The best advice you can leave your successor is to always be herself. That authenticity, affirms Miss Ecuador 2021, Susy Sacoto Mendoza, will allow her to wear the crown that will change hands this Saturday, September 3, with an always radiant attitude. when Miss Ecuador 2022 is chosen at the event to be held in Quevedo (Los Ríos province).
“The key is to reflect everything that being Miss Ecuador entails, but without ever losing the essence”Sacoto said in a recent conversation with this newspaper. “Because, when you try to fit into a certain stereotype, it shows in the way you speak or behave. So, my recommendation to the candidates is that they get to know each other and accept each other first.”.
That self-discovery and personal confidence were also the pillars of Susy during a reign in which she received the generous support of her thousands of followers, but also criticism. “And they were moments that people could not see, because I never gave it to demonstrate,” he admitted.
With a renewed strength is meant, for example, to the physical demand for shaping her figure to adapt it to the standard of an international competition. “I am manana, and it is well known that manabas have a rather curvaceous body”, he commented. “In addition to the fact that each body is different and, in my case and due to genetics, I tend to gain muscle mass easily, and obviously that is something that goes against the stereotype of miss that we are used to seeing. And I had to undergo very strict diets and quite strong training regimensand I reached a point of decline where I was decompensated, and that for me was a real challenge, because I felt that I was not having a balanced diet,” said the 24-year-old.
at every step, the support of his family was essential and has become one of his best memories of this last year, as his residence was transformed into a kind of operations center where each member added to Susy’s success. “I watched my whole family come together,” she recalls. “The entire apartment was packed with outfits and accessories, and my dad had to get used to seeing that every day, and also the guys who work for us”, he says laughing. “I have several small anecdotes about that run, but it was the best, because they were all part of this reign and were also infected with that enthusiasm.”
Despite the pressure, Susy decided to focus on cultivating a good attitude, another aspect that she considers essential to wear the crown and that also, as she perceived during her participation in Miss Universe, is the Achilles heel for several competitors. “Looking good is only 30% of what it means to be a National Representative“, Explain. “You have to be willing to keep smiling despite tiredness or fatigue, and always find a personal motivation to continue, because there are girls who, for example, are not used to a schedule, to traveling from one place to another, and they are very shocked by having to get up early to get ready or going from here to there, and that ends up being reflected in his face and in his personality”.
And then he confesses a great secret to viewers: “Many times it happens that the favorite does not rank, and everyone is surprised why such a beautiful woman on the outside does not make it to the top. It is something that happens a lot and it is something that many people do not understand: that the competition is not for one night or one week, rather, it starts from the day the candidate approaches the organization and registers”.
Uncomplicated and determined to help
A follower of beauty pageants since she was a child, Her attraction to catwalks and gala dresses did not prevent Susy from also obtaining her law degree and even studying the first months of Medicine at the Espíritu Santo University of Specialties, just before signing up for the national contest.
“I was fascinated by that image of an empowered woman and not just beautiful, capable of inspiring other girls and young women. to also sow their grain of sand in the world through social work”, he says. “I always knew that it was much more than a physical beauty.”
For this reason, today it is proud of the results of the “Window to Life” campaign on blindness prevention, which He managed to promote by the hand of the Eye Clinic of Dr. Sacoto Navia and the organization of Miss Ecuador, which, thanks to his network of contacts, allowed him to work with other institutions, such as the Red Cross and the Lions Club. So, in a year, The medical brigades, which also traveled to Quevedo, Manglaralto and Portoviejo, offered a total of 463 consultations and performed 40 cataract surgeries, 16 pterygium surgeries, in addition to other complementary tests for their patients. The help through the clinic, Susy affirms, will continue after the end of his reign.
Although he considers it an honor to have carried the crown on behalf of an entire country, after handing it over, Susy will return to the youthful, cheerful and uncomplicated facet that has always characterized her. “I don’t really like being seen as someone different for having a title like this,” he says.. “Rather, I’ve always tried to get them to put that aside and not forget that I’m still the same.”
this year too He decided to resume his piano lessons, since music has always been his personal refuge. “I am a fan of Chopin, of romanticism, to be more precise. I also listen to modern piano music, but I’m more classical,” she explains. “The music it is a way of navigating emotions, both good and bad, and going through times of stress”.
Source: Eluniverso
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