<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first-ever plus-sized </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/miss-universe"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Universe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> contestant, Jane Dipika Garrett, said she struggles with </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/obesity"><span style="font-weight: 400;">weight gain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> due to a medical condition.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 22-year-old beauty pageant participant said she was surprised to have made it so far in the competition. Garrett, who represents Nepal, spoke with </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/plus-size-miss-universe-contestant-responds-critics-body-shaming"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fox News Digital</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about the experience so far. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I really did not expect to get that much applause on the stage or that much spotlight,&#8221; Garrett told the outlet. &#8220;I came with a humble heart… but when I won on that stage, I got the loudest applause from the whole entire audience. And that felt so good because it was like a breakthrough moment for me and for society that they see something different, that they see real size beauty.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Nepal also noted how some viewers had negative reactions to her being a contender for Miss Universe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I see things like, &#8216;Oh, she&#8217;s a whale,&#8217; or &#8216;That&#8217;s disgusting. I&#8217;m going to vomit.&#8217; Or like, &#8216;She&#8217;s promoting obesity.&#8217; &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you go to the gym?&#8217; And things like that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s like they don&#8217;t even know my story. They don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;m going through.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Garrett told Fox News that she has a condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). This condition causes the ovaries to produce a higher amount of male sex hormones, which can lead to weight gain, irregular periods, acne, cysts, infertility, and excess hair growth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;So it&#8217;s very easy for us to gain weight,” the beauty pageant contestant said. “Even if we just look at a piece of cake, we can gain weight,&#8221; she said. &#8220;[Critics are] just judging me from social media. And that&#8217;s their problem. I don&#8217;t let it bother me… Society can be very cruel. People can be very cruel sometimes.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Recently, I&#8217;ve gained a lot of weight because of my hormonal issues,” Garrett continued. “And that&#8217;s also really taken a toll on my mental health and my self-esteem because I thought that I wasn&#8217;t good enough or that I wasn&#8217;t beautiful enough. But I really had to get the validation for myself and learn how to have a positive mindset and to love myself despite not feeling my best self,&#8221; she said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It&#8217;s about being confident in your own skin and accepting who you are, where you are at. So I had to really remove all of those messages that were coming from society as well as coming from my own mind. So I had to really brainwash myself again and accept who I am and love myself.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Garrett also said she believes that any body type can be beautiful. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to do something like what a celebrity does or that a model does to be considered beautiful. I think that what&#8217;s most important for you, whatever suits you, is what is beautiful for you. And then I think that&#8217;s so important to just embrace who you are and love who you are and not try to fit into what society says is beautiful,&#8221; Garrett added. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Nepal went on to describe how she struggled with mental health and “had a lot of eating disorders and mental health issues” during childhood. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I would feel like I&#8217;m not good enough. I&#8217;m too big because I&#8217;ve always been naturally big-boned. The boys had naturally a bigger figure. I&#8217;ve always been curvy since I was a child,” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, Garrett said being healthy is more important than being very thin. &#8220;Some models can completely starve themselves and do like liposuction or something. And there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that. That&#8217;s their own choices, but then they could be promoting that as their beauty standards,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And then some people that are very overweight and are very unhealthy could be promoting that and saying that that that they&#8217;re being body positive. But I think that there should be a balance.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She added, “Body positivity for me basically stands for whatever body that you&#8217;re in. You accept it, you love yourself, you are embracing what you are, but you&#8217;re also going towards a healthy lifestyle.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s Miss Universe contest previously made headlines for the inclusion of two trans-identifying contestants, 23-year-old flight attendant Marina Machete who is competing as Miss Portugal and Rikkie Kollé, who won the title of Miss Netherlands.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua was crowned the 2023 Miss Universe during the 72nd Miss Universe Competition on November 18.</span></p>


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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Former President Trump is vowing to &#8220;defeat the cult of gender ideology&#8221; as he pursues a second term in the White House, but he has not always been consistent on the polarizing issue, which could animate the 2024 presidential election.</p>
<p>Just over a decade ago, Trump endorsed letting a man claiming to be a woman compete in the Miss Universe pageant that he owned at the time. Referring to 23-year-old Canadian Jenna Talaackova as a &#8220;woman,&#8221; Trump said the contest should be open to men who identify as women.</p>
<p>“This is a young woman, who, according to the laws of Canada, and according to the laws of the United States, is allowed to enter the pageant system,” Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/06/17/trump-remarks-transgender-women-inclusion-beauty-pageant-kfile-ebof-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “What I did, is I said, &#8216;We have 58 contestants in Canada. Let her run, and maybe she’ll win. And if she wins she’ll go to Miss Universe.’ And I think I made the right decision. I feel fine with the decision.”</p>
<p>More recently, in 2016, Trump spoke out against the so-called “bathroom bill” in North Carolina that barred men from using women’s bathrooms.</p>
<p>“Leave it the way it is,&#8221; Trump said at the time. &#8220;There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate, there has been so little trouble.”</p>
<p>Radical gender theory has emerged as a hot-button issue in the 2024 presidential race, touching on education, parenting, sports, and culture. Many on the Left embrace the idea that people can change their gender and even support irreversible chemical and surgical procedures for children. The increasingly crowded GOP primary field is generally critical of the controversial claims, and now, that includes Trump.</p>
<p>“No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender.” Trump <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/trump-kicks-off-2024-campaign-targeting-gender-expression-ron-desantis-575870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reiterated</a> in late March, “We will defeat the cult of gender ideology to reassert that God created two genders, male and female,” then <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CLvbhEBZT8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in April, “I will keep men out of women’s sports.”</p>
<p>Trump has been on both sides of the issue in the past. While president, Trump was criticized by the LGBTQ community for reversing Obama-era rules that defined &#8220;sex discrimination&#8221; as applying to cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. He was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-transgender-rights.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> by The New York Times of taking action in 2020 that &#8220;erases transgender civil rights protections.&#8221; He also <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-controversial-transgender-military-policy-goes-effect-n993826" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> transgender people from serving in the military, a policy that upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, but later reversed by President Joe Biden.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Trump&#8217;s closest challenger, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, has been a harsh critic of sex-change procedures for minors, allowing biological boys and men to compete in female sports, and allowing public schools to push radical gender theory. As far back as June 1, 2021, the first day of Pride Month, DeSantis approved legislation banning men and boys from competing in high school and college women&#8217;s sports.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“In Florida, girls are going to play girls&#8217; sports and boys are going to play boys&#8217; sports,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-bxPVRqTs">said</a>. “We&#8217;re going to make sure that that&#8217;s the reality. &#8230; The bill that we’re doing today will ensure fairness for women athletes for years to come in the state of Florida. &#8230; We’re going to go based off biology, not based off ideology when we’re doing sports.”</p>


