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Killeen's curves were the center of attention at a beauty pageant Saturday. A first of its kind in Killeen, the Bell County Plus America Pageant was Saturday night at the Plaza Hotel. "I feel there's a curvy movement that I'm trying to bring out here to Central Texas," said pageant director, Jessica Tolbert, 24 and a senior at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton. "We really just want to promote the beauty in women... What other way to do it other than healthy competition solely based on personality outside of being a plus-sized woman." Four Central Texas women participated in the pageant: Alicia Fleming of Harker Heights; Mary Agge of Waco; Valerie Agge of Hutto and Zhacinia "Zha Zha" Maldonadobarreiro of Copperas Cove. Fleming, an informal dispute resolution reviewer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, was a double winner as she won awards for people's choice and the Ms. division award, which was for women 30 and older. Maldonadobarreiro, an assistant manager at World Finance loan and tax service, won the Miss division, which is for women 18 to 29 years of age. "It's built up my self-awareness," Fleming said about the pageant. "Sometimes you have low self-esteem and it builds it up."
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Another beauty battle is moving to Las Vegas, at least for the time being.