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rug

(82,333 posts)
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 04:21 PM Oct 2016

Here's the Beauty Pageant Contestant Who's "Too Fat" to Win

It's so great and fun when women's bodies are judged!



By Laura Beck
Oct 23, 2016

Today in idiotic nonsense, some dummies are telling a beauty pageant contestant that she’s too fat. Here we go again!

The Iceland Monitor reports that Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir, Miss Iceland 2015, was told by the owner of the Miss Grand International beauty contest that she needs to lose weight by Tuesday’s finale.

Arna Ýr says she was told to, “Stop eating breakfast, eat just salad for lunch and drink water every evening until the contest,” by spokespeople for the founder and owner of the Miss Grand International beauty contest, Thai TV presenter Nawat Itsaragrisil.

The pageant, which I’ve never heard of but is apparently legit and happens in Las Vegas in a few days, told her that Itsaragrisil wanted to give her the "advice" to lose the non-existent chub because he likes her and wants her to do well. So sweet!

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a7109381/miss-iceland-too-fat/

And she told them to go fuck themselves.

“I intend to stand up for myself, women everywhere and the Icelandic people. I will not let them tell me I am too fat to look good on stage. I have quit. I will not be taking part in Miss Grand In­ternati­onal.”

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/2016/10/23/beauty_contest_tries_to_force_fat_miss_iceland_to_r/
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napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. I'm sad to hear she quit. I've not deen the other contestants, but she looks to me like
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 04:25 PM
Oct 2016

she sure could given them some competition. Honestly, where is this fat?

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
3. She must have gained at least sixteen ounces in the last year.
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 04:32 PM
Oct 2016


I'm glad she told them off. It's a far better action than staying in this pageant.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
6. They should change the name of the contest to Miss Anorexia International.
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 07:00 PM
Oct 2016

Truth in advertising seems to warrant it, so no more women like Miss Iceland mistake it for a beauty contest.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
7. I think it is time for women contestants to stand up to this idiocy! She is beautiful just
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 07:06 PM
Oct 2016

the way she is!

jmowreader

(50,552 posts)
8. How skinny do they want her anyway?
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 07:22 PM
Oct 2016

She's so thin her bones are sticking out, and they want her to weigh even less? It doesn't sound all that legit of a pageant to me!

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
9. If you are going to do a "beauty pageant", yeah you are going to get judged
Sun Oct 23, 2016, 08:42 PM
Oct 2016

They are stupid. But if you are choosing to do those, then be prepared for this kind of criticism.

I don't watch these. I don't know any women who are even into that kind of thing. My guy friends would rather watch a sports game than a beauty contest.

But I'm not going to stand in anyone's way that wants to do it.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
12. Sounds like Drumpf is one of the judges!
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 08:49 AM
Oct 2016

I doubt it, but sounds very much like what he would say.

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