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   Mexico City (CNN) -- A Mexican beauty queen says officials took   
   away her crown after she gained weight, stopping her from   
   competing in this year's Miss World pageant.   
      
   "I feel healthy enough to represent my country, and I think this   
   is an injustice," Cynthia de la Vega told CNN en Espanol   
   Wednesday.   
      
   But the head of the Nuestra Belleza Mexico beauty contest said   
   that weight had nothing to do with the decision.   
      
   "It was a lack of dedication and discipline," Lupita Jones,   
   Mexico's first Miss Universe winner and the national director of   
   Nuestra Belleza Mexico, told reporters Wednesday.   
      
   De la Vega, 19, came in second place in the Nuestra Belleza   
   Mexico competition last September -- a title that placed her on   
   the list of contestants representing their nations in the 2011   
   Miss World contest. The first-place winner of the Nuestra   
   Belleza Mexico competition, meanwhile, will compete in the Miss   
   Universe Pageant in Brazil next month.   
      
   Organizers of the Mexican competition took away de la Vega's   
   crown last month and said she couldn't compete in the November   
   Miss World pageant in London. On Wednesday they announced that   
   Gabriela Palacio, designated as a substitute after the Mexico   
   competition, would take her place.   
      
   Nuestra Belleza Mexico's official statement on the move said de   
   la Vega "did not comply with the recommendations and goals   
   agreed upon for her preparation."   
      
   De la Vega told CNN en Espanol that she gained weight as the   
   stressful competition neared. But she added that contest   
   officials did not inform her of any specific weight or   
   appearance requirements, or provide the support she needed while   
   training for the competition.   
      
   "They took away the crown that I earned. That is mine," she said.   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/03/mexi   
   co.beauty.queen/   
      
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