What a shame!
A few days ago, 30-year-old Miss America champion Chesley Christ jumped off a building and committed suicide, and her body was found in front of the Manhattan high-rise "Orion".
It is difficult for netizens to understand that Chesley Crist is young and beautiful, has a good education (Juris Doctor, MBA), is not only a beauty pageant champion, but also a lawyer and TV reporter, a proper winner in life, why should he choose suicide?
It turned out that Chesley Christ had been subjected to severe physical criticism during her lifetime, and the painful mental torture had caused her to suffer from depression.
In 2019, Chesley Criste competed in the Miss America pageant.
28 years old, mature and confident stage of life, but the beauty pageant iron fans think she is too old, and petitioned the official to limit the age of participation.
Not only that, Christ's height of 1.68m, 6 abs, and dark and bright curls have also been criticized by beauty pageant fans.
They diss Christer "developed muscles like a man's body" and believe that "beauty pageants should be as tall and slender as models, with smooth hair and able to walk the stage".
In the midst of endless insults, Christer suffers from depression and is anxious about his age:
"Every time I talk about 30, I always cringe a little, and society has never been kind to people who are getting older, especially women."
In the end, she chose to end her life at the age of 30.
Beauty pageants have brought glory to many girls, but they have also put shackles on them.
Venezuela is the best example of this...
A country that would rather die than a beauty pageant
Venezuela is a small country with a population of only 30 million, but it has more "Miss World" than any other country in the world, and is the Guinness Book of World Records holder for the number of Miss World.
And all this must be "attributed" to the crazy love of beauty pageants all over the country.
In Venezuela, nothing can stop the beauty pageant, even the social operation, the national parliament, and the education cause must give way to the beauty pageant!
This is not nonsense, there have been reports that every year during the "Miss Venezuela" beauty contest, the country will fall into a "stagnant" state: schools are closed, shopping malls are closed, buses are out of service, and almost no one on the street is just to pay attention to the beauty pageant.
During this period, if the beauty pageant is "interfered with", the people will launch a "devastating" counterattack, and the previous president, Chávez, personally verified this statement.
In 2005, Chávez temporarily decided to interrupt the live broadcast of the beauty pageant to deliver a presidential speech, which soon began to cause a nationwide outrage, and the people in the capital Caracas even shot in protest.
In Venezuela, they "would rather die than choose a beauty pageant."
According to surveys, Venezuela is now mired in an economic crisis, the unemployment rate may rise to 50.5%, and in the 2020 "Bloomberg Pain Index", it has been rated as the world's worst economy for 6 consecutive years.
Moreover, in the past few years, the population has been hungry, and according to surveys, 75% of Venezuelans have lost an average weight of 8.7 kilograms, so it can be said that the collapsed economy has left people on the edge of hell.
But even if they are too poor to fill their stomachs and can't afford to buy daily necessities, they still have to go to the pageant, and even the pageant is "everywhere".
In Venezuela, every village, every state, every school ... Every administrative region and all walks of life has its own beauty contests and pageant champions, even nursing homes and prisons.
In addition, in Venezuela, the group of beauty pageants is not only adult women, but also underage children, and even dolls without life thoughts.
A doll pageant in Venezuela
Such a crazy choice of the United States has also spawned a complete set of cold-blooded beauty pageant industry chains.
The pride and prejudice of beauty create aesthetic shackles
At the top of the Venezuelan beauty pageant industry chain is a man named Sousa, and all the girls who have been instructed by him can eventually achieve good results in the competition, so they are also known as the "Tsar of beauty pageants".
But in Sosa's eyes, the beauty of a woman is only the beauty of appearance:
"I don't think inner beauty exists, that it's an unbalanced woman who creates it to defend herself."
He also argues that feminists who preach the inner beauty of women are "hopelessly ugly women."
In Sosa's eyes, beauty should meet tall, plump breasts, slim waist, hips...
Although Sosa's perception of women and beauty is full of pride and prejudice, but also extremely narrow, but he has the ability to "turn stones into gold", countless women still succumb to his standards and change themselves for this reason.
You must not imagine that this change is from the doll.
In the kindergarten in the capital Caracas, girls are trained from the age of 4 in the skills needed for beauty pageants such as makeup, catwalks, speeches, and wine tasting.
In addition, when you grow up to 8 years old, if you are not qualified in height, you will be taken by your parents to get growth hormone and undergo secondary growth.
Entering puberty, in order to control weight, it is also useless, cutting the stomach and intestines liposuction is just a routine operation, and some people will sew gauze on their tongues in order to control their diet.
For three circumferences, Venezuela's beauty pageant system has strict standards: 90cm chest and hips, 60cm waistline.
In order to achieve the above values, many girls lay on the cold operating table and underwent breast augmentation and buttock augmentation surgery before they were young.
It was transformed into "Sosa's favorite body" and "Sosa's favorite face", so the girls went forward to do face after face.
