Over the weekend it was confirmed that in preparation to be a Miss USA contestant, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, received a boob job courtesy of the Miss California pageant itself. You heard me, the pageant paid for her to get a breast augmentation. When I first heard about this story, I could barely believe it. Seriously, the pageant paid for her boob job? As if it wasn't bad enough that young women are bombarded with images endorsing the idea that fake boobs are good and big boobs are necessary to be desirable and considered beautiful, now we actually have a beauty pageant paying a young woman to get work done.
In the stupid interview with the co-director of the pageant, he said that they asked her what would make her more confident and she expressed an interest in getting the boob job, so their excuse is that they wanted to help her confidence. OK, seriously, that is your excuse? When you want to boost a woman's confidence is the best way really to say, yes even though you are already a beauty contestant winner, your boobs are definitely the thing that should be changed to give you that little omph when you walk onto that national stage. Like it wasn't bad enough for women around the country already knowing that they will never be able to live up to the idealized version of beauty endorsed by these pageants. Now being naturally endowed with insane amounts of the stereotypical beauty is not enough, now you also need to have your boobs done. WTF?
Huffington Post Article with Interview
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in response to your question, yes
i am confused -- are the chicken cutlets and tape "ok" (read huffington post article for details)? cause if so, that seems pretty weird to me, too. so basically, how do you draw the line to "augmenting beauty"? maybe they should wear no makeup either? guess this comes down to how you are going to define beauty...
also, i would liken this to the discussion on whether or not athletes (or students, for that matter) should use "performance enhancing drugs"? at what point does an "unnatural boost" become wrong/over-the-top/unfair advantage?
It's a continuum. I'm not a huge proponent of makeup, but there is a fine line between tweaking your appearance and artificially remaking it.
In my eyes, very little is more attractive than a woman with the confidence to live as she is. The more extreme and clearly phony the adjustment, the less attractive the person becomes as a result.
I've come to the understanding that confidence and comfort with oneself has little to do with attractiveness in the public imagination, and quite frankly, that bums me out.
aw hotstuff, you don't need bigger boobs... you already have plenty of... confidence. xo
i wonder... if she said that she wanted a masters in fine arts to feel more confident, would the pageant have paid for that?
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