Beauty Queen Profiles: October 2009 Archives

This Carrie Prejean drama just will not end: Apparently, the Miss California pageant is counter-suing the shamed former title-holder (who is suing THEM because she believes that she was dethroned due to her position on gay marriage) because she hasn't paid back the money they loaned her. For a... breast augmentation. Um. Okay. First a breast implants-related injury at Miss Plastic, now this?? I sort of think that if Miss California USA is going to practice such ridiculous policies, they should just deal with the consequences. Also? It does not take a genius to know that "oral agreements" carry basically zero weight. Make a real contract next time you give a 21-year-old 5 grand for fake boobs and expect her to pay you back! Just saying. 

This weekend, at the Miss Plastic competition (a beauty pageant in which all contestants have had breast implants and facelifts), 23-year-old woman fell off the stage because she was too top-heavy. Apparently, she had not yet grown accustomed to her newly enlarged breasts, and also because her hair extensions got in her eyes. Um. Actually, I guess that those are two understandable hurdles, and for that reason I feel bad for the girl. She tore a ligament! And, um, talk about humiliating. BUT, more importantly, what was a 23-year-old woman doing getting a facelift?! This Miss Plastic thing totally confounds me. Women in their 20s getting breast implants is not, I guess, so unusual these days. (Although personally, I would not in a million years put my own body through the medical risk. But then again, as you may have noticed, I'm a fan of a sort of gamine androgyny when it comes to fashion -- so my board-flat figure suits my sartorial preferences.) But getting facelifts?! What a sad, and scary concept. Sad because, you know, feminism, etc. Scary, because:


Think about the future, ladies!!

Looks like Miss California USA will doing away with the famed swimsuit UNIFORM this year -- but the ever-controversial portion of the evening will  remain. So instead of having all of the competitors wear the same suit, Miss Cali 2010 contenders will be able to choose from a variety of designs from one yet-to-be-named designer. (Too bad Sherri Hill doesn't make bathing attire!) Even weirder, there will be TWO winners of the pageant this year. Normally I would find that surprising, but judging from what happened with Ms. Carrie Prejean last year... I guess a backup can't hurt? What do you guys think? Leave your comments below!

Wow. This is some crazy business. Two days after having been crowned the first-ever non-black winner of Hampton University's annual beauty pageant, 22-year-old Nikole Churchill actually wrote a letter to... President Obama? Asking that he chide her black classmates for walking out of the ceremony after she won, and for making "negative comments regarding [her] win."