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Beauty Bytes: May 18, 2012

Has the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” gotten too fat? Aishwary Rai went from Former Miss World title holder to Bollywood Actress, L’Oreal Cosmetics model, and possible global representative for the UN’s girl child campaign. She’s also a new mother to a baby girl, and at 38, hasn’t yet shed the “baby weight”. In a country where starvation is still common, she was one of the first Bollywood stars whose proportions were closer to supermodel thin than to curvier …

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Beauty Bytes: April 27, 2012

There’s trouble for newly crowned Miss World Fiji: first she gets flack for her age (she’s sixteen years old), and now she’s being slammed for her racial background. Torika Watters, the contest winner of mixed European and Fijian heritage, has drawn ire from nativists who say she’s not Fijian enough. Nasty comments left on the Facebook site (since deleted) also included attacks on her hair, which critics say should be worn in the naturally fuzzy “buiniga” style. Perhaps ironically, …

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