Rabiya Mateo, sa wakas ay nagsalita na patungkol sa mga bashers na panay ang panglalait sa kaniya

Rabiya Mateo said despite of impossibly high expectations of society when it comes to beauty standards, she has learned to love herself ever more.

During her Telemundo interview for the Miss Universe pageant, Rabiya shares her thoughts as to why she thinks Filipinos are hooked with beauty pageants.

“They have an appreciation for beauty. We do love pageants because we used to think that we want to be included in the world,” the beauty queen answered.

“I have to be honest, in the Philippines, my skin color used to be not the standard of beauty. I was obsessed with whitening my skin because these are the kinds of beauty queens we see on the mainstream but things were different now. That’s why I’m very proud to be a morena, in the Philippines we call it morena or brown-skinned girl, and to be able to represent my color my identity as a true Filipina,” Mateo added.

According to the Ilo-ilo beauty, criticisms and disapproval only pushes her to be a better version of herself.

“Well, my journey was crazy. You know what, I started to be a dark horse. Nobody noticed me, nobody knows I was in the competition until the preliminary and the coronation night,”

“And when I won I received different comments. Of course. There were people who didn’t expect me to do well, who think that I cheated. That’s why I needed to redeem myself in Miss Universe. I needed to do well in this competition.,”

“And the thing is, I love pressure. I love criticism. I get better every day with that. You tell me I cannot do that, I turn to you and I’m gonna say that no , I can do it for myself,”

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