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<p>The new transgender owner of the Miss Universe Organization declared at the event over the weekend that the new global era for women&#8217;s empowerment would be led by trans people.</p>
<p>Biological male Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip, CEO and biggest shareholder of JKN Global Group Public Company Limited, bought the organization for $20 million late last year from Endeavor’s IMG.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has been 70 years that Miss Universe Organization run by men. But now, time is up, is the moment really, for women to take the leap,&#8221; Jakrajutatip said. &#8220;Welcome to the new era of the global women&#8217;s empowerment platform. Welcome to the Miss Universe Organization. From now on is going to be ran by women, owned by a trans woman, for all women, for all women really around the world to celebrate the power of feminism.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Anne Jakrajutatip, the new owner of Miss Universe, delivered an empowering speech yesterday: “Welcome to the new era. From now on it’s gonna be run by women, owned by a trans woman, for all women around the world.” <a href="https://t.co/TJXV8EPkAv">pic.twitter.com/TJXV8EPkAv</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Dan Hastings-நாராயணன் (@notdanhastings) <a href="https://twitter.com/notdanhastings/status/1614602694022369280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Miss Universe pageant, originated in 1952, had previously been owned by Donald Trump starting in 1996 along with CBS and then NBC before it was sold to IMG in 2015.</p>
<p>“We are incredibly honored to be acquiring the Miss Universe organization and working with its visionary leadership team,” Jakrajutatip, who became a reality TV star on Thai versions of “Project Runway” and “Shark Tank,” said last year after acquiring the organization. “The global reach of the organization, its relationships with global partners and brands, and its wealth of content, licensing, and merchandising opportunities make this a strong, strategic addition to our portfolio. We seek not only to continue its legacy of providing a platform to passionate individuals from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and traditions, but also to evolve the brand for the next generation.”</p>
<p>Recently, Miss Universe suspended the organizers of Miss USA after a furor erupted following the annual Miss USA pageant.</p>
<p>Contestants in the 2022 Miss USA pageant received an email from Miss Universe CEO Amy Emmerich informing them that Miss Brand, which runs the pageant, has been suspended from the pageant.</p>
<p>“After thorough deliberation, Miss Universe Organization has decided to suspend Miss Brand immediately,” Emmerich wrote. “Miss Universe will be taking over the Miss USA program while a comprehensive third-party investigation is conducted.”</p>
<p>“We are appreciative of the cooperation we’ve seen from Miss USA Director Crystle Stewart as we work through this process,” Emmerich added.</p>
<p>Stewart, the director of Miss Brand and the winner of Miss USA in 2008 before starting to run the pageant in 2020, had come under fire after contestants alleged that the pageant favored the eventual winner, Miss Texas, R’Bonney Gabriel. After Gabriel’s victory was announced and she walked around the stage, other contestants, in an unprecedented move, walked off the stage.</p>
<p>TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/15/miss-universe-new-owner-accused-rigging-pageant-miss-usa/">reported</a> that Jakrajutatip was now being accused of &#8220;rigging the pageant for Miss USA&#8221; after the pageant this weekend.</p>
<p><em>Hank Berrien contributed to this report. </em></p>


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Miss Universe Owner: ‘New Era Of Global Women’s Empowerment’ To Be ‘Ran By Women, Owned By A Trans Woman’

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<p>Former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo talked about the importance of her and San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey&#8217;s relationship being &#8220;faith based&#8221; and &#8220;rooted in God.&#8221;</p>
<p>In an interview with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/olivia-culpo-relationship-nfl-star-christian-mccaffrey-rooted-in-god?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-foxnews&amp;utm_content=later-31307526&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkin.bio">Fox News</a>, the 30-year-old model said it was the NFL star&#8217;s faith that caused her to break her own rule about never dating an athlete again. The two have been linked since 2019.</p>
<p>&#8220;The foundation of our relationship has always been God,&#8221; Culpo explained. &#8220;And I feel like when things are hard or when you&#8217;re both overwhelmed [and] there&#8217;s not a ton that you can give to each other, you can always rely on God.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So I feel like if the foundation is there, if there&#8217;s a foundation of that in any relationship, it is incredibly helpful,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Sometimes you just need help with any relationship. … That&#8217;s not only like with friendships. It&#8217;s with everything. I think it&#8217;s important to be faith-based, truly.&#8221;</p>
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<p>During the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model&#8217;s new reality TV series with her sisters, Sophia and Aurora, &#8220;The Culpo Sisters,&#8221; the former beauty pageant winner opened up about her dream of becoming a mom and starting a family, the outlet noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;ve always known that I wanted to have a big family because I came from a big family,&#8221; Culpo shared. &#8220;I feel like freezing your eggs is a very empowering move. It kind of puts you in control a little bit more. And I would recommend anybody doing it who wants to have kids and is maybe in their 30s and hasn’t had kids yet. I hope it could be more accessible for everyone.&#8221;</p>
<p>Culpo previously dated singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nick-jonas-and-priyanka-chopra-share-photo-of-new-baby-on-mothers-day-after-100-days-in-nicu">Nick Jonas</a> from 2013-2015, <a href="https://www.etonline.com/olivia-culpo-recalls-nick-jonas-romance-my-whole-identity-was-in-him-194076">Entertainment Tonight</a> noted. She also dated several well-known athletes, including former NFL players <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-tebow">Tim Tebow</a> and Danny Amendola.</p>
<p>The model spoke to ET about those past romances.</p>
<p>&#8220;You see things about yourself that you need to work on,&#8221; Culpo shared. &#8220;It really requires you to turn inward in a weird way, and, of course, when they fail, it&#8217;s on a whole other level. So I feel like I learned a lot about myself in every single hiccup in life and with every single person that involved. So you can only be grateful of those types of experiences.&#8221;</p>


