being rude to a horrid adult.

  53. Victoria says:

    Shocking. She’s a puppet and what’s up with that Anna Nicole Smth kiss? She’ll grow up fat – just the like other posters say: Fat Face Kid.

  54. Serenity now says:

    I can’t wait to see what kind of teenager this obnoxious little cherub will be.

  55. crazycatlady says:

    This is the kind of thing you get when uneducated people from the rural south get lots of money. I haven’t seen the father on T&T, but the mother clearly has about the I.Q. of a sixth-grader. (Maybe the dad is smart, but he married dumb.) They have no clue about the world, and their only aspiration is to be like the people on the TV.

    Honestly, I don’t think the girl has any star quality. Sure, she’s cute (how many kids her age aren’t?), but she has no personality beyond mimicking what her mother feeds her, and being an entitled brat (as some of you have pointed out). How she got a TV show is beyond me. But then again, Logo? What the hell is that? Never heard of it. She will be watched – as T&T is – to be gawked at for all the wrong reasons. Then she will get bigger, lose a few teeth, get ugly, and be gone. Off to start whatever addiction awaits her.

  56. Michele says:

    The whole kiddie beauty pageant thing is so disgusting. I can’t believe people actually watch this rubbish on tv.

  57. Ming Lee says:

    this child and her mother came to australia for a pageant specifically to promote Eden ..she was all over the news trying to get mothers and daughters to attend this pageant..but when a news show, who prides themselves in exposing the truth, tried to show eden and her mother for what they really are, the mother freaked and pulled eden from the pageant. the entire show was about all of these australian girls meeting their ‘idol’ eden woods and when she was a no show.. the children cried and cried. all because of actions of an attention seeking mother who lives through her child.

  58. Kel says:

    This must have been what that 16-year-old who married the 50-something guy was like when she was little.

  59. badrockandroll says:

    Ew. and ew at the hostess said “so cute”, and ew to the audience which chanted “go Eden” while a pre-pubescent child strutted. Ew.

  60. Nan209 says:

    I can’t even watch the video because this Toddlers and Tiaras stuff really p*sses me off. It disgusts me.

    When my son was small I used to get people telling me to put him modeling. My only response was a succinct “No”. No way in hell would I put my child in that kind of business. Modeling, acting…etc…is an adult world and is hard enough for adults…you just don’t put kids in that world.

    Now he’s a teen…lol…I don’t get those kinds of comments anymore.

  61. ViloDeMenus says:

    How could she be anything but a monster with the mother she has? This interview proves she’s not mature enough or emotionally ready for what’s happening to her and she will pay dearly for her fleeting fame. Sadly she will be working a pole by the time she’s 20, still supporting that vulture parent of hers. Insanity.

  62. tmbg says:

    I don’t want to be too rude and say exactly what I’m thinking, but this is the picture I’m getting 20 years down the road for this bratty child:

    Trailer parks, old pageant trophies everywhere, shattered Doritos stuck between the plaid second-hand couch cushions, belching, sweatpants and “diet” frozen dinners and whatever zero calorie soda that is popular filling the fridge.

    I suppose I could have done a bit better reigning myself in, but I can’t stand brats. Her future looks very bleak if her mother allows her to keep this up.

  63. Tara_Green says:

    I heartily agree with all of the comments here related to the hyper-sexualization of these young children. It is beyond repellant. I have worked with young children, birth to age five, and their families for 25 years. I have worked with a two-year-old who got genital herpes from her “uncle”, and I have worked with a five-year-old who developed a personality disorder (resulting in THREE psychiatric hospitalizations within one year) after her grandparents allowed her to be passed around by god knows how many men between the ages of 2 and 3 (her mother was in prison at the time). I come to gossip websites to get away from the realities of what I see in my work, so when stories like this one come up, I seriously want to take a tire-iron to the head of Eden’s mother. What a stupid, greedy, shallow, irresponsible POS.

    • dahlianoir says:

      THANK YOU for your work and all the good you can make. Since my son’s birth I can’t watch NYPD victims unit without throwing up. I don’t have the guts to deal with all the bad things done to kids so I respect people like you A LOT.

  64. jwoolman says:

    I remember Eden when she was 3 years old – she was a little robot and her mom seemed to keep her isolated. They showed them in a diner with Eden “signing autographs”. The kid had zero talent but mom seemed to think she was the next Shirley Temple. They were pouring a lot of money into buying fame for the kid – an Eden doll, books the illiterate toddler supposedly wrote, little movies for her to supposedly star in. Mom’s obviously been busily training her since then. I’m glad she’s sort of out of pageants now at least. She really looks awful in the pageant hooker getups/hair styles though. I wonder if her mother still completely isolates her from other real kids. I had thought dad was rich, but apparently not rich enough if they needed a second mortgage to continue their undoubtedly futile efforts. Poor kid. Pageants are not good background for real modeling or acting, the kids have to unlearn everything first. I doubt that Eden has a chance, in the biz or in life.

