Rima Fakih, from Dearborn, MI was born in Lebanon and has been celebrated by Arab Americans as the first Muslim Miss USA. (Miss USA Julie Hayek, the 1983 winner, had Lebanese roots on her father’s side, but her win was not considered a first, perhaps because she was raised Christian in California.) Fakih has been reported to be the second Lebanese-American, the first Arab-American, the first woman of the Muslim faith and the first immigrant to win the Miss USA title.
And ofcourse, Miss USA is getting a lot of negative press for photos that surfaced with her participating in a pole dancing competition (which she won!) for a radio show in 2007. I honestly don’t think the pictures are that bad at all, and lots of women both old and young are participating in pole-dancing classes, etc nowadays. Plusssss the pictures that the pageant folks had the contestants take are farrrr more racy.
*UPDATE: RIMA RESPONDS TO POLE DANCING PICS
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I really wonder how things are gonna turn out now. Not to mention someone whose somewhat knows her just relay that her family is giving her a hard time also. Her parents not knowing about what the competition consisted of and the ‘pole’ pictures…not so good for her at all…regardless how the pics are or not. With parents ‘fresh of the boat’ it’s one and same thing. Best of lcuk to her, which she will be needing if she decides to go for Miss Universe…cause i concur that’s gonna be a stuff to be the exceptional fish out of the pond chosen to be fried.
Plus, is it just me that sees how Miss USA competition/such pageants are haunted by controveries all the time?