Cartwright tells us in Child Beauty Pageants: What Are We Teaching Our Girls? most girls are often dressed in adult clothing and it is not just in pageants. This like many other things commonly affect the girl’s self-esteem, body image, and self-worth. Dancers and performers are the ones with eating disorders because they are trained at a young age, they are also the type of people who have unrealistic goals for their body. Beauty pageants, models, dancers and others that are in competitions are trained to be flawless, and if that means giving up something important like education to be the best they can: it won’t stop them. Most people in the fashion industry believe you can’t have both beauty and brains. Cartwright tells a story of a client
