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Miss England Told to Fatten Up

AP
Posted: 2007-10-27 10:08:19
NEW YORK (Oct. 26) - A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition - an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin.

"I was a little bit shocked," Miss England Georgia Horsley said Friday in an interview on NBC's "Today" show.

Photo Gallery: "I Don't Think I'm Too Thin"

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With less than six weeks to go until the Miss World competition, Miss England Georgia Horsley has received a peculiar request from the pageant's organizers: they want her to pack on a few extra pounds.

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"I don't think I'm too thin. I'm happy with the way I am," said the 20-year-old, who is a size 4. She added: "I probably would have been more hurt if they told me to lose weight, I think."

Horsley said pageant organizers want "their girls to be more voluptuous and womanly and curvy, you know, rather than the stick-thin, size-0 models that you see around."

"I've just got quite more of an athletic, boyish-type figure rather than the hourglass figure that some women have," said the 5-foot-8 Horsley. "And they're just seeing if, you know, I could maybe put a bit of weight on and it might give me those curves."

The Miss World press office didn't immediately respond Friday to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Horsley has little more than a month to gain weight: the Miss World pageant will be held in China on Dec. 1.

"They've not given me a total (weight) to get to," she said. "But I'm going to eat, you know, healthy fats such as nuts and avocado, oily fish, things like that."

Horsley said the request was no big deal, comparing it to being asked to get a tan or let her hair grow.

"I don't think this is a major, major thing, you know," she said. "They just want me to put on a few pounds."

Sure, but what if she gains weight in all the wrong places?

"I'm trying to work out at the same time," she said. "It'll hopefully maybe level things out a bit. But, I mean, if I do start putting weight on, say, my stomach or somewhere on my thighs where I don't really want to put it on ... I'll obviously scrap the idea and I'll just accept the fact that I'm a naturally athletic build and can't do the curves."

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SGMelX 10:20:44 AM Oct 30 2007

it's not like the girl's starving herself and doing unhealthy things. if she doesn't have curves, gaining weight doesn't help because it usually goes to the stomach area more than anywhere else

PROVERB31GIRLUW 09:57:00 AM Oct 30 2007

I think it's odd that she claims she has an "athletic figure", because her figure is no where near athletic....what sport is she thinking of???

PROVERB31GIRLUW 09:54:00 AM Oct 30 2007

I'd definitely agree that she needs to gain some weight. She doesn't look unhealthy skinny, but she's looks a little thin. I think it does seem a little unhealthy for her to say if she gains weight in her stomach or thighs then she will stop trying to gain weight. If you eat properly in the first place you will naturally put on weight, I think she may just need to eat healthier and step away from the screwed image of beauty that she obviously has been living in.

ThePinkoCommie 08:46:23 AM Oct 30 2007

She is not the most gorgeous person I've ever seen, but not every beautiful girl can have naturally giant knockers and child-bearing hips. They should be going after unnaturally thin girls who don't eat, not healthy-eating girls who are lucky enough to maintain a nice figure. And a size 4 is really not that small.

tarintay 06:33:34 PM Oct 29 2007

NOW SPEAKING ABOUT DUMB AS A DOORKNOB, HOW DO I CHANGE THIS ICON MY SON CREATED? OI VEY.

tarintay 06:32:22 PM Oct 29 2007

We need to stop this obsession with "BEAUTY" Pageants. Let's face it. It's old school. Let these lucky little brats that God gave good genes to go out and find out what the world is like without special treatment and gifts just because they are deemed "beautiful". Most of them are as smart as doorknobs.

promptshipping 06:16:04 PM Oct 29 2007

She's an incredibly pretty girl and if she has to gain weight I'd say no more than 10 pounds.

wtanner4 02:41:00 PM Oct 29 2007

she may be skinny but she still gives me a chub

marnedaevans 01:12:26 PM Oct 29 2007

I know some gays are going to be mad as hell by what I am about to post, but its all true. Gay men control the fashion industry and as a result of their odd obsession with being rail thin, have fashioned clothing to fit only anorexic looking women. I say real women have curves and these thin ass women are unattractive as hell. I am not saying that Miss England is too thin, she looks great, but look at some of these women. I say we women should dictate what is beautiful not gay men!!!! Who wants a girl that looks like a 9 year old boy other than a pedophile?! Not saying gay men are peders! I say women lets take our image into our own hands, we need more female fashion designers. Tell these gay fashionistas to go to hell.

bachmanlaura 12:50:00 PM Oct 29 2007

Doesn't this make women just as obsessed with weight as being told to lose weight?

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