At the international pageant, she said,"I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful, and I think that it is time that stops today. I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.
Before Zozibini, the previous black Miss Universe was Angola’s Leila Lopes in 2011, who was preceded by Botswana’s Mpule Kwelagobe in 1999 and Trinidad & Tobago’s Wendy Fitzwilliam in 1998.The importance of having young girls represented on international stages such as Miss Universe is a sentiment held by many across the world. Supermodel Halima Aden has, throughout her career, emphasised how important it was for her to be reflected on world stages.
As co-host at the Chi Lounge at this year’s Miss Universe, Halima said, “I grew up in America and I remember not feeling represented and not having a single woman to look up to that looked like me.”
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