As we head into the national pageant season in many parts of the world, the winner of Miss Surrey—who will go on to contest the national Miss England title—has been announced as Chloë Marshall of Guildford.
   Miss Marshall, 16, is already a model represented by Models Plus. She may be the first normal-sized entrant to contest the national title.
   Her agency comp card lists her as a (UK) size 16, measuring 38–32–42 and 5 ft 10 in height. She is a beauty therapy student.
   The Miss Surrey contest was held at Champneys Forest Mere, a Hampshire health resort. Judges were seeking a contestant who had ‘confidence, beauty and personality’.
   Marshall once told the Daily Mirror, ‘I didn’t give my figure a second thought until my first day of secondary school, when I realised I was bigger than many other children. …
   ‘[B]y 13 I was already a C cup. Flat-chested girls were jealous. Being curvy gave me kudos and from then on I embraced it.’
   Lucire has been concerned about too-skinny models long before the outcry over Ana Carolina Reston, a 21-year-old model who died of anorexia. In our opinion, Miss Marshall—and the Miss Surrey judges—have taken a step in the right direction.