This blog is all about my finding Joy and part of that includes me focusing on wellness and health and therefore losing some weight. I’ve touched on this in previous posts My Body My Temple and The Temple’s Foundation. Now even though I have a few pounds to lose to get my Temple in tip top shape I do like my body. I like my curves and my over all shape. So in the spirit of celebrating the body I have even though I am still working to improve it I entered the 2011 Miss Curve Contest. This is a beauty pageant for plus size women. This is not something I would normally do. However, I have realized in order to embrace Joy I may have to search for it outside of my comfort zone. So, in the spirit of Feel Good Friday and my upcoming competition I am poking a little bit of fun at Pageants.
Here are a few funny Pageant quotes:
At the 2007 Miss Teen USA Pageant, Miss Teen South Carolina was asked why one fifth of Americans can’t locate the USA on a world map. She replied… “I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and I believe that our education like such as South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like, such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.” — Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina.
Upon being crowned “Little Miss Cherub,” a three-year-old girl waved an envelope containing her scholarship at her mother watching from the audience and yelled, “Mommy, I got mail!”
By the end of the 1930s a disgruntled talent scout at the Miss America Pageant complained to Holiday magazine, “I’m telling you, culture and respectability have ruined the Miss America Pageant!”
When asked to give her astrological sign, Miss Sri Lanka 1985 replied, “Oh, I don’t have any.”
During one memorable moment at a Miss World Pageant, the short master of ceremonies couldn’t resist teasing Miss United Kingdom, a six-foot-tall beauty who towered over him. “And what are you going to be when you grow up?” he asked. “I don’t know,” the finalist replied without a smile. “What are you going to be when you grow up?”
During the 1993 Ms. Senior Palm Beach County Pageant, the pageant director asked one entrant to name her life goals. “Honey,” replied the 75-year-old contestant, “I don’t even buy green bananas!”
What do you think of these Pageant Titles?”
Queen of the Road
Miss Most Kissable Lips
Mr. and Miss Scratch Ankle
Underwater Queen
Miss Rural Electrification
Miss Hell Hole Swamp
Miss Fire Ant
Miss Black Eye Pea
Miss Chile Pepper
Pow Wow Queen
Miss Tush
Most Glamorous Grandmother
Swine Queen
Pork Princess
Miss Snake Charmer
Miss Wet T-shirt
Mrs. Drumstick
Miss Blue Devil
Miss Pregnant
Miss Klingon Empire
Miss Artificial Beauty
Miss Jumbo Queen
Miss Atom
Sister Italia – A Pageant for Nuns
Miss Condom
Miss Mama Kilo
And last but not least here are a few pageant videos including a fall and two wig mishaps. EnJoy.
The miss curve contest website leads to a dangerous link. Be careful.
Thanks for letting me know. I wrote this post years ago. The link may have changed.
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Will you be doing the Curve Contest this year? #FBF