Grown Up Child Pageant Queen - 12 Years Later (American Beauty Documentary) | Only Human

[Music] in 1995 we filmed two five-year-old girls competing for $5,000 prize at southern charm one of America's most prestigious beauty pageants [Applause] Brook won the title beating Asia into third place leaving Brooks family elated and Asia's bitterly disappointed she someone does her best and they don't get what they deserve that's bad because she did not get what she deserved never be a quitter quitters never win the film calls shock and controversy for its portrayal of little girls in heavy makeup dancing provocatively for lucrative prize money 12 years on we've returned to America to discover what life's been like for Brooklyn Asia since the pageant and to learn where they are now and what their hopes are for the future [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] Asia is 17 and still lives in Louisiana she graduates from high school next year and she continues to compete in pageants having started when she was nine months old some people when they saw the film in Britain thought that you were being made to dress up that you've been made to look older than you were that you were made to being to look a little bit sexy and that it was provocative and inappropriate now what's your response to them I just I don't I think that you know like I said the kids loved it they loved getting our makeup done it gives a little girls a chance to feel like they're a big kid you know and I like you know get out there and having everybody look at me and watch that I can do you know just like a big kid you got to look like a much older woman and you were kind of shimmying around and sassing around and come on baby that's enough for the night I mean that was quite saucy well it all goes with different songs like your talent I mean each talent song has a different theme and it's just it's really cute you know for a little kid to try and you know pull that off but the the ODE of the song is the more the more experienced you sound [Music] I didn't think we would get addicted but I really do I really feel like that Kim and I and grandmother and and nanny and Asia you know God addicted the very first time we we went when Asia was nine months old we depend on a judge to pick Asia over other girls sometimes so that Asia can make more money yeah we were addicted when she was little but patches has been good she want a cruise you know she's won a lot of money and TVs and trampolines and friends all over the world there have been many changes in Asia's life since we last filmed her family of moved house and her parents are now divorced Asia lives with her mother Kim and five brothers and sisters this is my room I share it with both my sisters treasure and Shinae and then this is my bed and my corner my little area it's all neat I mean I've been up every morning I promise there's I love stuffed animals so that's a big thing I have purses and hats and everything my all my banners that I've won all these are from the past two years and my banners go along with them one two three four five six so I've won eight titles in the past three years two and a half three years so I like this one cuz it's pink and black I love those two colors is it hard to wear a crown um well some heads you just made four crowns I guess in 1995 the cost of preparing Asia for a pageant without fits makeup and entry fees was upwards of $2,000 playing t-ball baby Sydney shopping and swimming ladies and gentlemen contestant number 47 Asia that's my baby five years old just amazed how outgoing she was and not shy and just got the wonderful attitude and just happy-go-lucky and she still is that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] it's now July 2007 Asia and her grandmother Marie are off to compete in a prestigious national pageant the darling dolls of America in Dallas here ever since she was a baby Marie has been the driving force behind Asia's pageant career and very focused on the prizes but we do go for the money now and they have cars and as a matter of fact in November in Kentucky they're giving away I think it's five cars Asia is up she could possibly win this car as I think it's zero to 4 or 0 to 5 maybe and she's got a real good shot at and grandmother needs a car Asia a marine a chasing the darling dolls top prize of $10,000 to win that you have to have the highest score in beauty photo event and two optional events and Asia's gonna do every one we're gonna do our best I mean they're gonna have girls from all over the United States and they good too so it's just it's what the judges are seeing that day because that's their opinion and what only their opinion it's not my opinion and she would win every time for a you to win a pageant even at five years old required hours and hours of practice in grandmother's kitchen it's hard to do without your music okay that's good okay they don't do that kind of dance anymore they do the washing machine oh yeah you see that don't look like fan coming darling nothing enough for tonight three nothing to be a winner you have to have eye contact and stage presence and duty of course you got to have a pretty face you don't want to obey Queen okay but but she is she's got eye contact with the judges you got to play with the judges and she can't help it she's blessed I mean you know some people are dressed okay when you say she's blessed what do you mean Jane she gonna get me in trouble well she just just got a good body let's just say that upper body maybe okay she likes that too so what am I gonna say I can't say anything about that because she'd go get in there she doesn't like them she doesn't like grandmother talk like that [Music] in 1995 Brooke breed well was Asia's main rival on the pageant circuit now 17 Brooke attends one of America's top boarding schools Baylor School in Tennessee she is