Beauty Queen Told to Lose Weight, Loses Crown Instead
By Arden Dier
August 31, 2017
It's shocks me more than anything that there are still pageants out there who only view size 00 girls as role models....
Posted by Zoiey Worlds on Monday, August 21, 2017
If she lived in the US, Zoiey Smale would wear a size 6, meaning she's far slimmer than the average American woman, who wears a size 16.
But her thin frame apparently wasn't thin enough for organizers of an international beauty contest. The 28-year-old beauty queen from the UK emerged the victor in a national beauty contest in June that bestowed on her the honor to represent her country in the Miss United Continents 2017 pageant in Ecuador in September.
But Smale, who wears a UK size 10, says contest organizers told her she was "too big" and needed to drop some pounds, per the BBC. Smale was "shocked," and in a Facebook post, says she opted to lose her crown rather than any weight, reports Mashable.
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