My first blog - Miss Naked Beauty

1)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1079834/As-Gok-Wan-launches-pre-watershed-Miss-Naked-Beauty--How-woman-think-ritual-humiliation-empowering.html

2)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1081696/Degraded-confused-very-tearful-How-contestant-felt-Gok-Wans-Miss-Naked-Beauty-parade.html

These two articles have prompted me to write my first blog. I came across them when searching for Miss Naked Beauty on Google, to see what the winner was up to now. I watched the Channel 4 show religiously and with bias as I was one of the 2oo girls that made it to the Blackpool auditions. These articles are totally unjust and unfair.

Let me take the first article, which describes the Blackpool auditions as a circus. This article actually upset me when I read it. I had been so proud that I had been part of that 200 that had been chosen out of 7000 and this article totally ruins that feeling. Suggesting that we were all there to be laughed at, and describing one girl like this:
"Admittedly, squeezed into an unflattering swimsuit, she did resemble Matt Lucas as 'the only gay in the village'."
This article was written by a female, it's bad enough that men should speak about women in this way, but for another female to say such a thing, it's little wonder women have low self-esteem. We were chosen to be there because they makers of the show felt we had potential to be natural beauties.

The second article however, has been spurred on by 3 girls who were not succesful in the show, moaning to the Mail because they didn't get through. They make out that they were forced into doing things. At no point was anybody forced to do anything. They also said that being paraded on the Pier was degrading and that they didn't want expensive eveningwear ruined when they got soaked in the swimming pool. Well the letter that preceeded the Blackpool auditions told us to take swimwear, at which point, people who didn't want to be seen in their bikini should have made the choice whether or not to continue with the show. The same letter also warned not to take expensive evening wear because there was a chance it might get ruined.

The women that have approached this newspaper have given a completely false and unfair image of the show. I think the show set out to, and succeeded in proving that women are naturally beautiful with regards to appearance and personality. I think all the girls that got through did a fabulous job and Shona is going to be a fabulous ambassador for natural beauty. She will also get to become a model, and write for a top magazine! I job which I'd of gladly taken my clothes off for had a got any further!

I hope no other girls that took part in the show have read these articles because they are trully heartbreaking and damaging to girls. I think it's fab that curvy girls have confidence because that's the way it should be, we should all be happy with the way we are, and stop trying to change it with plastic surgery etc. The world would be a boring place if we all looked the same.