Cynthia De La Vega Booted From Miss World Pageant For Weight Gain

This is unbeliveable to lose your crown because you gain weight….. time for a reailty check people……

Beauty pagents are stupid anyway….

I saw this also- 6 lbs! Ridiculous. And we wonder why so many women have issues with body image and weight.

Shame on the Miss Mexico officials for something as silly as this! A person's weight fluctuates by up to 5 pounds everyday. (Weigh her in the morning and she'll be at the weight you want.) 6 pounds isn't even noticeable with the human eye and it certainly won't affect how her gown fits. If she's lean muscle then who cares about the 6 pounds. I'll fight for you girl. Let me at 'em! E-mail coming their way. It seems like they are just making up an excuse about why they are wanting to let her go. I can't believe that 6 pounds is the real reason and if it is, these Directors need to be gone.

Sometimes 5 or 6 lbs is just hormonal, gain it one month, lose it the next. How stupid if that's the reason. She's beautiful and I'd like to hear from one man who doesn't think so!

This is the most disgusting this I have ever read in my life. Six fucking pounds?

The truth here is not the weight issue, but her lack of professionalism. She was given the same opportunities as the winner of the pageant, yet she was the only one who didn't show any interest to learn. Let's not forget that thanks to this people (Lupita Jones, First Miss Universo from Mexico, and current National Director) was able to "produce" another Miss Universe, the current Miss Universe 2010, Ximena Navarrete, from Mexico also…… so there

The truth here is not the weight issue, but her lack of professionalism. She was given the same opportunities as the winner of the pageant, yet she was the only one who didn't show any interest to learn. Let's not forget that thanks to this people (Lupita Jones, First Miss Universo from Mexico, and current National Director) was able to "produce" another Miss Universe, the current Miss Universe 2010, Ximena Navarrete, from Mexico also…… so there

The truth here is not the weight issue, but her lack of professionalism. She was given the same opportunities as the winner of the pageant, yet she was the only one who didn't show any interest to learn. Let's not forget that thanks to this people (Lupita Jones, First Miss Universo from Mexico, and current National Director) was able to "produce" another Miss Universe, the current Miss Universe 2010, Ximena Navarrete, from Mexico also…… so there

The truth here is not the weight issue, but her lack of professionalism. She was given the same opportunities as the winner of the pageant, yet she was the only one who didn't show any interest to learn. Let's not forget that thanks to this people (Lupita Jones, First Miss Universo from Mexico, and current National Director) was able to "produce" another Miss Universe, the current Miss Universe 2010, Ximena Navarrete, from Mexico also…… so there

She's tall so a extra 6 lbs shouldn't matter. It's nuts what this world is coming to. I hate pagents anyway. So demeaning.

DISGUSTING

Rene Salas should learn to speak English or remain silent…..thanks to this people – was able to "produce"?

Copy and paste a little more Salas so someone may give a care….oh wait they don't. These pagents do only one thing in our society, put women on a pedelstal of ideals that are impossible to reach. They are telling women that if someone can't lose six pounds to be even SMALLER than they already are then the rest of woman are not beautiful. I hope they end this backwards view of beauty

Oh grow up!

Hahaha "Broke Back Mountain" Figures!

That's what I just found out! I heard about her partying etc…

This is flat disgusting. 6 freaking pounds? Heck that is water retention for most of us women. She shouldn't blame the officials for not providing a professional help. However, what kind of people would focus on 6 lbs to decide the winner? I just can't reason to myself this horrid behavior.

So there?? Real professionalism on your part Rene.

Totally agree Yanitza

I think there is more to this story than we have heard!

