# Runaway Beauty Queen **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928 "2014-08-30T00:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/1 "2014-08-30T00:55:20Z")
So there’s this Burmese – or Myanmar, if you prefer – beauty queen named May Myat Noe, and she won the Miss Asia Pacific World beauty contest in Seoul a few months ago. And the South Korean organizers, who had funded her breast enhancement surgery, declared her “rude” and stripped her of the crown (possibly because she wouldn’t let them strip her of anything else, dunno). Then she takes off back to her home country with the literal, physical crown, worth somewhere in the neighborhood of US$100,000 to $200,000. Story [here](http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/rude-myanmar-beauty-queen-may-myat-noe-stripped-of-title-runs-away-with-crown/story-fneszy80-1227042010179). Excerpt: “\*\*We thought she should be more beautiful … so as soon as she arrived we sent her to the hospital to operate on her breasts,” he said. “It’s our responsibility,” he said, adding that sponsors picked up the $10,000 tab, as they have for past winners. “If she has no good nose, then maybe, if she likes, we can operate on her nose. If it’s breasts, then breasts.”\*\* Purely in the interests of research, here are some more photos of May Myat Noe, not indecent but spoilered due to the skimpiness of some of the bathing suits: [May Myat Noe - Beautiful Photos from Miss Asia Pacific 2014](http://www.papawady.com/2014/06/may-myat-noe-beautiful-photos-from-miss.html) You go, girl! ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/2 "2014-08-30T05:14:44Z")
Umm, **Sam** - from the article : > [@](#): > > Kim said that troubles started from there. **The beauty queen brought her mother with her to Seoul for what was supposed to be a 10-day visit, but that quickly turned into three months, incurring extra cost to the organisers** , he said. > > She “lied” and “never had respect for the main organisation, the national director, the manager, media or fans who made her the winner,” organisers said in a statement. > > May Myat Noe was notified earlier this week that she would have to give up her title and the crown, Kim said. She was also given an aeroplane ticket back to Yangon, but never showed up, with Eleven Media reporting that she got on an earlier flight. > > Kim said she absconded with the bejewelled Swarovski tiara — valued anywhere between $100,000 and $200,000. > > “Everyone knows she is no longer the queen, but she thinks as long as she keeps this crown she’s the winner,” he said. “She’s not.” (Bolding added) Kim is the director of media for the pageant. She is quite beautiful. Nice-looking crown too. I’d certainly try to keep it - for clubbing and such. Article also said she’s going to give a press conference sometime in the near future. Also, not to nitpick the article but I would say a “ten-day visit” does _not_ “quickly” turn into 3 months. It probably takes around 80 days or so to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/3 "2014-08-30T08:12:17Z")
Goddamn! They make women’s shoes in her size? What are those? 16’s? Seriously. She has big feet. Hot, big sexy feet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/4 "2014-08-30T09:06:53Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > Umm, **Sam** - from the article : > (Bolding added) > > Kim is the director of media for the pageant. She is quite beautiful. Nice-looking crown too. I’d certainly try to keep it - for clubbing and such. > Article also said she’s going to give a press conference sometime in the near future. > > Also, not to nitpick the article but I would say a “ten-day visit” does _not_ “quickly” turn into 3 months. It probably takes around 80 days or so to do that. But she’s pretty, so let her keep the crown. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/5 "2014-08-30T13:37:46Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Goddamn! They make women’s shoes in her size? What are those? 16’s? > > Seriously. She has big feet. > > Hot, big sexy feet. 😃 She has feet? My eyes never got that far. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/6 "2014-08-30T14:17:42Z")
I _may_ have misinterpreted the article a tad. :o Still a good story though. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/7 "2014-08-30T16:26:04Z")
You know it as Myanmar but it will always be Burma to me. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/8 "2014-08-30T19:53:46Z")
“We thought she should be more beautiful … so as soon as she arrived we sent her to the hospital to operate on her breasts,” (Kim) said. “It’s our responsibility,” he said, adding that sponsors picked up the $10,000 tab, as they have for past winners. “If she has no good nose, then maybe, if she likes, we can operate on her nose. If it’s breasts, then breasts.” My heart melts at how sweet it was for this man to offer to operate on this teenager, for free, so that she could be more like the ideal woman he has pictured in his mind. It’s a real shame that they don’t offer surgery to enlarge his small little mind. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/9 "2014-08-30T20:00:09Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > It’s a real shame that they don’t offer surgery to enlarge his small little mind. **Thank you!** Word. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/10 "2014-08-30T20:26:46Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Goddamn! They make women’s shoes in her size? What are those? 16’s? > > Seriously. She has big feet. > > Hot, big sexy feet. 😃 You’re one of those people responsible for Google autocomplete suggesting “feet” for every search on every woman’s name, aren’t you? At the risk of generalizing, she looks sort of Western-ish to my eyes… parentage, or was she under the knife for more than the boobs? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/11 "2014-08-30T20:56:57Z")
We wasted Plastic surgery And a crown On a runaway Burma Queen Visit Rock City ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/12 "2014-08-30T23:47:16Z")
Swarovski Tiara? I must be getting old. I didn’t think she was wearing anything under that suit. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/13 "2014-08-31T01:06:33Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > We wasted > Plastic surgery > And a crown > On a runaway > Burma Queen Perfect! It made me laugh out loud. For the confused youngsters, see this: [Burma-Shave](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/runaway-beauty-queen/696928/14 "2014-08-31T13:34:41Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Goddamn! They make women’s shoes in her size? What are those? 16’s? > > Seriously. She has big feet. > > Hot, big sexy feet. 😃 Her feet don’t look an bigger than the [other girls feet in the group shot](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wlxnCmVwH30/U5NGSLx-SpI/AAAAAAAASPc/9k4S5puCLyw/s1600/papawady-may-myat-noe-11.jpg). At best she’s a size 8 or so. All the girls feet look a bit large because they have very slender ankles and calves.