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Thailand likens women to elephants in annual Jumbo Queen contest

MAY 1, 2000 

 

BANGKOK, MAY 1 (AP) - Twenty hefty ladies competed for Thailand's prestigious Jumbo Queen contest monday, a beauty pageant for fat women.

     

Having to weigh over 80 kilograms (176 pounds) to qualify, it pitted contestants from across the country out to show that big is beautiful.

     

The Jumbo Queen was the lady who "best exhibits the characteristics of an elephant, by virtue of her grace, elegance and size," the organizers said. The elephant is Thailand's much-loved national animal.

     

Perspiring heavily in searing heat, contestants in elegant evening dresses demonstrated talents such as dancing, playing the guitar, conjuring and even eating large quantities of grilled chicken.

     

The winner of the 25,000 baht (dlrs 660) prize, Supawadee Chanpen, 28, holds a masters degree in psychology from Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. She weighs 94 kilograms (207 pounds).

     

The Jumbo Queen contest has become a major annual event in Thailand. Previous winners have become minor celebrities.

     

Organizers also laid on a feast for 20 hungry pachyderms as a sideshow for the contest, staged at Samphran Elephant Park at Nakhon Pathom on the outskirts of Bangkok.

     

In another category, Boonma Khonkam, 31, was awarded the Miss IMF (I'm Fat) crown for being the heaviest lady at the pageant. She weighs 162.5 kilograms (357 pounds).


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