‘Miss New York USA 2010’ Archives
An anthropological view of beauty pageants
Once upon a time, I was a contestant in Miss New York USA 2010, and I blogged a lot about it. And posted photos of my experience. If you read coverage, you'll find that I had a positive experience overall. I also noted in my paper that my dieting/exercising/obsessing was probably more appropriate for someone competing on the national level - so my stress level was definitely more elevated [...]
[Photo Album] Hey, Remember That Time I Tried to be a Beauty Queen?
![[Photo Album] Hey, Remember That Time I Tried to be a Beauty Queen?](http://lingboli.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/imgp4792-300x225.jpg "[Photo Album] Hey, Remember That Time I Tried to be a Beauty Queen?")
Love her! Everything a beauty queen should be - smart, ambitious, and yes, gorgeous. This photo shall serve as photo evidence that I was indeed, for two brief seconds, ever so fit and tan. I'm a little scared by the ribs, but I think that's just my oversize skeleton poking through. Yeah, I had no idea why they had cadets there either. There are just some things you don't [...]
Getting fat again
So I use "fat" in a tongue-in-cheek way. But I definitely spent the last few weeks watching what I ate, which meant no crazy banquet dinners, dinners of scrambled egg whites and vegetables, and the occasional helping of cheese dip, heaped high with guilt. As a result, my stomach became a cast iron tank. My collarbone and ribcage took greater prominence. When I lay down, I marveled at how my [...]
Some reflections on pageantry
So it's back to being a civilian again. I applied a slick of black eyeliner and donned my skinniest jeans to commemorate the thinnest that I have ever been - I'm doing some guilt-free gorging on sushi, Chinese food, and lattes for a few days. Being in a pageant made me realize (although my friends have been telling me for a long time) that I'm thin. For some reason, I assumed that [...]
I didn’t win! But I learned…
... that I'm fine the way I am, and that my favorite girls, Dana and Runa, were ROBBED of the title. D: The girl who won is in the middle: My roommate Dana is on the right, she placed in the top five. More coherent thoughts later on the whole experience.
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