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‘Rooted In God’: Former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo Talks Importance Of Her And NFL Star’s Relationship Being ‘Faith-Based’

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">In the wake of a scandal in which various Miss USA contestants alleged that the 2022 Miss USA pageant was rigged in favor of Miss Texas, the Miss Universe organization, which suspended the organizers of the Miss USA pageant, was bought by a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11355919/Thai-businesswoman-buys-Miss-Universe-pageant-20-mln.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender person</a> from Thailand.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip, CEO and biggest shareholder of JKN Global Group Public Company Limited, bought the Miss Universe organization for $20 million from Endeavor&#8217;s IMG. The Miss Universe pageant, originated in 1952, had <a href="https://variety.com/2022/biz/global/miss-universe-endeavor-img-jkn-thailand-1235414757/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously been owned</a> by Donald Trump starting in 1996 along with CBS and then NBC before it was sold to IMG in 2015.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thai businesswoman and transgender advocate Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip bought the Miss Universe Organization for $20 million, making her the first woman to own the global beauty pageant in its 71-year history, her company announced Oct. 26. <a href="https://t.co/p9nlfdCRmR">https://t.co/p9nlfdCRmR</a></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We are incredibly honored to be acquiring the Miss Universe organization and working with its visionary leadership team,” Jakrajutatip, who became a reality TV star on Thai versions of “Project Runway” and “Shark Tank,” <a href="https://variety.com/2022/biz/global/miss-universe-endeavor-img-jkn-thailand-1235414757/">declared</a>. “The global reach of the organization, its relationships with global partners and brands, and its wealth of content, licensing, and merchandising opportunities make this a strong, strategic addition to our portfolio. We seek not only to continue its legacy of providing a platform to passionate individuals from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and traditions, but also to evolve the brand for the next generation.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Jakrajutatip will become the first woman to own Miss Universe, the organization confirmed to Insider,” Business Insider <a href="https://www.insider.com/miss-universe-pageant-sold-to-businesswoman-2022-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a>. According to the <a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2286822/a-pioneer-reveals-clues-to-success" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bangkok Post,</a> Jakrajutatip is the third richest transgender person in the world, worth roughly $210 million.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Recently, Miss Universe <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11334377/EXCL-Miss-Universe-SUSPENDS-Miss-USA-organizers-amid-claims-winner-crowned-unfairly.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended the organizers of Miss USA</a> after a furor erupted following the annual Miss USA pageant.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Contestants in the 2022 Miss USA pageant received an email from Miss Universe CEO Amy Emmerich informing them that Miss Brand, which runs the pageant, has been suspended from the pageant.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“After thorough deliberation, Miss Universe Organization has decided to suspend Miss Brand immediately,” Emmerich wrote. “Miss Universe will be taking over the Miss USA program while a comprehensive third-party investigation is conducted.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We are appreciative of the cooperation we&#8217;ve seen from Miss USA Director Crystle Stewart as we work through this process,” Emmerich added.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Stewart, the director of Miss Brand and the winner of Miss USA in 2008 before starting to run the pageant in 2020, had come under fire after contestants alleged that the pageant favored the eventual winner, Miss Texas, R&#8217;Bonney Gabriel. After Gabriel’s victory was announced and she walked around the stage, other contestants, in an unprecedented move, walked off the stage.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“You can see them exiting the stage before she even turns around. All of them. Not one of them stays on stage to congratulate her or run and hug her,” former contestant Jasmine Jones <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@callmejas0/video/7150795496850804014?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=7150795496850804014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> in a TikTok video. “In my pageantry opinion, something was off about that. In my ten years as a contestant, I’ve never seen the girls walk off stage and not congratulate the girls that’s won.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I am at a loss of words since it goes to show there were many signs that the winner was already predetermined and myself, amongst all my other sisters, weren’t even given the chance to lose,” Alexandra Lakhman, Miss New Jersey wrote.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Miss New York, Heather Elley, added, “The way I entered this pageant and gave it every last bit of my heart and soul. I had limiting beliefs of the outcome and did everything to ignore ALL the signs,” Yahoo News <a href="https://ph.news.yahoo.com/miss-usa-contestants-allege-pageant-rigged-favor-fil-am-queen-052929011.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ2wN-GC-LvteCbAy2M2Qon46MRKHocdjk0TO21ISZT8Kwj07maxqoXu_Kn_rOBXxYy5a2YgubHI3BkctXemKnJLhgwmLIX6N_sE2kGl6C-HNaLb_Mx-KtRxTflH7FXCKRM64l77bztTFSnXbEpmZaAE5IC7k9m6MCmaIs2xx4M5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Missouri, Mikala McGhee, claimed Gabriel’s victory had been preordained because she is a Filipina-American, and the Filipina community has a large pageant fanbase.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I think that [Miss USA] are in a state where they are trying to revamp and re-glamorize pageantry here in the United States, because we&#8217;ve been seeing a constant drop off in enrollment for pageants, and not just in the Miss USA system,” she said.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Not to say that Gabriel couldn&#8217;t have gone out here and won this on her own, but I think that she was a Houstonian — everyone, again, from the Miss Brand &#8230; and most from Miss USA Organization, including Crystle herself, are from Houston. They&#8217;re Houston natives,” McGhee continued.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/miss-universe"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miss Universe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> contest recently announced a rules adjustment that would allow more </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/women"><span style="font-weight: 400;">women</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to compete, according to a recent report.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Insider </span><a href="https://www.insider.com/miss-universe-will-allow-married-women-mothers-to-compete-2022-8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the change to the current rules, which limited participation to only single women between the ages of 18 and 28 for all 70 years of the competition. The new update will allow </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mothers"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mothers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and married women to also compete for the Miss Universe title.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We all believe that women should have agency over their lives and that a human’s personal decisions should not be a barrier to their success,” an internal memo seen by The National said. A source claims the memo went out to national directors last week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Miss Universe Organization is always the greatest and most innovative platform of its kind and now it will be more inclusive and welcoming to mothers and married women,” national director of Miss Universe Bahrain Josh Yugen told The National. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For me, this is aligned with what I have been fighting for — breaking stereotypes and unlearning the stigma that the old society has forced on us from many many decades ago.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Miss Universe winner from 2020 also celebrated the rules update, saying it’s about time moms and wives could participate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I honestly love that this is happening,” Miss Universe winner Andrea Meza said. “Just like society changes and women are now occupying leadership positions where in the past only men could, it was about time pageants changed and opened up to women with families.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There are a lot of women that got married young or had kids in their early 20s and they always wanted to participate in Miss Universe but couldn’t because of the rules,” she continued. “Now those women can start or boost their careers in entertainment because of these changes.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The update means a lot to Meza personally as her win was tainted when photos of her in a wedding gown were discovered online, causing a scandal at the time. It turned out the images were from a photo shoot, but the Mexican model insists it shouldn’t matter if she’s married or single.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“A few people are against these changes because they always wanted to see a single, beautiful woman who is available for a relationship,” she said, per Insider. “They always wanted to see a woman that from the outside looks so perfect that she’s almost unreachable. The former is sexist and the latter is unrealistic.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just like in any other industry, women are capable of having demanding leadership positions without or with a family, it is no different in this case,” Meza concluded.</span></p>