pretty well with everything's coming up roses [Music] at five Brooke was already a veteran having started pageants when she was one-year-old did you enjoy doing the pageants yes I did I'm doing it very much it might not seem like I did but I really did like the competition I think the competition is what really like drove me because when you're a little kid you don't really think that you know what competition is but I did I would go in and be like I'm gonna beat these little girls I'm gonna I'm gonna do it so I would go in with the confidence and that's what's helped me in life today just being confident and I've learned that from the pageants of course you looked like you were concentrating quite hard when you were doing those routines I don't know if you've ever like walked into a room people just stare at you you know that's kind of like something that makes me I'm like hmm you know that I'm being noticed so that gives me like the drive to be like you know I can do this I'm gonna go and I'm gonna beat these girls and I'm gonna do what I know how to do to win [Music] when we first filmed Brooke she'd already won 75 titles it's it's weird you know cuz I know not everyone's perfect but to this day like I'll concentrate to do my best on everything and I always want to be perfect I'm a perfectionist so [Music] Brookes mother Pam was fiercely ambitious in the pageants even building her a practice stage in the spare room he spends thousands on her face in her whole wardrobe I have probably around $3,500 that's what I invest each year what does Ron do you think of the money oh he doesn't like me to spend a lot of money on it he'd rather send me put it in the bank and let it draw interest for her education but I feel like that this is an investment in her education because she's learning to sing and get out in front of people and have skills that will go with her the rest of her life drops look at the judge wait go go go yeah I know it but I forgot you know my mouse runs what did you love about the pageants probably the glamour the beauty something that we both were very passionate about and we weren't very hard to be winners I mean it you can't just walk in and expect to win it's something that you have to practice you go to modeling lessons voice lessons having the right clothes you know having what it takes to win and it's memories that will last forever my mom I think she really wanted to push me and she really wanted me to be something that she wanted me to be used to bribe me like she'd be like okay could do really good you know I'll give you a prize after every competition I skipped prizes so I mean I was I was a little bit bribed I'm not gonna lie I remember when Brooke won a car and when she was five years old as well we came home that night with $7,000 in the car in cash and that was just oh it was so exciting and and she did really I mean she knew but she really didn't know you know what she had actually done I don't think [Music] Ronde what did you think of the pageant's well I was probably not as excited as they were about the pageants but Brooke and I got to spend a lot of time together cuz I I took her to the voice lessons a lot and modern lessons - we did a lot of it as a family but as far as I wasn't excited about the glamour or the competition but they enjoyed it so I didn't I didn't try to put a stop to anything so I was you know their thing I had my thing they had their thing so we were all happy please give us your best smiles on the face of judges one more time here they are ladies and gentlemen our beautiful beautiful four-year-old contestants Brooke speciality was holding her smile in the beauty section the secret to her smile when she comes on stage she has a beautiful smile she does her step step turn to the back and she relaxes her smile by opening her mouth and then she turns back around and displace it again she can probably hold it for about 20 minutes [Music] no that's not it yes I don't know I don't know but I don't do pageants anymore I mean Brooke stopped doing pageants when she was 7 years old by which time she'd won over $20,000 I've just had enough I guess I mean we got to do it I'm pretty regularly you know so I was just I didn't want to do him anymore just tired of it I was just burnt out I pretty much how grown at all you know it's it's kind of for little kids and once you get to this age it's time to move on with your life and do like adult things and I really like it change is good [Music] [Applause] [Music] Brooke is now in her fourth year at Baylor school it's a private nondenominational day in boarding school so I'm a boarder though because I live like an hour away which isn't that far but I mean still it's too far to drive every day time but late in antiquity they basically stopped writing I think Brooks probably developed into a very smart young woman she's very confident Dreyer thinks his discovery reveals that the earliest readable writing originated in probably something that's gonna help her throughout her life from the pageant's is the fact that she's able to get up in front of people with these she pretty much you know is self-assertive she knows what needs to be done at school she studies hard she stays very focused number one first we're like number two I think Baylor has been wonderful for Brooke I think it has helped her to develop into a very intelligent young lady [Music] my parents sacrifice a lot of course that episode I could go because I mean it's not cheap for borders it's 30,000 a year I live in a dorm so it's kind of like going to college four years early and I really I really have enjoyed it a lot [Music] this one's my bed this is all my stuff over here and that's my desk and it's pretty much it's kind of little my not gonna fit in what I hate your friend is my friend Kelly and we died together and we're about to go to our diving meet so