From Empowering Women to Promoting Self Love… Here’s why these Contestants want to be Miss Universe 2018

The Miss Universe 2018 which will be the 67th edition of the pageantry is scheduled to take place on December 17, 2018, in Bangkok, Thailand where the reigning queen, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Africa, will crown her successor.

Ahead of the big night, a few contestants of the beauty pageant were asked why they wanted to be crowned Miss Universe, and their answers are everything we hoped.

From using this platform to support others in times of crisis to using it to encourage young girls to represent the outcast or underdog to letting people know that being different is cool, here’s why these contestants want to be crowned.

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