Miss Iceland 2015 has dropped out of the Miss Grand International beauty contest after organisers reportedly told her to lose weight, then made her deny the fact, it has emerged.
Iceland Monitor reported yesterday that Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir had received a message from spokespeople of the owner of the Miss Grand International contest telling her she was too fat and needed to slim down for the grand final on Tuesday.
Later yesterday, Arna Ýr told Icelandic news website mbl.is (link in Icelandic) that the whole thing had been a misunderstanding – possibly due to language issues – and that the organisers thought she was great and looked forward to working with her in the future.
She has now, however, revealed that she had been ordered to retract her story and that there was no misunderstanding.
“I was told to say that and I really regret doing so,” she writes on Facebook. Full story...
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Iceland Monitor reported yesterday that Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir had received a message from spokespeople of the owner of the Miss Grand International contest telling her she was too fat and needed to slim down for the grand final on Tuesday.
Later yesterday, Arna Ýr told Icelandic news website mbl.is (link in Icelandic) that the whole thing had been a misunderstanding – possibly due to language issues – and that the organisers thought she was great and looked forward to working with her in the future.
She has now, however, revealed that she had been ordered to retract her story and that there was no misunderstanding.
“I was told to say that and I really regret doing so,” she writes on Facebook. Full story...
Read also: Deemed Too Fat, Miss Iceland 2015 Decides to Call It Quits
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