MIKE, Win, lose, or draw .... Your wife is a beautiful lady and placing 15th in a competitive lineup of beautiful women is nothing to be ashamed of.
Based on the photos I've seen, it appears that the 'winner was thinner' and the thinner winner gets the 'chicken dinner'.
It seems that all these girls are so beautiful physically, that the judges look for the one contestant that 'suffered' the most to stand up there on that stage.
And that 'thinner winner' seems to have suffered most with one hell of a strict diet to win that chicken dinner.
But in this case it was a 'plastic' trophy.
I'm always amazed that Hollywood agents fail to pass their cards to some of these competitors .....because each and every one of them is far more beautiful than any actress working in major motion pictures today.
And there are two words that are always said by those who don't do as well as they expected .... but never said by those who place well.
Those two words are "political" and "fixed".
And in the majority of cases I always respond with a word of my own.
"BULLSHIT!"
If the young HOWArD HUFHES was alive today, he'd be there in person with ten or twenty contracts in his hand.