Child beauty pageants make a lot of people uncomfortable, but even for defenders of the practice this may be crossing a line.
Mother-of-two Liane was featured in a recent Channel 5 documentary about child pageants called Blinging up Baby.
She has dedicated herself to entering her two daughters, six-year old Bessie-Sue and four-year-old Scarlett, into these pageants.
Liane has been heavily criticized for dressing up her Scarlett like a waitress from Hooters, an American restaurant known for its voluptuous servers and revealing uniforms.
Questions have also been raised over the dance routine Liane taught the four-year-old for the contest.
"Some people may say it is controversial, especially the theme that I have chosen," Liane says "But at the end of the day little girls wear swimming costumes to the beach all summer and that's not a controlled environment."
"The environment my kids go in is a controlled environment and it is ticket-entry only, so if anyone thinks it's controversial then please explain because it ain't at all."
When asked about whether she is forcing her daughters to participate in these contests, Liane admits she may be living vicariously through them.
"[Scarlett] would probably be a tomboy if I let her," says Liane. "I suppose that's what I'm influencing onto them, that they don't do everything wrong that I did when growing up,"
