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From the 2016 Miss USA Pageant: Body size is a hot topic
TOM DONOGHUE / DONOGHUEPHOTOGRAPHY.COM
2016 Miss USA Pageant judges Joe Zee, Crystle Stewart, Nigel Barker, Laura Brown and Ali Landry arrive Sunday, June 5, 2016, at T-Mobile Arena.
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 | 4:01 p.m.
Host Ashley Graham arrives at the 2016 Miss USA Pageant at T-Mobile Arena on Sunday, June 5, 2016, on the Las Vegas Strip.
Since Sunday’s 2016 Miss USA Pageant at T-Mobile Arena, I have been asked numerous times why the most glamorous and sexiest contestants failed to place in the Top 15, and only stunning knockout Miss Hawaii Chelsea Hardin made it to the Final Five.
I put the question to Miss Universe Organization CEO Paula Shugart: “Your backstage host Ashley Graham is a size-16 plus model. She said maybe Miss USA is changing and its philosophy is not just going to be thin girls. It’s going to be all girls.”
Paula continued: “Our motto has been ‘confidently beautiful,’ and on the state level, we’ve had every kind of young woman compete, and they have a good experience out of it. It’s all about personal growth.
“I’m so thrilled Ashley was on the cover of Sports Illustrated because I think it sends a very important message, more to the fashion industry, honestly, because in the pageants, we’ve had all sizes. We’ve had somebody who was a size 8 a few years ago, and it made a big deal. It wasn’t a big deal for us. We’re a 65-year-old organization.
“I think if you look at fashion over the years, it’s changed. Maybe we’re starting to see the pendulum swing back to being healthier and being more real, and I think that’s really important for body image and for young women and for their self-esteem. I’m very supportive of it.”
I asked Ashley if she believes that beauty pageants are changing. She told me: “Look, if Sports Illustrated is going to put a girl my size on the cover, anything can happen. Beauty pageants could put size-16 girls in because at the end of the day, beauty truly should be beyond size — it’s within.
“Maybe on camera, they all look alike, but in the back talking to each one of them, there are different shapes and sizes, there are different faces, there are different ethnicities. I think it’s really awesome to meet them one-on-one because you see that there is more diversity than what you think of as a pageant.”
Pageant judge Ali Landry, who won the title in 1996 and was the last winner to compete in a one-piece bathing suit, told me: “I remember the nerves. I was from a small town in Louisiana and had never been on live television before. To have a microphone put in front of your face, knowing that millions of people are watching, and you’re live on television.
“I would hope that I could say something halfway intelligent. That was a nerve-wracking part and way before Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube recording it forever. I’m looking for the girls who have confidence and are humble and gracious. None of those describe looks because I want to see, when I look in their eyes, I want to see their souls. That’s what I want.”
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