'Toddlers & Tiaras' Mom Gives Dr. Drew a Taste of Go Go Juice
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Earlier this month, TLC came under heavy fire after airing footage of 6-year-old Alana apparently being doped during a beauty pageant show on “Toddlers & Tiaras.” The mystery of the Go Go Juice has just been solved.
Those not familiar with the TLC series should just know that it centers around moms and daughters who take part in kiddie beauty pageants.
June Holler from Virginia came to international media attention after she was shown giving Alana a drink she called the “Go Go Juice,” one that would make her more “lively” for the shows, as we also reported at the time.
Dr. Drew tested the beverage on one of his recent shows, as the video below will confirm.
June and Alana came on (with Alana in full makeup and costume mode), bringing along a bottle of the controversial concoction, which, until now, was believed to be either caffeine- or alcohol-based.
It turns out the former option is the correct one: Holler is giving her daughter a combination of Mountain Dew and Red Bull.
At the time the original episode of “Toddlers & Tiaras” (see the second video below, embedded at the end of the article) aired, Holler also insisted that she wasn't doing anything to harm her daughter, albeit many could argue now that giving her Red Bull isn't exactly healthy either.
“A lot of pageant moms and people know what the 'special juice' is, everybody has their different concoctions. Special juice is to help energize her,” she said at the time.
Every mom on kiddie beauty pageants have one such trick up their sleeve as well, it's a sort of trade secret, if you will.
“A lot of moms say, 'Oh, well you’re doping up your child,' well hey, no I’m not. I’m not hurting her. We have tried the pixie sticks that are known as 'pageant crack,' we went through 15 bags at one pageant and they just don't do anything for her,” Holler added.
she is totally nasty. her little girl does NOT have to try to show her belly, as this red neck yelled. this isnt toddlers as strippers. did she notice how people couldn't get away from her fast enough? by the way..we ALL saw her cry on camera when you kept yelling at her, perhaps YOU forgot the cameras were rolling during practice. Stick with coupons and eating. You ARE damaging your child. If not on go go juice, but by making her think she has to "show her belly". she seems like a sweet litle girl being bullied by an uneducated cow. I am more proud of my daughters brains, and she is a very beautiful woman with a new baby girl of her own. The pageant winners do not show thier "belly" or, classily, mid drift, until they are older.
I think its child abuse and child protective services should intervene!!
Comment #3.1 by: kc on 01 Feb 2012, 00:53 GMT
Agreed
Comment #3.2 by: honey on 01 Feb 2012, 04:13 GMT
child protective services should be an agency that is completely blown off the face of the earth. Its idiots like you who have nothing better to do then interfere in the lives of others. who are any of you to judge? its her kid back the F-off.
Comment #3.3 by: Britt on 08 Feb 2012, 20:03 GMT
Children aren't property, they're people like the rest of us. Caffeine is a SUBSTANCE that can become addictive and damage your body. Its idiots like you, honey, who are doing more damage than the actual people messing up. Get educated.
Comment #3.4 by: chrys148 on 08 Feb 2012, 21:29 GMT
You should be blown off this earth...get rid of child protective services...you are the biggest idiot ever. Obviously you have never seen a child 6 years old that has been abused so badly it takes weeks for their wounds to heal. or one that was starved to near death...so badly that their sibling did die due to severe starvation and only 4 years old.
This should be reported to protective services!!! There was a mom that lost coustody of her child for abuse by using soap in the mouth. This is no different in my book. They can both harm the child...and yes red bull can harm a child!
Let's see how she does in pageants when her teeth rot and fall out from all the sugar! And while you're at it go ahead and predispose her to diabetes and childhood obesity!! This makes me sick!
Comment #4.1 by: dinalynn on 01 Feb 2012, 04:40 GMT
oh my god this woman was horrible..the whole * family made me sick!! that kid is going to be about 200 lbs. by the time she hits 12...lets check back in with her then.
Comment #5 by: also a mom on 31 Jan 2012, 18:38 UTC
These moms that are giving their daughters Special Juice are telling these little girls that it's OK to have a drink, or a smoke or a pill. I think Toddlers and Tiars should be canceled. It's giving these little girls a totally skewed idea of themselves, the "real" world, and what kids that age should be doing - playing!!!
I watched this episode. Almost all the mothers are insane. Alana's mother is way above the insanity line. She's actually pushing her daughter to show her belly. Why? When Alana's mother danced to show her daughter the moves, she was disgusting. She's showing why there's the phrase "white trash southern woman". Also, a sane mother wouldn't give her daughter the "juice" so they "perform better". Alana should be taken away from her mother and her mother charged with child abuse. At one point in the episode, Alana was rehearsing on a stage, her mother was below the stage with a small baseball bat in her hand! I honestly thought this woman, on camera, would strike her daughter with it if she made a mistake. Did she use it as a reminder to Alana of what would happen if she didn't do her dance routine well?
I think child protective services should lock up these women. They are living vicariously through their young children giving these kids poor examples of how real women in the real world live their lives.
Comment #11 by: leggs5500 on 01 Feb 2012, 03:27 UTC
I'm a swim mom and my kids have been in a lot of sports where "enery drinks" are encouraged. I think it's crazy - by making your kids reliant on a beverage to win you aren't helping them develope the healthy habits and the self confidence to win on their own. Too many kids think that if they don't have the drink, they don't have an edge - what's next steroids?!?! (or diet pills for pagent girls??)
Comment #13 by: mamabear223 on 01 Feb 2012, 04:03 UTC
Children are the most precious, valuable asset that any parent could ever have. To see these beautiful children made to look and act like trashy lounge singers is deplorable. Children shouldn't need fake eyelashes and teeth and whatever else those nasty mothers can come up with the be cute. I am sure every sicko that has a thing for kids is tuning in. This is absolutely child abuse. These kids should be removed before the moms ( and I use that term lightly) can do any more damage.
There is nothing cuter than a little one missing there two front teeth, or their perfect innocence. These ladies are delusional if the think doing this is a good thing.
This creature is a disgusting, repulsive imitation of a human being who doesn't deserve to be called a mother. This is clearly child abuse! She is obviously trying to fulfill whatever dreams she ever had of being a "beauty queen" through this little girl. She certainly would never make it on her own! How can anyone use/abuse a child like this? What kind of a childhood is this child experiencing? She may not have any signs of physical abuse on her body, but the damage to her mind and her self-esteem are just as debilitating! It makes me angry enough to write this comment and to cry for that little girl.
This is the trashiest and dumbest thing I have ever seen. That girl was so annoying. I'll never get back the five minutes I spent watching this garbage!
This whole video/article sickens me. 1st.off- her daughter is to overweight; and not nearly cute enough to even be in this. shes way out of her league.All i can say is this is a shame. i actually wish they"de pull the whole show from tv. (and i am the mother of a gorgeous daughter.!} but its just not right.
These moms are the biggest selfish pieces of crap I've ever had the displeasure of reading about. Usually fat, over the hill, and lost on their own dreams, they have to turn their children into a second chance. This mom deserves child abuse charges. If your child is so tired u have to feed her caffeine and sugar to keep her awake, she probably shouldn't be doing what she's doing in the first place. Its about time someone took these moms down a peg. Isn't there any way to regulate some of thise awful pageant issues?? Come on government!
We have tried the pixie sticks that are known as 'pageant crack,' we went through 15 bags at one pageant and they just don't do anything for her,” Holler added...
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What the Pixie Stix are doing is setting her up to be a fat adult like her mother and probably diabetic as well. I find it sad that they will take obese kids from their parents and call it "abuse," but this crap is allowed to go on.
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