60-Year-Old Woman Qualifies for Miss Argentina Contest Thanks to Shockingly Youthful Looks
Alejandra Marisa Rodríguez, a 60-year-old lawyer and journalist from Buenos Aires, recently won the title of Miss Buenos Aires and qualified for the Miss Argentina beauty pageant. At the end of last year, the Miss Universe beauty contest became more inclusive by eliminating an age limit that had been enforced since 1958. Starting this year, […]
Ukrainian-Born Woman Wins Miss Japan Beauty Pageant, Sparks Controversy
A 26-year-old model who was born in Ukraine and moved to Japan at the age of five was recently crowned Miss Japan, sparking a heated debate regarding national identity. Carolina Shiino speaks and writes impeccable Japanese, she spent most of her life in Japan and identifies as Japanese. But she wasn’t born in Japan and, […]
Guy Disguises Himself as a Woman, Reaches National Beauty Contest Final
Arina Aliyeva, one of the finalists of the 2018 Miss Virtual Kazakhstan beauty contest, recently shocked the nation after announcing that she was actually a 22-year-old man who had signed up for the national contest to prove an important point. It all started with an argument Eli Diaghilev, a young Kazakh male model, had with […]
Japanese All-Boys School Crowns Its Prettiest Students in Annual Beauty Pageant
Every year, the prettiest student at Komaba High School, in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward, is crowned the winner of their annual beauty pageant. That doesn’t sound so odd, but here’s the catch – it’s an all-boys institution so the title of ‘Miss Komaba High School’ actually goes to a boy! The pageant is a part of ‘Culture […]
Meet “Miss Farewell”, the Most Beautiful Undertaker in Germany
In an effort to brighten up the image of undertaking, a profession often regarded as joyless, a German online portal for burial price comparisons recently held a unique beauty contest for female undertakers. 36-year-old Rachel Merks got the most votes and was pronounced Miss Farewell. Merks, who runs an undertaking firm with her husband, in Lachheim, Baden-Württemberg, said she […]
Bald Contestant Qualifies for Miss America Beauty Pageant
Kayla Martell, a 21-year-old beauty pageant contestant, proved you don’t need natural hair to win a beauty contest, when she brought home the title of Miss Delaware and qualified for Miss America. Young Kayla suffers from alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that attacks her hair follicles and practically causes baldness. Despite her condition, Miss Martell […]
Dolls Compete in Miss Barbie Beauty Pageant
Do you remember how much you loved giving your dolls make-overs, when you were a little girl? Well, that wasn’t as childish an activity as you might have thought – doll-obsessed grown-ups compete during Miss Barbie beauty pageants, every year. This one’s no joke, folks, people actually go out of their way to come up […]
Italy Hosts Miss Chubby Beauty Contest
31 overweight beauties of Italy competed for the title of “Miss Cicciona“, which translates as Miss Chubby, in the yearly contest of Forcoli. The only entry condition for Miss Cicciona is related to the weight of the contestants. Women have to be at least 100 kilograms heavy, in order to be admitted. The lucky ones […]
Lithuanian Village Holds Goat Beauty Contest
Ramygala, a Lithuanian village 150 kilometers from the capital Vilnius, hosted a weird beauty contest to crown the most beautiful goat. On July 5th, the inhabitants of Ramygala gathered on the outskirts of the village to watch the traditional goat beauty contest held to commemorate the 640th anniversary of the village, which is this year’s […]
Pig Beauty Contest Held in China
The Pig Contest of Guanshan Village, Guangdong Province, China, is a centuries old tradition dating back to the Qing Dinasty. Hundreds of thousands of tourists, from all over China, travel to Guanshan, every year, to take a look at the hundreds of pigs on display at the Pig Contest. This year, around 500 oinkers were […]
Miss Plastic – Cosmetic Surgery Has Its Own Beauty Contest
It was bound to happen sooner or later, right? With plastic surgery becoming more and more popular, enhanced babes yearned for a chance to show off their improvements. And so, Miss Plastic Beauty Contest was born. Miss Plastic, the world’s first “plastic” beauty contest, takes place in Hungary and any woman aged between 19 and […]