I’ve always found the whole idea of beauty pageants unsettling at the best of times and I didn’t think they could get much worse than the competitions held for very small children and babies. How wrong I was. This footage shows the Hungarian Miss Plastic Hungary beauty contest, where all the participants have undergone surgery [...]

Have you been watching Baby Beauty Queens, the new programme on BBC3? It follows young girls and their families as they enter the UK’s first American style beauty pageant for small girls – Mini Miss UK. The programme is fairly shocking, showing 9 year old girls getting fake tans, wearing lipstick and even getting plastic [...]