An Earthquake in the World of Beauty
In the run-up to the grand final of Miss Universe 2025, an event that promised to be the summit of glamor and elegance, a whirlwind of controversy was unleashed that threatened to collapse the very pillars of the pageant. The heart of the scandal beat strongly in the figure of Nawat Itsaragrisil, the all-powerful director of Miss Universe Thailand and host of the great event, who was captured in a video that would freeze the blood of any viewer, launching a barrage of insults against the ambassador of Mexico, the stunning Fátima Bosch.
The images, which spread like wildfire on social networks, showed a scene charged with almost unbearable tension. The businessman, frowning with barely contained anger, scolded the model for not having published promotional content from the host country. While the beautiful Mexican tried, with her voice broken by surprise, to articulate an explanation, her words were systematically silenced, interrupted again and again by the authoritarian voice of Nawat, who, in a final act of supreme humiliation, ordered his security team to expel her from the room. Before the press, a visibly affected Bosch recounted, with her heart in her hand, how she was vilely called “stupid” and how they ferociously yelled at her to shut up.
A Pattern of Controversy and Humiliation
But this explosive confrontation was just the tip of the iceberg of a career marked by controversy. The shadow of Itsaragrisil looms large over the world of beauty pageants in Asia, an influential figure whose record is riddled with accusations of deplorable treatment of contestants. Before building his empire with the founding of Miss Grand International, this character worked as a television host, and today he coordinates with an iron fist all the activities of Miss Universe Thailand, preparing the ground for the final on November 21 at the majestic Impact Arena of Park Kret, in Bangkok.
The accusations of Body Shaming hang over him like an ancient curse. On October 26, 2022, the world held its breath when Nawat declared, with chilling coldness, that the representative of Vietnam, the sublime Doan Thien An, had failed to enter the Top 10 of Miss Grand International 2022 for the simple and cruel reason of not conforming to the “physical criteria” of the tournament. According to the president himself, An was, in his own ruthless words, “the only contestant with a torso longer than her legs and big hips.”
These statements, loaded with lethal poison, provoked a wave of indignation that crossed oceans. Vietnamese media reported furiously how these comments motivated a legion of followers to boycott the contest. On social networks, users cried to heaven, vehemently criticizing that a president of a world-class pageant dared to publicly judge the physical appearance of the participants. “Change the name of the contest to Miss Body Shaming. I never thought that someone in your position could say something like that,” wrote one Internet user, his message a rallying cry in the digital void.
This man’s record is stained by more than one tragic episode. Back in 2016, Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir, the majestic Miss Iceland 2015, made the brave and heartbreaking decision to leave Miss Grand International after the organizers, in an act of brutal insensitivity, told her that she must desperately fast and lose weight to have a real chance of winning. Jónsdóttir revealed, his voice shaking with memory, that he received direct instructions from the director to “skip breakfast, eat only salad for lunch and drink water at night until the pageant.”
Although the organizers, trying to clean her image, described these sinister indications as “useful” and in good faith, the model felt deeply ridiculed by her own body, her temple, and decided, with heroic dignity, to abandon the competition. “If they really want me to lose weight and they don’t like me like that, they don’t deserve to have me in the contest,” he told the Iceland Monitor, a statement that resonated like an echo of truth in a world of appearances.
This latest incident with Fátima Bosch is not a simple slip; is the latest chapter in a saga of power, humiliation and the desperate search for perfection in a setting where external beauty sometimes hides a devastating internal ugliness. The fate of Miss Universe hangs in the balance, and the world waits, with its heart in its mouth, for the next dramatic move.
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