Beauty queens will go to great lengths to achieve - or at least fake - the perfect look: duct tape to hold up the boobs, Vaseline on the teeth, and enough hairspray and spray tan to melt half of the world's icecaps. But pack on the pounds to win a crown? Now that's radical.

So Miss England Georgia Horsley was understandably befuddled when pageant organizers asked her to gain weight before the Miss World competition in December, to be held in China.

"I was a little bit shocked," the size four, 5'8" Horsley told NBC's "Today" show. ""I don't think I'm too thin. I'm happy with the way I am. I probably would have been more hurt if they told me to lose weight, I think."

"[They want] their girls to be more voluptuous and womanly and curvy, you know, rather than the stick-thin, size-0 models that you see around. I've just got quite more of an athletic, boyish-type figure rather than the hourglass figure that some women have. And they're just seeing if, you know, I could maybe put a bit of weight on and it might give me those curves."

Horsley says she'll try to add some curves, but not at the risk of getting pudgy. ""I mean, if I do start putting weight on, say, my stomach or somewhere on my thighs where I don't really want to put it on ... I'll obviously scrap the idea," she says.

Time to hit the pub for meat pies, sausages, and pints of Guinness, girl.