From an article from the Spanish paper "El Mundo"
"My dream is to be Miss Venezuela and to buy a new house for my parents", says Lusgrid Farías, one of the best students in the Garbo&Class Model School of Caracas. Both her father (a employee in a wallet factory) and her mother have many ilussions put on their youngest daughter. Though she's only 10, Lusgrid is a veteran catwalker, who collects beauty titles and poses to the cameras with the same naturality as she plays with friends in school"
"My debut was at age 3, modeling in a bikini in a morning tv show, and I love to imitate famous singers and actresses like Paulina Rubio or Jennifer López", she says, as she shows me the photographs of her book... "
"...The granddaughter of a shoe store owner, Melany Barreto is another top student. She's 5 years old, and arrives to Garbo&Class with a pink dress, Monroe stile glasses and walking over incredibly high platforms for a girl her age..."
" the idea is that, during the six month gap between the Miss Venezuela and the Miss World and Miss Universe contests, the year's winner submits to an extenuos transformation job. "The organization has their own gyms, and its team of aesthetics advisers, formed by nutrition experts, physical conditioners, dentists and plastic surgeons. They reccomend if the Miss should take some molars away, raise her breasts, extract ribs or even implant grease on her legs, if they're considered to be too thin".