I see a lot of that pageant culture living here in the South. To a trainer with no scruples, pageant girls are easy pickin's. They are already insecure with daddy complexes, they usually have domineering hystrionic mothers who are secretly hostile that they were never beauty queens (who incidentally also want to compete for the trainers attention as well), and they have such fragile egos that you could take a girl who looks perfect in every way and tell her you could "get her in shape" and she would read off a laundry list of her flaws that need improvement. To hear them describe themselves you would think that the mere glance at them could turn someone into stone.
Early in my training career I started to get a bunch of pageant girls. Since I got good results more started showing up, and I hated training them. They were whiney, generally had pretty negative attitudes and extremely low self esteems, and their parents were unbearable. I started referring them to another trainer in town.
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