https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:09:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-388245 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:36:03 +0000 808love 388245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: so I was inspired by your post and sent pics in to an agency this past week. We got called in for an interview on Tuesday and today I got word LO was picked up on an exclusive contract. The agency is legit and pretty selective so I'm excited. I wouldn't do pageants and we will do it as long as it is fun for all of us. Anyway, thanks for the motivation! I thought I messaged earlier, maybe in another thread, your babe is such a cutie! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-366145 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:44:18 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 366145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>that's cool! yeah, i'd do modeling for lil' CB for stuff like that. or gapkids or crewcuts, but only if he enjoyed it. he doesn't mind my taking pictures of him, so i think he'd have fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-366138 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:40:44 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 366138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We model for Ergo baby, but it's a family affair. The kids go into baby wearing while we wander around with them. We wouldn't do it if the kids had to "work". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-366096 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:23:46 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 366096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the type of modeling that C does too! That top picture is AMAZING! She is such a beautiful baby.</p> <p>I wouldn't put LO in paegants, and I probably wouldn't have her be a model either.</p> <p>She is going to be in a retail catalogue next year modeling baby clothes, but that is only because we know a gal who is one of the stylists and she needed a cute baby. It's probably a one time thing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-366089 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:20:33 +0000 Mrs. Pen 366089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cute!!</p> <p>I saw someone who did that on Etsy - she traded modeling/photos for the items. I thought of doing that :)</p> <p>I wouldn't mind if my child got into modeling as long as I/they didn't go too overboard with it. I always wanted to be a model as a teen and in pageants when I was younger and my mom wouldn't let me. I guess I see why but I was really disappointed she never gave me a chance. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-366007 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:53:02 +0000 Honeybee 366007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's such a beautiful baby. :) Really gorgeous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365877 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:35:08 +0000 Katm558 365877@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we lived out by LA when DS1 was a baby we were constantly told we should try to get him an agent. I just brushed it off until I encountered a woman who told us that her kids do it, nd by the age of 7 her daughter had enough money to pay for college! I discussed it with DH and we decided to send in some pictures to an agency that I heavily researched. </p> <p>DS1 was actually asked to join the agency and we went on three castings, and got a booking with a major infant line retailer. The shoot and castings were super easy and really nothing different than what I do at home with my constant picture taking. The thing I hated were the other parents we encountered. At the booking one family kept on bragging about all the jobs their son had been on and would badger us about what we had done with DS1. I was so turned off by that experience that I decided to drop the agency.</p> <p>We have moved to FL now and I don't regret getting into modeling because it gave us a tiny bit of money for DS1's college fund, and it was something really unique to put in his baby book. I haven't thought any more about it, but we were recently stopped by a recruiter, and they've been contacting me to get him in their agency. If I hadn't have met such unsavory people before, I probably would continue doing it do we could save up more money for college. But as previous people have said, kids just need to be kids, and I want my kids to play and learn, not to work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365851 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:20:38 +0000 Foodnerd81 365851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Modeling like you are doing-- on your own time, at home, no chance of rejection, I would do. But I wouldn't want to do anything to the point where they knew they were being rejected, like PrincessBaby said.<br /> My sister brought my nephew to an open call and they had a call back but nothing came of it, and she was actually kind of insulted, so decided it would be better to not do it again. My nephew had no clue but my sister did NOT like someone telling her that someone else was cuter than her baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365836 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:11:50 +0000 SugarplumsMom 365836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Modeling for cute headgear, I'd totally do! But no pageants for her. I have a friend with a daughter that's part of a large agency that does shoots for TCP and H&amp;M. From her pictures, it seems like fun! Just a bunch of kids hanging out. If it is like this, I wouldn't mind, it might even be a good way for DD to interact with other kids, a big plus is if they speak English! