Virtually Desperate

Chilean soap-opera star, a beauty from ancient Pompeii and a freckled tomboy hardly make an average beauty pageant line-up.

 

But the three faced off in the first world-wide digital beauty contest, which was won by a woman who is virtually real flesh and bones.

 

“Virtual models are not the anti-real, they are a different representation of reality,” said Franz Cerami, the organiser of Miss Digital World (www.missdigitalworld.com).

 

Each of the contestants had to provide glamorous shots of hi-resolution divas, complete with date of birth and body measurements to make busty video game heroine Lara Croft blush.

 

Chilean Rodolfo Perez Ayala decided that no figment of his imagination could beat the beauty of his wife, Katty Kowaleczko, so he hired artist Flavio Parra to recreate her from pixels.

 

Kowaleczko, who plays Paula Sandoval in the popular Latin American soap opera Tentacion, was transformed into Katty-ko and won the digital contest with more than 17,000 online votes.

 

“I’m so happy Katty-ko won. I think her strength is her resemblance to a real woman – not too exuberant or voluptuous”, Kowaleczko, 40, said. “Her beauty is in her simplicity.”

 

Miss Digital World attracted about 3600 entries from around the world.