Banned from Miss World for Putting on Weight!

Although the world is crying out for curves to be accepted, it seems that beauty is still skinny deep in the eyes of beauty pageants.

Cynthia de la Vega, 19, came second at the Nuestra Belleza Mundo Mexico beauty pageant last September - the country’s equivalent of Miss England. The result meant she would go on to represent Mexico at the 2011 Miss World competition in November, being held in the UK.

Cynthia claims that she has been stripped of the opportunity due to gaining a mere 6lb!

Speaking at a press conference, De la Vega said organisers withdrew her from the international pageant because she failed to lose the weight she had gained.

"I was very sad and very deceived. I cried and cried and cried," she said. "They demanded that I lose a few kilos, but they never provided a nutritionist or any other assistance to ensure the weight loss."
National director for the pageant, Lupita Jones, said in a statement that De la Vega was axed because of her “lack of dedication and discipline." He also said she "did not comply with the recommendations and goals agreed upon for her preparation".
This story made me so angry!

Cynthia is tiny before AND after gaining weight - this organisation are sending out the message that to be beautiful you have to be unnaturally slim, and if you arent you are lazy!

What message does this send to young women?

Please please, when are the media, and other organisations such as these going to accept that in the real world women come in many variations of beautiful? Gorgeous curves to super slim, whatever your natural body shape, it should be embraced.

Natalie's YO YO Dieting

Written by Emily Robinson.

Slated in the papers for her fast weight regain, is Natalie really to blame?

Recently slated across magazines and countless internet sites, Natalie Cassidy has been seen back up to her original weight. Is she really to blame or is this ridiculous obsession to be stick thin the reason for her plummet and quick regain. Realistically no-one could have believed someone who is clearly naturally curvy to stay a size 8. She is being quoted as being depressed and in tears about her weight gain and im sure all of the bad press coverage isn’t helping her. It’s a waste of time to spend every second calorie counting and watching what you eat she should enjoy her life and enjoy her success but instead she is being made to feel fat and ugly. Headline have said how she has ballooned back to her weight and, ‘she’s the fat girl off TV’, but really she is just being compared to her previous.

Yo Yo dieting its self is very harmful for your body, your body is going from one extreme of eating large amounts to eating nothing back to eating more again so the strain on your body is extremely unhealthy. Natalie sadly will have regained everything in fat as her weight decreased so rapidly leaving a small muscular frame and her weight has been regained so quickly it will be stored as fat.

I think the pressure of the good press she had because of the weight loss inspired her but once she realised it was near impossible to keep the weight off she relaxed and settled down, it seems she is naturally a curvy girl so she should learn to love her curves like we all do!