Beauty Pageants

Lithuania on Friday urged the organisers of Britain's "Miss USSR" beauty pageant to remove the Baltic state's name from the event seeking the most beautiful woman from an ex-Soviet Union republic living in Britain.

Miss New York Mallory Hytes Hagan, a 23-year-old native of Brooklyn, was crowned Miss America, beating rivals from all 50 US states.

Depending on who wins the crown on Saturday, the next Miss America could be the first ever with autism. Or she could go on to get a double mastectomy.

American Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss Universe 2012, beating out beauties from around the world to claim the coveted title.

American Olivia Culpo was crowned Miss Universe 2012, beating out beauties from around the world to claim the coveted title.

Carine Felizardo, a curvy model from the northern state of Para was late Friday crowned Miss Bumbum, a title rewarding Brazil's sexiest female derriere.

They are tall and slender beauty queens who sometimes fall into the arms of rich and ruthless Mexican drug traffickers.

A company that featured bikini-clad child models as young as five years old at a Chinese car show sought Wednesday to defuse the controversy but also defended its actions.

Miss China won the coveted title of Miss World on Saturday, triumphing on home soil during a glitzy final held in a mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert.

Miss China, Yu Wenxia, won the Miss World crown for 2012 on Saturday, defeating more than 100 other hopefuls at a glittering ceremony in a Chinese mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert.

Global beauty queens, soaking up nomadic culture, on Saturday readied to compete for the Miss World title in the unlikely setting of a Chinese mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert.

A prominent Singaporean businessman was sentenced to three months in jail Monday for having paid sex with a minor, as dozens of other accused men await their fate in a prostitution scandal.

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the first-ever Miss Kurdistan, though the beauty contest took place without bikini-clad women and with journalists and their cameras kept at bay.

Sheena Monnin, Miss Pennsylvania USA, has resigned in protest of transgender contestants. Sheena Monnin, Miss Pennsylvania USA, has resigned in protest of transgender contestants. Monnin stepped down from her post this week, just days after Olivia Culpo, a 20-year-old cellist from Rhode Island, was crowned Miss USA. During the contest's interview round, Culpo embraced the Miss Universe Organization's recent policy change allowing transgender contestants. ?Would you feel it would be fair that a transgender woman wins the Miss USA title over a natural-born woman?? a follower on Twitter asked. ?I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it's a free country,? Culpo answered. In her resignation letter, Monnin, 27,

Donald Trump, head of the Miss Universe Organization, vowed a lawsuit against beauty Sheena Monnin on Wednesday after she declared the recent Miss USA contest was rigged.

Jenna Talackova, the transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant, has said she has yet to tell her complete story. Jenna Talackova, the transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant, has said she has yet to tell her complete story. The 23-year-old Talackova placed in the top 12 and was one of four women voted ?Miss Congeniality? at the Miss Universe Canada this weekend, ending her bid to enter the Miss Universe competition. Talackova was first told she could not compete in beauty pageant because she was not born female. The organization later backtracked. The incident prompted Donald Trump, the owner of Miss Universe, to drop the organization's ban on transgender women competing. Speaking to CNN, Talackova said she was proud of what she had accomplished. ?For a couple of seconds I was a little bummed out but after, like, a couple of minutes I was just extremely happy. I'm so proud of myself,? Talackova told the network. She added that she has yet to tell her complete story. ?I've never t

The lawyer for a model who triggered a beauty pageant sex-change row took a jab at real estate tycoon Donald Trump on Thursday, poking fun at the size of the Miss Universe co-owner's... ego.

Jenna Talackova, the transgender Miss Universe contestant who has won the right to compete, was mocked on Don Imus' radio show. Jenna Talackova, the transgender Miss Universe contestant who has won the right to compete in the pageant, was mocked Wednesday on Don Imus' radio show. Talackova is the 23-year-old Canadian who was told she could not compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant because she was not born female. The organization later backtracked, saying Talackova would be allowed to participate. On Tuesday, Donald Trump, the owner of Miss Universe, said he was dropping the ban and transgender women were welcome to compete. On Imus in the Morning, which is simulcast on Fox Business Network, producer and known antagonist Bernard McGuirk repeated Trump's suggestion that Talackova's name sounded like ?genital.? ?I looked at her name, and somebody brought this up to me, 'jennatal' those are the first letters of her name. And it's 'genital,'? Trump told ABC's Barbara Walters as he he

Donald Trump's Miss Universe contest on Tuesday threw open its doors to transgender models, allowing men who have had a sex change the chance to be crowned the world's most beautiful woman.

Transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova told the women of ABC's 'The View' that gender reassignment surgery was 'excruciatingly painful'. ?Transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova on Monday told the women of ABC's The View that gender reassignment surgery was ?excruciatingly painful.? Talackova appeared on the program with civil rights attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Talackova. Talackova is the 23-year-old Canadian who was told she could not compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant because she was not born female. The organization later backtracked, saying Talackova would be allowed to participate. Seated on the show's sofa, she said she knew she wasn't a boy since she could put ?2 and 2 together.? ?I've always been attracted to everything effeminate.? ?You had sex surgery?? Barbara Walters asked. ?I had sex reassignment surgery.? ?Very painful,? Walters stated. ?Excruciating.? ?Well, it's just like getting,? Talackova responded, ?if you can imagine anything getting rec