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I admit it, I not only watch 鈥淭oddlers & Tiaras,鈥� I have rooted for the Shirley-Temple-from-a- reverse-engineered-universe, Alana Thompson a.k.a Honey Boo Boo Child, even as I cringed at every word that came out of her and her mother鈥檚 mouths. While her TLC show doesn鈥檛 interest me much, her success and spirit do.

Honey Boo Boo Child 鈥� call her HB2C 鈥� is age six and her family (mom 聽June, dad Sugar Bear, 12-year-old sister Lauryn 鈥淧umpkin,鈥� 15-year-old sister Jessica 鈥淐hubbs,鈥� and 17-year-old pregnant sister Anna 鈥淐hickadee鈥�) have run over the modern parenting mold in a muddy SUV, backed over it and then jumped off and rolled in the remains.

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I think that鈥檚 what anyone who has tried to succeed within the model of perfection in both body image and parenting technique find a guilty pleasure to watch.

Writing anything positive about this child is a social test because of her regional dialect and choice of what some, like Salon, have termed her "racist" adaptation of a "sassy black women." She may not be aware of these perceptions. But if they ever sport the Confederate flag or utter a racist word I will never watch the network again.

The first thing your brain screams at June Thompson as she pours 鈥渟pecial juice,鈥� a cocktail of RedBull and Mountain Dew is, 鈥淵ou鈥檙e doing it wrong!鈥� It鈥檚 screaming because the sound has to travel over the war whoop the hindbrain is making as HB2C struts her stuff with reckless abandon and Puckish pleasure as she waves her hand along her chubby sides saying, 鈥淟ook at aaaallll a this!鈥� Then she makes her chunky midsection 鈥渢alk鈥� as she squeezes her bellybutton and tosses out a one-liner you repeat for two weeks afterwards.

This child is happy in her own skin, no matter how much of it there is. That鈥檚 because her whole family is both overweight and nonchalant about it. They are certainly not going to get on the cheap-shot wagon alongside those bashing Amerca鈥檚 fittest by calling some of the female Olympic athletes 鈥渇at鈥� or 鈥渉eavy鈥� as some critics recently have.

You are more likely to see this family beaning each other with rolls of paper towels, leaping into mud pits and laughing out loud, than looking over their shoulders and worrying about who鈥檚 standing there with a tape measure to size them up, down, or around.

In both the mini beauty queen and home environment shows, the mom announces to the world, 鈥淪ome people are gonna love us and some are gonna hate us, and we don鈥檛 care what anybody thinks.鈥�

No, I can鈥檛 stand that the mom swears in front of the kids and gives a child 鈥渟pecial juice.鈥� And I am not a fan of teen pregnancy.

However, for now HB2C is an undeniable instant hit for her BooBooisims such as 鈥淎 dallah make me holla鈥� in a bad economy.

Unlike other little pageant girls, I don鈥檛 think the child is told what to say by media-savvy hired coaches, but simply repeating and putting her own South Georgia spin on what she hears her self-styled extreme 鈥淐oupon Queen鈥� mom say.

Through all the tacky and wacky, and beneath all the mud in which they both roll and have slung at them, it鈥檚 still a relief to see a genuinely happy, well adjusted child who dreams of being a princess on her own terms.