Beauty Pageant
Mexico Has a Beauty Pageant With a Catch: You Can’t Be Pregnant
Women who want to compete in a local beauty contest must be between 17 and 22 years old, single, not pregnant, and never been married or lived with a partner.
The Male Beauty Pageant Where Female Judges Sleep with the Winners
Wodaabe men from northern Niger spend up to six hours getting made up to compete in their annual swinging festival.
Inside the 2016 Queen USA Trans Beauty Pageant
The pageant aims to celebrate the trans community by subverting the traditional beauty pageant format.
Inside Spain's Teen Beauty Pageants
On this episode of 'Daily VICE', we go to Spain's Miss Teen Beauty Pageant to meet the girls hoping to win the crown and to see how social media affects the competition.
The 'Modern' Miss World Competition Is Still Boring and Sexist
No matter how much Miss World adapts by stripping out the overt sexism, it cannot escape the fact that a beauty pageant in essence is an elaborate fuckability contest.
We Meet One of Thailand's Transgender Beauty Pageant Contestants on Today's 'Daily VICE'
VICE's Isobel Yeung heads to Thailand to see how the country's attitudes toward trans people are changing.
Watch a Brazilian Prison Beauty Pageant in Today's 'Daily VICE'
We also meet Colombia's guerrilla fighters, go courtside at the Davis Cup, and catch up with party monster Michael Alig.
There’s Now a Beauty Pageant for Your Balls
When it comes to balls, wrinkles can actually be beautiful.
The Glamorous Beauty Queens of Miss Gay Lady Venezuela
Scenes from a gay beauty pageant night in the port town of Maracaibo.
It Sucks Being an 11-Year-Old Beauty Queen
I'm Short, Not Stupid #85 features 'The Queen (La Reina),' a short documentary about the demands of childhood pageantry in Argentina.
Photos from Miss Amazing, the Pageant of the Special Olympics
Miss Amazing is all about self-confidence, celebrating individuality, and giving girls and women with disabilities the chance to shine.
Russian Roulette (Dispatch 98)
In the latest dispatch from Ukraine, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky attends a beauty pageant for the female fighting contingent of the DNR.