Asian pageants often perpetuate additional stereotypes, according to Nhi Lieu, a scholar who has studied Asian pageants.
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Still, Drucker said, trans pageants function in ways completely different from cisgender pageants, adopting the format in order to subvert it.
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" JonBenét performed in child beauty pageants in the time before her death, and Burke speculated in his interview that the culprit "saw her at one of the pageants.
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Prior to the late 60s, "ballroom culture" revolved around drag pageants that were more like fashion shows or beauty pageants than what we come to know a ball as today.
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It's the racial history of pageants that the "trifecta of black winners" perhaps highlights the most, said Ashley Nkadi, a former Miss Black Ohio who has written about the pageants' past.
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Trump bought and operated beauty pageants and a modeling agency.
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I got involved with the Imperial Court first, beauty pageants.
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Instead, he's going down rabbit holes -- talking about beauty pageants.
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At fish beauty pageants, armed guards escort the rare breeds.
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It hosts multiple yearly beauty pageants, which Midge always wins.
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Like Mr. Chávez, Donald Trump used to organize beauty pageants.
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I will probably do pageants until the day I die.
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Many don't realize the life skills you learn doing pageants.
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As pageants go, this one was mostly free of drama.
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The signatories included winners of pageants from 1948 to 2017.
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Beauty pageants and semi-nude calendars are part of the problem.
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This brings up another significant barrier: Participating in pageants is expensive.
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It was their own protest—against the prevailing whiteness of pageants.
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Are you concerned about pageants propagating a specific idea of beauty?
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Check out our Daily VICE look at Spain's teen beauty pageants.
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She credits beauty pageants with helping her come out as transgender.
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But the truth is, debates and pageants do have some commonalities.
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In addition to competing in pageants, Lina Ljungberg is a singer.
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Like other pageants, the event featured plenty of glitter and rhinestones, but unlike other pageants, Miss Transqueen India made a point of declaring all the participants "winners," in recognition of their struggle for acceptance and recognition.
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The Miss America pageants of the '20s are a far cry from what they are today: Keep scrolling to see what some of the very first Miss America pageants looked like, from funny costumes to modest swimwear.
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Univision has dropped him, Macy's has dropped him, NBC's dropped his pageants.
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He was the one who encouraged her to compete in beauty pageants.
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The pageant contestant daughter doesn't really give a shit about beauty pageants.
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Mama June Shannon is trying her hand at something new — beauty pageants!
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For many, JonBenét's participation in pageants was the crux of the case.
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Before entering beauty pageants I never had any concerns about my weight.
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"The ice skating world was very similar to beauty pageants," Nicholson explained.
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Road To Royalty Pageants really aren't that big in the Black community.
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But that's something that comes with life in general, not just pageants.
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Here's what some of the very first Miss America pageants looked like.
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Ms. Riddle, first up, was asked if pageants are degrading to women.
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Miss America is one of two major pageants in the United States.
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Miss America and Miss USA have long positioned themselves as different pageants.
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I didn't choose to go into pageants; I was put into them.
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Miss America 2017 Savvy Shields started competing in pageants as a teenager.
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IMG Universe also produces the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants.
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Two additional accusers have participated in beauty pageants that Mr. Trump ran.
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So I think we don't realize how important plays and pageants were.
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Beauty pageants have been a passion of mine since I was in school.
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Let's hope the rest of the pageants follow suit sooner rather than later.
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Mr. Trump owned the pageants at the time, and has since sold them.
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"I started doing pageants when I was 16," Colby, now 23, tells PEOPLE.
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I competed in pageants and was told I wasn't giving enough 'female illusion.
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Trump has bragged about entering changing rooms at the pageants he owned repeatedly.
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AS MILITARY PAGEANTS go, multinational parades of warships deliver quite a complex message.
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Nevertheless, Trump apparently made a habit out of frequenting his pageants' dressing rooms.
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I was living in Kentucky, and they take pageants very seriously in Kentucky.
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Like other beauty pageants, contestants paraded in national costumes, evening gowns and swimsuits.
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Thanksgiving's Pilgrim pageants suggest that good-hearted settlers arrived from pious, civilized England.
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"Pageants help you learn to deal with certain things under pressure," Cooper said.
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Dairy pageants are far from the only competitions at the Minnesota State Fair.
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I wanted to see which local pageants have a history of producing winners.
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Jordan is the first woman to represent the US at two international pageants.
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I initially entered pageants for the scholarship opportunities and quickly became a fan.
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Beauty pageants have long appealed to Trump on both aesthetic and commercial grounds.
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The group has led intimidation campaigns aimed at beauty pageants and Playboy magazine.
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Such dark themes are hardly the stuff of Americans' grade school Thanksgiving pageants.
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Amber Hulse has been competing in pageants since she was 13 years old.
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Miss History It's already been a historic year for black women in beauty pageants.
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I met a lot of these girls because they'd been involved in the pageants.
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She kind of helped, guided me—she did all my gowns for the pageants.
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"As a journalist, I think documentaries are more important than beauty pageants," he said.
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While she enjoyed it, she says there are no plans to enter future pageants.
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" Says one weary husband: "My wife's addiction to pageants is really over-the-top.
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When most people think of beauty pageants, a very particular aesthetic comes to mind.
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All his successful shows have been fables and fairy tales and pageants and pantomimes.
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"She's hot, right?" a contestant in one of his beauty pageants recalled him saying.
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Miss America 2.0's goal is to make pageants more like serious job interviews.
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Many local qualifying pageants are still requiring women to compete in the swimwear activity.
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Across the Atlantic Ocean in the United Kingdom, Black beauty pageants revealed other trends.
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Those beauty pageants were exactly what this gangly, slightly geeky girl needed back then.
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A lot of the evenings he helped put on pageants and plays or readings.
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Sure, she'd won beauty pageants back home in Los Angeles, but this was another level.
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Beauty pageants may be struggling with diversity and representation of a variety of body types.
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Because of the pageants I had won, I was an advocate for the trans community.
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Kenya has an albino senator and holds albino beauty pageants, which helps demystify the condition.
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Both pageants are hosted by the Promociones Gloria modeling agency in conjunction with Miss Universe.
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O'Flaherty, whose talent is singing, said she rejects the idea that beauty pageants objectify women.
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LifeSite has been an incredible journey, but I still haven't escaped the stigma of pageants.
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Pageants can be great, but often for one very specific type of queen and look.
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It was Rose Chung's love of pageants that lead her to found Miss Asian Global.
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But should the beauty pageants even still exist really in this day and age it?
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Despite the color options, these aren't winning any beauty pageants, and won't be for everyone.
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So for me, pageants were for pretty girls, they weren't meant for someone like me.
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Before we get too deep into the interview, I have to know: Why beauty pageants?
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Trump bragged on the Howard Stern show in 2005 about going backstage during beauty pageants.
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Partly, that's because as a self-admitted tomboy, she didn't watch a lot of pageants.
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How important is normalizing inclusion in mainstream beauty pageants, and will we ever get there?
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The girls in the pageants were showgirls and they weren't that interested in labeling themselves.
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This is a country where beauty pageants are ubiquitous, from schools to the armed forces.
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If you've participated in Miss America or other pageants, we'd like to hear from you.
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But in Latin America, beauty pageants are a bid for relevance on the world stage.
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Pageants have a conservative history Until recently, the pageant industry has largely excluded LGBTQ+ competitors.
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Nicole Johnson, who was crowned Miss America 1999, first started competing in pageants in Florida.
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Many question whether Miss Universe, and pageants in general, have a place in today's society.
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Abbie Kondel has a go-to trick for stealing the show during pageants: tap dancing.
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She was expecting one of the Latin American countries where beauty pageants are widely celebrated.
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In addition to competing in pageants, 25-year-old Lee Yeon Ju is an artist.
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Indigenous participation was a point of pride, just like pageants today, providing the veneer of authenticity.
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Trump, former owner of the Miss Universe pageants, was asked on Tuesday morning about Clinton's comments.
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In addition to her medical studies and social media career, Karaglanova also competed in beauty pageants.
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And she thinks her win will be a big boost to beauty pageants in her France.
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Jean Chrétien wasn't winning any pageants, and Alexander MacKenzie wasn't even sexy enough to be knighted.
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The net result is a mildly likable movie that, in comedy terms, won't win any pageants.
