(Read: not at all entertaining.) Young girls mostly wear homemade dresses and participate in innocent “walking competitions,” in a friendly environment. So who is turning young girls into prostitutes now, French government?Īctually, France’s idea of a beauty pageant sounds like a far cry from Toddlers in Tiaras. “Please let us alone to live out our dreams,” the 13-year-old pled. It’s degrading,” said a former Miss Junior Teen winner. “ Jouanno makes out we’ll turn into prostitutes. The law, which will be voted upon in November, asserts that pageants add to the hypersexualization of young girls.
The Guardian dropped in on France’s Mini Miss Model 2013 competition to suss out the general attitude toward the French Senate’s proposed ban on beauty contestants under the age of 16.
