Burmese beauty queen 'goes on the run with £120,000
tiara after Miss Asia Pacific World competition strips her of the title
for being rude'
- May Myat Noe, 18, was dethroned for 'lying' to pageant managers
- Organisers thought she would be 'more beautiful' so bought her a boob job
- Now Miss Asia Pacific World competition demands she return £120,000 tiara
- Organisers claim pageant winner has vanished and will not answer phone
Burmese model May Myat Noe, 18, was crowned winner of Miss Asia Pacific in May but has been dethroned
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Burmese beauty queen has allegedly disappeared with a £120,000 jewelled
tiara after being dethroned as Miss Asia Pacific World for 'being rude'.
May
Myat Noe, 18, was crowned as the most beautiful woman in south-east
Asia in May by the South Korean pageant, but the organisers wanted her
to have breast enhancement surgery before they could get her a record
deal.
David Kim, director of media for Miss Asia Pacific World, said Miss Noe had been a disappointment from the outset.
Following
her victory, the organisers and sponsors wanted the 5ft 7in pageant
winner to change her looks so she could become a singer.
Mr
Kim said: 'We thought she should be more beautiful ... so as soon as
she arrived we sent her to the hospital to operate on her breasts.'
Adding that the competition's sponsors paid £6,000 for her breast enhancement, Mr Kim said: 'It's our responsibility.
'If she has no good nose, then maybe, if she likes, we can operate on her nose. If it's breasts, then breasts.'
From
there it went downhill. The pageant organisers say they paid for a
10-day trip for her and her mother to Seoul, South Korea, but that
quickly turned into three months, incurring extra cost.
She
'lied' and 'never had respect for the main organisation, the national
director, the manager, media or fans who made her the winner,'
organisers said in a statement.
Miss
Noe was given a flight back to Burmese capital Rangoon, but did not
show up, with Malaysian news sites reporting that she got on an earlier
plane.
The
pageant organisers are now demanding she hand back the jewel-encrusted
Swarovski tiara - worth between £60,000 and £120,000.
Mr
Kim said: 'Everyone knows she is no longer the queen, but she thinks as
long as she keeps this crown she's the winner. She's not.'
Organisers bought her a £6,000 boob job to make her 'more beautiful' after she won the beauty pageant
Miss Noe's icture has been taken down off the competition's website and it says 'dethroned' next to her name
Her picture has been taken down off the competition's website and it says 'dethroned' next to her name.
Miss
Noe was unavailable for comment and her phone was switched off, local
reports said, but it is believed she will hold a press conference soon.
Hla
Nu Tun, who initially acted as her unofficial manager, said Miss Noe
and the organisers had disagreed over who should oversee her career.
Miss Noe's mother wanted control but so did the organisers, she said.
Burma,
which only recently emerged from a half-century military rule and
self-imposed isolation, started sending contestants to international
beauty pageants for the first time in decades in 2012.
British model Amy Willerton took part in Miss Asia Pacific in 2011, but left the competition early, labelling it 'a shambles'.
The beauty queen's plane back to Burma from Seoul was paid for by the pageant, but she took an earlier flight
British model Amy Willerton took part in Miss Asia Pacific in 2011, but chose to leave the competition early
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