After meeting all the criteria, you will find that almost all girls can not escape the fate of plastic surgery.
However, many families have limited economic conditions and cannot pay for high surgery fees, so they will give birth to "black medical beauty".
In Venezuela's "Charlatan", it costs only $8 to do a plastic surgery, and the materials used in the surgery are quite terrifying.
For example, the silicone used in the filling operation is all corner scrap directly extracted from oil.
The addition of "black material" to "black doctors" has led to many girls dying during surgery or facing serious sequelae.
Of course, there are also girls who come to the end.
But after a series of standardized, assembly-line training, those girls who should have different personalities have long been "depersonalized".
They have similar bodies, similar looks, and even similar smiles.
Seeing this, you may wonder, why is the beauty pageant in Venezuela so important?
The truth behind the pageant
Money-colored transactions cloaked in class jumps
The history of the Venezuelan beauty pageant dates back to 1955, when the capital Caracas hosted an international baseball game, and the award ceremony of the competition required a beautiful woman as a courtesy lady.
To this end, the official held a "who is the most beautiful woman" selection, in which the popular winner is a girl from the upper class. Unexpectedly, the winner of the final public vote was a girl from the slums.
Since then, beauty pageants have become a way for civilian girls to get out of poverty and achieve a class transition.
On the other hand, although it has more oil reserves than The Arabs, Venezuela once became a rich country.
But the "toss-up" of the previous and current presidents has made this "South American Saudi Arabia" not only not richer, but too poor to eat.
In this case, the beauty pageant is an opportunity for ordinary people to turn around, and the girl who wins the Miss Venezuela championship can not only receive high bonuses, enviable job opportunities, but also embark on the road to politics.
For example, In 1981, Miss Venezuela Irene chose to enter politics, not only as mayor, but also with Chávez to run for president.
Therefore, many families often use the strength of the whole family to support their daughters in plastic surgery and beauty pageants, looking forward to flying up the branches and becoming a phoenix, and from then on, "one person will get the ascension of the chicken dog".
In addition to allowing ordinary people to leap over the class, beauty pageants can also make people in the beauty pageant industry chain earn a lot of money.
Take the "beauty pageant Tsar" Sousa, who was originally just an ordinary small clerk, but spent 40 years in the beauty pageant industry chain, money, beauty, status... He had it all.
Moreover, he also used the beauty resources in his hands to have close contacts with many powerful people at home and abroad, and then obtained greater benefits.
A beauty pageant once said anonymously that Sousa had said at a luncheon that she would introduce two businessmen to her.
Later, she learned that the two businessmen were the CEOs of a large Department Store chain in Venezuela, and one of them, after getting her contact information, said directly: "You are already a grown woman, you know what you should do, you have to seize this opportunity." ”
Some people may say that this is not a matter of poor people turning over, businessmen making money, and mutual benefit.
But is this really the case?
The answer is clearly no!
You know, there are many girls participating in beauty contests, but only a few have won the rankings. And in this small number of places, there are very few girls who actually come from the slums.
For example, in the Miss Venezuela 2018 competition, the top 4 are all girls from high society, and only the 5th place is a slum girl.
Those girls who were brushed off by the beauty pageant, because they interrupted their studies in the early years for the beauty pageant, did not have much knowledge and skills, and it was a good ending to be able to be raised by the rich.
After selling all the valuable external things such as jewelry and hair, they are either poor or engaged in sexual service work and become commodities in the human trafficking market.
For example, Reez, who won the Miss Venezuela contest, was later reduced to street wandering and eventually died on the street, leaving her body unclaimed.
Kenny Finol, who competed in a Venezuelan beauty pageant, ended up as a sex worker and was brutally tortured by drug dealers and killers before being killed.
Write at the end
Writing this, sheep feel sorry for the girls in Venezuela, who, for various reasons, live in a society that is poor and very narrow about beauty.
No one cares about their thoughts, their hearts, only about how to make them into assembly line goods that conform to a single aesthetic.
But, Plato said, "The loss of truth is also the loss of beauty." ”
Blindly chasing the aesthetic standards of others is like putting an unintelligible shackle on your soul, only truth and self-confidence can break the shackles and embrace your own beauty.
As photographer Mihaela Noroc puts it: "True beauty comes with a story, emanated from the depths of the soul." Beauty is diversity, beauty means showing your genetic treasures and origins, beauty is to be yourself. ”
And she also uses light and shadow to record the innocent beauty of women around the world.
In her lens, beauty can be an ancient oil painting depicted in a harsh environment.
Beauty can be when wrinkles crawl all over the face, and the spirit is still calm and elegant.
Beauty can also be a rebellion against the vulgarity of being poured with sulfuric acid, but it is still firm and bright in the right eye.
Women's beauty is not "awl face" or "fat buttocks", but their most authentic and natural self.
Beauty is the broadest adjective and the most inclusive praise.
True beauty lies in our differences.