you know what with Dell alone because my roommates in a class and she went to see him yesterday or the other day and she's like obsessed with him and brought a picture of him back I'm glad she brought it he's hot in a creepy like Dalai Lama kind of way [Music] okay come on come on thank Miss Elizabeth big smiles I stop make your pretty feet pretty feet hands out okay look at your judges thanks Mouse that background unlike brook Asia is still obsessed with pageants you're not only taking part but tutoring young hopefuls from her neighborhood is just a little Mihama so to speak you know she's the one I can depend on to watch the kids if I need to go the store if I need to do this or if I go somewhere so if I go on a date you know I watch you know and then she watches he takes care of them back around the big smile look at the judges elizabeth is three and will be going with Asia to the darling dolls pageant in Dallas thank you Miss Elizabeth before she goes to the darling dolls pageant Asia is adding another 12 inches to her hair at a cost of over a hundred dollars paid for by grandmother and grand I said make sure we good the ends really really good he said to me a while ago that you've got more opinions about your appearance in the pageants now what do you and grandma have discussions about I have to feel comfortable with what I'm wearing because I do better if I like what I'm wearing if I'm comfortable with my routine if I can go up there and I feel good about myself and I'll do so much better you know but if I'm you know she's gonna be like well you have to wear this I won't do as good it's all about feeling good and feeling comfortable and if I like what I'm wearing if I you know enjoy it then I'll do a lot better I'm not scared to compete against anybody you know I just I want to go out there have fun do my thing and hopefully I'll be good yeah I met your water you want to bring it ages flying to the darling dolls pageant with grandmother Marie mother Kim and her younger sister treasure [Music] [Music] pageants are like a land that time forgot very little has changed the darling dolls the Americas hydrant in 2007 was much the same as southern charm in 1995 a tad more makeup just as many rhinestones and even the same master of ceremonies Tim Whitmer [Music] first and foremost I love kids I do love kids and treating them special as they are there's a lot of emcees out there but I've been able to get this little niche down of this singing and serenading to the contestants what's giving them an opportunity to feel special it's something I've done since the very first day 20 years ago and somehow that little extra connection whether it's 5 seconds 10 seconds whatever it is it has given me an opportunity to connect and make that time with that contestant feel special [Music] oh gosh [Music] doing such a fabulous job 10:00 to 11:00 and looking awesome poorest here no doubt now I want to keep in mind folks here we're gonna welcome these girls back up to the stage here they'll have up to 90 seconds thank you good job okay don't forget the smile begging the judges okay you saw Benny make pretty aa-are you go bowling with kids are you gonna blow my kiss you want what about Asia kick future does this take you back a sure um I didn't have as pretty as just as when I was little we just had those simple little dresses and everybody didn't care we just went on stage and I miss being literal I really do [Music] [Music] there's nothing wrong with being proud of your child and we have one particular child that's competing this weekend I think she's now 10 or 11 years old I've known this baby a child since she was a baby and is continually competed to this adrià now she has won tens of thousands of dollars I mean if I could just sit somehow and do the math you know it would be mine bottling - the success of this child the darling dogs pageant lasts for three days and attracts contestants from all over the country it's one of hundreds taking place in the USA every summer families pay high entry fees which are converted into prize money what's the biggest sum you've ever seen awarded to child well the the largest sum would be 10 a $10,000 bond to one particular child we're getting ready to do one here in four months where we're gonna give it away for Kars [Music] only parents mainly mothers attend no outsiders are allowed girls often perform to judges their mothers and empty seats as other contestants disappear for costume changes and fresh makeup [Music] because I'm one I don't have to think I talk like a baby and I never take a drink I don't have to worry about getting a man if I keep this blog and I keep this change about my blonde yeah yeah yeah yeah I see people working and it just makes me giggle because I don't have to work I just have to wait okay I'm a blonde yeah yeah yeah I see girls out date and I feel sorry for them whenever I'm around are the boys in your room cuz I'm a blonde like for sure and this is my I got this I don't know how low to put this well I'm asking y'all y'all can see I can't see I haven't seen ages since the last pageant have you heard what she's doing I haven't heard anything from her anyone since its specialist it's not quit why do you think you'll end up living as a fanatic I don't know you know I've been trying to think about that and I don't know I think basically just wherever like my work takes me you're like my husband I'm not gonna move for my husband I don't want to do that but I don't know I want to live in something bigger than Athens because it's just way too little for my liking [Music] put a lot of miles on might be heedful traveling to voice and modeling lessons and also going to pageants we just got back from a pageant it's one of the biggest pageants in the United States it's held in Daytona Beach looking back on it what did you think of the film well I mean I look