Mary Stavin

Back in 1977 the Miss World beauty pageant was won by a young (of course) beautiful Swedish girl by the name of Mary Stavin. No one will no that name today but at the time she was quite the star.
She achieved a level of fame from her victory and promptly went on to do, well, very little by way of merit.
The point here it to consider what she did after this win. She did in fact make a fair stab at it. No beauty queen goes on to study medicine (at least not in 1977) back then it seems you tried to get in to acting, but only glamorous screen roles! (stage would be far to low key) and basically work at maintaining your credibility for space on the red carpet.
In Mary's case she went on to 2 small roles in the Bond Films "Octopussy" and then a slightly larger role (she got to speak a couple of lines) in A view to a kill. Not bad really when you consider the number of people, like Posh spice, who tried to becomes actresses and did so with considerably more resources to work with and then fail even to make it to the big screen in any capacity, but then looks wise she is not a contender. Mary went on to appear in the 80s horror comedy "House" and the cult TV show "Twin Peaks" but after this it seemed ordained that she would ascend no higher.
In the time of winning Miss World and peaking in her acting career she sadly ended up being one of George Best's trophy shags, doubtless a badge of distinction in the 60s and early 70s, but by the time Mary ended up with old George his sell-by was some time past due.
Today she lives the high-life still with her husband (a successful British business man) and she has a beautiful daughter, but really she must reflect that there was a point after winning her title when anything was possible, and now she looks back at a very thin Wikipedia page.
Miss World pageants are a bit of a flimsy distinction really, a small group of individuals select you as this years most desirable and then 40 years latter no one even remembers your name or face.
Today Mary lives quietly in Beverley hills and even works in a Library on Mondays (we read) but it must all seem very distant from that moment she was voted "most beautiful women in the world".
As the Tiara is put on your head and the title bestowed on you would you really think that in 39 years you will be working in a Library. Life is funny like that and one suspects that its a story repeated by most people to different degrees.