Danielle Kirby was 18 when she and her mom, Tedi Kirby, appeared on the 2021 TLC special “Toddlers & Tiaras: Where Are They Now?” Danielle was preparing for the Miss Las Vegas Teen USA pageant at the time, and viewers also learned that she was considering becoming a cosmetologist like her mother. [39:10] However, on her blog, Danielle revealed that she instead ended up landing a job she absolutely adored: working as a personal assistant for the founder of the Beauty Kitchen skincare company.
Danielle’s self-confidence hadn’t diminished a bit. “I love myself; I love my body; I love everything about me,” she said. “Everybody should be blessed with a big ego.” However, when she appeared on the “Spirituality and Self-Love in the Modern World” podcast in 2021, she admitted to being hurt by the negative feedback she received for her “Toddlers & Tiaras” appearance. “I felt like the world hated me,” she said.
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According to Danielle, editing was to blame for making her look brattier than she actually was. The little boy she was filmed hitting was her younger brother, who had been trying to pull rhinestones off her pageant dress. And when she threatened to trash her hotel room if she didn’t win, she revealed that this idea was suggested to her by producers after they spent 45 minutes interviewing her. Danielle explained that she was just sarcastically repeating the line back to them. “They forced that out of me,” she said.
