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Venezuela beauties nip, tuck & win

Adriana Brasileiro
Posted: Tuesday, Dec 02, 2008 at 0158 hrs IST
Updated: Tuesday, Dec 02, 2008 at 0158 hrs IST

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: venture between billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump and NBC Universal Inc. “We don’t encourage it, but we don’t prohibit it either,” Shugart said by phone from New York. “Miss Universe in the 21st century wants to be a reflection of the world we live in, so we really don’t have a problem with contestants that had some kind of procedure done.”

Sousa, who calls the enhancements ‘touchups’, runs a programme to groom contestants. To get there, candidates need to catch the eye of Sousa or one of his scouts at the hundreds of fashion shows and beauty pageants they attend annually.

Around March each year, 300 young women head for Quinta Miss Venezuela, a salmon-pink villa with white iron gates where Sousa runs his boot camp. There, they come under the scrutiny of Sousa, his assistant Gabriel Ramos, dental surgeon Moises Kaswan and plastic surgeon Peter Romer. The three comment on the aspirants’ flaws and suggest what can be done to create a winner.

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