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Bearse, who competed in pageants under the name Ramsey Carpenter, was named Miss Kentucky in 2014.
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Trump would walk through dressing rooms to watch contestants in his beauty pageants dress and undress.
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For the last three years, she has chaperoned her 15-year-old daughter, Heleena, to pageants.
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When she's not competing in pageants or studying law, Hodačová works with a children's cancer foundation.
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In addition to competing in pageants, Schrier is passionate about STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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She continued to compete in pageants as she underwent chemotherapy, according to Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
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Some beauty pageants date back to the 1920s and used to ban women of color from participating.
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Washington (CNN)Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's campaign manager, dodged questions Wednesday about inappropriate behavior at beauty pageants.
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Many people believe that beauty pageants, and the people who compete in them, are decidedly anti-feminist.
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They put on these massive pageants and picnics that were like county fairs in the summer outside.
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The Bay Area was changing, and Chung was wary of the negative national conversation surrounding beauty pageants.
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And so many people who are in these pageants and competitions go on to do incredible things.
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As chairman and CEO of MNC Group, his portfolio includes real estate, media and even beauty pageants.
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Ms Osaka has been more warmly embraced than past half-Japanese winners of beauty pageants, for instance.
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His mother handed him scripts to perform at church pageants and before civic groups to earn donations.
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She never planned on getting into pageants: In fact, she was bullied at school for her looks.
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Big heads seem to pop up just about everywhere: Nascar tracks, beauty pageants, the Coachella music festival.
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Transgender women figure on television, in beauty pageants and at hair salons and cosmetics counters in Thailand.
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If we use mainstream, cis-dominated beauty pageants as a metric, then our progress is decidedly slim.
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Last week, for the first time, black women wore the crowns of all three major pageants simultaneously.
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For these women, members of West London's Afro-Caribbean communities, pageants nurtured racial pride and self-expression.
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Pageants were held in various locations around the country until 248, when it returned to Atlantic City.
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Susan Akin, who was named Miss America 1986, participated in more than 110 pageants in her lifetime.
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Katie Stam, who was crowned 2009 Miss America, started competing in pageants at the age of 15.
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When she's not competing in pageants, 24-year-old Sharon Pieksma spends much of her time outdoors.
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Caity also told the Sunday Mail her mother had won beauty pageants, though it's unclear which ones.
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Some of them are plays, some of them are pageants, some of them are readings or debates.
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Beauty pageants early in their histories, some dating back to the 1920s, barred women of color from participating.
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The national political dialogue is suffused with substantive issues like Benghazi, beauty pageants, and the best debate memes.
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Some of them, like the various dressing room incidents at beauty pageants, don't necessarily involve breaking any laws.
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Outside of politics, she also produces Queen USA and Queen of the Universe, two large transgender beauty pageants.
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Former Miss Teen USA winner Kamie Crawford levelled another allegation of Trump's misconduct at one of his pageants.
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Barcellona, who has Asperger's syndrome, has been competing in pageants on and off since the age of five.
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As Chung participated in and organized more pageants and events, she became a fixture in the Chinatown community.
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She is also the producer of Queen USA and Queen of the Universe, two large trans beauty pageants.
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Ayotte has been a relentless presence in her state's diners, farmer's markets and small-town pageants this year.
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"He was a guy's guy," Mr. Smith said of Mr. Trump, noting that he had run beauty pageants.
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" 'Done with pageants' When Gorman heard the joke, she said, "I wasn't comfortable staying as Miss Plymouth County.
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And while she finds the pageants thrilling, she also sees them as a platform for advancing gender equality.
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Despite a long history of segregation and racism, America's top pageants have broken racial barriers in recent decades.
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Here is how analysts and observers who have attended past games and study North Korea describe the pageants.
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Nevertheless, even mainstream pageants have sometimes been heralded by racial and religious minorities as markers of social progress.
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Nevertheless, these pageants featured token black contestants while largely continuing to perpetuate an idealized image of white beauty.
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And tech conferences, the splashy pageants of product launches, keynote talks, and hype, are following a similar trajectory.
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I'm a feminist, and I know that pageants can be seen as a sexist relic of bygone days.
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Later, she wondered how she could fuse her love of beauty pageants with her passion for her pets?
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He organized the beauty pageants, but it never occurred to anyone that he would think of running for president.
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After 32 years, Cirque is hoping it will be able to expand its brand beyond its famed acrobatic pageants.
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Known for its beautiful beaches and beautiful people, Brazil is home to some of biggest pageants in the world.
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Patty has recently lost weight, and she starts competing in beauty pageants as a way of defeating the bullies.
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"It was supposed to be a positive experience as pageants have really changed in the last decade," Smale explained.
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I was first introduced to lash strips when I started competing in beauty pageants at the age of 16.
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Katie was Miss Teen USA '06 and Miss CA USA '11 ... and Trump owned both pageants at the time.
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She competes in beauty pageants and was named "Little Miss Flint," a title she uses in her activism work.
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NBC later cut other ties with the businessman, dropping his "Miss USA" and "Miss Universe" pageants, and Trump sued.
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Brown struggled with depression and anxiety, and took some time off from pageants to focus on her mental health.
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The Wodaabe people in Niger still stage male beauty pageants famed for their use of make-up and grimaces.
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The 85033 and 2016 pageants, which were shown on basic cable, drew 5.6 million and 6.2 million viewers, respectively.
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Mister Global is one of 10 "Global Beauties Grand Slam" pageants, alongside Miss Universe, Miss World, and Mr. World.
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Because women have always been judged heavily on their looks, beauty pageants have existed around the world for millennia.
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"I've been to beauty pageants before, and I have to say that the vibe was identical," Hord told me.
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It actually started out as two pageants, to be exact: the Inter-City Beauty Contest and a Bather's Revue.
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He owned beauty pageants and, by his own admission, would barge into changing rooms to ogle the naked contestants.
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A former beauty queen, Rosie devotes much of her energy to pageants, including the local Miss Teen Bluebonnet contest.
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I spent most of my time outside of school playing the piano, singing, and doing musical theater and pageants.
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I was accustomed to men flirting with me because I was well developed and I competed in beauty pageants.
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Unlike the Miss America beauty pageant — the two pageants are not related — Ms. Senior America, which was held Oct.
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A quintet of women of color also made history last year by being crowned titleholders of all major pageants.
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Pageants have long been criticized for their antiquated beauty standards and, in many cases, outright racism or gender stereotyping.
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As a kid I sang in school productions, talent shows and pageants, and tried out for everything in town.
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The Ramseys' involvement in child beauty pageants was a major part of the scrutiny they faced after JonBenét died.
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The Miss Universe pageant is 64 years old, and one of the most publicized beauty pageants around the world.
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As a result, she would be headed to represent Mexico at the Miss Universe and Miss International pageants in 2009.
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Every year, Miss World, Miss Universe, and Miss Earth are crowned in Brazil, a country known for its beauty pageants.
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From the pageants and those dang hat pins to your wedding day and everything in between you were always there.
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Sheperd's plane isn't going to win any beauty pageants; it's a hodge-podge of wiring, electric motors, styrofoam, and glue.
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The teen's beauty earned her notice and she began entering pageants, winning the 1959 title of "Miss Richland" in Washington.
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Beauty pageants around the world are scorned for holding women to unrealistic beauty standards — but exceptions are made for goats.
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Sophia Ng, a licensed therapist, told me the caliber of her pageant sisters upended her view that pageants attract ditzes.
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Her mother had entered her into MAG without Jimsee knowing, but she now thinks she may compete in more pageants.
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All the kids, I'm doing pageants, the girls would come over, my daughter—and some of my kids are unclockable.
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And it is, especially compared to rival pageants like Miss Universe, which run its qualifiers out in suburban shopping centers.
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As I leave, I'm left wondering how Miss World and other beauty pageants like it continue to exist at all.
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The interactions occurred in his offices at Trump Tower, at his homes, at construction sites and backstage at beauty pageants.
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People also come to the station to take in the holiday-themed shows, which include piano recitals, pageants, and caroling.
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Mr. Doroshow soon became disillusioned with the pageants, Ms. Tourjée said; he organized his last in 1969 on Fire Island.
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I was scared of people using my past in pageants against me or saying, 'Oh, she's just a teeny bopper.
