Miss Australia Contestant Stephanie Naumoska Is THIS Skinny Because of Her Macedonian Heritage
… Or at least, that’s what the director of the Miss Australia peagant says. Right.
Radar Online Reports:
An Australian Miss Universe finalist, whose rail-thin appearance caused a stir as she pranced down the catwalk in a bikini, tells Good Morning America, she was singled out and victimized for her skinny appearance in the contest.
“I’ve never been anorexic or bulimic, I’ve never been malnourished or underfed,” Stephanie Naumoska said. “I live a healthy, active lifestyle.”
Critics, citing the model’s visible bones and ribcage, said Naumoska’s emaciated look was a danger to herself and those looking to emulate the her. A judge in the competition remarked he would have “wanted to go and feed her straightaway” if he was her daughter.
The 19-year-old brunette is at 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 105 ponds with a body-mass index score, at 15.8, less than the 18 score she would need to be considered malnourished.
Naumoska said she wasn’t malnourished; she said that if she was, her hair and skin wouldn’t look as healthy as it does, and she wouldn’t have the energy to prepare for the grueling contests.
The director of the Miss Australia pageant said Naumoska’s Macedonian heritage was the reason for her appearance.
“The women do have long, lithe bodies and small bones,” Deborah Miller told UK Daily Mail last week. “It’s their body type, just as Asian girls tend to be rather small. She doesn’t have an eating disorder or anything like that. There’s nothing wrong with her.”
Exactly…All macedonian girls are this skinny…
Who would believe THAT?^^
I am half East Asian and, while I have seen plenty of 100% East Asian girls who are naturally slim like this, they do not have their hip bones, ribs or chest bones sticking out and neither do they have knobbly elbows and knees. This is because they are at their NORMAL and HEALTHY weight in regards to their size and body type.
Too Thin…but that’s obvious
Ooh
that’s verry unreal. I am a bulgarian (Bulgaria=Macedonia) gir and believe me that is so far from truth. I am slim but not because I am bulgarian or macedonian girl it’s all genetic and of course it deppends of how much you eat 
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unfortunately for you bulgaria is not macedonia macedonia is GREEK!
Greece kept part of the region and it is still called Macedonia.
However the Macedonia we’re talking about here is today an independent country. Less than 20 years ago it used to be part of what we called Yugoslavia.
By the way my best friend is Macedonian and she’s nowhere as thin and disgusting looking as this girl!!!
well macadonia is greek not yugoslavian not bulgarian there are historic facts about that i am sorry but you ust all of you people accept it and greeks are pure nation not bastards……
You’re kind of rude. For a country you seem to “know” so much about, you spelled it wrong.
MACEDONIA
A landlocked country, the Republic of Macedonia is bordered by Serbia and Kosovo to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west.[5] It comprises approximately the north-western third of the wider geographical region of Macedonia, which also covers a large part of northern Greece that is also called “Macedonia” and smaller parts of the other neighboring countries.
The country’s capital is Skopje, with 506,926 inhabitants according to a 2004 census. Other cities include Bitola, Kumanovo, Prilep, Tetovo, Ohrid, Veles, Štip, Kočani, Gostivar and Strumica. It has more than 50 lakes and sixteen mountains higher than 2,000 meters (6,550 ft).
Macedonia is a member of the UN and the Council of Europe. Since December 2005 it has also been a candidate for joining the European Union and has applied for NATO membership.
Kingdoms of Serbia and Yugoslavia
Boundaries on the Balkans after the First and Second Balkan War.
Following the two Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, most of its European held territories were divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. The territory of the modern Macedonian state (Vardar Macedonia) was then named Južna Srbija, “Southern Serbia”. After the First World War, Serbia became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In 1929, the Kingdom was officially renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and divided into provinces called banovinas. Southern Serbia, including all of what is now the Republic of Macedonia, became known as the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
I believe Macedonians are of Slavonic origin for the most part, not Greek. The ancient region and the modern country and not exactly the same.
well, my father is Mecedonian, but somehow these “skinny genes” have skipped my family!
