Ex-Miss America -- An Anorexia Survivor -- Blasts This Year's Pageant: The Contestants 'Were Much Too Thin'
June 19 2013, Published 7:14 p.m. ET
Miss America 2008, Kirsten Hagulnd, is concerned about the shrinking bodies she saw at this year’s Miss USA pageant.
The beauty queen, who was 19 when she became the youngest to win the crown, is also an anorexia survivor. In an interview with HufffPost Live, she sounded off about the scary skinny bodies that she saw at this year’s pageant.
"The girls, I thought, were much too thin," Haglund, who started struggling with anorexia when she was only 12 years old, bluntly stated.
"I agree that if you would have tested their BMIs that they probably would have been much too thin. And that's the standard in the modeling industry and the fashion industry as well."
Haglund also said the swimsuit competition portion of the contest isn’t healthy.
“I personally don’t lov