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"The Mercenary" (1968), a bigger budgeted production, replete with battle scenes and religious pageants, can be streamed from Amazon Prime.
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RACE STORIES Raphael Albert was a successful British entrepreneur who did more than just promote beauty pageants: he photographed them.
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We wanted to know what it feels like to participate in these pageants, and why many compete again and again.
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Now it's one of the two biggest pageants in the country, and its winner represents the US at Miss Universe.
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The parallels between politics and beauty pageants are legion, and a prelude to the next installment of the Trump show.
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Those pageants taught me how to define my beauty and talent on my own terms, despite how others judged me.
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The Miss Universe Organization hosts the Miss Universe competition, as well as the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants.
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I have been obsessed with beauty pageants since I was 6 years old and watched Miss Philippines win the crown.
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Instagram "beauty pageants" and other photo-comparison activities crop up, with losers earning a big red X on their pics. Snapchat.
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She has competed in pageants on and off since she was 5, and Barcellona told the stations she aspires for more.
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We're talking about the folks that have staged plays, heart-stopping dance sequences, and even politically inclined pageants to showcase clothing.
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As all attention turned to the couple, video surfaced of JonBenet in beauty pageants -- a little girl with makeup and heels.
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Since the merger WME|IMG has branched out into advertising, music publishing, e-commerce, branding, beauty pageants, eSports, and actual sports.
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A contestant in three Miss Georgia pageants, it took 11 years for police to make a break in the cold case.
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Cassadine says that the "make you or break you" appeal of silicone goes far beyond winning pageants in the trans community.
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Though pageants are supposedly about beauty, behind-the-scenes, delegates say physical appearance is only one aspect of a broader package.
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" Responding to critics who say that pageants are sexist, Ponce told TIME, "None of the contestants are forced to be there.
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The hair, the cloaking suits, the hotels, the pageants, the constant talk of "winning" — they all belong to a preening surface.
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It's part of a continuing effort to distance the pageants from their roots: a competition based entirely on the contestants' appearance.
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Now 5, Cadence is cancer free and the Toddlers and Tiaras star has found joy in the world of beauty pageants.
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The first modern girl groups were created in the eighteen-nineties, by the Englishman John Tiller, for use in religious pageants.
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In keeping with the carnival theme, many of the photos in "Girl Plays With Snake" were taken at fairgrounds or pageants.
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From that moment, Ms. Valcin fixated on how to fuse her love of beauty pageants with her passion for her pets.
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The pageant closed shop in 1972, though unofficial pageants continued in less extravagant forms, until Miss Iraq officially restarted in 2015.
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Instead, the authorities say, he spent the money on luxury cars, beauty pageants and donations to the British Columbia Liberal Party.
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She began competing in pageants when she was eight, and won Miss Connecticut after five years of competing for the crown.
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It was only five years ago that she got her start in pageants as a student at the University of Central Florida.
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You have to stick to your dream, and my dream was to come to one of the biggest pageants in the world.
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While Miss America hasn't bred any headline-stealing celebrities recently, beauty pageants were once a place where future stars got their start.
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Only time will tell if pageants can truly become modernized, but either way, Shugart's sure she's already seen the worst of it.
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Photos shared by friends and family on Facebook after her death show the teen participating in dance and cheerleading competitions and pageants.
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Seats grew up in Indiana with her mother, who put her in beauty pageants, despite the fact that they were always broke.
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Even a teen girl in a black comedy about pageants ended up murdering multiple people, including one person she bludgeoned to death.
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"She was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight," said Trump, the former owner of the Miss Universe pageants.
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Beauty pageants remain a familiar event with a dubious aim: parading women's bodies, even if in tandem with their minds, for judgment.
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Though Asian pageants don't have the reach of national events like Miss America, the attention accorded to MAG winners enhances their reputation.
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Hay, who says she was inspired to enter pageants by a friend, made her debut at the 2015 Miss Texas Teen competition.
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"I always thought that beauty pageants were a complex matter, especially for the judges because each person sees beauty differently," she reflects.
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This week, a group of 22 state pageants signed a petition calling for the resignation of the organization's entire board of trustees.
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Others have recounted unwelcome romantic advances and unsettling workplace conduct, including at the offices of Trump Tower and backstage at beauty pageants.
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We tend to downplay it or not want to admit it, but we all go through similar pageants for our own identities.
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But Miss America, more than Mr. Trump's Miss Universe shows, has been rebranding for years, selling the pageants as empowering, not demeaning.
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Partially dressed firefighters are known to pose for fund-raising calendars, and pageants with swimsuit competitions are often held for charitable purposes.
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Clinton tweeted her support for Machado at the time as the former beauty queen transitioned from pageants and acting to political activism.
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Miss World is one of the four major global beauty pageants, and the oldest, the organization says, at almost 70 years old.
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The patriarchy makes women treat their entire lives as beauty pageants, the framing says, striving for male approval in order to survive.
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As far as I know, pageants were beauty contests to be honest and that is not what it is going to be anymore.
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Through live shows and appearances, pageants, merchandise, albums, and a near-limitless array of other ventures, many queens today are one-woman powerhouses.
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Twisting the cinematic aesthetic in order to deconstruct normalcy, they poke fun at everything from beauty pageants, commercial shoots, period pieces, and more.
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Scarcely had a storm of social-media ridicule died down before Mr Deb stirred it again with some impromptu remarks on beauty pageants.
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Univision dropped the Trump-controlled Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants in response to his comments, which triggered a lawsuit from Trump.
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The network refused to broadcast his beauty pageants in protest of his remarks about Mexicans, leading to a lawsuit that was later settled.
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Op-Ed Contributor MEXICO CITY — Long before becoming president, when he was a soldier, Hugo Chávez organized cultural activities, most notably beauty pageants.
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Videos that surfaced of the blond, blue-eyed youngster in full makeup performing in beauty pageants helped attract international attention to the case.
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From 1996 to 2015, Donald Trump co-owned the Miss Universe Organization, which also included the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Teen U.S.A. pageants.
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So far, 17 women have accused Trump of assaulting, groping, or harassing them, including trying to see them naked backstage at beauty pageants.
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Diversity in pageantry hasn't reached many groups, said Hilary Levey Friedman, a visiting professor of education at Brown University, who has studied pageants.
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I'm so glad that the swimsuit competition is gone from Miss America, though it is too little too late for pageants in general.
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It will be much more difficult to change the culture surrounding pageants in general and to get the prequalifying contests to follow suit.
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By focusing on school, participating in beauty pageants and then working at a radio station, Winfrey was able to enter the media world.
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Molly Andrade hopes to become the first Miss America winner from Rhode Island, despite not having much of a background competing in pageants.
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The talents at pageants usually skew towards your traditional singing and dancing, but Schrier found a new way to literally blow away the competition.
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Camel races and camel beauty pageants are a favorite recreation for locals, and some beasts fetch millions of dollars at auctions in the country.
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As her daughters grew, she was delighted to see that they shared her love of performing; she entered them in pageants and talent shows.
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There's no shortage of headlines celebrating people with disabilities for defying the odds and becoming lawyers, walking for long stretches and winning beauty pageants.
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"Pageants now, I'm hoping, are going to start putting curvy and plus-size women in front of the camera," she said to the camera.
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Trump's other well-known NBC venture, the Miss USA pageant and Miss Universe pageants, was also dropped from the line-up around that time.
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From San healing dances to Xhosa initiations, Hamar bull jumping to Bodi beauty pageants, there's no shortage of incredible traditions sure to inspire wonder.
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A registered nurse whose dad ran a junkyard, she was typical of many low-income women who entered beauty pageants to pay for college.
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" — Susan, Wisconsin "Don't go after the fact that we have pageants with women paraded in swimsuits, go after the guy who owns the pageant.
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As the winner of nearly 50 titles in transgender beauty pageants, Tiffany is exalted by her peers as a decorated veteran of show business.
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Last year's Bachelor with Colton Underwood brought us Hannah Brown (Miss Alabama), Caelynn Miller-Keyes (Miss North Carolina) and Hannah Godwin (pageants within Alabama).
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Beauty pageants have come in for their share of disdain, too, shunned by the same elite as an outmoded celebration of body over brains.
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Miss Universe Catriona Gray and Miss USA Cheslie Kryst spoke to Insider about the chaos that happens behind the scenes of the major pageants.
