Big hair, excessive makeup, fake smiles, expensive dresses and jewelry, and the obsessive pageant mom who is basically trying to live her life through her daughter. The pictures shown on the televisions sets in the homes of America were what showed America what pageants were all about, but maybe it was Ramsey's mom, how she was a beauty queen once, and pushed her daughter so hard, maybe that's when America began to see what some girls go through with their mothers. One reason that some pageant moms are so hard on their daughters, is because they were once in pageants themselves, maybe they didn't win, and are trying to win now through their daughters, and maybe some were winners themselves, and expect their daughters to be just as good if not better than them. Either way, one reason some pageant moms are they way that they are is due to the fact that they were once in pageants themselves, and maybe what their mothers said and did to them carried over to them, and now they are expressing the same actions towards their daughters. Which proves the point that it will have long-term affects on girl in the pageant, it may just in fact lead to themselves being that way with their own daughters one day. On VH1's Driven: Presents Stage Moms, the personal account of a young boy reveals how much "pageant moms" can really relate to their name. " She knows she's washed up and that's why she lives her life through his." (VH1: About The Episode) On the same episode a young girl wants to become a star, as every young girl dreams of, but her mother insists, " she has to shake that Staten Island image-including the accent." Honestly, what does that tell a young girl? It tells her that she doesn't look good enough to become a star, a little work needs done, and that her voice doesn't cut it, it has to go. Maybe while she is young it will go unnoticed, but when she grows older, she will think back to herself and wonder why her mother didn't think she looked the part or sounded the part, and wonder why she was never quite good enough, and she always had to change something about herself.