(seal signed by admin Miss Universe 1000 B.C)
Metamorphosis, for those in the know, is a common missosology word. It denotes a major change in the appearance or character of someone or something.
From foot binding to the wearing of corsets, women's bodies have been reshaped and altered to meet changing cultural ideals of beauty and fashion. The quest to be seen as beautiful has gone from merely applying the best cosmetic brands to going under the knife in order to reconfigure their body parts to achieve a desired shape or size. But there are still a lot of women whose beauty is a product of sheer determination and discipline.
Let's meet some beauties who underwent a metamorphosis from nothing to everything.
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It has always been known that Venezuelan beauty queens go under the knife. At the Miss Venezuela contest, young women sign up to an extreme regime. Plastic surgery and punishing diets transform ordinary young girls into rich and famous beauty queens in the world's most extreme contest. Some of the would-be beauty queens from this country reveals a plastic mesh on their tongue, which makes eating solids painful for them to lose weight much easier. They have to impress Venezuela's King of Beauty who is a ruthless perfectionist which demands perfection that doesn't exist!
After winning Miss Venezuela 2001, others thought that Cynthia Lander will end the 19-year-long winning streak of Venezuela in 2002. She had a body to die for, but facially, she wasn't among the best, not even by far. But Osmel Sousa known as the Tsar of Beauty transformed Cynthia from nottie to hottie and finished 4th Runner-Up in Miss Universe 2002.
It is such a pressure being crowned being Miss Venezuela, so much expectations from pageant fans and critics but it is safe to say that Irene Esser sets an ultra-high benchmark for the 2012 edition. She is particularly competitive even at the national pageant where she was rightly pegged as the early favorite.
She was one of the favorites to win Miss Universe 2012 until she got to the question and answer round, where she failed miserably, her answer had almost nothing to do with the question and her Spanglish did not help either.
Even if she didn't get the crown, this girl just literally shifted from nothing to everything. Her transformation could be rated as one of the best transformations in female pageants. She has grown as a person in terms of her looks, styling, presentation and personality.