The Metropolis

End discrimination against hot people, says beauty pageant star

Mike Pollitt | Monday 20 June, 2011 13:57

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“Girls now get judged based on the way they look. If they are pretty they can’t do certain things because they are too pretty for it and they might not be taken seriously in some situations. I think that wrong because there are girls out there who are pretty and who are very smart.”
Leidy Laura Romero, Greater London’s representative at the forthcoming Miss Teen Great Britain competition, launches her crusade. [Via Hackney Gazette]

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