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365821 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:01:10 +0000 Sammyfab 365821@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd totally be ok with some casual modelling. But pageants? No way! They are creepy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365781 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:30:39 +0000 yoursilverlining 365781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A big NO to pageants and formal/regular modeling. I want to encourage E to get ahead on her brains, not her looks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365779 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:29:34 +0000 chopsuey 365779@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cute!!<br /> I would have my LOs do modeling for baby gap, Benetton, etc. no pageants though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365776 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:27:57 +0000 regberadaisy 365776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I *think* I would be ok with the level you're doing with C but I'm not sure. I'm just incredibly paranoid.</p> <p>But def no on pageants of any kind.</p> <p> Someone did a guest post a while back on children modeling where they tried it out. Would be fun to try it out for like H&amp;M, United Colors of Benetton or Zara. But nothing full term, kids need to just be kids.</p> <p>People keep telling us to send pictures of M because she has a unique face. Hm not so sure about that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365775 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:26:19 +0000 PrincessBaby 365775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>C is so adorable!!!! I would totally do the same thing with Harper if the situation ever presented itself - just to get the free loot;)</p> <p>She would have to ask me to do pageants or regular modeling. </p> <p>When I was younger, my mom liked to make us do pageants. They're fun if you win stuff, but when you don't win anything, it's earth-shattering to a child. I remember that awful feeling of watching other girls get crowns and trophies and me not really getting anything. It was so devastating! It would break my heart to put my daughter through that heartbreak that I've felt firsthand! It's so terrible to by "judged" and get deemed not pretty or special enough. </p> <p>Not to mention that I remember being older at pageants, like junior high, and seeing the younger girls get scolded or yelled at by their parents for not doing what they were supposed to on stage, and once I even saw a little girl get spanked because of it. It just turned me off altogether from pageants and I swore I'd never put my child through that torture. But if she asked me, I would let her try it and see how she felt about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365760 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:12:42 +0000 loveisstrange 365760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@artbee: Yep, I get to keep everything! Sometimes I do pay for the items (very discounted) but sometimes I get them free!</p> <p>@Grace: It is very low key, for sure. They send me stuff and I snap pictures of her! </p> <p>I don't think I have any issues with the "natural" pageants. I think I would allow C to do one if she came and asked to do it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365725 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:40:36 +0000 mrsjyw 365725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the type of modeling adorable C does! :)</p> <p>I don't like the pageants that overdo the womanizing on lil babies and toddlers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365713 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:21:13 +0000 Grace 365713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Kind of creeps me out actually. 3yo dressed to the nines and smothered in makeup.... But, I like the modelling your baby does. Helps super small businesses and looks to be quite low key! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365696 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:56:40 +0000 mediagirl 365696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. I'm not a fan of it and never had any interest in it as a child or adult. As much as I (like most parents, I'm sure) think my child is the most beautiful child in the world) I don't think I would put her through modeling or pageants. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365686 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:27:54 +0000 heffalump 365686@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Those are adorable! Do you get to keep the headbands? I would totally do that! </p> <p>For the most part DH isn't a fan of modeling and pageants, and I don't have much of an opinion on it so I don't fight it either way. I see a lot of facebook contests where my friends will try to get their baby to win something, and I don't try to do that because I feel like it's just a popularity contest and I don't want to beg my friends to vote for my LO every day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/modeling-and-pageants#post-365675 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:51:27 +0000 loveisstrange 365675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Would you ever enroll your infant/child into modeling or pageants? Why or why not?</p> <p>C and I dabble in a little bit of modeling. I have her enrolled in a modeling service on facebook and she models items for WAHM boutiques. I don't know that we would ever really take it further. They send us things like bows, headbands, tutus, shoes, etc and I take pictures of her wearing them and send them back. She wears her own clothes and I feel like it gives me incentive to take tons of pictures of her. It also gives me a chance to practice my editing skills. Plus, then we have lots of fun stuff! I've gotten some really nice items from it. </p> [attach=1353/12/mcni5t.600x400.IMG_2075-copy-2.jpg] [attach=1353/12/mcni5w.600x400.Knit-Knacks--14-.jpg] [attach=1353/12/mcni5y.600x400.IMG_2725.jpg] [attach=1353/12/mcni61.400x600.IMG_2829.jpg] [attach=1353/12/mcni62.600x400.Cherry-on-Top--14-.jpg]