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17-year-old Chloe Marshall has just made history as "the first size 16 beauty queen to reach the finals of the Miss England contest," according to The Daily Mail.
She weighs 176 pounds, and she's proud to pose. "I want to show it's possible to be beautiful and not a standard size zero," Marshall tells reporters. She competed against a bevy of thinner women, but her judges in Surrey ultimately chose Chloe as the contestant with the most beauty.
Now she's delivering a message to critics attacking her by claiming that her body promotes an "unhealthy" lifestyle.
"I eat well, I exercise regularly — I jog, swim, and work out with weights.
"What I'm promoting is a healthy girl who looks after herself and doesn't try to force her body to be something its not."
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