'Toddlers & Tiaras' Mom Spent Fortune on Pageants [VIDEO]

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How Much Do Parents Spend on 'Toddlers & Tiaras' Pageants?

If you've ever watched Toddlers & Tiaras and you've seen the moms rattling off how much they spend on dresses and pageant fees, you can guess it's expensive.

One mom, however, has copped to spending $500,000 for her daughters to compete in pageants.

How outrageous is that?

Watch the Toddlers & Tiaras clip of Kelly, mom to 4-year-old twins Alycesaundra and Giavanna, who admits that the cost of doing pageants can really add up.

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Competing in pageants is so important to Kelly's "Tiara Twins," that she's willing to shell out $500,000 to make their dreams come true.

How does one spend that much for pageants? The girls get $8,000 dresses, a tour bus and bodyguards, to name just a few of the expenses.

Kelly shares, "Do you know any other kid that has an $8,000 dress? My kid has an $8,000 dress. So for me to expect her to give her best, I don't think is asking too much."

She adds, "Four years old is not too soon to learn that ... We do have an entourage that travels with us -- the girls have their own personal bodyguards. Their job is to keep 'em safe because they are little mini celebrities in the pageant world."

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Good. Lord.

What price fame and fortune?