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'Bonny Baby' competitions - are they for real??

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paolosgirl · 01/12/2004 22:59

I'm in shock! A friend of mine has just announced that she entered her baby into one of these competitions. Her baby won, and she was ecstatic, and although I tried not to show the horror I felt, I don't know if I managed. I find them truly awful - but am I taking it too seriously?

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SenoraPostrophe · 01/12/2004 23:07

dunno - I don´t like them, but I can´t say I´m "horrified". I thought they´d gone out of fashion though?

I remember being in a "beauty" contest at the age of 10 in a holiday camp. They said it was about "personality" though (and I remember thinking at the time that actually I´d rather be told I was ugly than had a crap personality). I don´t imagine that happens much now.

moondog · 01/12/2004 23:07

Well I think that they are creepy. How the hell do you judge one baby over another? Our local paper has big competitions of this sort. I often wonder who goes in for them...

MaryChristmas · 01/12/2004 23:09

Ye gawd they are horrid things.
And I'm a very easy going person too.

Gobbledigoose · 01/12/2004 23:15

Hmm, don't like them myself either. SIL came 2nd in Miss Pears in the 70's and obviously MIL is very proud, as any parent would be, but I just kind of think, so?

It's good enough for me that I think my boys are scrumbly pies - don't want to be parading them about in the papers etc.

Tommy · 01/12/2004 23:16

Our local paper has them and the one who gets the most votes, wins. So, it all depends on how many people you know!

merrymarthamoo · 01/12/2004 23:18

I don't like them either - I know my boys are gorgeous, don't need it confirming by some local rag!

tinselwinselspiderclimbedupthe · 01/12/2004 23:18

Yes they still do do them. I had to judge one a few years ago at a village fete.... as I was the only girl in our group it meant I was qualified WTF????? I personally I hate them and was really embarrassed at having to judge (with two others). We gave the prize ( a baby carrier/backpack) to the mother we all thought would use it most tho. I kinda cheated cos Id been chatting to her earlier and she had said how much she wanted one but couldnt afford it. All the other mothers had really nice prams so I thougth What the hell. I mean how do you judge??????

JoolsTide · 01/12/2004 23:20

They're not for me - every mother thinks their baby is beautiful - you don't need a competition to prove it!

(ok if you want to do tho!)

Gobbledigoose · 01/12/2004 23:20

Like it!! What a brill way to judge!!

tinselwinselspiderclimbedupthe · 01/12/2004 23:50

Luckily for me the other two judges were as embarrassed and uneasy as I was so it was as good a way as any. Still squirm tho just thinking about it.

InDulciJulieF · 02/12/2004 00:04

Our local paper does them. I entered dd but only to get a nice photo (you turn up at local shopping centre get a phot taken then go back a week later to choose and buy).

It is judged by public vote, hence my cousin's dd won one year and today I found out her sisters ds won this year. They have a HUGE circle of family and friends and get everyone to vote.

merrymarthamoo · 02/12/2004 17:06

I was thinking about this thread in bed last night (yes, I know, I'm a sad, sad little woman) and I remembered I have actually voted in a Bonny baby competition. It was in the Manchester Evening News and my friend emailed me and said she'd entered her ds and could I phone vote for him. I had to buy the newspaper to get the number- trawled through about 4 pages of baby pics to find her ds. Then I noticed one little baby boy who had a facial disfigurement - hare lip/cleft palate it looked like. So I voted for him instead.

That's why it's all so ridiculous - all babies are beautiful.

codswallop · 02/12/2004 17:58

I hate htem and said so when someone was wanting us to vote for her kid on here
I said att he time it was crap and think I was booed out
nothing changes then!

cupcakes · 02/12/2004 18:08

There was one recently in our local paper. One mum entered her twin daughters but only one made it through to the final - !!!! Imagine being that 'slightly less attractive twin' for the rest of her life!

Gobbledigoose · 02/12/2004 18:15

cupcakes - that's terrible!

Gobbledigoose · 02/12/2004 18:19

Anyway, I'd never enter one because I'd just feel sorry for all other babies that didn't win

InDulciJulieF · 02/12/2004 23:03

Apparently my cousin whose dd won ran up a phone bill of 100 quid voting!

TheHollyAndTheTwiglett · 03/12/2004 15:49

I have really ugly babies

Gobbledigoose · 03/12/2004 16:09

LOL!!

ChristmasCracker · 03/12/2004 16:32

My dd's have been in them before but only so i could get the piccie, i didn't actually vote for them.

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