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Miss Universe Makes ‘Inclusive’ Rules Update To Allow Moms And Wives In Competition: Report

Miss Universe Makes 'Inclusive' Rules Update To Allow Moms And Wives In Competition: Report

Mothers

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<p>Former Miss United Continents Brazil 2018, Gleycy Correia, has reportedly died at age 27.</p>
<p>Correia&#8217;s family priest, Lidiane Alves Oliviera, told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10937997/Miss-Brazil-2018-dies-aged-27-heart-attack-days-routine-tonsil-operation.html">Daily Mail</a> that Miss Brazil died at a private clinic on Monday after suffering from a heart attack and heavy bleeding following what was called a routine operation to have her tonsils removed back in March.</p>
<p>&#8220;She had surgery to remove her tonsils and after five days at home, she had a hemorrhage,&#8221; Oliviera told the outlet</p>
<p>The priest explained that Correia was left in a coma for two months after suffering cardiac arrest on April 4.</p>
<p>&#8220;She went to Unimed and had a cardiac arrest on 4th April and since then she was in a coma, with no neurological activity,&#8221; Oliviera shared. &#8220;Today she passed away.&#8221;</p>
<p>A message posted on the beauty pageant winner&#8217;s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfFeWqtu4Xs/?hl=en">Instagram</a> dated June 21, translated from Spanish read that, &#8220;I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%204%3A7-8&amp;version=NIV">2 Timothy</a>),&#8221; <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1335284/miss-united-continents-brazil-2018-gleycy-correia-dead-at-27-days-after-tonsil-operation?medium=link-post&amp;source=twitter-enews&amp;cmpid=social&amp;content=organic">E! News</a> noted.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Miss United Continents Brazil 2018 Gleycy Correia Dead at 27 Days After Tonsil Operation <a href="https://t.co/8g0AkKOxC2">https://t.co/8g0AkKOxC2</a></p>
<p>&mdash; E! News (@enews) <a href="https://twitter.com/enews/status/1539370782408724480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Correia&#8217;s family had taken over her social media account since she suffered cardiac arrest and had shared numerous videos and prayer circles with the beauty pageant&#8217;s fans hoping she would pull through, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/miss-brazil-gleycy-correia-dead-surgery-complications">Fox News</a> noted.</p>
<p>Pastor Jak Abreu, who knows the beauty queen&#8217;s family, shared on social media that the family alleges there was medical malpractice involved.</p>
<p>&#8220;God chose this day to collect our princess,&#8221; Pastor Abreu shared. &#8220;We know that she will be greatly missed, but she will now be brightening the sky with her smile..&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;To everyone who prayed, thank you very much,&#8221; the pastor added. &#8220;May the Lord reward every prayer of love and all these days together. She fulfilled her purpose and left her legacy of love in us. We ask for your prayers for the family and friends that the Holy Spirit may bring comfort in this difficult time.&#8221;</p>
<p>The late-beauty pageant star was no stranger to the pageant world and had been participating in them since she was a teenager.  At the age of 23, she won Miss United Continents Brazil 2018.</p>
<p>&#8220;Gleycy will always be remembered for her enlightened beauty, joy and empathy shown in her work,&#8221; a message from the the Official Miss Brazil read.</p>
<p>An autopsy is still pending to determine the exact cause of death.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The official Miss Universe </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> account is advocating “inclusive language” when it comes to menstruation, and some followers are not amused. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Inclusive language is important, especially when speaking about periods,” they </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MissUniverse/status/1536774558216245249"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shared</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pride-month"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pride Month</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “Thinking menstrual health is only a niche topic for woman excludes </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender"><span style="font-weight: 400;">transgender</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, non-binary and gender-nonconforming people who have periods from the conversation. #menstrualequity.”</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Inclusive language is important, especially when speaking about periods.</p>
<p>Thinking menstrual health is only a niche topic for woman excludes transgender, non-binary and gender-nonconforming people who have periods from the conversation.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/menstrualequity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#menstrualequity</a> <a href="https://t.co/b37JcUDxgQ">pic.twitter.com/b37JcUDxgQ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Miss Universe (@MissUniverse) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissUniverse/status/1536774558216245249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tweet included graphics of which words to use and not use. The “How to talk about periods” slides recommended replacing “women’s health” with “reproductive health” and “women who have periods” with “people who have periods.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Not all women menstruate and not all people who menstruate are women,” the final graphic says.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Followers were confused by the virtue signaling, especially by an organization like Miss Universe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“CLOWN WORLD GETS A TIARA,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentAWilliams2/status/1537088134852366337">replied</a>, posting an image highlighting how their profile says, “@missuniverse exists to advocate for a future forged by women.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I promise you that Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and other suffragettes didn&#8217;t struggle for women&#8217;s rights so that the term &#8216;woman&#8217; could be summarily erased from our language,” another person <a href="https://twitter.com/Hale_Storm/status/1537087001727447041">responded</a>. “Notably, I have yet to hear anyone refer to ‘people with prostates.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another critic <a href="https://twitter.com/ayricheh/status/1537135354205159425">wrote</a>, “Are you that organisation that parades young females wearing all sorts of clothes &amp; swim suits in front of mostly male judges &amp; audiences? And now you are lecturing what they should and should not say?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inclusive language has become a hot issue, with multiple brands including feminine product companies jumping on the bandwagon. NPR was mocked recently for their tweet about national tampon shortages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Tampons, a necessity for many, are becoming harder and harder to find,” the outlet </span><a href="https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1536347886266552320"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “People who menstruate are saying it&#8217;s hard to find tampons on store shelves across the U.S. right now, as supply chain upsets reach the feminine care aisle.”</span></p>
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<p>People who menstruate are saying it&#8217;s hard to find tampons on store shelves across the U.S. right now, as supply chain upsets reach the feminine care aisle.<a href="https://t.co/p5mAPlSwPM">https://t.co/p5mAPlSwPM</a></p>
<p>— NPR (@NPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1536347886266552320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;They’re. Called. Women,&#8221; Piers Morgan <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1536703061216862208">tweeted</a> in reply. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) also got slammed in September for <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/09/aoc-greg-abbott-tx-abortion-bill-rape-culture-1234828931/">using</a> the phrase &#8220;menstruating person” while complaining about Texas’ pro-life legislation and claiming it encouraged “rape culture.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“None of this is about supporting life,” AOC claimed, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-lashes-out-over-coverage-of-her-menstruating-people-remark-gop-view-women-as-uterus-holders">according</a> to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Daily Wire</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. “What this is about is controlling women’s bodies, &amp; controlling people who are not cisgender men. This is about making sure that someone like me as a woman or any menstruating person in this country cannot make decisions over their own body.”</p>
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70th Miss Universe Competition

