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- Model Veronika Didusenko was crowned Miss Ukraine in 2018.
- Four days after she won the title, Miss World pageant officials took away her title because she is a mom, which violates the pageant's policies.
- The current rules of Miss World state that a contestant cannot be someone who has given birth to a child.
- On Saturday, more than a year after Didusenko was stripped of her title, the model announced on Instagram that she is taking legal action against Miss World, calling its policy prohibiting mothers from competing "discriminatory."
- In an interview with the BBC published Sunday, Didusenko said she wants to "make sure the rules of Miss World move with the times" and hopes the pageant updates its rules to "reflect women's reality today."
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Four days after model Veronika Didusenko won the title of Miss Ukraine in 2018, Miss World officials took away her title after they discovered she is a mom, which violates the pageant's rules.
Didusenko said in an interview for the BBC's Radio 1 "Newsbeat," published Sunday, that upon entering to compete in Miss Ukraine, she was aware of the policy that prohibited mothers from entering the competition, but said that pageant organizers encouraged her to enter anyway. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: A 45-year-long study discovered trends in successful hyper-intelligent children See Also: |