Miss Plastic Hungary: An Honest Beauty Pageant

October 13th, 2009

By: Ben

A few months ago, I posted about an odd spin on the typical beauty pageant: the Miss Plastic Hungary contest, a celebration of augmentation, an undertaking of self-remaking, overachievers… under the knife. Etc! Well, the pageant finally took place.

To qualify for the pageant, the 18 Hungarian residents had to prove they’d gone fully under the knife — mere Botox or collagen injections did not count. Nearly all the contestants showed off augmented breasts, with reshaped noses also popular. One finalist had surgically adjusted toes.

And yet if you can imagine it, one plastic surgeon claimed, ”Plastic surgery has a bad reputation in Hungary but it’s mostly due to the exaggerations.” Pics, video, and more details, after the jump.

Organizers claimed contestants were expected to show “a perfect harmony of body and soul,” but the three-part pageant concentrated almost exclusively on the women’s physical attributes and the usually conspicuous wishes for world peace went missing.

Give them credit for calling a spade a spade: the fake body pageant of all is also one of the few to level with its audience realistically. And the prizes are accordingly material:

Pageant queen Reka Urban, a 22-year-old hostess, won an apartment in Budapest, first runner-up Edina Kulcsar was given a new car and second runner-up Alexandra Horvath took home diamond jewelry worth 2 million forints ($10,800). The winners’ plastic surgeons also received awards.

Although it would have been funny if they were like, “Congratulations on winning the Miss Fake pageant, would you like the scholarship or will you be opting to donate to charity?”