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So, as most of FR knows, I'm a big beauty pageant follower and I follow every world pageant as well as individual country & regional pageants. The Miss Venezuela 2019 Pageant just took place this past Thursday, Aug. 1st from Caracas, and the biggest horror was how rail-thin and unhealthy the contestants all looked. I don't know how to post photos, so here's a link to a photo of the winner, Thalia Olvinos, aged 20, in a bathing suit. https://www.google.com/search?q=thalia+olvino+bathing+suit&rlz=1CAQRFK_enUS791US791&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ15POmufjAhUIU98KHW9qAgMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1536&bih=706#imgrc=3fasiyprvpDkhM: Well,as soon as I posted this photo on my Facebook wallpage, some of my liberal friends started going nuts, saying...

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...

My translation of the breaking news: 15 de septiembre de 2005 Jictzad Viña, Miss Sucre (province) is the new Miss Venezuela 2005, a young woman full of security, elegance, grace and beauty who happened to convert in her 22 years into one of the most beautiful women in Venezuela. At 7:00 p.m. the contest began, in the majestic cupola of the Poliedro of Caracas, to a new version of the contest more hopeful for the year in Venezuela and the world, the election of Miss Venezuela. They all were accompanied by a great technical and artistic display to reproduce a...