Aboriginal Jenna Talackova Speaks to Barbara Walters—and the World—on 20/20

Jenna Talackova and her mother, Myrtle Perry, discuss her disqualification from Miss Universe Canada and her conversion from boy named Walter to stunning woman.

For millennia life was fairly simple for the Lake Babine Nation’s members, who lived peaceably along the shores of Babine Lake and the river of the same name, living mainly on wild salmon they caught with highly technological weirs.

Over the ensuing two centuries, according to the aboriginal nation’s website, various indignities and injuries have included the banning of the potlatch ceremonies, the destruction of their fishing weirs—which nearly starved them one winter—and the taking of their land.

Flash forward 200 years and add to the list Donald Trump and his obsession with genitalia. Cleverly combining Talackova’s first name with the beginning of her last, he came up with “Jennatal,” or genital.

“Jennatal—those are the first letters of her name,” he said on 20/20 on April 6, adding that it made him wonder if there were another motive behind Talackova’s participation in Miss Universe Canada. It was his answer to re-qualified Miss Universe Canada entrant Jenna Talackova, a 23-year-old Babine Nation member who became a woman at age 19.

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