Top 10 weird beauty pageants

New Delhi: Beauty pageants are meant to test the physical attributes, overall personality of women and men. Apart from figure, other qualities like quick wit, spontaneity, talent and oratory skills are also judged upon. Beauty pageants are not only about under 25 aged women and men with good physique, nowadays there are various pageants which have been organized for the common man. If you don not have the perfect size and shape, still you can participate in various pageants like: 1. Miss Landmine A pageant of Angola, it was the brain child of a Norweign theatre and film director, Morten Traavik. This pageant was organized to empower the women victims of suffering caused by landmines that had left more than 80,000 people maimed after a 20-year civil war.Women with physical disability are given a chance to participate in the competition and show their talent. The winners get prize money and a new prosthesis. 2. Miss Pregnant The Miss Pregnant pageant is celebrated in various parts of U.S. like Texas, Florida, San Diego. The pageant is meant for pregnant women. The highlight of the show is a bikini round is also conducted. 3. Miss Klingon Empire The pageant is held every year at the TrekTrax Atlanta, a annual science fiction convention based in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to space opera in general and Star Trek in particular, that places special emphasis on fan-based events, activities, programming and productions.The contestants should be 18 years and above.The contestants are judged on the basis of their costume as a Klingon female character from any incarnation of Star Trek, or any original Klingon persona of their own creation. The pageant features the most beautiful women the Klingon Empire has to offer, to be judged in Beauty, Talent and Personality categories. 4. Miss Artificial Beauty This one's tops the list of being the weirdest of all. The pageant is exclusively for women who have undergone plastic surgery on face and body in Beijing. The age of the contestants is between 17 to 62. To prevent cheating, all contestants - who include one transsexual - have to provide a doctor's certificate to prove that they have indeed had surgery. 5. Miss Navajo Nation Miss Navajo Nation is a pageant of a small territory in US, Navajo nation. The pageant began in 1952 and is meant for natives of the place. The highlight of this pageant is contestants are judged upon their tribal skills like butchering sheep. The contestants must butcher a sheep and are judged on their neatness and efficiency. They do it wearing pageant-wear (dresses or tribal garb), with butcher's smocks over the top. 6. Miss Jumbo Queen The event is held in Thailand. As the name suggests, the competition is for fat and chubby women. Its staged at Samphran Elephant Ground near Bangkok. The contest is held to select the contestant who best exhibits the characteristics of an elephant by virtue of her grace, elegance and size, and the winner will lead a jumbo banquet and help promote elephant conservation causes in Thailand. 7. Ms Senior Sweetheart It's a pageant for senior citizens (ladies) above the age of 58. The event is staged at Fall River, Massachusetts. It provides a platform to the senior women that they can still do amazing things even at this age. The pageant was started in 1978 as a Lions' Club fund raiser and has been a national competition ever since.8. Miss Russian Army In June 2005, the Russian Army organized a beauty pageant to get good publicity and attract men in this profession.19 female soldiers and sailors participated in the competition (entitled Beauties in Shoulder Straps), which was broadcast on live television. The event included the soldiers walking down the catwalk in uniform and singing songs while accompanied by guitarists (a memorable lyric included the phrases, "Since we're soldiers, our first concern is automatic weapons; boys come second"). Contestants competing in drills, crawling in combat uniform, entering tanks, and running with automatic weapons. The jury ultimately gave the title to Lieutenant Ksenya Agarkova, an engineer with Russia's Northern Fleet. 9. Miss Exotic World The Miss Exotic World Pageant (officially, the Miss Exotic World Pageant and Striptease Reunion) is an annual neo-burlesque pageant and convention, and is the annual showcase event (and fundraiser for) the Burlesque Hall of Fame (formerly the Exotic World burlesque museum). The Burlesque Hall of Fame is the world's premiere organization in Las vegas dedicated to preserving the living legacy of burlesque as an artform and cultural phenomenon.The pageant, sometimes referred to as the "Miss America of Burlesque", attracts former burlesque queens from past decades, as well as current participants of the neo-burlesque scene. The pageant consists of burlesque performances spanning a weekend, culminating with the competition to crown a single performer as Miss Exotic World. 10. Miss and Mister Beautiful Bottom Launched by an underwear brand Sloggi, in 2007, the contestant who has the most beautiful bottom (both men and women) get a chance to be the brand's next model and a cash prize of US$12,085.06.

Top 10 weird beauty pageants

New Delhi: Beauty pageants are meant to test the physical attributes, overall personality of women and men. Apart from figure, other qualities like quick wit, spontaneity, talent and oratory skills are also judged upon. Beauty

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