{"id":52427,"date":"2012-08-17T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=52427"},"modified":"2012-10-26T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T19:43:24","slug":"mother-might-lose-custody-of-daughter-over-toddlers-tiaras-pageants-997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/mother-might-lose-custody-of-daughter-over-toddlers-tiaras-pageants-997\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Might Lose Custody Of Daughter Over ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ Pageants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turns out my joke had some truth to it. Madisyn Verst<\/strong> was one of the stars of TLC’s “Toddlers & Tiaras” last year. She was known for her Dolly Parton<\/strong> outfit — featuring fake ta-tas and padded bum. Her mother’s costuming was so over-the-top that it inspired People<\/em> magazine cover featured here (“Gone Too Far?”).<\/p>\n

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It turns out mother Lindsay Jackson<\/strong> may have gone too far — at least in the eyes of government officials. At a court hearing in Campbell County today, she could lose custody of Maddy to to father Bill Verst<\/strong>, who is requesting full custody<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201dI\u2019ve done nothing wrong, by way of being a mother, I\u2019m a great mother,\u201d Jackson told\u00a0FOXNews.com<\/a>\"\"

Jackson claims that her ex-husband is using Maddy\u2019s participation in child beauty pageants as a reason for the court to award him full custody.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But she may lose custody. A court-appointed psychologist recommends that the father be made primary custodian.<\/p>\n

In coming to the recommendation, the psychologist writes over 3,000 words condemning Maddy\u2019s participation in child beauty pageants, specifically citing her Dolly Parton number on \u201dToddlers & Tiaras\u201d and photographs of Maddy dressed as \u201dsexy police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dObviously, if I had know that this Dolly thing was going to be an issue, I wouldn\u2019t have done it, especially on national TV,\u201d said Jackson. \u201dI never intended for it to be a negative costume it was costume designed to represent our state. Dolly\u2019s from Tennessee, so that\u2019s what I did. As far as the police outfit goes, it\u2019s nothing more than a pair of shorts and a shirt that says, \u201d\u02dcBad cop, no donut\u2019 on the back. You can buy it for retail as a Halloween costume and it\u2019s more revealing than what Madisyn was wearing. That outfit was never intended on being sexualized. (The court-appointed psychologist) thinks it is, but that\u2019s a matter of opinion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think any of us know the particulars of this family situation sufficient to weigh in on who should have custody, but I wouldn’t mind this serving as a cautionary tale against putting your kids in these pageants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since “Toddlers & Tiaras” first aired, I’ve joked that I’m going to call Child Protective Services on these…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1477,195,4224,98],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Childrearing"},{"value":6,"label":"Stuff"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1477,"label":"beauty pageant mom"},{"value":195,"label":"beauty pageants"},{"value":4224,"label":"custody"},{"value":98,"label":"divorce"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mollie Hemingway","author_link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/author\/mhemingway\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Childrearing","slug":"childrearing","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Get childrearing advice and read blog articles about how to raise your kids. Get advice for moms on how to be a good parent.\r\n","parent":0,"count":5343,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":5343,"category_description":"Get childrearing advice and read blog articles about how to raise your kids. Get advice for moms on how to be a good parent.\r\n","cat_name":"Childrearing","category_nicename":"childrearing","category_parent":0},{"term_id":6,"name":"Stuff","slug":"stuff","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":8931,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":8931,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Stuff","category_nicename":"stuff","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1477,"name":"beauty pageant mom","slug":"beauty-pageant-mom","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1538,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":195,"name":"beauty pageants","slug":"beauty-pageants","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":195,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":10,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":4224,"name":"custody","slug":"custody","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4289,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":98,"name":"divorce","slug":"divorce","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":98,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":181,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}