meaning it of course but I mean I was just a little girl I had an attitude of course I mean I couldn't help it I mean I was there was pressure there was there was everything you know it wasn't a normal habitat to be and of course but I think I handled it to the best I could and I've grown a lot from it real realizing my behavior and everything are you enjoying the pageant do you think you've won the talent [Music] what do you like best about pageants wait somewhere during the school holidays Brooke works at a local steakhouse [Music] do you want mushroom grab your peppers and onions salad okay really confusing actually like you go through a line and you order your drink and you order your food and then you go sit down and your waitress brings you the food so I like fixed drinks and take orders any sauce only six dollars an hour but I mean it's only my first job in the real world I guess so I'll take it and have you learnt anything from it yeah I mean I've learned that you shouldn't be rude to restaurant workers because it's not their fault Natalie's gentlemen please welcome to the stage number 179 number one [Applause] [Music] what do you think of her can I say the wow factor the wow factor he is strong contender I would say absolutely she's strong you know in my mind you know somebody who starts younger and works their way through their their years in competition only fine-tunes their craft so they could work the judges even more you know and be prepared for most any situation in 1995 the third member of Asia's team was her father well you and boom happy yeah I thought we were very happy we had a great family and a great life you know being involved with the children and doing things with them but as I guess life takes you down a different Road sometimes and they left us in 2005 and then he found out that there was someone else was involved I'm all I got left and no other way to say it he just walked out on six children and his wife and his his family and remarried 10 months later it's been hard you know I've always a daddy's little girl but things change I miss him but you know he's moved on so do we [Music] she knows he's done really wrong to the children you know to us as a family and to them as individuals you know as them as his children it wasn't right you know because we're a family and he just thought about it and he married so soon afterwards 10 months after he got that he left home so that was devastating to you see that's why she's so stressed are you stressed perfil she went through a hard time she really did she had it rough she was having really major anxiety attacks it upsets me you know makes me mad that he you know he doesn't want to be a part of my life anymore but the love that you know adult you know he's so your dad yeah did you see him I'm better when I'm using my dad and yeah almost two years um do you hear from him no contact whatsoever nothing nothing Christmas nothing how's the birthday to change state has a restraining order on him so for all the stuff that he mentally and physically gone into it so yes it was very bad I don't know I don't know how much that's gonna change and when it's gonna change I try to hide it you know to be stronger audio out but it hurts it really does do you have a number you could cool and I don't know I don't know where he's out or anything [Applause] [Music] and don't have you know they give me another one pressure is mounting before the all-important beauty section in which Asia expects to school highly I went to find your jewelry agent your mama where is the Jordan wears a brace I got it I had everything I thought you give me a piece of paper no no yes you do give me a piece of paper all the other groaning in here well we told them we would wait well wait yeah but but just you go what's your number you want something on all the girls we're all gonna say that we all said that we were gonna wait for everybody to get down here but nobody's on Tom and all about to go one and we don't know if we're gonna wait I need a pin surprise are there all the way down and I need a pin y'all have a pen a clip or something I got clip a number I don't have her number how are you feeling I'm Mary I need them I wouldn't want them the white for me if I was art like our hair and makeup dresser did everybody in my group I'm almost over our group and now there's a couple girls left behind [Music] for beauty competition and that welcome to the dolly-dolphin ready to go on stage trust me number 175 here is Jessica the earrings is not working and need some different kind of earrings I'm telling you if they've got y'all I don't have it mr. Glenda chilly those green eyes she loves the color Barbie P theta food choices include ice cream with sprinkles my Glenda let me rent a pair of earrings this is so stupid huh okay find me a pretty big pair of earrings she's not ready that's it was loosely paintballing spending time with her friends Peggy down [Music] look the prettier lovely so they're gonna look better with Hitler going about these is that too trashy hi you there's a pileup are they there doorknob door drops their beautiful are you enjoying yourself oh I'm having a blast [Music] all this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] well can I touch you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] she was fired back on stage last you know just help us sing it to him in her on stage in unity brings back good memories [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] with an ambition to own all the toys are stories ladies and gentlemen contestant number 51 this is Brooke freed well [Music] dancing by the time Brooke gave up pageants she'd won over a hundred crowns her grandmother bunny keeps them in a special trophy room at home she was so smart she could pick up on things so easily it left the modeling and the singing she could just memorize so