Venezuelian women suffer for beauty

Venezuela has a reputation to uphold as the capital of beauty queens. And thousands of young women underake that mission, with a gruelling lifelong quest for perfection that includes draconian diets and training, and often painful and costly plastic...

Venezuela has a reputation to uphold as the capital of beauty queens.

And thousands of young women underake that mission, with a gruelling lifelong quest for perfection that includes draconian diets and training, and often painful and costly plastic surgery.

But the contestants in this year's Miss Venezuela pageant say they were happy to suffer for beauty.

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