anyway, you want talk about Greeks, I can think of several (very skinny) actresses who claim they have to diet and exercise excessively because Greeks are “natually curvy”. the bottom line is that in today’s world, there are not pure blooded nations anymore, so one cannot make these kind of blanket statements about a country full of people!
yes right Greeks are “naturally curvy”.. a friend of mine was several times in Greece and he has the same opinion!
why do they think that we are so stupid? come on…. a naturally skinny girl looks diferent! I DON’T BELIEVE IT.. -1
I think she looks like a standing skeleton! And I guess the only thing that keeps her bones all together is her skin!!!
a t.a. in my class is from china and she is literally this size (except not the same height), and no one thinks twice about it. not saying that either one of them are e.d. free, but the source does have a good point about different heritages.
I agree that it does have a point, but those that are naturally slim do not have so many bones poking out. My cousin is probably as slim as this girl, but doesn’t look unhealthy like this woman.
she’s defo got a disorder, if not an eating one at least a metabolism disorder. she should consult a doc, if she eats and still is that skinny or a psycho doc, if she doesnt eat and is that skinny.
Why is no one pointing out the fact that if she had a BMI higher than 10 points above healthy she’d never be allowed NEAR the pageant, but 10 below is acceptable? That is some bull. And she is disgusting. If she were 10 points over her BMI everyone would say “get to a doctor and get on a proper nutrition plan.” Well, I don’t care what her frigging heritage is (how asinine) she needs to get to a doctor and get on a proper nutrition plan to get to a healthy weight.
i was just thinking about that: how did they allow her to participate???? there must be some standards for underweight as well as overweight. honestly, the first time i saw the photo i thought it was a joke: she does not look like a beauty contestant.
I agree. I thought since several models died from eating disorders they now had to have BMIs above a certain number to be allowed to participate?
i agree 100%. This is horrible. and to think that there are girls out there who look up to her. terrible.
pageants shouldn’t be allowed to have girls with:
a) fake boobs
b) suuuuper obvious eating disorders
…enter the competition. it’s disgusting and fake. not something to award in any way.
OMG nice excuse guys. Way to pull that one out of your asses
She is def not healthy I don’t care what any of you say!
“Naumoska said she wasn’t malnourished; she said that if she was, her hair and skin wouldn’t look as healthy as it does, and she wouldn’t have the energy to prepare for the grueling contests.”
There are plenty of products available that can mimic all that. I’ve seen naturally thin girls, and none of them had that square look to their hips, and that sharp knobbiness to their elbows.
I totally agree with you. When I was anorexic I spent a fortune on food supplements, shampoos and skin lotions. And I went jogging for about 90 minutes every day without breaking a sweat. Anorexics can be extremly tough.
One of my best friends is tall and naturally very skinny but she has no bones sticking out anywhere. You can tell when someone has a small frame and Stephanie most definitely doesn´t.
It doesn’t bother me that she looks like that, unless she is malnourished and abusing herself, which could very well be the case. I also don’t buy the Macedonian excuse, that’s a bunch of malarkey, but I will say that over the entire world, there have got to be people who are just naturally skinny like this due to metabolism. If she is one of them, then fine, otherwise, she needs to help herself. To me, her body is borderline repulsive, but not quite there.
Of course there a people who are naturally skinny/slim, but you don’t look like that just because you are naturally slim. You look like that when you don’t eat right or just don’t eat at all.
Google Image search Macedonian Women and see what comes up. They look pretty average. I call bullsh*t!
if kim kardashian is fat i mean curvy cuz of her armenian decent (which is alwayss her excuse) then i believe tis girl is skinny cuz of her macedonian heritage.
Kim Kardashian is not fat. Not even close. Some cultures are curvier than others and tend to have certain attributes and traits. SOMETIMES, not always. And yes she IS Armenian.
This girls hip bones protrude out of her skin so much that this is NOT natural. I believe that she is naturally a thin girl, but she is emaciated. This is a girl who is natural thin, who has then proceeded to either A. Diet B. Over exercise if she can find the energy C. Diet and Exercise D. All of the above
just tryna point out how stupid kim kardashian soudns when she says that.
Kim’s statement has some validity; she isn’t fat, and she does get her shape, I assume, from her Armenian heritage. Overall I agree with everything Jess said.