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As you know by now ... for the first time in history, black women swept the major pageants, which included Miss Teen USA's Kaliegh Garris.
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The wrenching fatalism of Franz's story is underscored by historical newsreels of Nazi rallies and pageants, making his stance feel even lonelier by comparison.
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In the world of pageants, the Miss Universe competition is the pinnacle of achievement, which means the fashions featured in it are no joke.
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Within two years she had won three local and national pageants: Miss Los Angeles Pride 2014, Queen USA 2014 and Queen of the Universe 2015.
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When she began competing in pageants, Garris said she had to fight against beauty standards suggesting that straight hair was better than her natural curls.
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But if you can't bear the thought of a Thanksgiving without football and school pageants with Pilgrims and Native Americans, it's a whole new holiday.
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Although pageants are known for the swimsuits, gowns and long-awaited final questions, the Miss USA pageant is proving that it's more than just glitz.
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So I got involved with the Imperial Courts and then early Hollywood, a lot of transgender pageants—Miss Universe, Goddess Ball, and all those things.
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Mama June will be getting into beauty pageants on WE tv's Mama June: From Not To Hot Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
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" She explained, "I came from the world of beauty pageants and modeling and right away when people heard that I got discounted as an actor.
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Trump has personally signed former participants of his beauty pageants, and even his wife, Melania, was briefly part of the agency in the late 1990s.
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In a different interview, Trump boasted about using his power to sleep with contestants in the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, which he owns.
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In We Are Not Alone, veteran Unariuns recount putting on pageants for Uriel, designing everything from the costumes to the sets, and composing the music.
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Women and girls in pageants have been know to suck up the spotlight as much as they can, even if it isn't in positive light.
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While the $1 homes won't be winning any pageants, the towns that they inhabited were overflowing with rustic Italian charm, good food, and good wine.
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Since she was included in Miss Universe Canada in 2012, it does seem like we've been taking steps toward increased trans inclusion in mainstream pageants.
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If, in other parts of the world, beauty pageants have come to be seen as demeaning spectacles, in Venezuela finalists are still worshiped as icons.
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He formed a company, the Nationals Academy, to produce pageants, tapping into a subculture in cities large and small and relying on word of mouth.
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Darting from micro to macro and back again, squashing obscene consumption against child beauty pageants and ruinous debt, its structure makes for an unfocused thesis.
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Flawless was impresaria of countless drag pageants); and cheerleaders (who could forget the delight, in the '2003s, of seeing Rollerena, purse in hand, whizz by?).
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While vigilante groups sometimes got headlines by shutting down gay film festivals or transgender beauty pageants, such violence was not state-sanctioned, Mr. Boellstorff said.
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To other Ecuadoreans who encounter him, he is a welcome link to their childhood, when the magician appeared on television shows and judged beauty pageants.
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Mund says she became interested in pageantry at age six and had already scored first place in over four pageants prior to her latest crowning.
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Holbrook first discovered pageants after a career-ending soccer injury dashed her dreams of becoming a student athlete in college, according to The Ke Alaka'i.
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Clinton said Trump, the former owner of the Miss Universe pageants, had called Machado "Miss Piggy" and also "Miss Housekeeping" because she was a Latina.
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As a little girl, Ms. Harwood was a relentless attention seeker, the sort who appeared in school plays, competed in beauty pageants and studied dance.
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The authorities have not revealed any link between the two events, although beauty pageants in Mexico have long had a connection to the drug world.
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And the only memorable thing about JonBenét was her involvement in pageants — she's constantly and consistently referred to as the 6-year-old beauty queen.
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Despite the film's heartwarming ending, there were darker moments that suggested that pageants' biggest fans, aside from parents whose kids participated in them, were pedophiles.
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Unlike traditional pageants, the contestants competing for the title of Miss Max are currently serving long sentences for crimes like drug trafficking, kidnapping, and even homicide.
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Garris has worn her hair natural throughout the various stages of the regional and national Miss USA pageants, occasionally sweeping her tight curls into an updo.
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Venezuelans are among the world's most successful beauty show contestants and have won global pageants including Miss Universe and Miss World more than a dozen times.
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His financial involvement in beauty pageants and professional wrestling is particularly emblematic, in its monetization of women as objects of desire and men as primal brutes.
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I've come to just accept it as it is what it is," she told the panel, before noting, "This is a guy who ran beauty pageants.
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Since winning the title, Wurtzbach has spent most of the past half year representing her country at other other pageants run by the Miss Universe Organization.
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Commercial ultrasound studios offer "3D" and "4D" imagery to expectant parents, who can post the images on Facebook or enter their fetuses into online beauty pageants.
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Arieagus is an internationally practiced entertainer, and has performed in South America, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, collecting nearly 50 titles in transgender beauty pageants.
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The artist drew heavily on artifacts left behind in the temple by the Masons, from the wigs to enormous backdrops used in the Masons' elaborate pageants.
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America is won, these pageants seem to say, not by uniting the masses around a candidate's message but by stretching the candidate's appeal out like putty.
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And larger, more touristy sites present displays that range from a few circus-style tricks to Vegas-like pageants with costumes, scripted narratives and light shows.
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But those who left also sustain their hometown by holding pageants and raffles, raising money for local projects and providing school supplies for the town's children.
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Being onstage is like a drug, and pageants are a way to get the applause without as much work as a play or musical would require.
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While Angelina Flor Pua has been competing in pageants since she was 12, she says it was always her dream to pursue a career in aviation
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" In another call, Trump introduced his favorite subjects — beauty pageants and Eastern European beauties — telling Zelensky: "When I owned Miss Universe, they always had great people.
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Will these star-studded mini-pageants be enough to entice the advertising industry to make some big purchases at a time when television ratings are sagging?
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Earlier this month, Dalian Wanda agreed a $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants.
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Haley Wolfe previously told Inforum that she competes in pageants mainly "for the scholarship money," though she also wants to give back to people in need.
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Trump's nearly-20-year control over the pageant is more than a PR disaster, it's a reminder of the bigotry and sexism pageants are inherently steeped in.
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Instead, they opt for other competing organizations that, although aren't perfect, have been more inclusive and accessible to a community where beauty pageants hold considerable cultural importance.
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Given White's background in pageants – she competed in Miss Teen West Virginia USA as a high school student – her friend suggested she enter an all-ages pageant.
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Dick Clark Productions, named for the late "American Bandstand" TV show host, runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, and owns U.S. cinema chain AMC.
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The girls range in age from 3–10 years old – but it's safe to say their stage moms are the ones that eat, sleep and breathe pageants.
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Critics lambast his chaotic methods: the Trump Organisation lists 515 businesses and has at various times branched out from property into TV, airlines, beauty pageants and gambling.
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Instead, we find ourselves in the midst of one of Mr. Philbrick's meticulously researched historical pageants describing battle after battle in the Revolutionary War, maps and all.
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She is the child made into a household name by her unsolved killing and the endless replaying of somewhat uncomfortable videos of her competing in beauty pageants.
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Nearly three decades later, I'm troubled that we accepted the things we did, and find myself thinking that beauty pageants ought to be put out to pasture.
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While much of what Mr. Albert photographed might also be found at conventional beauty pageants, his subjects faced cultural and social obstacles unknown to their white counterparts.
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In 1970, he began promoting beauty pageants, founding a series of popular contests, including Miss Black and Beautiful, Miss West Indies in Great Britain and Miss Grenada.
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There are hundreds of pageants held every year across the country, from Miss USA and Miss America all the way down to those at local county fairs.
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But it is very familiar for Mr. Trump, who was the original star of the reality television show "The Apprentice" and who used to produce beauty pageants.
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The iteration of the song that we know today was likely composed in the 1530s and copied down by Robert Croo, an organizer of that era's pageants.
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Like the pageants themselves, Edie Winograde's photographs of American frontier battles, on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado, are modern fragments of the past, illegible and irrecoverable.
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"As Miss Connecticut Teen USA, there are girls who would look at me in awe because they've always had the image of straight hair in pageants," she says.
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It's about time for beauty pageants to retire the antiquated (and sexist) swimsuit competition portion, and Miss Teen USA is leading the charge by doing away with it.
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"To be truthful, I restricted my food intake intensely at previous pageants and was miserable, self-conscious and I never felt good enough," she admits in another post.
