Domonique Ramirez, 'Too Fat' Miss San Antonio, Given Back Her Crown (VIDEO)

Domonique Ramirez, the 17-year-old Miss Antonio who was stripped of her title after being told to "lay off the tacos," has been given back her crown by a Texas courtroom.

The Associated Press reports that the jury deliberated for 11-and-a-half hours before delivering the decision, but Linda Woods of the Miss Bexar County Organization board maintained that she will have nothing to do with Ramirez:

"I'm sorry, there's no way I would represent her as talent. She's trouble," pageant director Woods said.

Woods testified during the weeklong trial that the size-2 teenager showed up to a bikini photo shoot overweight and made pictures "unusable."

But she told jurors it wasn't adding a few inches to her figure that cost the 5-foot-8, 129-pound college student her crown. Instead, she said Ramirez violated her contract by being chronically late for events or not showing up, not writing thank-you notes for gifts, and embarrassing the pageant board by turning down vocal coaching from an opera singer.

Woods said giving Ramirez the crown back was "an injustice for the city of San Antonio."

"It allows young kids to breach contracts and violate authority without any consequences. ... It sends the wrong message," she said.

After hearing the verdict, Domonique headed to the Our Lady of the Guadalupe church where she said, "I feel great. I left it up in God's hands, and that's why I felt I had to come here first."

She will now prepare for Miss Texas. There's no word on what will happen to Ashley Dixon, the Miss San Antonio runner-up who had the title for several weeks while Domonique was deposed.

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Comments

[butchcliff]

06:47 AM on 03/28/2011

Breached her contract continuously. Lends to the attitude of youth today..that they
can do no wrong, no matter how wrong they really are. She certainly won't advance
in any other pageants. How many times..can't..she be wrong?

[BlackYowe]

03:18 AM on 03/28/2011

Forget pageants and get an education. Beauty fades an education is forever!

[Razpooten]

04:47 PM on 03/27/2011

Flesh in this country is a good marketting too. It sells from perfumes to beer, These pageants are competitive (cut thorat). She needs to sharpen her decision-making skills if she wants to go far in this business. There are schedules to meet and standards to maintained. doing a rosary is not going to win her a pageant. Not sure this kid is read for the big enchilada.

[Razpooten]

04:38 PM on 03/27/2011

They were going for the anorexica look.

[vitalis]

02:51 PM on 03/27/2011

With a nod, and a "rest in peace" to the late Elizabeth Taylor, I'd like to note that during the "Golden Age" of cinema, being curvaceous and "buxom" (what the media now calls "fat") was the ideal of feminine beauty. Marilyn Monroe was a fatty by today's standards. Going back even farther than that to the era of the "Rubenesque" painters, the ideal was even plumper than that. In the late 20th century, however, and now in the New Millenium, the "ideal" as proliferated in advertising and the media borders on "cadaverous." Whatever the origins of this ideal in the broad social sense, modern medicine now bolsters this ideal, thus helping society to retain weight prejudice as the "last remaining socially acceptable prejudice.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that being overweight is a desirable state, but what society asks from us who are prone to retaining weight, especially as we grow older, is simply not realistic. For example, for my height and frame size, my ideal weight is 185 lbs, and even at my most active, walking up to ten miles a day and living on one meal a day in college, I never got near that weight. The only time I got down to that weight is when I had septicemia and almost died.

Meanwhile, shopping in our local Co-op, I routinely see all these skinny, pale and drawn looking people, racked with a persistent winter cough...

[skullman]

09:50 AM on 03/27/2011

It makes me wonder why any girl or young woman would subject themselves to this, and why would the parents of very young girls encourage it?

[Razpooten]

04:48 PM on 03/27/2011

For the money, honey. They get to do endorsements, etc. And of course there's the ego.

[Balzac]

03:01 AM on 03/27/2011

Domonique Ramirez is looking fine, and not at all fat. Ashley Dixon is looking fine as well. Young women who are their age shouldn't be expected to look like marathon runners.

