{"id":6578,"date":"2014-04-17T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/17\/mothers-banned-from-competing-in-competition\/"},"modified":"2014-04-17T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:39:15","slug":"mothers-banned-from-competing-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/17\/mothers-banned-from-competing-in-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Banned from Competing in Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Former Winner Blasts Organisers<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A Birmingham competition has come under fire from the city\u2019s leading beauty queen after banning young mothers from competing. <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Kris\u2019ina Jagpal, who won the Miss Birmingham final in 2012, has branded organisers \u2018old fashioned.\u2019 She was joined by fellow former winner Annette Edwards who has had six kids at the time she won. <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Kris\u2019ina said, \u201cYou can still be a mother and part of something big. It is old fashioned. It is a new age and everyone should be given a new opportunity. I would definitely like to see it changed. Miss Great Britain is completely different – you\u2019re allowed to have children.\u201d <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Whilst Annette said, \u201cI think it\u2019s stupid, absolutely crazy. Whether contestants are married or single mums, it should make no difference. Times have changed and the rules should show that. \u2019d had six children by the time I was crowned Miss Birmingham. Whether you\u2019ve had kids doesn\u2019t matter. The only things that should matter are looks and personality.\u201d <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Organisers of the Miss Birmingham 2014 event said, \u201cEveryone thinks we\u2019re the bad guys, but it\u2019s not our rule. It\u2019s there for the children\u2019s welfare. If you win Miss World, you spend a year travelling the world. It\u2019s a job – you are paid to be a global ambassador. Organisers don\u2019t want to take a mother away from her children for a whole year.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Two of the seven criteria\u2019s are, women can only enter if they have: <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

– Never given birth to a child.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

– Never been through any ceremony, either valid or invalid and whether civil, religious or tribal, which is recognised as a marriage ceremony in any part of the world.\u201d<\/div>\n

\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Winner Blasts Organisers A Birmingham competition has come under fire from the city\u2019s leading beauty queen after banning young mothers from competing. \u00a0 Kris\u2019ina Jagpal, who won the Miss Birmingham final in 2012, has branded organisers \u2018old fashioned.\u2019 She was joined by fellow former winner Annette Edwards who has had six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}