Beyoncé Was Named the 2nd Most Beautiful Woman in the World—and Fans Are Upset

  • Using a proprietary face-mapping technology and the ancient Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty, London-based cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva has determined the most beautiful woman in the world.

  • He told the Daily Mail that distinction goes to model Bella Hadid, with Beyoncé a close second, and Twitter is losing its collective mind.

In today's non-news, a cosmetic surgeon out of London has decided, using proprietary face-mapping technology, that Beyoncé is the second most attractive woman human in the world. The most beautiful? That randomly decreed distinction goes to none other than 23-year-old model Bella Hadid.

To determine which lady was the fairest of them all, Harley Street's Dr. Julian De Silva, combined his fancy tech with the ancient Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi, which was used by Renaissance artists like Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci to create mathematically perfect (which is to say, symmetrical) subjects.

Photo credit: Victor VIRGILE
Photo credit: Victor VIRGILE

Dr. De Silva told the Daily Mail that, Hadid "was the clear winner when all elements of the face were measured for physical perfection." Scoring a whopping 94.35 percent on a scale that should be taken with 94.35 million grains of salt, “she had the highest overall reading for her chin."

Our Queen Beyoncé was a close runner-up, walking away from the random test with 92.44 percent perfection. And yet, despite how arbitrary these "scientific" findings are, this flagrant affront has stoked the ire of the interwebs, with many crying foul.

And others just asking Twitter to stop pitting two (stunning) women against each other.

In case you're wondering, third runner-up was Amber Heard, 33, with a 91.85 percent pretty score with Ariana Grande pulling up in fake fourth place and Taylor Swift in fifth.

And if it makes you feel any better, Beyhive, Bella's equally famous (that is, if you keep up with the Kardashians) fellow model sister, Gigi, sadly didn't rank on De Silva's random scale at all.

I think by now we can all agree that both Hadid and Bey are gorgeous unicorns, but when it comes to beauty, it really is what's on the inside that counts. Maybe not according to the ancient Greeks and (rightfully) perhaps not to a cosmetic surgeon, but to us here at OprahMag.com, we look for things an algorithm (or Da Silva's algorithm, anyway) can't measure. And we have no reason to suspect that these women aren't as kind as they are physical anomalies, so they both get 100 percent perfection in our books.

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