Miss Universe 2019 Is Zozibini Tunzi From South Africa
Introducing the newly topped Miss Universe 2019, Zozibini Tunzi!
Whereas Zozibini might have been representing South Africa with model and class, we predict we communicate for the Black neighborhood once we say the 26-year-old public relations skilled and anti-violence activist did this for each Brown Pores and skin Woman watching!
This will clarify why the mocha-skinned magnificence instructed the pageant’s host, Steve Harvey, that Beyoncé’s “Brown Pores and skin Woman” was on rotation every morning as she ready for the large day.
“We’re slowing transferring to a time the place ladies like myself can lastly discover a place in society, [and] can lastly know they’re lovely,” mentioned Zozibini.
“Tonight a door was opened and I couldn’t be extra grateful to have been the one to have walked by it,” Zozibini passionately wrote on her Instagram. “Might each little woman who witnessed this second eternally consider within the energy of her desires and should they see their faces mirrored in mine.”
She continued, “I proudly state my identify Zozibini Tunzi, Miss Universe 2019!”
Happy with her fellow Black sister, Miss Universe 2011 Leila Lopes (Angola) congratulated the newly topped winner with an Instagram publish: “Congrats woman you probably did us very proud.”
What made the win much more endearing was the truth that this 12 months’s pageant was aired stay from Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. Even Mr. Harvey needed a chunk of her-story, asking the newly topped magnificence to signal his embellished jacket.
Zozibini could also be sitting on a throne, however that did not cease the common-or-garden Miss Universe from thanking her household for his or her continued assist.
“I’m since you are. You’ve given me life, you’ve raised me to be the girl I’m in order that I can stand in a distant land proudly realizing the place I’m rooted and the place I come from. You’ve sacrificed a lot and fought battles I don’t even find out about, all the things in order that we may have all of the alternatives the Universe has to supply,” she wrote.
She added, “I’m eternally grateful and hope to make you proud, each single day of my life!”
With this large win, all 4 main 2019 pageant titles now belong to Black ladies; Miss America 2019 Nia Franklin, Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst, Miss Teen USA 2019 Kaliegh Garris, and now, Miss Universe 2019 Zozibini Tunzi!
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We are able to formally say, 2019 was all about #BlackGirlMagic!