Posted on 09/20/2009 5:38:40 PM PDT by Steelfish
September 21, 2009
Sweat, Blood and Surgery: Welcome To The Miss Venezuela Villa
It is a temple of beauty where 20 women have spent a gruelling six months on a programme of diets, weigh-ins, personal trainers, catwalk classes and lessons in dance and elocution. Welcome to the Miss Venezuela villa.
Inside the mirrored walls — and ceilings — of this salmon-pink monument to kitsch, the competitors in this week’s national final are honed to the image of perfection envisioned by Osmel Sousa, the president of the Miss Venezuela Organisation and self-proclaimed “specialist in the female figure”.
The girls are examined on arrival by Mr Sousa and his team and given a list of flaws to address — often with the help of cosmetic surgery, one of the country’s largest industries.
Critics of Venezuela’s beauty factory say that this is taking preparations too far, but Mr Sousa — imagine a permatanned Henry Higgins in silver trainers — defends his pursuit of female flawlessness.
“When I see a defect I want to correct it,” he told The Times. “If I were advising you” — he reaches out to indicate my facial flaws — “I would say to inject a bit here and here.”
In any case, he insists, there is no time to perform any major surgery, although former winners have reportedly had everything from nose reshaping to liposuction and breast implants.
This is a country where plastic surgery is a common 18th birthday present — despite the Government’s proclaimed socialist values, materialism is the rule — and a visit to the surgeon is relatively cheap.
A willowy 5ft 10in (1.78m) with impossible statistics, Mariangela Bonanni, 21, admits that the pressure to live up to Mr Sousa’s ideal is great.
On her arrival at the Miss Venezuela house, Miss Bonanni....
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Very strange coming from a very socialist country run by Hugo...
You don't remember decades of Chinese gymnasts, divers, and ping-pong (for crying out loud!) players?
Russian gymnasts, runners, wrestlers, and weight lifters?
Why should a beauty contest be any different than the Olympics?
(Want a real hoot? Challenge them to Monster Garage or Iron Chef!)
Alright...there are rules here....
For a nominal fee, I’m willing to relocate to the house and offer up my stud services.
Nominal fee? I’ll do it for free!
For free? I’ll pay them! Wait...
How long will Hugo let this go on?
Not really. Much like communism, people are property of the state under socialist regimes. The state mandates and directs maintenance on its assets for its own net gain and disposes undesirable and defective property.
That puts Obama care into perspective...
Well, I’n gonna hafta save that photo for later, um, examination, for a period of 3 to 30 minutes.
Now, I can’t concentrate for the rest of the day!
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