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Miss America Contest
The average weight for a Miss America contest winner is 121 pounds. The average woman’s weight is 166 pounds. This contest creates unrealistic images of what a beautiful American woman is supposed to look like. This was the case for the Alvarez sisters. They saw the pretty, blonde haired, blue eyed white girls from the Miss America contest and tried to be like them so they could fit in and be accepted by their peers. On top of that, their parents wouldn’t allow them to be the All American Girl they longed to become.

The Alvarez sisters saw the Miss America contestants who were tall and fair with long sleek hair. This was the opposite of the Alvarez sisters. The article states, “...how short we were, about how our hair frizzed…” The Alvarez
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