Miss Universe Twitter Account Mocked For Promoting ‘Inclusive Language’ About Periods

Miss Universe Twitter Account Mocked For Promoting 'Inclusive Language' About Periods

Pride Month

Twitter

<p><em>On Monday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan discusses Kathy Zhu losing her crown as Miss Michigan. Zhu claims it was because of her pro-Trump activism on social media. Video and partial transcript below:</em></p>
<p>Kathy Zhu was crowned Miss Michigan by the Miss World America organization and she has been stripped of her title now. Whatever your opinion is of beauty contests, whether you like them, whether you don’t, whether they&#8217;re interesting to you or not, girls who go into beauty contests work extraordinarily hard.</p>
<p>Obviously, it&#8217;s a big test. They have to look perfect; they have to act perfectly and they have to walk perfectly; they have to stay in shape. It is a lot of work. So, when you take away somebody&#8217;s crown, you&#8217;re doing a big thing. Yet, it&#8217;s the kind of thing it would be news for a day, and it will disappear. But, in her life, this is a big deal, that she is stripped of something that she earned. Why was she stripped of it? Well, first of all, she&#8217;s a conservative activist. She&#8217;s a University of Michigan senior and the social media director for the national group Chinese Americans for Trump. She shared on social media an email she had received on Thursday, when she was told that she could no longer be Miss Michigan, because of some tweets she sent out.</p>
<p>For instance, she tweeted, &#8220;Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems with your own community first before blaming others.&#8221; Here&#8217;s another one, &#8220;There&#8217;s a try a hijab on booth at my college campus. So, you&#8217;re telling me that it&#8217;s now just a fashion accessory and not a religious thing or are you just trying to get women used to being oppressed under Islam.”</p>
<p>These are perfectly valid opinions. You may disagree, you may not. I mean, it is true that black violence against other blacks does account for more deaths than white violence against blacks. It is true also, that a hijab is a religious thing. When you say try on a hijab, you&#8217;re not just saying, “Oh, here&#8217;s a fashion accessory,” you are communicating an entire philosophy, which if women find oppressive you know that&#8217;s not a head-scratcher for me. But still, I can see you disagree, but she loses her crown for this. She loses her crown for speaking her opinion. Here&#8217;s her response to the people who supported her.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Kathy Zhu</strong>: Hey everyone this is Kathy Zhu; I just want to say thank you so much for all your support. It&#8217;s been a heck of a two days, honestly. Yesterday I was crying when I first saw the messages and emails from the organization, but today&#8217;s a new day, and today was amazing, honestly. I&#8217;m so glad this story got brought into the public eye and the media because this is so much bigger than pageantry. This is about, you know, an organization that discriminates against people with different opinions, calling people racist even when they&#8217;re not. Just literal attacks like those, really, really diminishes the value and the truth of the word &#8216;racism&#8217;. So, you know, there shouldn&#8217;t just be diversity of skin color, there should be diversity of thought, of mindset, of political affiliation. I&#8217;m so glad to be able to be the voice for this right now and I hope that other pageant organizations could really learn from this story and the situation to not discriminate others based on opinions. So, don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll still stand firm, stand my ground. I&#8217;m still going to continue fighting for what I believe in. So yeah, thank you guys so much for the support once again. See you later.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Well, shame on them, right? I mean it is a beautiful girl, obviously extremely intelligent, very articulate, who knows exactly what she&#8217;s saying. Plus, she has the courage of her conviction, she has integrity. They didn&#8217;t even give her a chance apparently, didn&#8217;t give her chance to defend herself, but she could have come out and cry, &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m so sorry.&#8221; She could have tried to get back in their good graces. Instead, she stood firm. She has a picture of herself wearing the &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; MAGA hat. That actually is the kind of woman who should be winning contests, that&#8217;s an American woman, that is somebody where we all sit back and say &#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s the kind of woman we want America to be made up of.&#8221; People who stand for what they stand for. She&#8217;s not attacking anybody, she&#8217;s not &#8220;milkshaking&#8221; anybody, she&#8217;s not throwing anything at anyone. She&#8217;s simply expressing her opinions; you don&#8217;t like them, disagree. It&#8217;s an amazing thing how the Left has managed to make a disagreement a matter of hostility.</p>
<p>I mean, look, I disagree with a lot of my friends, a lot of people I love. I disagree with them, we argue sometimes, even our voices go up when we argue, but it never changes anything. I remember once, that Ben and I got into a political argument and I went home and the &#8220;god-king,&#8221; Jeremy, called me and said, “The people who are watching that argument were afraid that you guys were angry,&#8221; and I said, “Angry? I&#8217;m not angry at all.&#8221; We were just passionate about what we were talking about and debating.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s part of being an American, it&#8217;s part of being free, it&#8217;s one of the joys of life to debate people of goodwill and things that you disagree with. I&#8217;m at this very moment have been talking to a lot of people who disagree with some of my points of view, and I&#8217;ve expanded my points of view on certain things that are very important to me about the culture. I&#8217;ll talk about that another time, but that&#8217;s because of debate. To silence a woman like that is shameful, and to take away the thing that she worked for and earned is shameful.</p>
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KLAVAN: Was Miss Michigan Dethroned For Being On The Right?

