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Miss World 2010, Alexandria Mills of United States placed the sparkling crown on 22-year-old, Ivian Sarcos’s head.

Sarcos competed against 113 other beauty queens from all over the world. She wore a pink dress with diamante studs that had giant frills cut below the waist.

Before winning the title she said: “I believe that the next Miss World should be a woman of responsibility and reason. I believe the woman should be committed to the organization and help people in need. Beauty with a heart.”

While everyone celebrated with the crowning of Miss World 2011, outside there were around 50 protesters staging a demonstration, waving posters reading “Objectification won’t achieve world peace”, “Being a woman is not a competition” and “Sexism is pretty ugly”. Of these 50 women more than a dozen were veterans of the 1970 pageant protest, which caused a huge riot then.

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