[post_page_title]Beauty queens[/post_page_title]
Pictured here are the reigning beauty queens of 1983. Here we have Miss U.S.A. 1983 Julie Hayek, Miss Teen USA 1983 Ruth Zakarian, and Miss Universe 1983 Lorraine Downes posing together with their pageant-ready smiles at a Maybelline press luncheon in New York City. At the time, these three lovely ladies with their fanned out hair and strikingly white teeth were considered the ‘It’ girls of the decade, gracing the cover of nearly every fashion magazine cover in the country.
Following their beauty competition success – Halek and Zakarian went on to work as actresses, and Downes went on to be a business woman. In the ’80s, televised beauty pageants were just as popular as ever, the decade also marked change for the industry, starting to represent a new time of fit, gym-sculpted bodies.
