The make-up at the last pageant ... little girl is fine. It’s just after 10.30am and the action is starting in the hotel’s function room. Kaliese comes on stage in a coral cupcake dress.

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The pageant ... our special kids that opportunity to attend an event that, for other girls, is a normal thing,” said Karin Engert, Nadia’s mother. “She loves to put on dresses.

The pageant is an annual competition ... gesturing to the dozens of young girls – some of whom were volunteers – wearing brightly colored traditional dresses and crowns similar to the one ...

Drake won first place in a North Carolina state pageant, then at the national competition in Las Vegas, she beat out dozens of delegates again. In her rookie year as a pageant contestant ...

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After nearly six decades of not participating in the beauty pageant, Cuba has a Miss Universe ... "I want to inspire young girls, especially Cuban girls, to follow their dreams," said Ancheta ...

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