Csilla Andrea Molnár (20 January 1969 – 10 July 1986) was a
Hungarian beauty queen
A beauty pageant is a competition in which the contestants are judged and ranked based on various physical and mental attributes. Per its name, beauty pageants traditionally focus on judging the contestants' physical attractiveness, sometimes so ...
. She was crowned
Miss Hungary
Miss Hungary is a national Beauty pageant in Hungary first held in 1929.
History
* 1929 - World War II The first pageant was held in 1929 and the winner of it won the Miss Europe title. In 1936 Zsa Zsa Gabor won the title, but she was underage ...
on 5 October 1985, in
Budapest
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, the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval.
She also entered for the
Miss Europa 1986 beauty contest in Malta, where she came in third place.
She committed suicide on 10 July 1986 by overdosing on
lidocaine
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.
In a radio interview, shortly before her death, she complained of being harassed by the public saying: "I don't know whether I can bear this, everybody is harassing me. They ask: Where and from whom did you get those beautiful clothes? Who helped you? Do you or your father have special connections with the jury? And so on".
She was the subject of a 1987 book ''Isten óvd a királynőt! – a felszabadulás utáni első – eddig egyetlen – magyar szépségkirálynő, Molnár Csilla Andrea életének és halálának hiteles dokumentumai'' ("God Save the Queen! – the first authentic documentary on the life and death of Csilla Andrea Molnár, the first – and so far only – Hungarian beauty queen after the liberation") by (HP Hungaroprop Kulturális Kiadó, ).
The 1987 film ' (''Pretty Girls''), directed by and , explored the story of the beauty contest and Molnar's death.
Her life and death continues to be a source of interest in modern Hungarian news media.
On 20 January 2019, several Hungarian newspapers reviewed her biography on what would have been her 50th birthday.
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1969 births
1986 deaths
1986 suicides
Hungarian beauty pageant winners
Hungarian female models
People from Kaposvár
Drug-related suicides in Hungary
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