14 DAY TRIAL // This will probably provide fuel to the fire that's already burning: Eden Wood, the 7-year-old beauty queen from TLC's reality show “Toddlers & Tiaras,” admits in a new interview that she has just one friend in the world whose name she knows.
Eden is known both for her debut song “Cutie Patootie” and for her attitude that reveals that, many a time, education did not come first to mind where her momager was concerned, but rather the desire to win as many kiddie pageants as possible.
She is now promoting her first reality show, after dropping out of pageants at the “ripe” age of 6, as we also informed you last week.
In the April 30 print issue of InTouch Magazine (story via Jezebel, which has the scans), Eden admits that she only has one friend whose name she remembers.
She also talks about other things – like why she hates Justin Bieber, and what she aims to accomplish with the new show – but it's this admission that basically confirms what “Toddlers & Tiaras” critics have been saying all along: parents are robbing these girls of their childhood when they enroll them in kiddie pageants.
“Play in the mud!” Eden says when the interviewer asks her which is her favorite activity when she's not laying the foundations of a business empire she wants to rival with Oprah Winfrey's.
“I have girlfriends. One is named Abby, and I can’t remember the other one’s name,” the girl continues.
She says she doesn't like Justin Bieber, unlike millions of girls her age and older, because he's “gross” and says she has huge plans for herself for the future.
Eden even makes it sound as if she decided, all on her own, to quit competing in beauty pageants to try and launch a career in television and music.
“I thought it was time to move on. I want to mix it up, keep doin’ different things. I want to have my own brand of clothes. I want to be a singer, a movie star, and a pop star,” she says.
For the time being, though, she's working hard on her show, which will also feature her mom and will see her travel the world “mentoring” other kids in the industry.
“I help kids a lot. I’m tough on them sometimes,” she says.