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Wangyal says Chinese government doesn't directly interfere in the event but often the winners are met with heavy Chinese interference when they try to participate in international pageants.
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Karina Samala is an award-decorated performer who commands the stage for transgender beauty pageants as well as an activist working for transgender equality in the United States.
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She served two years in the Israeli Defense Force and competed in high-stakes beauty pageants, but it was Hollywood that truly tested "Wonder Woman" Gal Gadot's resilience.
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In the statement announcing the new leaders, Miss America said the all-female team signaled a new era for the organization, best known for its widely televised pageants.
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This past week's dramatic Pyongyang summit meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un triggers memories of mawkish Pyongyang pageants past.
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The pageants would also draw local business and—for the Chinese-American community in particular—quell Cold War anxiety by displaying a pointedly feminine version of Chinese-ness.
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Georgia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and a fourth unidentified state have received notices that their state licenses to hold Miss America pageants are being revoked, the Associated Press reported.
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Pageants have recently sought to put more emphasis on the offstage lives of the women and girls, highlighting their accomplishments and charity work, instead of only their appearances.
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Arnold accused LaBella, who worked as a producer on NBC's "The Apprentice" and on Trump's Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, of possessing damning information about the President.
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The current series Dance Moms, though it doesn't concern child beauty pageants, is very much in the same vein, featuring the same kind of demanding "pageant mom" mentality.
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This woman was a direct report of Sheryl Sandberg, and I was disappointed when she told me that she never, ever mentions at work that she had done pageants.
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"You're not supposed to gain 60 pounds during the year that you're Miss Universe," said the former House speaker, who has no known experience in or around beauty pageants.
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Trump received his star in 2007 for his work producing beauty pageants ... and Hamill got his star last year, with Harrison Ford paying tribute to Carrie during the ceremony.
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Pageants have their place as an American cultural tradition dating back to 1921, and I personally look forward to any reminder that intellect and beauty are not mutually exclusive.
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Ms. deBessonet, who for several years has led the theater's Public Works initiative, which culminates in large-scale pageants in Central Park, is used to working with bigger casts.
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He fights an inclination toward grudges ("acrimony pageants") and, now and then, with weariness or exasperation, has had to cudgel back against charges of misogyny and, more lately, Islamophobia.
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Before being elected president, Trump, 72, was a real estate developer-turned-reality TV star who was producer of the NBC show, "The Apprentice," and the Miss Universe Pageants.
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The grim crime touched off a media frenzy, fueled by controversy over her participation in child beauty pageants, video clips of which were shown exhaustively on cable TV networks.
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He appeared as a boardroom adviser with Ivanka on their father's reality-TV show "The Apprentice," as well as a judge for some of his father's Miss USA pageants.
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As for the kinds of cultural activities you can expect, there's everything from distinguished beer tastings at Casa Austria to mermaid (huh?) and drag queen pageants at Casa Denmark.
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"He figured, 'I need to become some figure that can bring these pageants forward,' " Ms. Tourjée said, but not a queen who would pose a threat to the contestants.
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Raphael Albert's images of "Miss Black and Beautiful" pageants in the UK in the 7753s showcase updated beauty trends for Black women — some bore relaxers, and others rocked afros.
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The two weekends after Thanksgiving in the United States are typically among the slowest moviegoing periods of the year, as holiday shopping and related festivities (school pageants) take priority.
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"Beauty pageants lay bare what we do not want to recognize matters in our own society," said Hilary Levey Friedman, an assistant visiting professor of sociology at Brown University.
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According to the Miss Universe website, 24-year-old Laura Longauerová believes beauty pageants are "her true path in life," as they've encouraged her to be confident and strong.
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The contest comes soon after all four top pageants -- Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss America and Miss Universe -- crowned black women as their winners at the same time.
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She spent the next few years repeatedly placing as a finalist in both the Miss Texas and Miss Houston USA pageants, and even going on to eventually win the latter.
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The president is upset about the delays to his visit because he is fixated on a theme-park view of Britain as a land of royal pageants and golf clubs.
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The Houston Chronicle notes that while she competed in pageants in the late 1990s, she refused to be labeled as black and had no problem publicly addressing it to others.
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MACCALLUM: You&aposve got it all going on, even if you didn&apost win all those pageants, you are making the rest of us feel like, you know, whole slackers.
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He has been a judge in both the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants, according to the websites of those contests, which were owned by Donald Trump for years.
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"She taught me how people should treat me and how to defend myself," says Roy, adding that her mom encouraged her to take dance classes and compete in local pageants.
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After they jubilantly occupied Parliament on Saturday afternoon, the demonstrators moved by evening to another area of the Green Zone, a former parade ground where Saddam Hussein held military pageants.
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Pageants for communities of color have existed since the 1930s, says Afia Ofori-Mensa, a professor at Oberlin College who teaches the popular course How to Win a Beauty Pageant.
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"Because femininity is considered to be nonthreatening when it comes to gender, beauty pageants have proven, in many cases, to be a way that people perform identity," Ofori-Mensa says.
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Pageants are in Dalton's blood— her mother, Jennie, was Miss North Carolina in 1982 and her sister, Julia, was the second runner-up in the 2008 Miss Teen USA pageant.
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The 24-year-old told Insider that she has been competing in pageants since she was 12, but that it was always her dream to pursue a career in aviation.
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When Zozibini Tunzi was named Miss Universe on Sunday, it signified the first time that black women had simultaneously held the top prize in four of the major beauty pageants.
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It's also the first time that all top beauty pageants -- Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss America, Miss Universe and now, Miss World -- have crowned black women as their winners.
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Well, first of all he had an imagination, because one of the things about doing plays, pageants and spectacles is you have to blur the line between fantasy and reality.
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In the decades that followed, artists like Tom of Finland rose to prominence, leather clubs expanded, and pageants like MAL formed, becoming places where leathermen could gather as a community.
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She wasn't just depicting Trump as a creep who "hangs around beauty pageants" and who insults women (he called Machado "Miss Piggy") and Hispanic immigrants (he also called her "Miss Housekeeper").
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After telling her mother about the incident and going through therapy, Gorman participated in pageants to build self-esteem and was named Miss Massachusetts World America in 2015, the Globe reported.
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This new series on Miss Africa GB addresses similar themes, while subsequently reframing beauty pageants and Miss World-type competitions as meaningful celebrations of women that can have multiple positive impacts.
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Thailand is widely seen as a paradise for gay and transgender people, with transgender women commonly seen on TV, in beauty pageants and cabarets, and at hair salons and cosmetics counters.
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Mama June, whose youngest daughter Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson previously competed on pageants — which was documented on TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras — will throw her own tiara into the pageant world ring.
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According to the petition, obtained by The Press of Atlantic City, representatives from the 22 state pageants aren't convinced by the organization's new direction, and want more accountability at the top.
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Still, Jones, a self-described "country bumpkin" queen, wanted to compete against girls with "movie star" looks, in a pageant modeled after traditional beauty pageants like Miss America and Miss USA.
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Some of the women, espousing the values of family and religion, seemed as polished as those on the televised Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants that Donald Trump owned for years.
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Everyday spent talking about twenty year old beauty pageants, Donald Trump's comments about women he found attractive and tax returns is a day when no one is talking about the issues.
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But the lack of chemistry between Ms. Merkel, a scientist who grew up in communist East Germany, and Mr. Trump, a billionaire with a weakness for beauty pageants, is not new.
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Running through the countryside, bathing in the watering holes, climbing ancient, jagged hills, catching fish, traveling by burro, watching the community Christmas pageants — all of it fired up his artistic soul.
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"This is a venue for beauty, but also the beauty of the heart, especially for us Filipinos who are fanatics for pageants," said Rania Ziateh, who wore a Miss Philippines sash.
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While the children were young, the Kellys were members of the Church of the Good Shepherd, a local Episcopalian congregation, with Dee and their son Mike writing and directing Christmas pageants.
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The swimsuit round remains in Miss USA and Miss Universe, along with many state pageants, but it's clear that these competitions are only going to get more political as they continue.
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When she isn't competing in pageants, 22-year-old Marie Esther Bangura devotes much of her time to working with Good Touch, Bad Touch, a campaign that fights against sexual exploitation.
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Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica was crowned Miss World on Saturday, marking the first time that black women have simultaneously held the titles of five of the world's top beauty pageants.
