For a period of six months before the contest, the men of the Bodi tribe drink a mixture of blood and milk to fatten up for the most prestigious pageant in Ethiopia. The Bodi or Me'en people, settled ...

In a world where slimness is often seen as the standard of beauty, the Bodi tribe of Ethiopia holds a strikingly different belief—bigger is always better. Deep in the remote Omo Valley, an annual ...

This tribe which lives in Ethiopia's Omo Valley has a very interesting tradition of making their young men drink cow blood and milk and crowning the fattest man. Six months before the contest begins ...