Seventy-four beauty candidates will compete at the much-anticipated coronation night to beIn a previous TikTok video she posted on her Instagram account, Mateo bared her sentiments about being compared to other girls as she shrugged of negative comments with a no make-up look.
“I live in a cruel industry. I’m always compared to different girls. People have always something to say like, ‘You’re not beautiful enough. You’re so thin. I don’t like what you wear’,” Mateo said.“This is the real me. No makeup. No heavy hair extensions. Nothing fancy to wear. Just me. Even in my simplest form, I know in my heart I am nothing less than phenomenal,” she said.
Her win also became controversial as she was accused of bringing her own glam team to the coronation night amid the restrictions on social gathering. Mateo moved on from these controversies and said she would focus on the Miss Universe pageant instead.
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