Beauty pageant hopefuls sport beef bikinis to protest sexual harassment
CONTESTANTS in the Miss Bumbum Brazil beauty pageant have donned bikinis made out of meat to make a statement on Instagram.
AS DETAILS continue to emerge surrounding Hollywood’s many sexual harassment scandals, the timing couldn’t have been any weightier for a handful of beauty pageant hopefuls to declare they’re not just a piece of meat — by dressing up in raw meat.
In promotion of the seventh annual Miss Bumbum Brazil pageant, five contestants donned 50kg of raw prime beef steaks, or so-called “beef-kinis,” in photos that graced the invitations for the infamous posterior pageant, the Huffington Post reports.
“We are not just a piece of meat. We are blamed for being too sexy. And with Hollywood actresses, what was the excuse?” a contestant told Brazilian media outlets, according to the Mirror.
Likewise, pageant co-ordinators also endorsed the meatier meaning of the images.
“Women are not just a piece of meat,” Miss Bumbum organisers told SplashNews, Huffington Post reports.
Puns aside, this wouldn’t be the first time that the Miss Bumbum pageant has made headlines for its publicity stunts. Last year, promotional photos of the contestants re-enacting “The Last Supper” by Leonardo DaVinci in barely-there swimsuits had Brazilian Catholics up in arms.
The Miss Bumbum Pageant Faces Backlash After Contestants Recreate "The Last Supper" https://t.co/3D7E45qimD pic.twitter.com/n9qNaYhYZp
— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) October 25, 2016
Ultimately, the Miss Bumbum competition was held on November 6 in Sao Paulo, with Amazonas’ Rosie Oliveira taking the top prize to become Miss Bumbum Brazil 2017, The Sun reports.
She wore an actual bikini to the festivities, according to photographs.
