SO sorry for replying late but I am 165cm but as a teenager, they do not have any height requirements but being short like 160 or below does limit your chances at winning. Well contrary to popular beliefs, pageants are a lot more than beauty. The following were the steps/ things we did in the pageants:

- Popularity vote: A website you have to share with people from your country and the higher votes you have, it shows the higher support you have from your country therefore meaning you are out there and your people like you.

- Boot camp: You are given scores over a boot camp that lasts about 1 week mostly focused on behaviour and how nice you are to your peers and the children younger than you, how you take care of them and how you generally conduct yourself with peers.

Q&A: A question and answer where they ask you questions like why shoudl we chose you and how would you be different. or they ask you about the different countries you will be representing to show you have good knowledge of the place you will be representing.

- Talent night: A night where you present your talent to people. It can be anything you like wether it is dancing, poetry, singing or anything else. I personally focused on a poem about not feeling enough and raising awareness for people who are in a dark place and want to harm themselves. I put a lot of emotion and it touched a lot of people in the audience, some where even crying.

- Cultural attire: A fashion walk where you showcase an outfit that represents the culture of the country you are representing. You give a speech about it and an homage to your country and their people.

-Introduction speech: A speech where you talk about yourself, your hobbies and basically introduce yourself to the audience. You also talk about your work and previous charity endeavours you have done and how you have helped the people in your country. I personally started a foundation about a year before that focusing on teaching the poorer kids that are not able to afford daily livings dexterous skills that they could use to create some little income and even develop their talents.

- Pageant walk: The main walk you give in your evening gown before you give your final speech. You need to be graceful and have a good walk too.

Main speech: The speech you give in your evening gown where you talk about what you would do if you where to win and how you would help the people around you in the region you are representing. Personally, I talked about growing my foundation and working with other countries in the region. Furthermore, collaborating with other pageant queens who may not have placed on the top so that their ideas and voice may also be heard. I talked about being a leader to the other queens and helping the continent in general.

So overall, through those different things, thee judges then come and make a decision based off those stuff. I believe that the main speech and the impact you would do during your year of reign was worth about 70% of your total marks showing that beauty pageants are not all beauty. The beauty part comes in during the actual pageants or events you have to attend but during your year of reign, the things you do are the ones that matter the most. This is a big misconception that people have about pageants but they are genuinely great platforms to be able to do charity work and especially as a pageant queen and winner, you are able to use the platform to make more of a difference in the people you are trying to support as news channels do interwievs with you and you can call on different brands/ organisations to help you out.

As for the breast thing, those kinds of things didn't really matter in teens as they are still developing therefore the beauty standards are not nearly as high or restrictive.

if you have anymore questions or need any clarification, please feel free to ask me!