In many a beauty pageants fake augmentation is considered the norm. This is not the case in Bolivia’s Miss Cholita Pacena pageant where the use of something fake cost the winner her crown. When Mariela Molinedo won on July 13, she was being lauded for exemplifying Indigenous Bolivian women and their traditional fashion of of a wide skirt, bowler hat and long braided hair. The contestants also had to make a speech in native Aymara, the language of the Indigenous local community. There was one problem with Mariela though. Her braids, fake.

The judges “disqualified the winner because they realized she didn’t have braids, that the braids she had were false,” he told Reuters. “Having short hair means they don’t live like Cholitas.”

Damn imagine if Miss Universe was handled like that. Taking away crowns because of fake um assets. There would be no contestants!!!

Via / MSNBC