  65. angela says:

    this kid is such a brat!! great parenting skills too i might add….way to sit there while you kid acts like a spoled brat…i’d hate to e around her in 10yrs

  66. Chrissy says:

    Repulsive. She’ll be out of control by the time she’s a teen just like Lohan.

  67. cannonball says:

    The parents will buy someone to straighten up that girls manners real quick before her little show heads down south, and it will look so believable to some people. Some people in California that is. (hollywierd)

  68. Amy says:

    Not going to get into the child exploitation/sexualization side of this Toddlers in Tiaras world, but…

    Eden Schmeden. That child has no personality or charisma. I would watch a show about MaKenzie, however, in a heartbeat. She’s rude and horrible, but it makes for good tv.

    Eden’s mother reeks of desperation and fame-whoriness, but MaKenzie’s mother, Juana, is fascinating to me. I can’t decide if she’s just numb to her daughter’s…antics…or if she’s on downers.

  69. NerdMomma says:

    You know what I thought of? Some story I read in the last few months of a little girl who wanted to help kids who don’t have clean drinking water, and she started some kind of campaign… some other kid raised a bunch of money for cancer research… wish I had links, but anyway. This kid has been taught to “help others” by prepping them for pageants. THAT’s disturbing.

  70. CM says:

    Good luck to this child. I hope she finds a path that leads to her ability to discover what’s truly meaningful in life. While I disagree with the parents’ decision to do this, I think that a show like ‘T and T’, says as much about the premium we place on beauty, as it does about the desire to be seen as successful, the parent-child relationship, etc., I’d be willing to bet that she’s been fawned over most of her life simply because of her looks. Like it or not, physical beauty (or at least fitting the definition of what most people consider ‘pretty’ or ‘beautiful’), is admired. It’s been my experience that it even elicits kindness or affection-particularly for children. Think about it…if this little girl had a big nose or beady eyes, we wouldn’t be paying any attention.

  71. Christy says:

    In looks, she is just a chubby blonde haired blue eyed little girl. I have never thought she was exceptionally pretty, just average. Of course, make up changes her appearance, but it does all the kids. Usually not for the better

    However, she is 7 years old and can not read. She claims to just have one friend. She has been on camera making fun of Mackenzie, who for some reason “loves Eden” and always cheers for her. yet Eden makes fun of her with props bought by her mom, who also encouraged her to do this on camera.

    But worst of all, Eden is rude. Mickie evidently allows Eden to be as rude as she wants to be. I could have never spoken to anyone, especially an adult, the way she does. Nor would I have allowed it with my sons. They are grown and they expect and get only respect and wonderful manners from their children. Any of my grandchildren would be punished by their parents for being rude. It is not allowed!!

    I do not know where Eden’s dad is in this equation, but he must approve. Mickie wants to make money off Eden and make her a star. Even though she is average looking, chubby, has no talent, and has yet to show intelligence.

    When Mickie heard Alana (also a brat) was given a show by TLC, Mickie’s reply was she does not want Eden to be a child star. Then what is she doing?

  72. Ana says:

    Dear God. It’s bad enough that her mom exploits her, now we have full grown “adults” talking smack about her with so much spite I really hope she doesn’t accidentally stumble across this later.

    People don’t need makeup and frilly things to be arrogant and bratty, as evidenced by many of the comments here. I’m legitimately sickened by all these comments with their little Lohan predictions. How can you possibly know? As people grow they experience things that change their views and behavior, and as adults, you should know that. How can you hold yourselves in such high regard when you’re making such rude generalizations and attacking a child who can’t even defend herself?

  73. Meanchick says:

    Completely disgusting.I know it’s not her fault, but she looks like a mini-call girl. Make sure they reserve a room in rehab for this girl.

  74. Melissa says:

    That attitude is going to get her fired from the Dairy Queen in a few years.

  75. Starshine says:

    I do not agree with the extreme this was taken (the show/child glamor) pagents for children. That being said, the only reason they continue to make money is because everyone (alot of people) watch these type shows.

    It is obvious in the clip often times the child was prompted what to say (her timing is off). That she is responding in a way the host was prepared for, I do not see any reason for the hostility.

    I have seen this same type child pageants (glam or full glitz as some say) in Europe as well so it is not just in USA.

    People chill out and be serious, it is obvious this was stagged just as most talk show interviews. Both sides know what is going to be asked and how it will be answered. Talk about childish..GEEZ

  76. USED2B718 says:

    Eden better watch what she eats. May not be easy to get that baby fat off.

  77. Nicole says:

    How to raise a bitch: My, God, it’s costly.

  78. snappyfish says:

    that girl is a bratmonster from hell. when she ends up pregnant and in rehab at 15 her trashy mother will have no one to blame but herself.