Miss Maryland. Master of the humblebrag.
Miss Maryland. Master of the humblebrag.
Brittany Booker, Miss Texas
Gunilla, the image consultant: You know who else looks good with a skimpy dress and one leg? This girl.
Lars, the pageant coach: What is that, an exaggerated bra?
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Gunilla, the image consultant: What do you think of Massachusetts’s lattice skirt?
Lars, the pageant coach: It’s like those red netting bags that you buy citrus in.
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Per tradition, all 51 contestants are interviewed on a short set of questions and this year two of those questions touch on controversial topics: porn and pot. How did the contestants’ opinions fall?
On porn, the women are roughly split, but lean towards being against porn (one being opposed because it’s not artsy. We’re with you, girl.) with 20% providing an inconclusive or undecided answer.
Almost half of the women are for medicinal marijuana with 18 feeling strongly pro or con.
Also in the interviews, the contestants were asked what behaviors they have that annoy people and what talent they wish they had. Miss Missouri apparently can’t remember to save silverware when clearing a table. 16 women (roughly 30%) wish they could sing. Probably why they’re here and not at Miss America.
Karina Brez, Miss Florida
Gunilla, the image consultant: A well decorated and well seasoned sausage casing
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Nana Meriwether, Miss Maryland
Gunilla, the image consultant: Maryland got hers from the seventeen prom special edition magazine 1999.
Nana Meriwther, Miss Maryland: Nana Meriwether grew up in Maryland and attended the Sidwell Friends School, the same school that Chelsea Clinton, Al Gore Jr., the Obama daughters, and the Roosevelt and Nixon children attended.
Humblebrag
Audrey Bolte, Miss Ohio
Gunilla, the image consultant: Yes, your hips do look big. Giant, maybe.
Lars, the pageant coach: Ohio is this year’s prizewinner in the “butt curtains” category
Photo credit: Patrick Prather