Male model lies about gender, reaches beauty pageant's final
A male model reached online-only beauty pageant Miss Virtual Kazakhstan's final after receiving over 2,000 votes for a picture. Arina Aliyeva, whose real name is Ilay Dyagilev, said this was a "project." The model claimed many girls thought "appearance is the main thing" and it was hard to be beautiful but "even a man could pass as a beautiful woman."