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This morning bony baby competition should be outlawed

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Sounbelievablydull · 09/06/2015 11:07

Just ironing before heading off to work and have seen a beautiful baby competition on this morning tv show
Apparently thousands of presumably ugly babies applied to win this competition and these have been edited out whittled down to three acceptably attractive finalists.
Does anyone else think this is horrific? Or am I pc gone mad?
The finalists are all female babies chosen for their personalities!!!?
In a society where women especially are judged by their looks I find this truly terrible.
They were even posed with model mothers so their own mothers obviously didn't cut the mustard in the looks dept.
Look forward to hearing anyone else's opinion even ifs to tell me to lighten up

OP posts:
DeeWe · 09/06/2015 12:31

Well most baby contests nowadays seem to be nothing to do with the baby and entirely to do with how much support the parents can get on the internet by spamming groups and hassling friends.

LotsaDots · 09/06/2015 12:37

I didn't like it either but some people like that stuff don't they. I don't vote in any baby competitions that pop up on fb either, it's not for me

CeliaLytton · 09/06/2015 13:00

I was coming on to agree that a boney baby competition would be totally cruel and should indeed be outlawed! As for a bonny baby comp, passé and ridiculous but no need to outlaw it, some people need confirmation that their baby is beautiful while most of us are well aware they are ugly as fuck to begin with and improve marginally over a number of years

Germgirl · 09/06/2015 13:07

*I won a bonnie baby contest in 1991 grin

I won one in 1973. I look like the back end of an elephant now.

EdithWeston · 09/06/2015 13:10

The local newspaper where my DMum lives runs one of these annually, with 3 age categories. Seems popular. As does the Carnival Queen for older girls.

Sparklingbrook · 09/06/2015 13:13

i briefly saw this. Then I saw Martine McCutcheon and Gok Wan and switched off sharpish. Grin Them and Mandy Holden plus checking out babies beauty was too much for me.

Andrewofgg · 09/06/2015 13:20

It will go the way of Miss World soon.

susanstryingterm · 09/06/2015 13:23

I think they're a bit silly but just harmless old fashioned fun really.

It's when they start developing into Tantrum and Tiara territory that I would like to put my foot down.

tbtc · 09/06/2015 13:33

I was carrying a very young DS2 in a sling (facing me) around town when I was approached by a woman canvassing for entries to the baby competition in some local bash.

I wouldn't have entered him anyway, but I did feel I needed to show her that he was covered in cradle cap from the top of his head right down to his nose level (seriously). There was no way on earth he was bonny, though of course he was still utterly gorgeous.

Sparklingbrook · 09/06/2015 13:34

I am baffled how any baby can be any better or worse looking than another. Bit of a weird thought.

SqueezyCheeseWeasel · 09/06/2015 15:53

They're all ugly fuckers, we're just programmed to think otherwise. It's only when you look back at baby photos when your kids are older and can admit that perhaps they weren't quite moggle material.

AtomicDog · 09/06/2015 19:24

Squeezy- you may think that, but DD1 was so beautiful and perfect that people crossed the street to get a closer look at her! Honestly.
Of course, they only saw her asleep, not the screaming demon she was for the first two years of her life when awake Grin

emzii206 · 09/06/2015 19:47

Personally I wouldn't enter DD in any of these competitions, but I'm not opposed to them either...If people want to enter their babies into them, then crack on! Obviously everyone thinks their DC is the most beautiful human being on the planet when in fact there really are a lot of ugly babies out there, its when parents go the whole hog and start entering their toddlers into proper beauty pageants (I'm talking 3 year olds with spray tans and fake eyelashes strutting about looking like baby prostitutes) that really gets my back up!!

Whiskwarrior · 09/06/2015 19:55

The descriptions of people's babies on here are killing me.

Squashed trolls.
Bulldog
Potato
Sontaran.

I always say that DS1 looked like a boiled chicken as a baby and DS2 had a head/face like the baby in Ice Age.

I don't feel so bad about it now Grin

AtomicDog · 09/06/2015 22:58

Oh, I didn't tell anyone he looked like a potato they had eyes in their heads Grin

AuntieStella · 09/06/2015 23:08

All babies are beautiful, by definition.

Even though they all look like Winston Churchill/William Hague/Phil Mitchell.

Or the classic 'howling orange in a wig'

MummyPidge · 09/06/2015 23:15

Well I entered my dd and didn't get anywhere so it's obviously a rubbish competition Grin I get told umpteen times a day that she is beautiful and gorgeous and pretty, They don't however see her at 3am when she is screaming blue murder at me. Or in the photo my sister just took where she looks like a pickled onion!

geekymommy · 10/06/2015 18:28

What does it say about me that I thought this was a competition for who has the skinniest baby, and that while I was appalled, I wasn't particularly shocked?

Angel1983 · 10/06/2015 19:01

Bony baby? dies GrinGrin

molyholy · 10/06/2015 19:11

They are so naff.

Nibledbyducks · 10/06/2015 21:20

I came second in the Swansea bonny baby contest in 1980, apparently I would have come first but my head was a weird shape, (my head is still a weird shape Sad )

Squirrel78 · 10/06/2015 22:17

I'm sorry but if you watch that shite you're asking to be offended! It's utter drivel and this is scraping the barrel!!

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