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In a 2005 interview with radio DJ Howard Stern, Trump bragged about going backstage into contestants' dressing room at beauty pageants, an experience one of his accusers, Samantha Holvey, has recounted.
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While professing "untheatricality" in line with the art world ideology of antitheatricality, Collecting Injustices harkens back to the long theatrical tradition of pageants and allegorical plays, which stretches back to antiquity.
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Over the course of I Wanna Marry Harry, contestants are shown competing in beauty pageants, bikini runways, and twerking competitions in the hope that they'll be the one that steals Harry's heart.
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The Coney Island Mermaid Parade borrows a bit from predecessor pageants, but it's a spectacle all its own -- it's not every weekend you can find merpeople walking on asphalt in New York.
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At the conservative website the Federalist, Ed Krayewski even said that "it's possible" for Trump's experience in running beauty pageants and professional wrestling to play a positive role in negotiations with Pyongyang.
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Some contestants didn't know why this was a thing, some hoped it would change to include more women "with different life experiences," and others suggested that these women look at other pageants.
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"Pageants are known for enforcing traditional beauty standards, but our 'Pageant of the People' subverts that norm," read the opening show notes — and subversive it was, from the casting to the makeup.
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But whenever the two met — while at Mar-a-Lago, at the local mall, and at beauty pageants they were judging, as Cowan said — Trump brought up the unpainted paw every time.
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Former Miss Teen USA Katie Blair says Donald Trump is far from the sleazy guy he's being made out to be ... based on her experiences with him on TV shows and pageants.
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By 1991—around the time other pan-ethnic pageants like Miss Black USA in Washington, DC, and Miss US Latina in Miami were emerging—it had a new name: Miss Asian America.
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Though pageants are supposedly about beauty, behind the scenes, delegates say physical appearance is only one aspect of a broader package: It's about confidence, capital (the financial and social kind), and connections.
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She started competing in pageants at 15 to pursue scholarship opportunities, and was named first runner-up in Miss Alabama Outstanding Teen, and then second runner-up in Miss Alabama Teen USA.
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The whole "Make America Great Again" extravaganza is rooted in Trump's persona as an entertainer, and his long immersion in spectacle—from beauty pageants to boxing, from reality television to professional wrestling.
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They are not just midsummer pageants, the rallies before the homecoming game, where control of the White House involves a periodic governing adjustment a few degrees to the left, right or center.
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Like Trump, beauty pageants judge women's worth based on their physical attractiveness ("She's no longer a 10"), and reduce women to public objects that can be paraded around and ogled by men.
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Beginning in the 6853s, a canned goods company in Camden, N.J., operated a chain of Walt Whitman stores, which sold Poet brand products and held "Miss Walt Whitman" pageants for female clerks.
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They waved banners with Austen's name on them; they put on pageants in which "Prejudice," cowed by the spectacle of Jane Austen and other lady geniuses, slinks off the stage in shame.
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The murder of the blond, blue-eyed youngster made worldwide headlines when videos surfaced of her performing in child beauty pageants dancing and singing in full makeup and dressed in various costumes.
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Well, he's an apprentice, and as I said, Verrocchio, his teacher and the master of the shop, does a lot of pageants, including for the Duke of Milan when he's visiting Florence.
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Through hard work, education and thanks in large part to the sisterhood that I have come to know through pageants, I am proud to say that I am today a better person.
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The story of the New England Puritans is itself a folk tale that's been told, retold and fought over through generations of Thanksgiving school pageants, endless productions of "The Crucible" and historical revisionism.
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According to Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South by Blain Roberts, Nadinola, a bleaching cream product that's still sold today, would run advertisements in black newspapers.
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The extravagant pageants were held on Halloween and New Year's Eve in places like Rockland Palace on 155th Street or the Elks Lodge on 138th, and were attended by an interracial, elite crowd.
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And everyone wants to know what Carlson — the woman who was crucial in taking down former FOX News CEO Roger Ailes — is going to do to take down the patriarchal traditions of pageants.
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I started competing in pageants and felt even more personal conflict: Here I had the perfect platform to stand out and embrace my natural hair in an environment that had long excluded it.
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On Saturday, however, CNN released audio recordings of Trump on Howard Stern's radio show in 2005 in which the billionaire admitted to going through the changing rooms of the beauty pageants he owned.
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Wanda, run by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, said in early November that it would buy all of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants.
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Even when Donald Trump offers career opportunities, from his beauty pageants to his real estate business, there is a steep price for women in his orbit to pay, including crude humiliation and derision.
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According to Frank Dean, a former park ranger who lived in the valley for eight years, Yosemite in the winter offers pageants of nature that you don't get the rest of the year.
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African Americans, often women teachers or laypeople with little formal training, began authoring textbooks and creating history pageants that spanned centuries with song, speech, and dance in the decades after the Civil War.
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Transgender women figure on television, in beauty pageants and at hair salons and cosmetics counters, but they cannot change their gender designation on identity papers, despite a 2015 law against gender-based discrimination.
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They staged debates, one of which Leonardo debates that painting is a higher art form than poetry, for example, but they also do plays and pageants that involve big mechanisms and ingenious devices.
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Her mother Patsy, a former Miss West Virginia and contestant in the Miss America pageant, encouraged JonBenet to participate in pageants and as John Ramsey told me, JonBenet had won most of the them.
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While we understand that beauty pageants are designed to judge women on their appearance, having a group of women literally judged based on their bra size and their waist-to-hip ratio feels outdated.
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And he set up these pageants every step of the journey, and the big massive feature at their wedding was this mountain that was completely encrusted in rubies, and it was a wine fountain.
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A new era for the organization In the statement announcing the new leaders, Miss America said the all-female team signaled a new era for the organization, best known for its widely televised pageants.
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In his lawsuit, Trump accused Univision of without legal justification terminating its contractual relationship with the Miss Universe Organization and refusing to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants from 2015 through 2019.
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Brushed aside as these high-profile pageants and negotiations unfolded were Pyongyang's gulags, deliberate mass starvation and other crimes against humanity — the true indicators of regime nature and goals — as they may be today.
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She enrolled at Northwestern University to study theater, but was also competing in pageants, which were familiar to her because, when she was a child, her family had volunteered with the Miss America pageant.
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It'd be a foot in the door for me, and a great opportunity to talk to different trans women, and to really talk about trans issues before we bring those issues into mainstream pageants.
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This attitude toward women's bodies is why beauty pageants are popular, and probably one reason Trump loved owning them — they're the closest thing we have to an institutionalized version of his attitudes toward women.
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Even before the 2005 recording came to light, several beauty queens had already opened up about the creepy behavior they experienced when Trump hosted Miss USA pageants, which he owned from 2002 to 2015.
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Oppenheimer previously visited this territory in big-picture form in 2012's The Act of Killing, which considered the ways many people still celebrate the Indonesian genocide of the past in pageants and song.
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To add to its bulk, Endeavor has invested in or purchased at least 16 additional companies since then, including U.F.C., the mixed martial arts organization, and Miss Universe, which runs a variety of pageants.
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Some of the members became trustees, which meant they had a fiduciary responsibility to tens of thousands of stakeholders across the country, many of them volunteers who work year-round putting on local pageants.
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Leonardo's first stay in Milan lasted 17 years, when the city state was ruled by Ludovico Sforza, a prince who enlisted Leonardo for various tasks in his court, including the production of elaborate pageants.
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"I always speak to the contestant again without the director present to ensure it's what she wants," says Jeffrey S. Yager, MD, a New York-based plastic surgeon, who has sponsored pageants in the past.
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Inspired by the Special Olympics and her own experiences in pageants, Jordan Somer founded Miss Amazing in 2007 as a local pageant for girls and young women with disabilities in her home state of Nebraska.
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Expect Trump to have to answer for the university, the vodka, the steaks, the beauty pageants, the bankruptcies, the taxes and a host of other issues that go to the core of his business record.
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As he schemes to manipulate her into competing in pageants and she schemes to seduce him, I lost track of what we were supposed to find funny, or how any of this satirized fat-shaming.
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With so many pageant queen contestants, there has to be a reference to pageants at some point and there also has to be talk about the fact that Victoria and Alayah competed against each other.
