8/11/2004: Miss Cicciona and Mr Ciccione
 

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Congratulations to the woman on the right, there, Giovanna Guidoni, who has won this year's Miss Cicciona contest. And the gent on the left, Fabio Teseo, who has won Mr Ciccione.

It's a beauty contest in Italy, featuring only women over 220 pounds (100 kilos) and men over 330 pounds (150 kilos).

I'm in favor of this sort of thing, partly because I know this is one area where the US can excel. I know I could find better candidates than these at any American mall. But also, we are so arbitrary about beauty, so confused about weight. Let's play with the equation so we can figure out where our priorities really are.

http://cellar.org/2004/guidoni.jpg

Full story in Italian at official site

full story Reuters via MSNBC

the "blond" woman looks like she is channelling phyllis diller.

The blonde "woman" looks more like he is channeling Divine.

divine? is that the hooker hugh grant got nailed with... for nailing?

Yes, Divine was (is?) her name. Look-why is everyone so hung up on this ??? even if you weigh 300 pounds you might have a nice one--I think Kurt Vonnegut said, "you never know who will get one."------a NICE one, that is.

People for the Equal Treatment of Sexual Beings....(PETSB)

No, Divine , the actor.

Looks like a convention of City Hall hacks in Pittsburgh.

there is someone to love everyone. and then there is someone who just wants to love everyone. :D

and then there are fabulous eyebrows.... ;)

Those are soooooome eyebrows.

OK,
1) Just how heavy of a contestant were they planning on getting?

2) Why do the official "Miss Cicciona" T-Shirts come in Small?

3) If this statement is true: “We wanted to show that the media image of perfection — being stick-thin — isn’t the only way to get recognized” then why is the winner based on sheer tonnage rather than beauty?

It reminds me of this German dude that was in the news recently. He was a video artist who was making a documentary of him "growing" his girlfriend from around 100 pounds to well over 400. I guess that the video artist's girlfriend is kind of the "Miss Cicciona" version of Rocky.

I think this is sadder than normal beauty pagents. not that all beauty contests aren't pathetic anyway, but to base it on weight is so discriminatory.

Image if they held a pagent and the winner would be the skinniest girl that entred. There would be outrage.

This is just sad.

It's an anti-pagent, pagent. Good for them :thumpsup:
BUT, I've seen women bigger than them, that were a lot more attractive. I guess it's anti, more than just size. :eyebrow:

I saw a pagent for pregnent women.

Does that qualify as fat?

A local radio show does a Pregnant Bikini Contest every year. Apparently it's a surprisingly classy event, and sponsors really make the prizes worthwhile.

Good thing for Mr. Ciccione that this guy wasn't capable of getting to the contest stage. :yum:

since this is the most recent thread,I was wondering if anyones interested in a pic of a sculpture that looks like a man made out of machines.BTW the sculpture is made entirely out of LEGOs.

Anyone interested?