Has the pageant stage become just another fashion runway
filled with scary-skinny physiques? Read more
According to several former Miss USA and
Miss America competitors, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" -- at
least when it comes to the bikini bodies on display during Sunday night's Miss
USA 2013 competition. (Miss Connecticut Erin Brady was crowned the winner.)
Speaking to HuffPost Live, Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund
said, "The girls, I thought, were much too thin. I agree that if you would
have tested their BMIs that they probably would have been much too thin. And
that's the standard in the modeling industry and the fashion industry as
well."
Miss USA 2003 Susie Castillo was also disturbed by the
shrinking figures. "I was a little shocked, too, sitting in the audience
and seeing ribcages showing, protruding from these girls' skins. I was like,
'Wow, these girls…' "
"I realize that 10 years ago, when I was Miss USA, I
was a lot thinner too…. I was an athlete. I wasn't that thin. And I agree that
it's going in a way where girls are just super thin," Castillo continued.
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