Andrew Klavan

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<p>Paulina Vega, a former Miss Universe, says she was categorized as &#8220;plus size&#8221; by her modeling agency in 2016 after she gained slightly over two pounds. The 26-year-old, who won the crown in 2014, explained the experience in a blog post <a href="https://www.paulinavega.com/es/2019/04/30/una-medida-no-me-define-de-flaca-a-curvy/">published</a> on Wednesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;In my agency in New York I was cataloged as &#8216;plus size&#8217; model, what in Spanish means &#8216;extra size&#8217; or &#8216;big size&#8217; (for uploading 1 kilo!),&#8221; Vega posted to Instagram, captioning a photo of the fit model in a bathing suit.</p>
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<p>A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paulinavegadiep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Paulina Vega Dieppa</a> (@paulinavegadiep) on Apr 30, 2019 at 6:23pm PDT</p>
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<p>&#8220;From skinny to curvy,&#8221; Vega started off the personal blog post. &#8220;Some time ago I had a very particular experience that made me wonder: is this what I want for myself?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m going to tell you happened a year and a half after finishing my reign as Miss Universe,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;At that time I traveled a lot and slept more in an airplane than in my own home. I was trying out opportunities in the United States and had been hired by a modeling agency in Miami, an agency that soon after I wanted to add to their selection of models in New York. Happily, I signed with the agency.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I felt healthy and happy with my body. It took about three months and I went back to the agency. Apparently, it had gone up a kilo,&#8221; Vega said. &#8220;At the meeting they told me that they no longer considered me a model of a catwalk and editorial, that I was no longer among the &#8216;skinny&#8217; and would be classified as a &#8216;plus size&#8217; model.&#8221;</p>
<p>The model said she had no problem being labeled &#8220;curvy,&#8221; but was shocked over the &#8220;plus size&#8221; terminology, especially since she was in &#8220;perfect health.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Under what standards is it plus size? And who decides those standards?&#8221; she asked.</p>
<p>The 26-year-old noted that she has &#8220;spent so many years of criticism, so many opinions about my physique, my personality, my mentality and even my attitude, that it did not touch those nerves. But if it made me think, is this what I want for myself?&#8221;</p>
<p>After winning the crown, Vega said she was able to explore and grow as a person and mildly escaped such fierce criticism over her body. But being told she was &#8220;plus size&#8221; by her agency was a shock back to only being judged by her &#8220;appearance,&#8221; which Vega said was &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BvIbxV9AU9W/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Extrañando la plaiaaaaaaaaaa</a></p>
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<p>So she decided to change those with whom she chose to work.</p>
<p>&#8220;Modeling is part of who I am. I love my job and I appreciate everything that has brought my life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Therefore, since I lived this experience I have committed to collaborate only with brands that align with my values and that do not require me to maintain absurd measures. Thus, I have managed to create a balance in my career that makes me feel full.&#8221;</p>
<p>The model later added that &#8220;physical beauty can not be everything, it can not be the focus of your work, your priority, in everything you think and where you direct all your energy. It is not healthy.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m 60 years old I&#8217;m going to look very different from what I am now and if I just concentrate on that, what will become of me when that beauty disappears?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;In addition, I have learned that paying TOTAL attention to how you look takes away time that you must be investing in your dreams, passions, in being better. It takes time away from what lasts forever: your essence and who you are.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuO_2OlgnE8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mi cara cuándo me doy cuenta dónde voy a trabajar una semana Mañana estaré presentando &#8220;La Previa&#8221; en Viña del Mar 2019 NOS VEMOS A PARTIR DE LAS 8:30 pm por FOX Channel, FOX life y FOX App</a></p>
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<p>And Vega is hopeful for change in the industry at large. &#8220;The good thing is that things, although slowly, are changing in fashion,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Each time there is more presence of different bodies in the media and more and more space to see beauty in all kinds of measures, colors and ethnicities. I just hope that as a society we continue to question the brands, media and industry that continue to idealize bodies that are not real or necessarily more beautiful than others.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Today I live according to my standards of beauty and health, and now I feel in the right place,&#8221; added Vega.</p>


