The first transgender winner of the Miss Netherlands beauty pageant was left shocked when some of her competitors did not reach out after her historic win. Rikkie Valerie Kollé, 22, became the first ...

Rikkie Valerie Kollé has won the Miss Netherlands crown, and she will become the second openly transgender woman to participate in the Miss Universe pageant. “I DID IT !!!!!” Kollé, 22, wrote in an ...

Maria Ahtisa Manalo of the Philippines and Praveenar “Veena” Singh of Thailand have a similar pageant trajectory. Both made ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for the scandal-ridden Miss Universe pageant, this is proving a big part of the problem. Opaque and subjective voting criteria have made it difficult to ...