How Milla beat the fat-shaming bullies to become the first plus-size Miss England By Jenny Johnston Published: 02:00, 26 May 2024 | Updated: 02:00, 26 May 2024 e-mail View comments Newly anointed Miss England Milla Magee does have a crown on her head (it comes in its own box with a handle, who knew?) but she isn't sounding much like a beauty queen right now. She tells me that she's never applied fake tan in her life and although her teeth are brilliant white – they're entirely her own. Her hair is the blondest blonde but she reckons this is part genetic ('No idea how because my mum is really dark') and partly because she's always in and out of the sea so there's some natural bleaching going on.
Nor – and this is mind-blowing – has she perfected the essential beauty queen art of sashaying in heels while wearing a swimsuit. 'I have NEVER worn heels with a swimsuit,' she says, horrified. She reminds me that when she's not beauty-queening, she works as a lifeguard.
It would be hard to save a life in a pair of Louboutins, we agree. The reason Milla, 23, has sparked headlines this week, though, is that she has broken what we all assumed to be the first rule of the beauty queen: you must be able to slip effortlessly into a size 10 frock, ideally one that is backless and possibly nearly frontless too, yet with enough space for sequins. When she's not beauty-queening, Milla Magee, 23, works as a lifeguard Milla, sixth from the right, proudly admits to wearing plus-size dresses a.