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His well-known, vulgar and misogynist comments about women coupled with his penchant for beauty pageants and his string of model wives reveal a man who doesn't see women as his peers but as his playthings.
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But last week officials from 20163 state pageants signed a petition calling for the resignations of Carlson (Miss America 1989) and President and CEO Regina Hopper (Miss Arkansas 1983), the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., reported.
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Trump's star was added in 2007 in recognition of his television work prior to his entry into politics, including his hosting of the NBC show "The Apprentice" and his producing of the Miss Universe beauty pageants.
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Earlier this month, Wanda extended its buying spree in Hollywood by signing an agreement for the $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the U.S. company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants.
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When Target launched the adaptive line, Guggemos said, the retailer gathered insight from shoppers, experts and organizations, including Pageant of Hope, which hosts beauty pageants for children with disabilities, and the National Federation of the Blind.
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"Her participation does not change the fact that beauty contests still hold women to unreasonable beauty standards," Dr. Roberts said, though she added that it does send a message that they can participate openly in pageants.
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In the process, Ms. Clinton, the first female presidential nominee of a major party, elevated a largely forgotten tale of Mr. Trump, when his oversight of beauty pageants collided with his unforgiving fixation with female beauty.
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" Over the years, when asked about his management of the pageants, he has often replied with some version of the quip "The bathing suits got smaller and the heels got higher and the ratings went up.
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Dalian Wanda, in November, had agreed to a takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, extending the Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate's buying spree in Hollywood.
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In appearances on Howard Stern's radio show, Trump has openly bragged that one of the benefits of owning a set of beauty pageants was his ability to go strolling through dressing rooms to check out naked models.
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Everyone, seemingly, is hot for someone they can't have or who's utterly oblivious to their interest, in a Netflix series that throws together teen beauty pageants, raging hormones and closeted desires in one surprisingly binge-worthy stew.
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Be thankful that you weren't at that harvest celebration in 1621, which was far from the warm and fuzzy meal you might see in elementary-school pageants and was an event inseparable from colonialism and mass death.
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Reuben Gallery acted a bit like a co-op — it had a steady schedule of shows — but its thinking was loose enough to accommodate Mr. Kaprow's audience-participation happenings, and the street-junk pageants of Red Grooms.
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When Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa was named Miss Universe on Sunday, her crowning signified a milestone: the first year that four of the major beauty pageants had simultaneously awarded the top prize to a black woman.
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Trump Settles Lawsuit Against Univision | Donald Trump and Univision said Thursday they have resolved the lawsuit that the Republican presidential contender filed after the company decided last summer not to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants.
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She dated abusive men, finished last in fitness pageants, spent hours staring in the mirror and obsessing about her jutting jaw, got scammed out of a bodybuilding trophy, and couldn't even complete her stint in the Peace Corps.
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Across pageants, both in the U.S. and abroad, there remains a cookie-cutter image of what a beauty queen is supposed to look like: long hair, a slim waist, and curvy (but not too curvy) hips and breasts.
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And for the most committed Trump-Russia readers, Rob Goldstone, the music publicist who set up the infamous Trump Tower meeting, has an account hitting shelves next week: Popstars, Pageants and Presidents: How an Email Trumped My Life.
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Both men are also prolific on Twitter, have glamorous wives and were involved in beauty pageants — MNC was an Indonesian organizer of the 2013 Miss World competition and Trump is a former owner of the Miss Universe Organization.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday he has settled a $500 million lawsuit against Spanish-language television network Univision over its decision not to broadcast the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.
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Rachel Barcellona, a junior at the University of South Florida who began participating in pageants when she was five, is preparing to compete in the 2019 Miss Florida preliminary competition on June 25, according to NBC affiliate WFLA.
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Trump, with an impresario's flair, had been building it up for days, as though he was promoting one of his Miss Universe pageants rather than a fresh perspective on one of the most traumatic moments in US history.
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Mr. Trump's behavior has at times startled and unnerved women in his life, from employees at his company to the contestants in his beauty pageants, The Times found after interviewing dozens of them for an article in May.
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Known more widely at the time as "female impersonator" or "drag" contests, trans pageants are an anchoring tradition consistent throughout transgender history, dating back to the late 19th century in the US and earlier in Europe and Mexico.
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What began as a selection made by town elders has morphed over time into a fully democratic election where anyone in Luling may vote, an anomaly among the beauty pageants or de facto popularity contests in the region.
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Miss America, Miss Teen USA and Miss USA Are All Black Women for the First Time Each contest has previously had black winners, but the simultaneous wins make for a powerful symbol of how the pageants are evolving.
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Question whether serving as mayor of a small Indiana city is adequate preparation for being the leader of the free world and they'll say that it's infinitely preferable to a background in reality television, casinos and beauty pageants.
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In the early years, the residents put on pageants that, at least from the modest documentation in the movie, seem like elaborations on other regional events, like the centuries-old horse race called the Palio in nearby Siena.
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DENVER (Reuters) - The brother of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose 1996 murder remains unsolved, said on Monday he had nothing to do with her death, speculating that the killer was a pedophile who stalked her at pageants.
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They were created to document and showcase the spectacle of young children competing in beauty pageants and behaving in a way that many people think is inappropriate, and to conjure up feelings of disgust toward the parents involved.
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While many of the spots do offer access to summertime activities a lot like the ones Midge participated in — don't worry, that doesn't include pageants — most are also open during the winter so you can book a vacation ASAP.
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Trump's response:Trump appeared to admit to this behavior when he boasted in an April 2005 interview with radio host Howard Stern that he regularly walked into contestants' dressing rooms on the beauty pageants he owned while women were unclothed.
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Of the 19 women who have come forward with accusations against the president, one of them, Summer Zervos, was a contestant on the fifth season of NBC's The Apprentice, and several of them were contestants in Miss USA pageants.
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I thought about my childhood and how one day I would be riding dirt bikes and camping and fishing, and the next I would be doing pageants and musical theater and playing the violin and going to art school.
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After going on the run in Broken Manual, Soth rejoins society in Songbook, a black-and-white series for which he posed as a local newspaper photojournalist, traveling around the country to take pictures at beauty pageants, proms, and prisons.
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Growing up, I had a head full of coils, but after all those Sunday salon visits with my mom and eight years competing in pageants — which involved lots of extensions and hot tools — I started to lose that curl shape.
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Also, I feel like I've had very shady moments in the past with her in pageants, and in the past I've been disrespected by her, and I think she's felt disrespected by me, so we already had that kind of tension.
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I was from New Jersey where pageants were really not that big but to win Miss Florida and Miss Virginia, where are all these gorgeous girls in Florida and Virginia, so you know, I mean, you did really, really well.
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The event marks the first time South Australia has held a Miss World beauty pageant: a competition that bills itself as one of the classier pageants in that its contestants compete based on intelligence and personality, as well as their looks.
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As for TV, Hulu is bringing back new seasons of Killing Eve, The Great American Baking Show, Better Things, Marvel's Runaways, and Vanderpump Rules — as well as streaming the CMA Country Christmas special and the Miss America and Miss Universe pageants.
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In a normal year, conventions are pageants of carefully choreographed political theater in which the party seeks to heal the wounds of the primary election, unite behind a candidate and galvanize its base for the larger battle of the presidential election.
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SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - China's Dalian Wanda has agreed a $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, extending the Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate's buying spree in Hollywood.
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Royalty competitions work like pageants with the winners earning sashes in one of four categories: Mr. (male that presents as male), Ms. (female that presents as female), Miss (male that presents as female), and MsTer (female that presents as male).
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SHANGHAI/SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - China's Dalian Wanda has agreed a $1 billion takeover of Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, extending the Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate's expansion into Hollywood.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chinese property-to-entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda is in talks to buy a controlling stake in Dick Clark Productions, the company that runs the Golden Globe awards and Miss America pageants, as it expands a growing Hollywood portfolio.
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In one sense, all of our "genre" stories (a term used to denote stories that take place in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres) are religious tales, picking up where the religious pageants and allegories of centuries ago left off.
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Though similar pageants were held in other English towns like York and Chester, as well as in France, Spain, and Germany, the Coventry Plays were much larger and lasted longer than others, and thereby were a bigger deal for audiences.
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"This is a chance for me to resurface a dream that I thought was long gone," says Miller, who has been competing in pageants for the past eight years – and who has been first runner-up twice for the Miss Oklahoma USA crown.