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<p>Miss USA sparked a heated backlash online after video surfaced of her alleged condescension toward non-English speaking contestants at the Miss Universe competition. The girls she was allegedly mocking, however, did not see it that way.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/asia/miss-usa-comments-summers-intl/index.html">CNN</a>, a live Instagram video posted on Wednesday showed 24-year-old Sarah Rose Summers talking about Miss Vietnam, H&#8217;Hen Nie, and her difficulty with English.</p>
<p>&#8220;[She is] so cute and she pretends to know so much English and then you ask her a question after having a whole conversation with her and she (nods and smiles),&#8221; said Summers in the video.</p>
<p>Later in the video, Summers talks about Miss Cambodia, Rern Sinat, and how she &#8220;doesn&#8217;t speak any English and not a single other person speaks her language.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Can you imagine? Francesca (Miss Australia) said that would be so isolating and I said yes and just confusing all the time,&#8221; Summers said. &#8220;Poor Cambodia.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BrUHzaZlD9O/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Regina George, is that you? This is basically like the most dramatic reality show, but condensed into 1 minute lol. @sarahrosesummers hopefully will prove that ignorance will not win you a @missuniverse title&#8230;whatever that means these days. This is basically what normalized xenophobia looks like. If she&#8217;s trying to show empathy, the condescending, intolerant tone tells a different story. A reminder that you&#8217;re participating in a competition in a country/continent where English is NOT the primary language. Cc: @francesca.hung @valeriamoralesd @rern_sinat (Miss Cambodia) &#8226; #sarahrosesummers #rernsinat #valeriamorales #francescahung #missuniverse2018 #missuniverse #missworld #missusa #missaustralia #misscolombia #beautyqueen #beautypageant #pageant #pageantlife #missamerica #wiwt #ootd #realityshow #meangirls #reginageorge #gossip #catty #lol #wtf #dietprada</a></p>
<p>A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/diet_prada/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Diet Prada &#8482;</a> (@diet_prada) on Dec 12, 2018 at 8:39pm PST</p>
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<p>Online, Summers was denounced as being &#8220;xenophobic&#8221; and &#8220;condescending&#8221; toward non-English speaking contestants. In an Instagram post on Friday, Summers said she never intended to mock the two contestants and apologized.</p>
<p>&#8220;Miss Universe is an opportunity for women from around the world to learn about each other&#8217;s cultures, life experiences, and views,&#8221; Summers began.</p>
<p>&#8220;In a moment where I intended to admire the courage of a few of my sisters, I said something that I now realize can be perceived as not respectful, and I apologize,&#8221; Summers said, alongside a photo of her embracing her fellow contestants.</p>
<p>&#8220;My life, friendships, and career revolve around me being a compassionate and empathetic woman. I would never intend to hurt another,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I am grateful for opportunities to speak with Nat, Miss Cambodia, and H&#8217;Hen, Miss Vietnam, directly about this experience. These are the moments that matter most to me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apparently, Miss Vietnam had no ill will toward Summers for the comment and told CNN on Friday that Summers &#8220;didn&#8217;t mean anything&#8221; by it. She also commended Summers for being supportive and helpful to her.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everyone in this competition, myself included, loves and respects one another,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When she knew about my difficulties with (the English) language, she took an interest and showed me love. That&#8217;s why she knows about that. Thank you Miss USA for taking care of me, showing me love and helping me recently,&#8221; H&#8217;Hen Nie said.</p>
<p>Miss Cambodia echoed Miss Vietnam&#8217;s sentiments in a similar Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWPcddnzzO/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">post</a> online that featured a photo of herself and Summers with the caption, &#8220;I speak the language of love, respect and understanding.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My friendship and sisterhood in Miss Universe will forever be kept in my heart,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our experience have given us the opportunity to show and learn different cultures.&#8221;</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVhYAEhq_8/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@MissUniverse is an opportunity for women from around the world to learn about each other&#8217;s cultures, life experiences, and views. We all come from different backgrounds and can grow alongside one another. In a moment where I intended to admire the courage of a few of my sisters, I said something that I now realize can be perceived as not respectful, and I apologize. My life, friendships, and career revolve around me being a compassionate and empathetic woman. I would never intend to hurt another. I am grateful for opportunities to speak with Nat, Miss Cambodia, and H&#8217;Hen, Miss Vietnam, directly about this experience. These are the moments that matter most to me.</a></p>
<p>A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sarahrosesummers/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_medium=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Sarah Rose Summers</a> (@sarahrosesummers) on Dec 13, 2018 at 9:41am PST</p>
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<p>Sarah Rose Summers was crowned Miss Nebraska before being crowned Miss USA in 2018, becoming the first woman from the state to earn the crown title. During the competition, she was asked what she would write on a blank sign if she were given one on her way to the march. Her response was rather insightful.</p>
<p>&#8220;I say &#8216;Speak your voice&#8217;. I don&#8217;t know what march we&#8217;re on our way to in this hypothetical situation, but no matter where you&#8217;re going, whatever type of march it is, you&#8217;re obviously on your way to that march because you care about that cause so go speak to people,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When they have questions, communicate with them. Listen to their views also. That is one thing in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> that we really need to focus on is listening to each other.&#8221;</p></p>


