Spotlight On: A Hooters Beauty |
We won't dwell on the obvious: Las Vegan Michelle Nunes, winner of the Miss Hooters International 2006 swimsuit pageant, is a stunner. Not too shabby considering she's only been in town four months, dealing blackjack at the Hooters Casino Hotel.
A native of Humboldt County, California, Michelle, 23, had just one semester left at San Diego State University when she decided to move here. "I'd never done anything before out of my comfort zone," she says. Michelle quickly landed work at the hotel thanks to her four years as a waitress at a San Diego Hooters, and just as quickly entered this year's contest, having made it into the top 10 last year.
It took a year of exercise, diet and "not drinking too much," she says. "I didn't focus so much on my social life. I focused more on working."
While Michelle dabbled in modeling and acting when she was younger, she says it wasn't until she lost her "college freshman 15" that she had the confidence to enter the pageant.
As for detractors who feel beauty pageants are an insult to women, Michelle has a few words. "I think they're oblivious to the obvious, that girls are always judged on their appearances until you get to know them. As long as you take the time to know the girls behind the pageant, you're beating the system."
Readers, here's Michelle. Michelle, meet the readers.
Overheard at First Friday |
We eavesdrop so you don't have to!
"In New York, you go down into the subways and they're not air-conditioned—it feels like you're going into the pits of hell. So I don't think it's so bad here."
"Someone should do the ultimate First Friday art—a nude woman, done in anime style, with graffiti art in there somewhere."
"I like that it's so complexly simple."
Miscellaneous Etcetera Little Things You Should Know About |
1. Vanity Fair's "Morpholution": A photo sequence in which someone morphs into a satirically appropriate someone else. "Fund-sucking" homeland security boss Michael Chertoff turns into ... Nosferatu the vampire. CIA Director Michael Hayden becomes ... Elmer Fudd. Some wind up on Vanityfair.com, where a cursor-drag makes the change even slicker.
2. Chucknorrisfacts.com: The true truth about the action star: "Chuck Norris has two speeds, walk and kill"; "Chuck Norris once challenged Lance Armstrong in a ‘Who has more testicles?' contest. Chuck Norris won by five." Need-to-know stuff.
3. Lily Allen's "LDN": Dark, pessimistic lyrics set to the sunniest hook you've ever heard—it's the perfect summer song.