A Taste of New York Leaves Miss China Wanting More
Miss China’s month-long training in New York City may not have led to the Miss Universe crown, but her handlers believe the experience prepared her for her second act — starting with a stint on “Keeping up With the Kardashians.”
Luo Zilin — or Rosaline, as the reigning Miss China prefers to be called in the U.S. — was set to walk in the Sherri Hill fashion show Wednesday, an event where the Kardashian sisters are expected to film an episode of their reality-TV series.
Luo’s mentor, the Chinese beauty mogul and TV personality Yue Sai-Kan, sees the potential TV appearance as a launch pad to bigger and better things in America.
“First she will shoot with the Kardashians, then we will help her break into the U.S. market,” said Kan, the director of the Miss China program. “I would like to try to place her in some television shows, a magazine like Sports Illustrated and maybe something like Victoria’s Secret.”
Over the summer, Kan trained her protégé for four weeks at her Sutton Place townhouse in Manhattan. It was a bid to Westernize China’s pageant heavyweight for the international Miss Universe competition, which was held earlier this week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. During her time in New York, Luo was taught poise, dance, manners and the art of answering difficult questions.
Each day, Kan and her team asked the beauty queen more than 350 questions ranging from humanitarian issues to economics. But they couldn’t have prepared her for the question posed to her in the competition.