Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections

Camels Disqualified from Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections
A Saudi boy poses for a photo with a camel at the annual King Abdulazziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 150 kilometres east of Riyadh, on March 29, 2017. The 28-day King Abdulaziz Camel Festival features a camel beauty contest, known as Miss Camel with prizes amounting to $30 million. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images
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AL-RUMAHIYA, Saudi Arabia–The dromedaries paraded down a dusty racetrack as judges rated the size of their lips, cheeks, heads and knees. Crowds of men watched from the bleachers, hooting when the camel representing their own tribe loped down the track.

A dozen camels have been disqualified from this year’s Saudi “camel beauty contest” because their handlers used Botox to make them more “handsome.”