I know nothing gooses a beauty pageant like scandal or controversy. I’ve even scored lovelies on their ability to bait hooks in the Miss DownHome pageant. I’ve judged everything from Miss Mini Canada to Miss Malta to Miss Hooters. What if I want to borrow a bikini and strut my stuff on the Miss Universe stage? If they say no, can I claim discrimination based on sex, age, looks, hair loss, flappy ears and a fallen ass?įor some reason, people keep asking me to be a beauty pageant judge, including Miss Universe Canada for four years. Should “natural born” women be allowed in transsexual beauty pageants, of which there are many? I wonder if that means a 28-year-old divorcee with four kids is close enough.Ĭ’mon, love them or hate them, beauty pageants are what they are. She’s considered herself a girl since age four, which she figures is close enough to “natural born.”
Miss Talackova, on the other hand, says her dismissal is discriminatory and she’s talking to a lawyer. The pageant’s send-off: “We do, however, respect her goals, determination and wish her the best.” You must be under 27, unmarried - and a “natural born” female. But not on the Miss Universe Canada stage. Jenna Talackova is now, by all legal and visual standards, a woman. She went from outie to innie, you might say. Now a stunning 6-foot-1 blonde, she started hormone therapy when she was a teenaged boy and had the final, no-going-back surgery when she was 19.
Unless you’ve been dead or your girdle is on too tight, you know Jenna Talackova, 23, of Vancouver, didn’t make the cut because, well, because she made the cut. And you, too, I bet, after looking at the photo. The Miss Universe Canada isn’t until May and already a finalist has been disqualified because she was born a he.Ĭould have fooled me. At 17 itself, she had an amazing portfolio and had make a mark in the field.I better quit being a beauty pageant judge. I am very good with my hands and that, I think is my forte". Numbers and me don’t get along and are not even distant cousins! I am good with any form of art. The day she got her first smart phone when she was in 8th grade, she started clicking pictures of her friends and found herself fairly satisfied with the results.However, the phone was confiscated most of the time and she got it back only three years later!! Sasha says " I HATE STUDYING.I can’t do any books or anything remotely connected with studying. "Photography is my heart and soul because it has actually brought out the best active side of me, she says". She learnt Photoshop and other skills related to photography on her own and learnt to even develop photographs and discovered that her real interest lay in fashion photography. At school, she was introduced to the basics of photography which got her hooked and interested enough to delve deeper into the subject on her own.
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