If You Are a Wife or a Mother, You Now Can Compete in the Miss Universe Pageant
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Miss South Africa 2017, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (L), is crowned Miss Universe 2017 by Miss Universe 2016, Iris Mittenaere, on November 26, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada / AFP PHOTO / Patrick Gray (Photo credit should read PATRICK GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
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The NY Post says the Miss Universe Pageant is making changes and is going to allow wives and mothers to compete starting in 2023. Currently, rules state that only single women, between the ages of 18 and 28, who have never been married, or had children, are allowed to compete. The pageant is making changes to be more inclusive.
Davina Bennett, Miss Jamaica, competes in the Miss Universe pageant on November 26, 2017 in Las Vegas.<br>Beauties from across the globe converged in Las Vegas Sunday, where Miss South Africa was crowned Miss Universe. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, 22, edged out her rivals from Colombia and Jamaica to take the crown. Nel-Peters, a graduate in business management, said her disabled half-sister has been among her great inspirations.<br>/ AFP PHOTO / Patrick Gray (Photo credit should read PATRICK GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
Pageant executive Josh Yugen says, “The Miss Universe Organization is always the greatest and most innovative platform of its kind and now it will be more inclusive and welcoming to mothers and married women. For me, this is aligned with what I have been fighting for — breaking stereotypes and unlearning the stigma that the old society has forced on us from many many decades ago.”
EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS - "Brandi" (Atlanta, GA) - As a child, Brandi fell in love with beauty pageants after watching them on television with her mother. A born performer, she took ballet plus tap lessons and competed in pageants for years. By the time she was 12, Brandi weighed more than 250 pounds, and comment cards from pageant judges told her over and over that she was too heavy to compete. Crushed by the criticism, Brandi quit competing and continued to put on weight throughout high school and well into her 20s. After reaching 329 pounds, she wrote a letter to trainer and transformation specialist Chris Powell asking him for help. Brandi's year-long physical and emotional journey will be documented on the hit series "Extreme Weight Loss," airing TUESDAY, JULY 15 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT) on the Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Television Network. (Photo by Rick Rowell/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<br>BRANDI, CHRIS POWELL