There were a cluster of Macedonian girls in my high school. There were plenty of skinny girls too. I remember no instance of these two elements coinciding in one person. Two of the girls who come to mind had healthy bodies that were probably sizes 2-4, not uber-skinny but not even fat by self-conscious teenage girl standards. One I just looked up on facebook and a few years later she seems a bit chubbier already. So I guess she wasn’t ‘naturally thin’ either. Two more I can think of were overweight, even obese. To me it seems ‘Macedonian heritage’ would be hard to believe even if it were believable to be this thin completely naturally.
what’s wrong with exercising??
I’m sorry, even if she is slim naturally, which you could probably say she was, it is IMPOSSIBLE to defend this as an entirely natural weight, it’s just TOO skinny, it doesn’t look like it could possibly be natural, at all.
Also, it’s not so much about her weight – my housemate is probably close to this slim, but she has at least some softness about her, she doesn’t have bones sticking out absolutely everywhere – it’s the height coupled with the weight. Sure, I know people who probably are around 105 pounds (I’m not hugely heavier myself), but she’s very tall as well, which is why it just looks too skinny, the height and weight don’t fit, if that makes sense!
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Check out these pictures of her, she looks quite a bit healthier. Which tells me that she has NOT always been this weight. She is far too thin.
Good for her, for lashing out against the media. So long as she really is healthy, there is nothing wrong with her. Its strange how “naturally overweight” (while certainly not natural) is okay, but natural thinness which is obviously much more healthy for both the person and the teenage girls looking up to them is frowned apon.
How can you look at that and see “healthy”? No one is saying that natural thinness isn’t ok, they’re saying that it is questionable that this woman is naturally this thin, and that people shouldn’t be trying to claim such.
And according to whom is natural thinness more healthy than any of the other natural body types?
I wann snap her in half like a twig..nasty
My neighbors 14-year-old daughter said something like that too. She said that if she ever got in a fight with her she would break her in half so easy it would only take about two seconds. She also said she could probably wrap her fingers completely around her popcicle stick arms and break them off. I wouldn’t doubt it. She’s very strong and athletic and way more physically built than this girl. She’s only a freshman and already playing girls varsity basketball and softball.
Shocking pictures! (((
“The women do have long, lithe bodies and small bones,” Deborah Miller told UK Daily Mail last week. “It’s their body type, just as Asian girls tend to be rather small. She doesn’t have an eating disorder or anything like that. There’s nothing wrong with her.”
—- THANK YOU!! FINALLY SOMEONE HAS A BRAIN! Yes, someone can be that skinny and be healthy — look at her skin, it’s glowing!!– seriously, take off your sunglasses, you’ll be blinded!
Look at Kenyan and Ethiopian marathon runners (males and females) — they also look like this and can run circles around you so fast it’ll make your head spin before you take a bite of that triple cheeseburger, lol
You people need to get real. Seriously. I am 25 and ONLY after having 2 kids do I have a normal body and even though I have a little pudgy tummy my hip bones STILL stick out. When I was this girl’s age I had to wear a couple layers of clothes just to look normal- I hated my body. I ate like crazy but no matter what I ate I could not gain weight. Period. Plus, being 5′9 it makes it look so much worse.
People are so quick to defend someone who is obese and call them beautiful but when it comes to a girl who can’t help that she’s skinny everyone rolls their eyes and makes harsh comments. I had just as low self esteem as someone who is overweight when I was growing up. I was called bean-pole, skelletor, lanky- you name it and it was horrible. People who are this way and can’t help it usually have serious issues with body image. I am still trying to figure out how to make my legs and arms bulk up- and as for the hip bones……..it’s genetic. So leave the poor girl alone.
Macedonians were Doric Greeks. For all you illiterates and revisionist keep in mind that every piece of archeological evidence from the real Macedonia contains Greek writing , Greek Symbols ,Greek Dieties, Greek Archetecture.
Real Macedonians who are Greek are not skinny. They are sturdy and stock like Phillipus. The only skinny Greeks are Gyfti or perhaps in Australia the resturants contain small portions