well and and she was a pretty patient considering you know all the changes you had to make and there were times she was just a little girl that she wouldn't get it you know a little agitated but otherwise she was fun after her things the competition was over she was ready to play she loved getting her hair done when she was that age she would play beauty shop she would bring her dolls down here and a lot of them don't have any hair but cause she cut her hair do you think you pushed her I don't think we pushed her but I do think that there would been times that she might not have wanted to go if we'd hadn't encouraged it I know that's the only thing at home is that hairspray I remember I always got mad at her for being bossy to me show out in western wear but I liked her being there because I couldn't handle my mom so she was a good medium between us keep your model stance for some time and show a lot of projection and keep Brooke was a much long for only child her mother suffered several miscarriages before she was born I'd had a hard time getting pregnant staying pregnant so when we had Brooke it was like she was you know the greatest thing in the world and both grandparents she was you know the girl on both sides and we pretty much Boulder from both sides from the grandparents to up to us as well Pam it actually almost given up on having any children at all she'd had so much trouble it was kind of ironic at the time her dad had suffered a heart attack and almost died and it was like within the next week we found out that she was pregnant with Brooke and things like Nino was a just a blessing I guess Brook has a younger brother Blake who was born when she was seven he's an epileptic and he he also suffers four-month akahl apraxia Ward's forming his brain but they have trouble communicating to his mouth he has trouble communicating like that he's making improvements but his speech mean you know never be actually normal but he's able to communicate pretty good my name is Blake my sister's name is Vicki no I best not though I didn't he really struggles in school like he he's repeated like a few grades twice he can't learn he just can't remember things it's hard for him well you know like pretty that's nice and we just try to deal with it the best that we can and accept him for what he is and loving regardless yeah you keep hoping for the best and and that's how you can do after Blake was born there was less time for pageants do you feel that he's helped you grow as people and extend oh yeah oh yeah you look at people different really there you know that's one thing I worry about him is how people outside the family will judge him every day like he'll sometimes just come home and cry because he doesn't have any friends or life because he tries he does he tries hard like he studies like every day my dad makes him do his homework you know he'll sit down and just cry because he can't do it and he can't remember and it's it's really sad cuz it made you compassionate it has having my brother if that learning disability is really made me want to help others more many pageants have a section with a patriotic theme but darling dolls it's called red white and blue [Music] what just nitpicking you know it's not gonna work she's not married she doesn't ever put her body around it that should have been the easiest thing in the world we put on watch the eye I put some or some of my god congra try this on before oh it fits it fits we just pulled it over the head you know the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away to be an American where at least I know I just I've taken it all out no no it's all on even as you thank you too but god bless [Music] god bless the USA I begin somebody who has served in the military and who have friends that are still serving in the country and enduring our situation of war at this time we make it what you might say excuse me I get a little choked up here because you know this is real I so you kind of hit a little off I'm sorry about that [Applause] well I'm gonna be like if you wouldn't try to do two or three things at one time and let's get one thing done at the time we wouldn't have to go through all this okay sometimes I have to avoid turning on the television because uh we've got people out here doing pageant world who have to Sara their mothers and their brothers and sisters and things like that and I just know what in particular hasn't returned and lost their lives and though you had Alicia tied up in that I know but it's I'm dwelling thing Asia if you ever get married please don't get one of these bags um it's scary my friends and you know that some of them are in the military and the Marines and some people it's a scary thing I mean you don't realize how many young kids are going out there I mean seventeen year old kids dying you know fighting for our country pull it tight give me a new doctor get mom okay that's good tie it's tied in a boat let's go yeah and we gotta take my slips we will Asia look up here I didn't get the bottom Rick let's go you scared up [Music] stand beside [Music] to the Bradley's to [Music] options [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ladies gentlemen once again the board's teenager graduation [Applause] [Music] and I'll finishing up our spectacular category here let's welcome the stage number is [Applause] [Music] oh look at the lineup I can't look at the competition I'll look those hearings [Laughter] the secret to her smile when she comes on stage she has a beautiful smile she does her steps my lord don't quit y'all tell me just shut up don't talk but I'm gonna take these back about two days [Music] so what is it like seeing it again it was fun we all are and I talk way too any and if you can't laugh at yourself you know that's a the part of life if you life at yourself you can get through life with anything happening