Haven't heard! Oh well I'm human.

how dare they criticize this pageant winner and strip her of her title? she won it fair and square, it has a definite term and she is entitled to enter whatever contests representing her country that she would otherwise be entitled to. Would they scratch her title if she lost a leg in an accident? I say, let the winner reign and compete as scheduled, and let the chips fall where they may! I hope she sues them and wins so much money they can't even float another contestant for another hundred years!

also, I hate to mention this, but sleeping with judges and paying them off and putting political pressure on them all are methods for unjustly unseating a reigning queen. The National Cherry Queen had to put up with a local girl's parents calling her a cheat for entering from her mother's county in the run-up contest as Miss Grand Traverse County, and they demanded their daughter, the first runnerup, be crowned in her stead. So the cheated girl entered the contest for her father's county, and won there, also. Needless to say, she was crowned National Cherry Queen instead of the cheating girl, because she was simply the best candidate and a clear crowd favorite everywhere she went, with her winning personality. The other girl was just as beautiful, but she lacked charisma and a warm personality. That matters more than anything else, weight included.

As silly as I can readily acknowledge that their reasoning is – one of our former Miss El Paso winners is in the paper today for shoplifting a blouse from a Dillards store. so much for the claims that this is a scholarship event? If a wrestler weighed in and went over by even an ounce however, he or she would be moved to a different weight class and not allowed to compete in that event. Being overweight can put you out of the Military, put us in another risk category for health insurance, and I remember our daughter talking about weight categories for cheerleading, something to do with the difference in being the base person or the top person on the pyramid? If an individual enters into an agreement, no matter how superficial and banal that agreement is, they have an obligation to live up to that agreement, at least for the length of time both parties agree to it. I have a constant battle with weight gain myself, especially since I crushed my L-5 and can no longer run. It is extremely frustrating, especially since losing a significant amount of weight would actually help me to deal with my condition by putting significantly less strain on my frame. When I am working however, I tend to eat whatever is in front of me, as quickly as I can, so I can get back to my students, and when we are on vacation – well, I always could resist anything but temptation. Accepting the role of an icon, for any reason, carries certain obligations and those obligations are clearly represented by contract, prior to allowing the person to compete. I hope she sues them and wins, but for a completely different reason. Perhaps they will finally wake up and start judging the beauty between people's ears and stop trying to idealize the expensive, time consuming, and fleeting ideal of (in the words of Lyle Lovett) "sheer physical attraction!" I remember the scandal when a local lady (a long time ago and not in this state) was thrown out of a beauty contest because she had taken up body sculpting and had added about thirty five pounds of muscle. She looked a lot like Linda Hamilton after she started working out with Schwarzenegger for one of those Terminator movies. This lady put up with all kinds of abuse for her choices, but I will never forget her calm and reasoned response. "Working out has given me the self discipline and esteem to take just about anything that you can dish out. If that fails of course, I can always fall back on the self assurance that any time I wanted to, I could snap you like a twig!" Don't know about you, but that's my kind of Beauty Queen!

I just remembered a gig that I got, not because I was a particularly good bass player, but because I fit in the costumes and the really great bass player didn't. I did fine, probably exceeded their expectations as a musician – especially when I was asked to double on several other instruments and was already familiar with them, but I will never forget that the reason that I got the gig was that I could play the part 10% because they wouldn't have to send the wardrobe out for a complete refit or extreme alterations 90% – and from their perspective, it was a perfectly sound reason!

What are you a fag?

omg she is so hot and poor ugly chicks that don't look like that or my gf I feel so soory for them they have to work double as hard as no one cars.

cares

but every is beutiful in there way I guess lol.

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guess they don't pay the contestants enough, eh?

I totally and heartily agree with all of your reasoning, Charles. You and I both battle the urge to splurge and overindulge in foodie stuff. I am getting better at it, but still have a way to go. At least there are fewer things that I really shouldn't have that I actually really want anymore. Now it's more a matter of exercising enough and daily and cutting the portions in half. expectations can be altered with enough vigilance and good will! thanks for noticing. The real beauty of a person is always their heart and their personality. Incidentally, the Cherry Queen was a tad plumper than average, and only average good looking, not a great beauty, and not as stylish as some other contestants, either, being thoroughly middle class looking and with just an ordinary hairdo. But she was cheerful, talented, and funny, and obviously was a really good egg who related so well to people very naturally! So she won! On her own merits, not some beauty standard. There was no bathing suit division, so it wasn't her knockers or her bottom that won it for her!