Hats off to Miss Sweden!

She didn't win, you probably know that already but is well worth keeping the hat off for..

Miss Sweden Hanni Beronius will compete for the Miss Universe title this coming Wednesday (December 19) in Las Vegas. Though she has been told to shed a few pounds before that, Beronius refuses: “To be a beauty queen ought to be about being a role model, and that’s what I signed up for, not to become some anorectic mannequin,” she writes in her blog.
She didn't win, you probably know that already but is well worth keeping the hat off for.. She was not part of the five finalists, who came from Australia, Brazil, the Phillipines, Venezuela and USA and new Miss Universe 2012 became Olivia Culpo from USA.
A recent photo of Hanni Beronius, the Swedish participant in Miss Universe 2012 (posing as Santa while in Las Vegas). Photos courtesy missuniverse.com
54 kilos (or 119 lbs) is not skinny enough if you want to become the next Miss Universe, according to experts. But Miss Sweden Hanni Beronius, who has already lost 20 kilos (or 44 lbs) refuses to go on a diet.
“Good Lord, I get so sad at this skinny frenzy, I almost want to throw up,” the 22-year old beauty from Göteborg says. “I see no problem in having my body as an ideal, I mean not everyone should have a body like mine, but it is healthy,” she added.
Now that the competition is about to take place, many experts – including her former trainer, who's allegedly called her fat in public - are asking the 174 centimeter (5’7 feet) tall Beronius to lose yet a few pounds. She refuses.
“It’s from people like these that sick ideals come and I refuse to support them, even if it should cost me a final place in Miss Universe! To be a beauty queen ought to be about being a role model, and that’s what I signed up for, not to become some anorectic mannequin,” Beronius writes in her blog: Tjock kan du vara själv!
Hats off to her for that comment!
More images of the Swedish contestant at Miss Universe - Hanni Beronius www.missuniverse.com