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A child beauty pageant is a controversial [1] [2] [3] beauty contest featuring contestants under 18 years of age. Competition categories may include talent , interview , sportswear , casual wear , swimwear, western wear, theme wear, outfit of choice, decade wear, and evening wear .
The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hundreds and thousands of beauty contests are held annually, [ 4 ] but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, [ 5 ] and are widely covered and broadcast by news media .
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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.
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A writer for the New York Times criticized child beauty pageants because participants and viewers impose adulthood on children while still expecting them to radiate innocence. [19] The appeal of child beauty pageants in this context is the simultaneous existence of adult sexuality and childhood innocence in the contestants. [19]
A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.