| There are several contenders at the moment | | | | pageants; state, national or otherwise (ie Miss |
| including Angelina Jolie, Aishwarya Rai and many | | | | USA or state pageants). Not to mention the entry |
| others have been given this title recently. But the | | | | fees charged just to apply for entry. To get into |
| question remains. A quick search on Google for | | | | Miss Universe you have to have won the Miss |
| 'world's most beautiful woman' returns over 20 | | | | USA beauty pageant (or equivalent in another |
| million results. With numerous articles on the | | | | country), and you are not allowed to participate in |
| subject in which authors name their favorites, or | | | | any other beauty pageants while you are entered |
| cite poll results from such and such publication, all | | | | or while "holding the crown" if you win.With most |
| claiming to know the answer. It would seem that | | | | of these beauty pageants being held only once a |
| with so many sources claiming the title belongs to | | | | year it is difficult for pageant fans to maintain |
| one woman or another we may never have a | | | | interest in the "off season". Also consider that the |
| definitive answer.For decades beauty pageants | | | | pageant shows themselves remain the same year |
| have been held in attempts to discover the | | | | to year with very little variation or straying from |
| world's most beautiful woman and put her in the | | | | the formula. The same competitions, questions |
| public eye. The first ever Miss Universe was | | | | and hosts, the only thing different is the women. |
| crowned in 1952, however pageant history | | | | Which of course is not a bad thing, however it is |
| stretches back to 1921 with the first ever | | | | this repetitiveness that will be the undoing of |
| Inter-City Beauty pageant held in Atlantic City, | | | | beauty pageants as we know them today.What |
| which would later be re-christened with the more | | | | would be the next logical step? What could |
| familiar moniker of Miss America (not to be | | | | someone do to evolve beauty pageants from |
| confused with Miss USA). Since then there have | | | | what we are accustomed to and bring them into |
| been countless beauty pageants crowning Miss | | | | the 21st century? The answer is right in front of |
| this and Miss that. But in the last 30 years these | | | | you, why not take the pageant online and make it |
| pageants have become repetitive, stale and | | | | available all year long? If you dig deep enough, or |
| boring. Not to mention hard to get into. They | | | | look in the right places you may find inklings that |
| have strict rules for eligibility that include age | | | | a person or two had this idea and there are a |
| restrictions for the Miss Universe Organization you | | | | small handful of websites claiming to be online |
| must be between the ages of 18 and 27. You | | | | beauty pageants. Most of them seem more like |
| cannot be married (or have children one would | | | | afterthoughts or even a jest, but there is one |
| assume), you cannot currently or in the past have | | | | that looks to be a diamond in the rough. |
| participated in previous Miss Universe Organization | | | | |