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All kinds of beauty pageants take place around the world. For the most beautiful mother, fitness instructor and last but not least for the most beautiful little girl.
But what do these contests entail for the youngest?
The beauty of women has been the most valued since the dawn of humanity. Women were depicted in paintings and sculptures; in the Middle Ages men fought to the death for the favor of a beautiful woman.
Although today men no longer fight in tournaments for a beautiful woman, beauty pageants are still very popular and are held across the world. Eden Wood also took part in such contests. She started at the age of 6.
She won more than 300 contests across America
Instead of running around the playground with her friends, playing with dolls, riding a bike, rollerblading, going to school and doing all those ordinary mischiefs little girls usually do, she went to tanning salons, learned to use make-up, wear hair extensions and high heels.
By the time she was 12 she was already so well-known that magazines wrote about her as the most beautiful American. She later wrote a book called “From the Stroller to the Crown”. There she describes her difficult road to fame and her lost childhood.
And what does she look like today?
She no longer competes and is no longer interested in beauty pageants. She sees her future more in modeling, acting and dancing.
She hopes to make use of the years of hard preparation and finally live her own life. She tries to forget the years of child pageants and hides her beauty pageant trophies.
See what a beautiful young woman she has grown into
On her website she tries to help current little girls who are going through what she went through.
Who would understand them better than a former multiple-time winner.
