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Transgendered Miss Universe Canada contestant Jenna Talackova plans on making serious run at top prize
Vancouver’s transgendered Miss Universe Canada contestant feels like she’s already triumphed by earning the chance to compete at this weekend’s pageant. But make no mistake: she also plans on making a serious run for the ultimate prize.
Jenna Talackova said this morning that the beauty competition will be “a great battle” and that she’s “in it to win it.”
Talackova and her 61 fellow contestants appeared at a Toronto school this morning to encourage kids to work hard and follow their dreams. (Photos: Chris Young, Aaron Vincent Elka/The Canadian Press)
Jenna Talackova tells Good Morning America she wants to have children
Transgender Miss Universe contestant Jenna Talackova has revealed she has a boyfriend and wants to eventually have children.
Flanked by high-profile celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, Talackova told Good Morning America that she initially didn’t tell her boyfriend that she was born male and underwent a sex-change operation.
“Of course I had to let him know,” said Talackova, 23, who added she wanted two children.
Jenna Talackova’s Miss Universe Canada bid could be back on after Donald Trump steps in
Donald Trump has stepped in to overturn a decision by the Miss Universe Organization — which he owns — that would prevent a transgender Canadian beauty pageant contestant from competing because she was not “naturally born” a woman.
Jenna Talackova, a tall blond who underwent gender-reassignment surgery at age 19 and holds legal documents — including a passport, birth certificate and driver’s licence — affirming her identity as a woman, wants pageant organizers to go further and drop eligibility rules she calls discriminatory. (Photos: Reuters; AFP/Getty Images)
Miss Universe Canada disqualifies transsexual beauty queen Jenna Talackova
Vancouver’s Jenna Talackova was everything Miss Universe Canada was looking for when she was selected among 65 finalists for the 2012 competition, to be held in Toronto in May.
But the Donald Trump–owned beauty pageant confirmed Friday that the 23-year-old has been disqualified from the competition. (Photo: ModelMayhem.com)
The reason, Talackova claims, is she was born male.
“She did not meet the requirements to compete despite having stated otherwise on her entry form,” stated a Miss Universe Canada release.
The final ten contestants of the Miss Universe 2011 pageant: Miss Australia Sherri-lee Biggs, Miss Costa Rica Johanna Solano, Miss France Laury Thilleman, Miss Ukraine Olesia Stefanko, Miss Portugal Laura Goncalves, Miss Panama Sheldry Saez, Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup, Miss Angola Leila Lopes, Miss China Luo Zilin, Miss Brazil Priscila Machado, stand on stage in Sao Paulo, Sept. 12, 2011. Miss Angola won the pageant. (Paulo Whitaker/Reuters)
