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“NEW YORK – A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition — an unexpected request, considering she’s not rail-thin. “I was a little bit shocked,” Miss England Georgia Horsley said Friday in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.
“I don’t think I’m too thin. I’m happy with the way I am,” said the 20-year-old, who is a size 4. She added: “I probably would have been more hurt if they told me to lose weight, I think.”
Horsley said pageant organizers want “their girls to be more voluptuous and womanly and curvy, you know, rather than the stick-thin, size-0 models that you see around.”
“I’ve just got quite more of an athletic, boyish-type figure rather than the hourglass figure that some women have,” said the 5-foot-8 Horsley. “And they’re just seeing if, you know, I could maybe put a bit of weight on and it might give me those curves.”
The Miss World press office didn’t immediately respond Friday to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Horsley has little more than a month to gain weight: the Miss World pageant will be held in China on Dec. 1.
“They’ve not given me a total (weight) to get to,” she said. “But I’m going to eat, you know, healthy fats such as nuts and avocado, oily fish, things like that.”
Horsley said the request was no big deal, comparing it to being asked to get a tan or let her hair grow.
“I don’t think this is a major, major thing, you know,” she said. “They just want me to put on a few pounds.”
Sure, but what if she gains weight in all the wrong places?
“I’m trying to work out at the same time,” she said. “It’ll hopefully maybe level things out a bit. But, I mean, if I do start putting weight on, say, my stomach or somewhere on my thighs where I don’t really want to put it on … I’ll obviously scrap the idea and I’ll just accept the fact that I’m a naturally athletic build and can’t do the curves.”
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She might not think this is a big deal, but I certainly do. First of all, I’m looking at her pictures on google and I see a woman who looks completely healthy. In fact, I can’t see how anyone would think she is too thin. Secondly, how could anyone also think this is a good thing that they asked her to gain weight? How is this any different than asking someone to lose weight? It’s not. It’s still saying, “You should look this particular way, at approximately this weight.” I understand that they are trying to put women of a bigger size out there on the pageant runway, but to have to ask them to gain weight is just ridiculous. Please tell me I’m not the only one who sees the wrong in this.
Skinny Minny 
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November 1, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Girl
Hey, I saw you linking this on Teen Vogue so I decided to check it out. I completely agree with you!! Telling somebody to gain weight is the same as lose. I accept skinny AND curvy people, and it’s a shame that suddenly people are saying that thin people are the unattractive ones now. People need to learn to accept ALL body types.
Anyway, I love it! You should add more!
November 6, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Emil
Hi skinny. I agree that it is wrong to ask someone to gain weight to be an ideal. Unfortunately this is getting to much attention in the media, and this beautiful girl is being told to change herself to be more “ideal”. Not cool. But I can’t remember the last time someone reported on CNN that a pageant contestant was asked to lose weight. I doubt there’s enough space on the webpage for those instances!
November 7, 2007 at 6:35 am
Sarah
The thing I’ve been thinking about today, though, is why they are wanting her to gain weight. The answer is so that she can set an example as a more curvaceous role model. The sad thing is, if she would gain weight, more people would relate to her, wouldn’t they? Heavier set girls at home are going to see her and think, “Awesome she’s not stick thin and she’s Miss England!” but if she stayed the way she is now, many people would be sitting at home going, “Oh there goes another skinny bitch beauty queen.” At first I thought, “Why does it matter if she put on a few pounds?” But maybe it would matter to a lot of society. Maybe it really does matter. But it shouldn’t and that’s my point. People shouldn’t look up to someone else because of their weight, skinny or ‘curvaceous.’ This woman is no better role model 20 pounds heavier than she is right now, so I really don’t understand what good they think they are doing asking her to gain this weight. And I really don’t understand why she’s just going along with it. I’d be irritated to hell if someone asked me to alter my weight in any way because of a job or a pageant title.
May 8, 2008 at 2:46 am
yoganut
I think they are confused on body types. You don’t get more “curvy” by gaining weight if you weren’t severely underweight to begin with. If you’re an apple shape and you gain 20 pounds, you don’t have T&A, you just have a pot belly. If she gains weight it won’t look as good as people think it will.
August 5, 2008 at 7:03 am
Ben
Sarah…I doubt they told her to gain weight so she can be a “better role model.” The article seems pretty clear that she is gaining weight so she can be more competitive at the World Beauty Pageant. They think that the judges will rate her higher if she’s heavier. The world as a whole has a slightly higher weight as their beauty ideal than the West, so what worked in England might not work worldwide.
I don’t understand the anger directed at this particular request. It seems like what really bothers you are beauty pageants in general, which I agree are stupid. The whole purpose of beauty pageants is to reward people whose appearance conforms the closest to society’s ideal of beauty. If you don’t have that, you have to get it to succeed. These are competitions. So obviously, the idea of “everybody is beautiful in their own way” makes no sense at a beauty pageant.
How could competitive beauty pageants exist if there wasn’t pressure to gain weight, lose weight, get plastic surgery, tan, use the right facial/hair products, etc.? So I am confused if you think this particular pressure for Miss Britain to gain weight is wrong but competitve beauty pageants in general are OK.