[Amy Fleischer]

12:03 AM on 03/27/2011

I like that she [Dominique] went to the media, saying she was stripped of her crown because of her "weight," yet the board says it was her abuse of the rules... Hmmm, now I wonder who was right?

[Widespread Panic]

03:06 PM on 03/27/2011

I'm leaning towards the board, cause there's no way they thought she was fat. Texas have had bigger competitors win than her so her reason sounds fishy to me.

[slowdownsonny]

08:09 PM on 03/27/2011

The jury obviously thought it was 'the weight issue'. They know more about the case than I do. I'll cede the decision to them.

[LMPE]

02:56 PM on 03/26/2011

I find Domonique Ramirez very attractive regardless of her weight.

You know which resident of San Antonio is REALLY too fat? John Hagee (of the Cornerstone Church).

[cubanogm]

03:24 PM on 03/26/2011

But he doesn't competing in a beauty contest.You are so off the mark.Duh...LOL

[santiago sherwood]

11:42 PM on 03/26/2011

you know people that look good on picture look unhealthy from being so skinny. so if she looks too heavy in pictures i bet she looks perfect in person.

[nana4g]

11:26 PM on 03/25/2011

You could fool me that she is a size 2. I get the 129 lbs. It's that her shape is so unappealing. She is very small breasted, thick waist, short waist, "pudgy" looking, not defined; as if she has never run or exercised and does nothing. Her personality, as she has demonstrated, is something else....have to wonder what she respects: not rules, not authority, not the people waiting for her to show up, not the suggestion of a voice coach, her way or to court.

[leskataus]

07:26 PM on 03/27/2011

That's a more normal body shape for women than the one that is constantly being promoted in the media where they are very thin and have breast implants. That's not a natural body type to begin with.

[FunMe]

03:30 AM on 05/14/2011

What are YOUR measurements Miss Piggly Wiggly?!

[jusathot]

09:00 PM on 03/25/2011

"She's trouble" because she put on weight? Oh that's funny.

[Daisytoo]

01:56 PM on 03/26/2011

Not only did she put on weight, but she also failed to live up to other important aspects of her contract. Read the article.

[jusathot]

02:08 PM on 03/26/2011

Take your own advice.

[logicdog]

09:45 PM on 03/26/2011

That allegation is only according to the organization she sued. You think their opinion might be biased? The court obviously found no merit in their arguments.

[British Pixie]

05:40 PM on 03/25/2011

Then everyone wonders why gurls grow up with eating disorders or low self-esteem.
These shows are pointless and do more harm than good, and I find it incredibly
ironic how the so-called 'judges' are; most of the time; themselves out of shape or
rather unattractive. There is NOTHING wrong with Domonique Ramirez, no matter her
weight or appearance. Whoever this 'Linda Woods' person is, she can bugger off!

[Max Shaw]

04:40 PM on 03/25/2011

the fact they took it away in the first place after she won really speaks volumes about the way people in our society pressure teens about their looks...eat if you want to eat. she clearly won by her own talent and if she happens to want to eat when shes not competing---WHO CARES?! beauty shows bother me a lot. I feel bad for the way their self-esteem hangs in the balance with every little thing they do. no way to live if you ask me...

[babybecks]

05:11 PM on 03/25/2011

I agree with your stance on the contests, but it sounds like she was in the run-up to Ms. Tx and then Ms. America, so in theory, she was still competing. Not to mention, those grooming her to compete in the big leagues probably get something out of this is as well. (Future career opportunities maybe? Not really sure) They wanted to hang their hat on someone they thought had a better shot I guess.

She wasn't really forced into this, and no one really made her do this undress duress, so she knew what she was getting in to.

If she were doing it for the scholarship money, why not just get an academic scholarship?

[LawTalkingGuy]

05:34 PM on 03/25/2011

Are you seriously blaming the victim?

[LiberalLee]

04:37 PM on 03/25/2011

The only fat seems to be between Linda Woods ears, and those of the board that supported her

[babybecks]

03:55 PM on 03/25/2011

Well, now that the matter has been settled, let's see those bikini pics