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- Yahoo Canada Style
Miss World Canada Emma Morrison isn't bothered by beauty standards: 'Beauty starts inside you'
"Beauty begins the moment that you fully embrace who you are, and you're not afraid to shine that towards others."
- Yahoo Life
The new Miss Universe, R'Bonney Gabriel, designed her swimsuit look using sustainable dyes and plastic bottles
The new Miss Universe, Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel, is an ethical fashion designer who used plastic bottles and sustainable dye to create her swimsuit look.
- Yahoo Canada Style
Former Miss Universe Canada Siera Bearchell reflects on 'incredible' body after baby
The former beauty queen got candid about the resilience, strength and adaptability of her body.
- Yahoo Life
Miss USA's first transgender contestant, Kataluna Enriquez, on being eliminated early: 'I think they were just not ready'
“It was disappointing to me, because I had so much more to offer, I had so much I wanted to talk about," Enriquez says of the interview portion of the competition. "My interview was solely on my transitioning."
- Yahoo Life
Political statements take center stage at Miss Universe, with pageant's blessing: 'We will always support a woman for using her voice'
Contestants used the pageant's national costume segment to speak out about issues in their home countries.
- Yahoo Life
Beauty pageant winner wears Black Lives Matter-inspired dress to raise awareness: 'We can all be equal'
The gown featured portraits of victims of police brutality such as Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Akai Garley.
Yahoo LifeMiss USA Cheslie Kryst wasn’t sure America was 'ready' for another black titleholder: 'Can we do another one? Is there room?'
Cheslie Kryst and Zozibini Tunzi open up about tokenism in pageantry amid racial tensions in America.
- Yahoo Life
Beauty queen files discrimination lawsuit after Miss World disqualified her for being a mom
Beauty queen, who was stripped of her title as Miss Ukraine for not disclosing she is a mother on her application and disqualified from competing in Miss World, is suing pageant organizers.
- Yahoo Life
Miss America organizers apologize for 'an educated woman does not parade around in a swimsuit' quote
Former Miss America Cara Mund accused organizers of "insulting, alienating and discrediting the thousands of women" who took part in swimsuit competitions.
- Yahoo Life
'What is wrong with this picture?': Miss India finalists spark conversation about country's 'Western beauty' obsession
The photo collage features 30 contestants who advanced in the beauty pageant. Many were quick to notice that the women look relatively identical.
- Yahoo Life
22-year-old beauty queen announced her pregnancy. Now she's losing her crown for 'breach of contract.'
A Bolivian beauty queen has been stripped of her title for a “breach of contract” after officials found out that she is pregnant.
- Yahoo Life
Miss Universe Singapore reveals pageant gown featuring Trump's handshake with Kim Jong Un
Miss Singapore said the dress has a "very serene and calming effect."
- Yahoo Life
Instagram star and beauty queen Tara Fares shot and killed
Social media star and model Tara Fares has been shot dead in Baghdad, according to CNN.
- Yahoo Life
Miss Ukraine is stripped of her crown after pageant officials discover she's a divorced mother
Didusenko was in direct violation of the contest's rules when she applied to compete despite having previously been married and having a child.
- Yahoo Life
Miss America is cutting swimsuit, evening gown portions: 'We're not going to judge you on your outward appearance'
Gretchen Carlson announced plans to scrap the swimsuit portion, and current Miss America Cara Mund is cheering on the decision to say #byebyebikini.
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Former Miss America winners respond to CEO's 'disgusting' emails
Past winner of the Miss America beauty pageant have spoken out against CEO Sam Haskell.
- Yahoo Life UK
Miss Iraq beauty pageant contestant forced to flee home after selfie with Miss Israel
Sarah Idan, otherwise known as Miss Iraq, tried to show that beauty pageants could promote peace.
- Mashable
This beauty pageant turned into a runway for women's rights
In August, Perú's Minister of Women's Affairs announced that a record 96 women had died because of femicide. In a country already struggling with domestic violence, the report was simply devastating. On Sunday, contestants at the Miss Perú 2018 beauty pageant decided to use to their platform to amplify that data and bring attention to domestic violence in Peru. In lieu of citing their personal measurements, the contestants instead recited facts about women's rights in their home country. SEE ALSO: When jokes tell stories journalists can't You can watch the full moment here (starts at 3:46 minutes). "My measurements are: 2,202 cases of femicide reported in the last nine years in my country," Miss Perú Lima said when asked to give her measurements. Other women immediately followed suit. "My name is Karen Cueto. My measurements are 82 femicides and 156 this year so far," one contestant said. Miss Callao announced her measurements: "3,114 women victims of trafficking up until 2014." Miss Lonzano added hers in as well: "the 65 percent of university women who are assaulted by their partners." The women didn't act entirely independently. The competition's organizers posted clippings of murdered and assaulted women and made sure they were on full display as contestants walked down the catwalk. In 2016, an estimated 6,000 women were victims of domestic and sexual violence in Peru. In August of this year, more than 50,000 Peruvians marched with Ni Una Menos to protest the epidemic of violence in their country. These contestants found their own way to march with them, they just did it on a catwalk. WATCH: Become an underwater handyman with these awesome power tools
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Size 8 beauty pageant contestant considered 'plus-size' is all about the 'in-between'
Messalina Morley, 20, has been identified as plus-size through the modeling and pageant industries in which she's worked. However, she is using that status and experience to shed light on what she calls being in "the in-between."
- Kristine Solomon
Former Miss Australia Calls Out Donald Trump for Being ‘Sexist’ and ‘Controlling’
Jodie Seal, who competed in the Miss Universe contest with Alicia Machado, has compared Trump to Mussolini in the way the mogul treated pageant contestants.
- Kristine Solomon
Miss Italy Runner-Up Responds After Being Brutally Body-Shamed
Poala Torrente broke beauty-pageant ground recently when the size 14 knock-out won second place at the Miss Italy competition. According to the Daily Mail, she was “ridiculed by other contestants and trolled on social media over her size after she came second in the competition.” The mother of the pageant’s third-place winner took to Instagram to suggest that women with Torrente’s curvaceous figure should “take part in the Plus Size Miss Italy contest,” per a translation by the Daily Mail.
- Noël Duan
Why Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach Doesn’t Have Time for Drama
This job only lasts one year, after all.
- Noël Duan
You Can Enter the First Beauty Pageant Judged by Robots
Is there an objective algorithm for beauty? (Photo: Courtesy of Beauty.AI)
- Simone Olivero
This beauty pageant will be judged by robots
Facebook/Beauty.AI It’s no secret that beauty is subjective. But, what is surprising, is that it’s taken this long for scientists to come up with a non-subjective means of measuring it. “Artificial intelligence systems have already surpassed humans in image recognition, and it is only a matter of time before robots will be able to evaluate human visual appeal, engage in fashion design, and even make perfumes,” said Alexey Shevtsov, the co-founder of Youth Laboratories collective in a press release. “We decided to build a platform which will help bridge some of the most advanced humans - those who are interested in robot opinion and those developers, who are building intelligent systems to understand the beauty function.”