Would You Let a Room Full of Adults Judge Your Child's Looks? ; Exclusive: Junior Beauty Pageants Are Big Business in the Us - and Earlier This Year, Britain Held Its First One. More Than 2,000 Pre- Teens Applied to Compete in Mini Miss Uk to Win the Eur200 Prize and Title. Here the Parents of Three Contestants Explain Why They Put Their Kids Through It...

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Cosmetic tattoo artist Moya Wren, 40, lives in Glasgow, with partner Duncan McCallum, 33. She entered nine-yearold daughter Madison (right) for Mini Miss UK.

Madison was asked by her modelling agency if she wanted to enter the contest and I thought it was a good idea.It costs EUR200 to enter, then by the time you've bought a formal dress, casual clothes and accessories, the total comes to EUR1,200. Because Madison is quite young I've had a lot of negative comments.

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Would You Let a Room Full of Adults Judge Your Child's Looks? ; Exclusive: Junior Beauty Pageants Are Big Business in the Us - and Earlier This Year, Britain Held Its First One. More Than 2,000 Pre- Teens Applied to Compete in Mini Miss Uk to Win the Eur200 Prize and Title. Here the Parents of Three Contestants Explain Why They Put Their Kids Through It...

People say I'm a bad mother, a pushy mother, that my daughter's ugly and she shouldn't even be entering beauty contests.

I think it's sad that people who don't know me can judge me like that.

Am I sexualising my daughter by putting a bit of make-...

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