Camel Beauty Pageant Finally Determines Who Is the Hottest Camel
The contestants in the Saudi Arabian Miss Camel pageant must exhibit an “untouched natural beauty.” With about 50,000 entrants, that’s a lot of natural camel prancing down the runway.
Trump's Miss USA Winner Names 'Race Relations' as Most Important Issue
The Miss USA pageant, which aired last night on the Reelz channel after being dropped by NBC and Univision, did its almighty best to distance itself from pageant owner Donald Trump’s incendiary blatherings regarding Mexican immigrants—and indeed, from Trump himself, who did not attend the competition in Baton Rouge,…
Plastic Surgery Means Many Beauty Queens, But Only One Kind of Face
At first glance, the images of the contestants in the 2013 Miss Korea pageant seem like a trick of the eye: Wait, are some of these the same person with different hair? At second glance, it's clear that there are different women in each photo, but they have very similar features.
You Think I Own a Vase That's Gonna Hold All Those?
[Caen, France, December 4: Laory Thillman receives a gigantic bouquet of flowers after becoming Miss France 2011. Image via AP.]
Indian City To Host Transgender Beauty Pageant
Chennai, India will host the first Miss India pageant for transgender people. The pageant will award prizes for Miss Beautiful Hair, Miss Beautiful Eyes and Miss Beautiful Skin, and "people from different walks of life" will judge. [Times of India]
GMA Lets Viewers Judge Whether Aussie Beauty Queen Is "Too" Thin
On this morning's GMA, eliminated Australian Miss Universe contestant Stephanie Naumoska denied accusations that she is too thin. Then Diane Sawyer held up a plate in order to judge Naumoska's idea of a moderate portion.
Outraged Aussies Say Miss Universe Contestant Is "Skin And Bones"
As Americans freak about the Miss California/gay marriage debacle, Australians are having their own beauty pageant controversy: many are complaining that a finalist in the Miss Universe contest is too thin and possibly malnourished.
88 Minutes Of Alaska Gold
Radar just put up a YouTube video — actual video! — of Governor Sarah Palin competing in a beauty pageant contest back in 1984. While there isn't much to laugh at — she's simply a beautiful young woman in a pink swimsuit and the ability to pivot seamlessly (unlike her latest forays in front of the camera) — the…
Morten Traavik, the Norwegian theater director who created a beauty pageant for female landmine victims called "Miss Landmine," is coming under criticism for exploiting the women and creating a "freak show". Traavik responds that he is helping the victims and is "fed up" with pictures of Africans and Cambodians in…
Siberian Inmates Compete For Prettiest Prisoner
"A woman should always be beautiful," says Natalya Khapova, 26 (pictured at left). "Not just outside the fence. Even if she's in here, she should show her beauty. A woman is everything gentle and wonderful - or she should be." The "fence" Khapova speaks of? The one separating her from the population at large. See,…
Don't The Miss America Contestants Have Better Talents?
The Miss America pageant airs live this Saturday night at 8pm on TLC (we'll be liveblogging it!), and as you may know, this year, producers are trying to update and modernize the contest. The original pageant, begun in 1921, was basically something to entertain vacationers on the boardwalk in Atlantic City: Women…
