Cenk Uygur
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"Terribly Ugly" Woman Kicked Out Of Beauty Pageant
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November 29, 2014
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November 29, 2014
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3:11Now Playing"Maya Shelkovaya almost fell out of her chair when she learned she’d been voted to the top five of the pageant. In the caption accompanying the picture she’d submitted, she wrote that she thought she was “terribly ugly.” She only entered the competition because she wanted a prize offered by the company running it. She told Vocativ she didn’t expect a single vote.
In a matter of days, Shelkovaya surpassed nearly all the hundreds of girls who submitted their photos to the competition and received enough votes to make it to the top five. Many of the comments were nasty, but most expressed how inspiring Shelkovaya’s confidence was.”*
Lissette Padilla (), Steve Oh () and Ben Mankiewicz () discuss.
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