Beauty contests are a kind of shows where the best beauties of the world appear before the audience and the jury, demonstrating all their charm. Such events are held quite often. Miss World is an annual show, prestigious and significant. In addition, he is the oldest among his kind.
About the history of the contest
The award for the most beautiful girl was established in 1951 by Eric Morley, an advertising agent from London. It happened as follows. Morley joined the Mecca Dance Hall. His task was to attract customers to nightclubs and dance halls. A prerequisite for this was that visitors should be not only English, but also representatives of other countries. To carry out this difficult mission, Morley proposed to hold a large-scale beauty contest in which girls from all over the world should participate. He took over casting models for the first show.
It was planned that the event will take place only once, but then Eric Morley found out that in 1952 a similar project was to start in the USA - “Miss Universe”. After that, his Miss World contest also became annual. It is held up to the present day.
The essence of the beauty show
The purpose of the competition is to identify the most beautiful girl in the world. Applicants come to the city of the event, and then the selection begins. Traditionally, in addition to the catwalk in swimsuits and evening dresses, this beauty contest also involves competitions in sports, charity, intelligence, as well as the fulfillment of a creative task.
According to the rules of the event, only those girls who have already won the national beauty show can participate in it. In addition, all applicants selected to participate in Miss World must be educated, have good manners, and also know one of the international languages - English, German or French. This is necessary so that the contestants can freely communicate with the public and the jury.
Girls aged 17-24 years old, unmarried and without children are allowed to participate in the show. In addition, the moral side is also important: the contestants have no right to enter into doubtful relations with men, to be naked in public places (for example, nightclubs) and in front of the television camera, to dance striptease, and also to drink alcohol or drugs.
The winner of this event is required to live in London for one year. There, the girl participates in charity events and regularly appears in high society, demonstrating the best fashionable outfits.
Interesting facts about the event
First fact
In the UK, in the homeland of the contest, this event has long been considered boring and uninteresting. Many viewers are of the opinion that the format of the beauty show is outdated, which means that it is time to introduce something new in its course and evaluation procedure.
Fact two
According to the results of the competition, the first beauties of the world are residents of Venezuela. In the entire history of the event, representatives of this state have won the main crowns the most times - six victories in 63 years.
Third fact
The winner of the contest, held in 1974, was suspended, because at that time she already had a one and a half year old child. In 1980, the most beautiful girl in the world herself abandoned the crown. She motivated her action by the fact that her beloved person was against her performing her duties as a winner. However, it is quite possible that the real reason for the refusal was open photography, in which the girl participated shortly before her victory. As you know, the rules of the competition for participants such dubious events are prohibited.
First Miss World
In the 1951 competition, Kiki Hockansson won. She was born in 1929, that is, at the time of participation in the beauty show, the girl was 22 years old. At the competition, Hockansson represented Sweden, her native country. For the victory, the girl received a prize - a check for a thousand pounds and a precious necklace.
Participants of Miss World in 1951 defiled in front of the public in a bikini. In the future, such shows were banned as part of the competition, replacing frank swimsuits with more closed ones, as the religious community was outraged by such indecency. The Pope himself condemned Kiki Hockansson for shamelessness, but the girl did not lose the crown because of this.
The first winner of the famous beauty show died recently, in 2011.
Participation in the competition of representatives of the Soviet Union and the first winner from Russia
The USSR is a powerful power, whose authorities have always been very conservative. That is why the representatives of this country did not appear on the lists of contestants of famous beauty shows for a very long time, and the best beauties of the world were chosen without their participation. Only in 1989, Miss World got the first Russian woman, Anna Gorbunova. By the way, then the girl received the title of Miss Photogenicity.
In 1991, due to the collapse of the USSR, Miss World was also held without the participation of Russians. But in the next, 1992, Julia Kurochkina struck the jury with her beauty and wit and won the main crown.
At the moment, the first winner of the famous beauty contest from Russia is 40 years old. She left her career in modeling and works as a director of a travel agency. In addition, Julia is doing well in the family field: she is married and has a daughter. Interestingly, at the time of Kurochkina’s participation in the competition, her parameters were ideal - 90-60-90.
