Nigerian ex-beauty queen, Agbani Darego is marking two decades since she made history by becoming the first woman from Africa to win the prestigious Miss World competition. Recall that the entrepreneur and model was crowned Miss World in 2001 the memory and euphoria from twenty years still echo in her mind and that of all...
Vanessa Williams made history becoming the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America, but the road ahead for her was not an easy one. Thirty-eight years later, Williams, 58, says winning the title made her “grow up overnight.” “I really wasn’t prepared [to handle how the country took my win] because I’d never been...
A few months after the First World War, it was on an idea by Belgian journalist Maurice de Waleffe that Le Journal organized the contest of “La plus belle femme de France”. The idea of his instigator was to “highlight the physical splendor” and to prove that “the choice of the majority indicates the instinctive...
This Christmas season, it’s time to talk about gifts. In our attic, we found a Barbie doll bearing the image of the Miss America pageant.