This pageant queen flawlessly shut down her body shamers
This pageant queen flawlessly shut down her body shamers
Gorgeous Paola Torrente is 22-years-old and was recently crowned as the runner-up for the Miss Italy pageant.
A photo posted by Paola Torrente (@paola_torrentereal) on Sep 17, 2016 at 12:01pm PDT
The stunning pageant queen also defies the beauty standards typically ascribed to pageant contestants, as the curvy young woman is a size 14.
Instead of celebrating the grace, intelligence, and beauty that Torrente demonstrated during the competition, the Internet began attacking her body shape.
A photo posted by Paola Torrente (@paola_torrentereal) on Sep 12, 2016 at 10:07am PDT
As reported by People, contestants and their families partook in the disgusting body shaming directed toward Paola. The mother of a contestant who placed lower than Torrente is reported to have said that Paola did not belong in the Miss Italy pageant, but “the Plus Size Miss Italy contest.”
A photo posted by Paola Torrente (@paola_torrentereal) on Sep 2, 2016 at 6:31am PDT
But as People notes, Torrente could not be more #unbothered by some folks’ hatred of her curves — she’s too busy loving them. And she has an important message for all young girls who watched her compete. She told The Daily Mail:
“I embrace my curves…and I’m never ashamed of them… I want to tell young women to accept themselves and to understand that feeling good and being happy is the most powerful thing to fight people’s words and thoughts.”
A photo posted by Paola Torrente (@paola_torrentereal) on Sep 1, 2016 at 1:27am PDT
Paola is a beauty queen and a queen in general.
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