Kim – I think the girl put herself in the beauty contest. :-) If she gets ridicule, it might be from the masses! :-)

naeboo: totally agree with you. and marilyn monroe looks at most UK 10 to me. there is no way a size 16 could have a waist like that, hehe. nvm…longass comment is best haha

sorry for the longass comment. didnt realise

there’s alw a political move even in beauty pageants. havent u noticed also that the host country’s representative alw go into the finals too?

notty>>as much as i would like to go into a debate, i still remain firm on my stand to dislike fat ppl. this doesnt mean that i glorify skinny ppl.

fat ppl are plain lazy. not true? if u like being that size, dont bitch abt it. dont complain that ppl dont pay u attention. dont whine abt not having nice clothes to wear.etc

be pro-healthy like kim said.

all the talk about how someone sized 16 shld be proud to be in a beauty pageant is all too optimistic.

chucking one fat girl into a pageant wont change ppl’s perception that fat is unhealthy. being thin can be unhealthy too but it’s how u attain it that shld be the focus. unfortunately, thats not alw the case.

all the skinny-bashing wont help the case of being bigger sized and how some of u wld call “healthier looking”.

and btw, there’s alw diff sources telling us what size marilyn was. so hard to believe who now. i have heard she’s size 12 uk, size 6 usa and now, size 14 from u. im sure all this is fantastic brain-washing from female magazines.

and also remember that current global weathers are somewhat hotter than b4. there’s no need for all that layers of extra padding. this in turn made rubenesque women a mere fashion trend as it is now to have a slimmer silhouette. and also the lack of space.

bibliodibudouchuu>> we asians have diff sets of genes from our ancestors who lived in diff climates than urs. ultimately that means we got the smaller sets of internal organs as well as smoother skin and black hair. maybe that also means we get smaller eyes coz there’s more glare in the orient. beats me hahha

doesnt mean we r smaller in general, we purge and dont eat.

still wondering where tiny waisted malaysian girls actually put their internal organs! (in their designer handbags?)

as for the other comments, well ultimately it’s the choice of words people use. anyhow being in a beauty pageant means one must be prepared to be judged. skinny, healthy or fat won’t stop the mouths shooting off. and the ugly truth hurts more unfortunately.

Yes, perhaps everyone here think that the girl above is repulsive or not qualified to stand for any beauty paegants because she is no size less than 16 but think again. Perhaps it is time that the world stop this skinny and fit is beautiful nonsense so that no women will have to die from aneroxia or bullimia effects or suffers low self esteem because they are big? Perhaps this is another step forward to recondition our little minds to accept women the way they are instead of dictating that they have to be of a certain size? Perhaps this is the next step after Milan’s fashion rule that models have to be of certain acceptable weight and size?

From the remarks in here, it is very clear that you people are not kind to women or maybe even men that are big. Please bear in mind that there are a lot of reasons why people are big or in your term, FAT. Some of these reasons cannot be avoided or helped. So, what then? die and disappear from the face of this earth because there are people like you in here who will make life a living hell? Remember, Kimberly, you once said that respect is very important. Remember also that in the times of Renaissance, women were as big as the girl above or even bigger. Look at all the Michaelangelo paintings around and you will see the same type of fat women worshipped and adored. Remember again that Marilyn Monroe is a size 14! So, before any of you start to puke in your mouth or make crude remarks like the sound of flesh slapping doing doggie, think again, one day you might wake up looking just like that, nothing you do will make you shrink and you have to put with all the above remarks… It wont be very pleasant….

Then again, we didn’t see how bad the other contestants were. Maybe they had a choice between whale and dog and the whale looked prettier. BUT, lets not forget that some people LIKE that sort of thing too. I mean, she’s not UGLY like some people and beauty contests also have MORE than just the bikini bit to them. They are judged on personality as well as poise and other things. If the anorexic ones all had zero brains and personalities and about as much poise as a bull with it’s testicles tied to it’s horns, then she may have actually been the BEST in show … I mean the best to chose.

My brother Jeff saw her and thought she was HOT!!! [Keep your dinners down people!]

But, it seems to be the opposite extreme to a LOT of people in pagents who haven’t eaten in four months. I know they’re critisizing her in the paper for being lazy and over eating, which doesn’t make a good role model, but under eating and falling down the drain whilst showering isn’t a good role model either.

So, I think maybe we can cut the girl some slack. She’s not a beauty Queen by the standards we expect, but we also don’t know WHY she over eats [maybe she has major issues and comfort eats], and we also don’t know much else other than what the paper said about her.
So, I’ll give her an ‘A’ for guts to enter the contest to begin with, and an ‘A’ for having larger boobs than myself. I might give her an ‘A’ for having won the contest as there is obviously something there more than meets the eye, and are we not always trying to teach others that we shouldn’t be cruel to people just because they are different?

None of us are perfect, and lets face it, we all have things about ourselves worthy of love of some kind. [And if she did lose a few stone she'd probably be hotter than a lot of other girls. So, I wish her all the best and I hope she can lose weight before the final in order to have the 'outer beauty' people expect from a beauty Queen]. You never know, if she does lose the weight, maybe she might win [and winning in Surrey might just get her over her 'comfort eating' habit].

skyler: yeah she does! hehe