The beauty pageant’s redefinition of feminine beauty has done it no favors.
“I wanted to create something that was run by women for women—not something for men to ogle over,” said Thai entrepreneur Anne Jakrajutatip, whose JKN Global Group acquired the Miss Universe pageant in 2022. Under Jakrajutatip’s leadership, Miss Universe is now run by an all-female executive staff and has only female hosts and in-person judges—all, that is, except for Jakrajutatip, a male who claims to be transgendered.
