Gloria Diaz sa beauty pageant — It’s not an IQ contest, nawawala ang natural

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ni Rommel Gonzales

MAY karapatan si Ms Gloria Diaz bilang pinakaunang Pilipinang Miss Universe (1969) na magbigay ng opinyon tungkol sa mga beauty pageant.

At kilala siya bilang prangkang sumagot.

Sa tanong kung ano ang hindi niya nagugustuhan ngayon sa mga pageant?

“I don’t like too much ‘yung training-training-training.

“Kasi at the end, I’m always a judge, ano. In fact they talk to me if I can be a judge forever, and the thing is, they all look alike.

“In fact when I do judging, hirap na hirap talaga ako kasi ambilis! Hindi ko na maalala.

“And I also don’t like that they are judged by what they answer. Kasi sometimes, the answer is so complicated I myself always cannot understand what they’re saying.

“This is not an IQ contest eh, it’s a beauty contest.

“It’s okay with me all the plastic surgery and all that. I don’t care.

“But I don’t like these very parang genius answers and people think just because you could speak English, magaling ka na. Hindi.

“Sa akin, gusto ko nga, mag-Tagalog sila eh, para it’s more from the heart. Or Bisaya or whatever.

“But ‘yun, ayoko ‘yung masyadong trained na pati turning, pati tingin, pati tayo, I don’t like that.

“Wala na…tapos pag-ikot mo sa likod, iba na sila, hindi ba?

“The natural. So I want to see a more natural person.’

O ‘di ba, si Ms. Gloria lamang ang makasasagot ng ganyan.

Agree ba siya na nawawalan na ng ningning ang Miss Universe?

“Yes and no. Because the Miss Universe kasi is different now, hindi ba?

“The Miss Universe now, I think, basta iba, iba na talaga. They made it more, how do you say that? 

“Inclusive, hindi ba?

“Even if you’re a mother with a kid, I think there’s no age limit na ngayon, you can be a man, you can be whatever.

“But I’m not really for that. Kasi Miss Universe should be mga 18 to 25, 26 years old.

“During my time, when you’re above 23, 24, they always say, ‘And now, the oldest candidate for Miss Universe, 24-year-old something-something!’

“Right?

“So parang naninibago ako.

“But I try to adjust, kasi marami namang magagandang 28 years old, ano.

“Pero I’m not crazy about you know all the changes that’s happening.

“And of course like I said, I always wanted to speak in their language, whatever they’re comfortable…

“I’m not impressed with those big words na diaspora, serendipity. Parang balewala naman iyan sa akin.”

Naglipana na ang mga beauty contests ngayon,  ano ang tatlong nangunguna para sa kanya?

“Siyempre, Miss Universe pa rin. And there’s nothing next,” prangkang sagot pa rin ni Ms. Gloria na isa sa cast ng horror film ng Regal Entertainment na Untold na mapapanood sa mga sinehan sa April 30.

Bida sa Untold si Jodi. Sta. Maria, with Joem Bascon, Lianne Valentin, Sarah Edwards, at Juan Karlos, na ang supervising producer ay si Manny Valera with executive producers Roselle Monteverde & Keith Monteverde.

Rated R13 without cuts sng pelikula at Ito ay idinireheni Derick Cabrido.