"It shocks me more than anything that there are still beauty pageants in which only girls who wear size 36 are role models. Let me tell you one thing: the girls participating in these contests are much more than the numbers on the labels. Real Queens empower other women, are intelligent, and help their communities to unite. Just to give an example.
Being in the industry for more than 10 years, I've seen everything from wonderful competitions to directors of international competitions making psychological games and making young girls believe that the only way to be beautiful is to be thin . I'm talking firsthand, because for eight years I was one of those. These tough competitions call themselves contests but insist you eat less, bikini parade for days and sit on a man's arm at dinner while playing with a single olive on the plate. Honey, let me tell you this is not a contest. I was labeled "fat" by size 40. I believed that I was so horrible that no one would ever love me. Guess who said that?
After leaving my confinement of Miss's last contest, I won another national title. It was to have been a positive experience, as contests have changed a lot in the last decade. I love to see the queens in my timeline working with charity, learning, eating well and enjoying life. These people know how difficult it is to be a queen and continue to lead a normal life. It saddens me when I see directors of those same contests saying that you need to be thin to be beautiful.
After telling me to lose weight and start a diet for an international competition, I left. Some of you might think I was a coward, but I do not feel well representing a contest I do not believe in. I am returning my crown and wish the new queen very lucky.
I love myself and I will not change for anyone. My body carried me through my more than 20 years, allowing me to have a career that I'm very proud of, that I generated a child and everything good that happened to me. My body never gave up on me , even on the beach, I had wonderful experiences participating in these contests and made friends for life. Even so, I do not believe anyone should manipulate you and steal your natural glow.
♦ After viralizar in social networks, the news involving Zoiey generated a poll in the official profile of the British program Today Show, in Twitter. The question is whether people agree with Miss's decision. With more than 1700 votes to date, 84% of the public says yes.