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Date Posted: 21:07:36 07/25/08 Fri
Beauty with a bit of nip & tuck?
A 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on plastic surgery surrounds local pageants
By Ho Lian-Yi
July 21, 2008
MAYBE she was born with it, or maybe she paid for it - that's the usual cattiness after every Miss Universe pageant.
This time, Latina gossip site Guanabee claims, with photographic comparisons, that the last three Miss Universe winners had plastic surgery, including the present winner, Venezuela's Dayana Mendoza.
'So while they don't officially endorse it, they manage to reward it every year with the crown,' it alleged, referring to the pageant organiser.
Guanabee's claims:
Stunning: Miss Universe 2006 Zuleyka Rivera crowning Miss Japan Riyo Mori during the competition last year. Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza won the crown this year. A website claims that they had work done to enhance their beauty.
Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela did her nose.
Miss Universe 2007 Riyo Mori of Japan rounded out her eyes in addition to her admitted 'lip work'. (However, the website's pictures were shown to be not actually hers.)
Miss Universe 2006 Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico 'looks like Michael Jackson'.
But is it fair for contestants who had plastic surgery to compete in the beauty contests in the first place? And wouldn't it put countries without as much of a 'plastic culture', at a disadvantage at such contests?
Ms Teo Ser Lee, who was Miss Singapore International 1986 and Miss Singapore World 1988, said she had been to five international pageants and she found a lot of the South Americans had near-perfect bodies.
She claims she also knew a plastic surgeon who specialised in 'sculpting' these bodies.
But is it unfair? She doesn't think so.
'Come on, if you have the kind of experts and you have the money, just do it,' she said.
But Ms Teo, who trains beauty pageant contestants, tells them to think carefully about the risks of the surgery going wrong or not meeting their expectations.
Mr Daryl Pang of Derrol Steppeny Promotions, which organises Miss Singapore Universe, said the pageant has no rule against plastic surgery. 'If someone did it years ago, I wouldn't know anyway,' he said.
In Singapore, the pageant circuit appears to have a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy towards plastic surgery.
It is kept quiet, several sources said. It is not encouraged or common, but it is left to the contestant to decide what she wants.
To Ms Jackeline Carter, director of iGlamour and creator of the Sweetheart Pageants, the accusations of plastic surgery in the Miss Universe pageant doesn't come as a surprise.
To have a chance of getting in the top five of Miss Universe, you have to be near-perfect. 'And no one is born perfect,' she reasoned.
But she doesn't think many local beauty contestants go for plastic surgery. 'If our girls go through much of that they would be much more beautiful,' she said with a laugh.
Ms Cheryl Hansen, managing director of C T Hansen International, organiser of Miss Earth Singapore, said: 'I'm not quite certain what goes on behind the scenes at Miss Universe or other pageants, but what I know is that with Miss Earth - you cannot win with superficial beauty alone.'
Student Serene Wong, 19, the reigning Miss Singapore Sweetheart, said she can understand why people would go under the knife.
'In pageants, confidence plays a big role,' she said.
INNER BEAUTY
However, she said that if she had won because she had plastic surgery done, she would feel guilty about it.
She said: 'You won't be a good role model... You would actually encourage more girls to go for plastic surgery and they won't respect true beauty any more.'
Mrs Colleen Francisca-Maison, 26, multiple pageant-winner and the runner-up at Mrs World 2008, said she felt plastic surgery won't give any contestant an advantage over another.
Personally, she has no problem with plastic surgery as long as the person knows when to stop.
Sometimes girls get it not to fix something outside, but something 'inside'. That's when they get addicted, thinking the next nip/tuck will be the one that makes them feel good about themselves. 'But it never does,' she said.
Miss Nuraliza Osman, 31, the lawyer who won Miss Singapore Universe in 2002, said she is completely against plastic surgery.
She didn't know of anyone who went under the knife when she competed.
And, according to her, beauty contests aren't just about pretty faces and bodies.
'You also need charisma - and you can't buy that from a surgeon's office,' she said.
Reference: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story/0,4136,171254,00.html
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- The message is, when cosmetic surgery is properly done well & good and the client has the charisma, character, personality, inner beauty & the X-factor to match, then it can only be GOOD & POSITIVE for pageantry, the client, the surgeon and business! Beauty is after all skin deep! (NT) -- I'm all for good constructive surgery!, 22:17:06 07/20/08 Sun
- The Miss Universe pageant allows plastic surgery because Donald Trump wears an unnatural toupee! (NT) -- Critique, 03:09:23 07/21/08 Mon
- ADD NATALIE GLEBOVA TO THIS NIP/TUCK LIST. STOP BEING SO DISCRIMINATORY TOWARDS THE LATINAS! RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS GO UNDER THE KNIFE TOO! (NT) -- PETER ELIAS, 12:06:27 07/24/08 Thu
- YOU NEED TO DELETE MY POST? SO ASHAMED OF MY COMMENT MODERATOR? I GUESS YOU LOVE TO CREATE PROBLEMS AND BASHED ASIANS AMONG ONE ANOTHER.........ITS COOL....YOU HAVE YOUR KARMA THATS ALL.......GOOD WEEKEND!!!! TO ME... :) (NT) -- BEN, 21:07:36 07/25/08 Fri
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