Miss Piggy... I am talking about Trump

Former Miss Universe: Trump called me 'Miss Piggy'

By Nolan D. McCaskill

Days after The New York Times published a Sunday cover story chronicling instances in which Donald Trump crossed the line with women, a former Miss Universe is sharing how the now-presumptive Republican presidential nominee shamed her decades ago, even going as far as to call her “Miss Piggy” for gaining weight.

In an interview with Jim Moret that will air Thursday on Inside Edition, Alicia Machado said that months after winning the Miss Universe contest in 1996 as a 19-year-old Miss Venezuela, the billionaire ordered her to lose weight.

Trump publicly called Machado an “eating machine” in an interview with Howard Stern and, according the Times report, invited nearly 100 media outlets to watch her exercise in a gym.

“She weighed 118 pounds or 117 pounds and she went to 160 or 170. So this is somebody that likes to eat,” Trump said then.

But he went even further in his criticism of her diet in private, according to Machado.

“He called me Miss Piggy,” Machado tells Inside Edition. “I was very depressed in that moment.”

Machado said Trump not only made her feel “so fat,” but he also ridiculed her English-speaking ability, calling her “Miss Housekeeping.” The model and telenovela star said her weight issues led to years of eating disorders — anorexia and bulimia — that required therapy.

Machado will become an American citizen in time to vote for the November election. As for whether she would cast her ballot for Trump, she burst into laughter and said, “He can’t be a president.”

Trump bullied her “all the time,” she said. And the billionaire didn’t deny forcing her to shed pounds, telling the Times, “To that, I will plead guilty.”

“For sure he is not a good person,” Machado said.