And now we have a vice presidential candidate who is a former beauty pageant winner.
Mr. Trump's attacks on a former beauty pageant winner were "unhinged," Mrs. Clinton said, "even for Trump".
Ms. Taylor was to play a beauty pageant winner who joined the bus driver on his journey, and was to make her singing debut in the picture.
He also played a minor role in the case of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old beauty pageant winner who was killed in 1996.
Christofferson, a basketball player long before she became a pageant winner, seems well suited to shepherd the Sparks, and perhaps even the W.N.B.A., through this awkward transition.
However, he may have made matters worse for himself when he continued to disparage a Miss Universe pageant winner, Alicia Machado, for gaining weight.
"Kirsty's Fabulous 40th Birthday Party," as it was billed, was given last month by Ernesto Bertarelli, a Swiss billionaire ranked No. 64 on Forbes's most-wealthy list, for his wife, a singer and a onetime British beauty pageant winner.
On Sunday, when the news anchor Diane Sawyer talks about her days as a weather girl in Kentucky, she describes herself not as a gorgeous blond former pageant winner but as a poetry-spouting "geeky weirdo".
The latest incident began, really, last Friday, when a Twitter user identified Mr. Giggs as the man seeking to hide accusations of an extramarital affair with Imogen Thomas, a beauty pageant winner who had once appeared on "Big Brother".
I first met Cara McCollum '15 in June 2013, when she was a contestant for the title of Miss New Jersey and I was one of six judges helping to select a pageant winner.
In 1950, the pageant winner Yolande Betbeze was among the first to break the mold, causing a ruckus when she refused to pose in a swimsuit during her reign.