Miss USA Apologizes For Allegedly Mocking Non-English Speaking Contestants

<p>Miss Puerto Rico, Destiny Velez, was <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/miss-puerto-rico-suspended-from-miss-america-pageant-after-muslim-slamming-twitter-tirade/ar-BBnLQP2?li=BBnb7Kz&amp;ocid=HPCDHP">suspended</a> from the Miss Universe competition for voicing her opinion of filmmaker Michael Moore’s condemnation of Donald Trump, and in the process, making some vehement statements about Muslims.</p>
<p>Moore had slammed Trump for his comments about Muslims, even standing in front of Trump Towers in Manhattan and wearing a sign reading ”We are all Muslims.”</p>
<p>Velez, incensed, unleashed a series of tweets excoriating Moore and his campaign, as <a href="http://twitchy.com/2015/12/17/miss-puerto-rico-unloads-on-michael-moore-over-we-are-all-muslim-sign/?utm_source=autotweet&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=twitter">reported</a> by Twitchy. Velez later deleted them after a firestorm broke out, but they read like this:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> hold a sign that says &#8220;We are all believers in Christ.&#8221; Why are u defending Muslims that haven&#8217;t done nothing for the USA</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> all what Muslims have done is provided oil &amp; terrorize this country &amp; many others!!!!!!</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> there&#8217;s NO comparison between Jews, Christians &amp; Muslims. Jews nor Christians have terrorizing agendas in their sacred books</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Muslims use our constitution to terrorize USA &amp; plant gas stations</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Islamic god is NOT the same God of the Christians &amp; the Jews</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Stop fighting a Godly war that doesn&#8217;t belong to u for u are a proclaimed atheist. This is a matter of faith NOT economic</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Mexicans, Arabs, Jews &amp; anything in between aren&#8217;t the same thing</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> all they do is build their mosques, feel offended by American values and terrorize innocent Americans and plant gas stations</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/wattpadmendes">@wattpadmendes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> and get guns and kills innocent ppl and destroy precious artifacts</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> I&#8217;ll believe that Muslims &amp; Christians are the same when I hear them sing in their mosques &#8220;I love Jesus yes I do!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> NO the God of Abraham is NOT allah</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> Ishmael was a bastard kid who came from a servant not the chosen woman</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> every religion has a name for god. Doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re all the same god.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> NOPE Jews don&#8217;t believe in Jihad and the Muslim religion is a bad copy of Judaism m</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> get your facts straight. Ishmael was a bad product of a messed up 1 night stand Abraham had with a servant</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> there&#8217;s a reason why he was kicked out from Abrahams immediate family</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Abraham must have seen the terrorist within him Ishmael</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Crayz9000">@Crayz9000</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/justdavidnye">@justdavidnye</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> why do ppl want to separate Muslims from Isis when ISIS is a group of Muslim fanatics</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Crayz9000">@Crayz9000</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> and tell that to the families of the soldiers who were killed by other Muslims soldiers on military bases</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TalkImam">@TalkImam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Not everyone sees Jesus as a prophet they see Jesus as a God. Prophets are mere men playing god</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/secjr112">@secjr112</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/wattpadmendes">@wattpadmendes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> yes the includes the bipolar terrorism groups</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Elevenxvi">@Elevenxvi</a> I don&#8217;t believe in religion so can&#8217;t be <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Islamaphobic?src=hash">#Islamaphobic</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Crayz9000">@Crayz9000</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/justdavidnye">@justdavidnye</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> when someone has cancer in their body it has to be removed. The body itself has self immunization</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TalkImam">@TalkImam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Muslim religion is a copy cat of Judaism. Muslims copied Jews beards</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TalkImam">@TalkImam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> I repeat Muslim is an imitation of Judaism</p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissAmerica_PR/status/677574827100807168">December 17, 2015</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TalkImam">@TalkImam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> According to historical text Jesus was a Jew</p></blockquote>
<p>The tweets continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>Many pull out the card of Muslims serving in our military. Are they in the military cuz they love our nation or to acquire benefits</p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) December 17, 2015</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/TalkImam">@TalkImam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> explain to me pilgrimages to go in circles around a rock</p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissAmerica_PR/status/677578074309959680">December 17, 2015</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Crayz9000">@Crayz9000</a> In Every religion has an end to this world and not by the hands of humans but God that is returning</p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissAmerica_PR/status/677578526174879744">December 17, 2015</a></p>
<p>Most terrorist attacks have had a religion &amp; a name associated with them &amp; they have been from Islam religion <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a></p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissAmerica_PR/status/677579526193455104">December 17, 2015</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/elyse4design">@elyse4design</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dmorgan175">@dmorgan175</a> idiot my family has been in the military since WWI what about yours?</p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissAmerica_PR/status/677588371254939649">December 17, 2015</a></p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/FactsVsOpinion">@FactsVsOpinion</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitchyTeam">@TwitchyTeam</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MMFlint">@MMFlint</a> Muslims cover their women so I don&#8217;t think they worship pageants</p>
<p>— Miss Puerto Rico (@MissAmerica_PR) <a href="https://twitter.com/MissAmerica_PR/status/677588646216757251">December 17, 2015</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The Miss Puerto Rico Organization issued a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/miss-puerto-rico-preliminar-oficial-a-miss-america/a-message-from-the-miss-puerto-rico-organization/1038065399578972">statement</a> publicly condemned Velez and suspending her from competition, writing:</p>
<blockquote><p>In regards to Miss Puerto Rico, Destiny Velez’s, recent actions and conduct; the Miss Puerto Rico Organization feels that her words do not represent the integrity and esteem of our program, nor that of our board members, our sponsors and partners, or the National Organization.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Miss Velez’s actions were in contradiction to the organization, and therefore as a consequence of her actions, she has been suspended indefinitely. The Miss Puerto Rico Organization will not tolerate any actions or behavior contrary to the Miss Puerto Rico Organization … The Miss Puerto Rico Organization apologizes for the distress that Miss Velez’s actions and conduct may have caused.</p></blockquote>
<p>Velez later released a series of tweets that read in total, &#8220;I apologize to the people I have offended with my words. I am first and foremost an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/upstander?source=note">#UpStander</a> and as such I stand up against bullying. The last thing I wanted to do was to bully anyone. Again, I apologize to anyone who felt offended with my words.&#8221;</p>


Miss Puerto Rico Was Suspended From Miss Universe…For Slamming Muslims

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