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Beauty pageant. The winners of the International Pageant of Pulchritude 1930 competition. A beauty pageant is a competition in which the contestants are judged and ranked based on various physical and mental attributes. Per its name, beauty pageants traditionally focus on judging the contestants' physical attractiveness, sometimes solely so ...
A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
Miss World 1951 First winner of Miss World Kiki Håkansson, Sweden. Miss Universe 1952 First winner of Miss Universe Armi Kuusela Finland. Miss Earth 2001 First winner of Miss Earth Catharina Svensson Denmark. In October 2005, Cynthia Kanema of Zambia earned the distinction of becoming the first woman to have participated in all four of the ...
Miss United States 2023 - Addison Grace Hadley. Miss United States is a pageant held in the United States for unmarried women between the ages of 20 and 29. The pageant includes women selected to represent all 50 states, District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operated both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA, until 2020, when the organization announced it was licensing operation of the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants to Crystle Stewart, Miss USA for 2008 prior to her ...
The Philippines currently holds the world's longest winning streak in the Big Four pageants by any country in history, from 2013 to 2018. The country's winning streak started in 2013 with Megan Young as the country's first ever, and currently only, Miss World titleholder, and also with Bea Santiago winning the Miss International crown.
Miss International (Miss International Beauty or The International Beauty Pageant) is a Japan-based international major beauty pageant organized by the International Culture Association. First held in 1960, [ 1 ][ 2 ] it is the fourth largest pageant in the world in terms of the number of national winners participating in the international ...
Miss USA 2016 Deshauna Barber, District of Columbia. Miss USA 2015 Olivia Jordan, Oklahoma. Miss USA 2014 Nia Sanchez, Nevada. Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady, Connecticut. Miss USA 2012 Nana Meriwether, Maryland (Became Miss USA after Olivia Culpo became Miss Universe 2012) Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo, Rhode Island.