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1. Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that’s been westernised.
2. You’re not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you’re scared of voicing your opinions.
3. Every time people ask me, ‘Did you know that you would be Miss Universe?’, my answer is, ‘I didn’t know that I would be Miss Universe because I didn’t know it was possible for someone like me.’
4. I think we are afraid to take up space. We are afraid to be amazing. As soon as that fear leaves us and we start building that confidence of being unapologetic about being great, then i think we can get into that space of having a lot of women leaders who are just fearless.
5. My thing about gender-based violence is to bring in the men. Because people would ask women, ‘What do you think we should do to fight this?’ And I’m like, ‘Why are you asking me?’ I’m not the perpetrator in most of the instances so why don’t we call on the people that are?
6. I’m so grateful to have been able to go to the world and tell the story of South African women and South African children. As I stood there for Miss Universe, I spoke about leadership and I spoke about empowering young women and young boys as well.
7. Women are not one-dimensional, we come in different shapes and sizes, and we are all equally beautiful.
8. I believe that beauty means being comfortable with who you are.
9. There’s something about home that you just can’t find anywhere else in the world.
10. It was a question I got asked often from my friends when they heard I had entered Miss S.A. — ‘will you get a weave?’ I always said I haven’t changed myself before so why should I now change for a competition?
11. Beauty is subjective, so people’s opinions don’t really matter.
12. I always knew I had to find a way to be a catalyst for positive change.
13. We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
14. Isn’t it incredible how, you know, people have to fight to look like themselves. It’s so crazy to me.
15. I believe that every single person was brought into this world for a purpose and that we should never leave the world as we found it, we should always strive to make a positive change.
16. I’m a daddy’s girl.
17. I knew that to live a fulfilling life I had to live a purposeful life; a life of service.
18. The platform Miss Universe has given me has exceeded my wildest expectations.
19. My life since the Miss Universe win has changed completely, in fact I do not think my life will ever be the same again.
20. I think women should be in women’s corner even more, wherever… across the world, women need to be in each other’s corners.