As far as Toddlers and Tiaras moms go, this one isn’t as bad as most. She has a son with a two foot rattail, but at least she’s not bleaching her children’s teeth, dressing them up like hookers or giving them Botox and bikini waxes. (That we know of.) Pageant mom Katie tells the camera that she had her two kids, a boy and a girl, specifically so she could put them in pageants. Her son Bob, 6, and daughter Riley, 5, are both little stars and they draw their inspiration from drag queens like RuPaul, according to their mom. They’ve even been to a few drag shows to learn how to be fierce. Well, they’re giving credit where it’s due really. E! has a good recap of last night’s season opener along with a longer clip (honestly I didn’t watch the whole show.):

It’s the holiday season and Toddlers & Tiaras is the gift that keeps on giving.

In the season opener, we meet pageant mom Katie, who tells us: “I had the children so we could do the pageants.”

And where do she and hubby Robert find inspiration for their kids’ talent routines? Why, drag queens, of course!

“We have taken our children to several drag shows,” Katie tells us. “We take a lot of our inspiration from RuPaul. He’s our favorite queen.”

But of course. And kids Bob, 6, and Riley, 5, seem pretty happy with learning how to be fierce. Bob even lets mom glue fake eyelashes on him for fun.

Alas, Katie agreed to her hubby’s nixing of RuPaul as the music selection for Riley’s talent routine, so she is quite upset when another child contestant puts some bass in her walk with Ru’s “Cover Girl.”

Then again, there’s always Lady Gaga, right, Katie? “I’ve had her perform ‘Poker Face’ on the bar at Applebee’s,” she says of daughter Riley, causing the offscreen interviewer to do a double take.

“It’s not like people threw dollars at her or anything,” the mom rationalizes. “She’s not a stripper.”

[From E! Online]

I’ve been to a few drag shows and they may or may not be appropriate for kids. It just depends on if they’re raunchy, campy or both. I like this mom’s attitude, though. She’s like “whatever, the drag queens are fierce, I deliberately had kids to turn them into little mini queens.” I wonder if this is all she does for a living. She probably made her daughter dance on the bar at Applebees so that she could distract everyone while she raided the bartender’s tip jar and stuck a bottle of Smirnoff under her coat.