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07.01
For Miss America 2011, I got my Huckleberry
In the world of PR, human-interest stories are great for filler or sweeps.
Often, they don't get the love the deserve because that kind of interest doesn't involve a crack head stealing a TV and jumping from a window, or a car crash during rush hour because someone in an AMC Pacer swerved to avoid a runaway cow in the middle of the freeway. (Yes, only in Texas.)
However, I found one I can't avoid... and dare I say, it involves Miss America.
No, it's not some cheap pin-up of the swim suit section, rather it's a banner ad exclaiming, "Bald and Beautiful," as seen on CBS News (via AOL News).
Meet Kayla Martell - blond, blue-eyed, well-spoken, current Miss Delaware and completely bald.
Why is she bald? She suffers from alopecia, which according to its foundation's website:
Alopecia areata affects approximately two percent of the population overall, including more than 4.7 million people in the United States alone. This common skin disease is highly unpredictable and cyclical. Hair can grow back in or fall out again at any time, and the disease course is different for each person.
Imagine. She's bald and competing in a beauty contest?! And won!
MEMO to the little girls of America: You can't airbrush that kind of heart.
Forget the starlets who probably have more stretch marks than some of this HCK2 silly putty we passed out a while back. In these abysmal days of vanity run-a-muck and waif models fronting magazine covers everywhere, this is inspirational.
More importantly, it's a healthy dose of reality for what girls can work to become - not so much a beauty pageant queen, but maybe just naturally beautiful.
I'm sure my man card will be revoked after this post, but it's worth it.
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