Miss Singapore stole credit cards to buy lingerie

[Blue_Tires]

Beauty queen Miss Singapore World has given up her crown - after it emerged that she had stolen credit cards to go on a shopping spree for lingerie.

Ris Low had come under public pressure to be stripped of her 2009 title, after local media reported she stole seven credit cards last year while working at a medical clinic, buying goods worth about S$8,000 ($5,662) including gold anklets and phones.

The Straits Times said the 19-year-old resigned Tuesday and will not represent Singapore at the contest in South Africa in December.

They also reported that Low told the newspaper she has bipolar disorder, which led her to go on the spending sprees.

Low had also been criticised for her poor English, mispronouncing 'bikini' in a recent video, leading others in multicultural Singapore to spring to her defence and soul-searching on websites about the national character.

'If there was a beauty contest for countries, how do you think Singapore would fare on the world stage? We seem to have the aesthetic qualifications. But with a very ugly personality,' said one commenter on the Straits Times' website.

Low's replacement for Miss World has not yet been chosen, the newspaper said.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Beauty_queen_quits_over_lingerie_fraud&in_article_id=746530&in_page_id=2

[edbermac]

1. This thread is useless without lingerie pictures.

$8,000? That's a lot of money to spend for wearing very little.

[Blue_Tires]

3. best i can find:

[NewJeffCT]

2. You'd think a woman who won "Miss Singapore"

would have men lining up to buy her lingerie? Why should she have to steal it?