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April 05, 2005
"I Can Walk!"
Janeal Lee, who suffers from limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, won the Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin Title.
Then, this picture surfaced.
She was stripped of her title, which went to a woman with no arms or legs.
The limbless runner-up just refused the crown.
“Who is to say who is more disabled and less disabled than another person?” Kearney said. “Had I accepted (the crown), it’s as if I had been saying I’m OK with the decision,” she said. “I thought they educated and advocated about disabilities.”
She said she won’t enter next year’s pageant.
The title now goes to:
(just joking - it went to someone named Kim Jerman).
But this is no joke - the Pageant executive director is so fuckin' hot Pat O’Bryant.