to you [Music] [Applause] she's still very determined she's strong-willed yeah she's still very she's her own person really but I think pageants did help her to get over some of her shyness because she was very shy and when she lost the pageant especially when she was younger it didn't bother her but as she got older she tried harder you know for the next one she was very competitive though even as always hurl because she knew when she was perfect and she knew when she didn't do her best because whether we like it or not we compete and every everything we do our jobs and everyday life we really do sometimes it's better to lose and win because you work a lot harder the next time and you know there's a saying the winner never quits and then loser never wins and I said that I think in the last video and that's true in life I mean we can't just stay out all I think we always have to read and learn and and grow read learn and grow I really do [Music] have you been in love Brooke have I been loved um maybe I'm not sure I don't know I've told the boy I loved them before if that's what you mean did you mean it I guess I did yeah at the time I still love him but not it's like in the same way you know what I mean [Music] it's the homecoming ball at Baylor school tonight and Brooke is going with her friend Kelly gone to school with these same guys for four years I don't really want to date down a grade because that's not good when plants I'm about to go away to college there's no use in getting attached to a boy so I'm just gonna go with like a group of friends and dance with everyone so way to go anyway you know get to dance with everyone there's just one person that's not fun [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I don't have to be nothing you gonna wear that headband and the hair of the bad you're just gonna let it look we're gonna put funky hair in it make it look funky and if they don't like that oh well they're mops you gave it all yeah that's all what [Applause] [Music] it's the last day of the beauty pageant and time for crowning [Music] I'm not Santa Claus but when you can give somebody $10,000 or even 5,000 a beautiful crown and you can see sometimes I'm not saying every kid has to cry to feel like they've won their crown but is it as achievement that they were it's a goal that they were out for Asia is up for the main prize of $10,000 more money but it's really exciting it's hard [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] we rollin supernatural [Music] Asia won a crown for the pro-am section instead of the $10,000 she won a hundred and twenty five Elizabeth also won one hundred and twenty five dollars for best casual outfit [Music] heck yeah we'd do it again couldn't do it tomorrow if we had a chance I get nah let's give us a few days it's time to go home and regroup in but we won't be doing anything anytime soon I don't think no I'm not disappointed because everybody I mean an Asian screw it was was wonderful they were really good This pageant was awesome weekend they had allowed a lot of competition and as you did good she got you know I thought she did really well in program as well as our he'd bet she did but so did everybody else I was a little upset that I wasn't gonna get the big thing that won it but I knew that they were so chance and I'd have another title because I wasn't over so you know when I got it I was definitely surprised but you know I'm having a pad nurse are always gonna be with me so yeah there's always a chance so do you miss those days do you mr. day's going off ending Hudgens I do I miss the people and the relationships and the fun that we have but it I look back on it as a memory and I say as I get older you know it took a lot of energy to do that then I think back and sometimes now I just like to lay back and rest in the weekend and I and I miss you know just all the fun we had but mostly just being with her because as they grow older they kind of move away from things unless you're with them but I'm the one that keeps all the crowns and the trophies and the pictures I lose every times Brooke the pound cannot find things so if they want anything comes to grandma's house [Music] and what career do you want to her I want to be on TV a news anchor ah it's been my dream since like eighth grade to work for CNN I was like it's just what I'm gonna do I'm gonna be on TV like practice in the mirror you know what I was gonna say what I was gonna do and you see yourself getting married huh of course I hope so but I don't know if I want to have kids I don't I'm not I just don't know I'm not crazy about kids I want to become an x-ray technician and I would love to get married have kids have a family that'd be fun but I was like I draw you know go through college and stuff it'll it'll come how many kids were too much um well I used to walk 12 six girls and six boys but then having six legs and sisters I was like I can't even keep up with this so I maybe two maybe made two or four that's it has to be even number though I can't have a odd number don't want a middle child won't you come home [Music]

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Length: 58min 49sec (3529 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 21 2018

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En 1995, el galardonado documental Painted Babies envió ondas de choque en todo el mundo al levantar la tapa de los concursos de belleza infantil: un mundo de infancia robada alimentada por la ambición de los padres. Doce años después, la aclamada documentalista británica Jane Treays revisita sus temas originales, Asia Mansure y Brooke Breedwell, que ahora tienen 17 años, y registra cómo han cambiado sus vidas. Al recortar sus vidas como niñas inarticuladas y obedientes de cinco años, emerge un retrato fascinante de la vida, la ambición, la clase y la cultura del concurso.