Margaret Gardiner Looks Back on Her Reign as Miss Universe,Staff Writer, (December 9, 2024), retrieved 2025-04-05 - Margaret Gardiner

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Margaret Gardiner Looks Back on Her Reign as Miss Universe,Staff Writer, (December 9, 2024), retrieved 2025-04-05

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Margaret Gardiner (born 21 August 1959) is a South African journalist and beauty queen who was the winner of the Miss Universe 1978, the first South African woman to win the Miss Universe title. She was 18 years old when she won the pageant. After the three semi-final competitions, she was in fourth place among the five finalists, but ended up winning the pageant after answering the final question

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In those days, it wasn’t really thought of. You had your turn in the spotlight, and you stepped aside so the next person could shine as you went about your life. I do believe that in how I’ve conducted myself, that the ideals of inclusion, advocacy and representation have been delivered. I’ve always tried to be authentic and encourage the idea that we are more than others projections. I’ve also tried to be a social ambassador for South Africa. We are a world in one nation. We’ve done things few countries have been able to do. If the world invested in us our expertise would deliver at the highest level.

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It is kind of ironic reflecting back that these themes that are sewn into the psychology of Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar – the subtext to the glamor and glitter of the world of movies and modeling – are actually themes I’ve spent my life proving. Do not be defined by others. Be your authentic self. Do not crumble in the face of adversity. Important themes that I’ve lived and that I hope resonate with women. Laughter. Of course that Joey Superstar is a wild woman with no understanding that that is what she needs to do and sets the world on fire as she fights to find herself is the fuel of the story. But the stuff will infiltrate your heart and your psyche is this theme I’ve lived my life by.

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