Consequences

• Beauty pageants are not only unethical because of the treatment and value system, but also because of the consequences they have on the participants.  Pageants can have very strong emotional consequences on its participants, particularly the young girls. For example former child beauty queen Brooke Breedwell suffered anxiety and stress at only 10 years old.  Brooke stated in an ABC News interview, "I feel the need to be perfect at everything, and I know that's not realistic. You can't be perfect at everything”  Due to the vast about of stress, she quit the pageant circuit at 10 years old. 

• There has also been a study conducted on whether there is a relationship on beauty pageant participants and eating disorders and mental health.  The study was conducted by Anna L. Wonderlich, Diann M. Ackard and Judith B. Henderson, they gathered 11 women who had been in the beauty pageants circuit and 11 women who had not, and compared the two groups.  The studies found that there was a relationship between the 11 beauty pageant participants and eating disorders.  The study also showed that the former beauty queens had a higher body dissatisfaction, interpersonal distrust and impulse dysregulation than non-participants.