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"To be truthful, I restricted my food intake intensely at previous pageants and was miserable, self-conscious and I never felt good enough," she writes, going on to explain that there was no "perfect" weight that stopped her from comparing herself to others.
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The beauty queen, who says she's a UK size 10 (equivalent to a US size 6), explained that she had retired from pageants due to the pressures of the competition, only to come back and win the Miss United Continents UK title.
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Business Briefing Donald J. Trump and Univision said on Thursday that they had resolved the lawsuit that Mr. Trump, a Republican presidential contender, filed after the Spanish-language broadcaster decided last summer not to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants.
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"A few nights before the preliminary show, they kicked everyone out and they wanted us to do just a runway show for Donald Trump," said a contestant, who asked not to be identified by name because she continues to volunteer at pageants.
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And he's doing it again by refusing to back down on his criticisms of a former beauty queen, when women of all political persuasions have shown they really don't like thinking about beauty pageants and the women who compete in them at all.
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GEIOTTO: I can&apost even keep up with the feminist movement and Me Too when it comes to the relationship to pageants, because the first thing they were saying is that women should be empowered and be able to wear whatever they want.
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To become one, titleholders must win competitions on the scene's national circuit—think of them as beauty pageants for kinks like rubber and puppy play, where contestants are judged before an audience on factors like their decorum, public speaking, and fetish spirit.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's first call with Ukraine's new president last April touched on Trump's 2016 election victory, "tasty" Ukrainian food, and how "well represented" Ukraine was at Trump's Miss Universe pageants, according to a rough transcript released by the White House on Friday.
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Instead, hours after she came out to the New York Post on Saturday, Madison L'Insalata, 23, received a call from Jim Smith, the director of Miss Staten Island Scholarship Pageants, telling her she'd been banned from Sunday's parade by the parade organizer.
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While this is a major family-oriented holiday for many Asian communities, all are welcome at the colorful parades, festive pageants and impressive fireworks displays that will take place in Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York and many other cities.
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Meanwhile, reality TV was eating its lunch, tempting young women with a bevy of options to win plummier prizes than the organization could offer, while competing pageants promised smaller swimsuits, higher heels, and fewer pesky questions about how to bring about world peace.
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The fact that five of the winners of major beauty pageants are "identifiably black women really does say something about a level of comfort of black skin in the public," said Professor Rooks, who recently taught a course on race, fashion and gender.
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Now, this was a great studio because it's doing not only art and sculpture, but pageants and plays, and it's taking the copper ball, that has to be engineered and soldered using mirrors that concentrate the rays of light of the sun.
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By 1490, he's got a room and board and weekly stipend, living at the castle in Florence, but it takes him a while to get the job, and part of the time he's actually doing plays and pageants, which is his gig.
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Trump's worst moments in the primaries involved women—Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina, Heidi Cruz—and at the end of the debate, Clinton went in for the kill, hitting Trump for denigrating women and accusing him of creepily hanging around the beauty pageants he ran.
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Color footage of hangar-size supermarkets of the 1950s, of white boys as well as white girls at poolside beauty pageants—a world made possible, Baldwin would say, by the blacks we see working in the cotton fields and in the photographs of the lynched.
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The 23-year-old from Missouri is being heralded as a trailblazer in the constellation of pageants, upending the notion that contestants are exploited in an old-fashioned, heterosexual-dominated forum that dictates how women should look, and what, or how little, they should wear.
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The situation puts a whole new twist on the quadrennial question about how news organizations should cover the national political conventions, which were once conclaves for the real work of nominating presidents and vice presidents but went on to become mere media messaging pageants.
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Mr. Mills (who shares his duties, including an exhausting travel schedule, with another Times photographer, Stephen Crowley) has photographed the president at state dinners, at Christmas pageants, on Air Force One, with heads of state, with his mother-in-law and everywhere in between.
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The report featured Monday on the BBC Panorama investigative documentary series, entitled "Trump: Is the president a sex pest?" included testimony from two women who said they encountered Trump at parties during his time as a real estate magnate and operator of beauty pageants.
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Taken together, they provide an interesting look at the cutthroat business of modern beauty pageants — in an age when a contestant's social media savvy is every bit as crucial to winning as remaining poised during a personality interview and looking nice in an evening gown.
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Music festivals, ad agencies, music publishing houses, beauty pageants, fight promotions: WME is putting its fingers in every pie in the entertainment/branding/marketing universe, blurring the lines once and for all between talent and bosses, brand and content, clients and employees, life and marketing.
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As uncomfortably close as these performances may seem, a mental comparison with the lunatic antics of the Viennese Actionists, the all-male band of provocateurs who staged pageants of blood, gore, sex, and death at this same time, attests to their warmth, humor, and relative subtlety.
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In his 264 lawsuit, Trump filed claims for breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relationships, and defamation arising from the Spanish-language network's decision to stop airing Trump's beauty pageants after Trump stated during his presidential campaign announcement that Mexican immigrants were "rapists" and criminals.
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When Rocero started modeling in beauty pageants in the Philippines, she found not only the confidence she needed to break into the modeling industry, but she found her chosen family, too — an unconditional support system that taught her how to accept (and love) her authentic self.
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When you really get into the nitty-gritty of Insatiable, a dark comedy about plus-size teen girl Patty Bladell (Ryan) losing 213 pounds and entering the thorny world of pageants, it becomes obvious this is exactly the kind of show that will endure on Netflix.
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From the time he was voted "Ladies' Man" at New York Military Academy, to his role in beauty pageants, to his marriages to three beautiful women, cultivating an image as a "playboy," or as "virile," often seems as important to Trump's brand as any of his dealmaking.
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In countries like Venezuela and Colombia, the pageants can be as followed as fervently as top soccer matches, as beautiful young women stride on stage in bikinis and evening gowns as the judges, sometimes men many years their senior, rate their looks and personality before the nation.
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With the recent dramas surrounding the real Miss America pageant — namely, its elimination of swimsuits and other changes leading to what has been described as internal turmoil — it may be difficult for the drama in this fictional black comedy series about beauty pageants to outdo real life.
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Recent years have seen at least two concerted efforts to remove stars from the Hollywood Walk: the one belonging to Trump, who received a pentagram in 2007 largely for his work with beauty pageants and "The Apprentice," and the one bearing the name of Bill Cosby.
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He was heard in the recording boasting of sexual conquests and celebrity entitlement, and the ensuing reaction led to a number of women coming forward to describe specific episodes that included walking in on them changing during beauty pageants as well as groping and kissing them.
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Look, in season 5 I went into Drag Race thinking I had co-wrote the book on drag – I had taken every class and every crash course and I had followed all the rules and I had won all the pageants and lost a couple, and I was ready.
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It was last year that the national competition broke barriers by crowning Deshauana Barber, an African-American U.S. Army Reserves captain from Washington D.C. "There's a lot of stigma about pageants and for a long time it was about beauty" said executive producer of Miss USA, Julianne Hough.
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Her passion for the sport started with the movie Whip It, in which social outsider Bliss Cavendar, portrayed by Ellen Page, is sick and tired of her world of beauty pageants, and finally finds the companionship and support she'd always longed for after joining a roller derby team.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Dancing in undies in the middle of the living room, smoky basement beauty pageants performed half in drag, waggish runway models twirling in dresses by Ossie Clark, a friend phoning a friend from a sun-strewn sofa, tulips drooping luridly in the corner.
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He was not put to work on military matters, or indeed on any major project, for years—his first job was to fix a plumbing problem—but he proved his worth by designing the elaborate pageants that were a hallmark of Ludovico's regime, a theatrical form of family propaganda.
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Executives at Catalina swimwear, a sponsor of the pageant, were offended, and the company decided to create competing events, which came to be called Miss Universe and Miss U.S.A. (Miss U.S.A., not Miss America, advances to the Miss Universe competition.) That rift still defines the differences between the pageants.
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Tying in the darker side of beauty pageants with the emerging world of cyber fantasy and recreation, this is kind of a bizarre episode in a season that had a lot of strong eps, but I can't resist when this show treads into any territory related to the internet.
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Most politicians have a public record of speeches and votes on issues of the day, but Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has left a different type of record: a near-constant presence in TV shows, movies, documentaries, pageants and even professional wrestling events over 20073 years.
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