Miss World Samoa 2015 Latafale Auva’a who represented her country at the Miss World 2015, is a beauty with a beautiful heart and the soul that inspire and empower people to know the real meaning of true beauty.
The hazel eye beauty is not alien to pageantry world. She has won all the pageants she entered. The 21-year-old is the reigning Miss Samoa New Zealand, Miss Samoa and Miss Pacific Islands. At the Miss Pacific Islands, she won all the major titles such as talent competition, an on-stage interview, best sarong and best traditional wear. That is quite a big achievement.
At the Miss World 2015 contest, she was there to represent the women of Samoa and her community with pride and wanted to give them a platform and recognition through her in the best possible way she could.
Latafale sure has managed to create that mark and she will be Miss World in the hearts of many. She has described Samoa and its culture to the world in her words, saying – “Samoa is a beautiful collection of islands in the South Pacific with two main islands. I usually describe it to people as being an island located above New Zealand near the equator, which means it’s very tropical and lush. We have a very proud 3000 year old cultural identity and are brought up performing, singing and dancing from a young age.”
Winning four coveted titles, Latafale is a sportswoman and a scholarship holder studying a double degree in Law and Music. She somehow managed to juggle her college, pageants responsibilities and work simultaneously. She speaks on that saying -“I like to make the most of every opportunity. Being fairly organised helps, but I also love and enjoy the things that I excel in. Last year I took a step back from studies and cut down to part-time study so I could focus on pageant responsibilities in Samoa. I was supported by my university and the Faculty of Law to make the most of the opportunity that was presented to me when I won. I like to stretch myself with various commitments the one thing that holds my sanity and motivates me to make the most of every occasion is my faith in Christ, His love and His prosperous plan for my life. The second thing that holds me together is my family. As cliché as it sounds, they keep me humble, driven and encourage me to shine my light to bring joy to others and in particular other young Pacific women who took an interest in my journey.”
She sang Disney’s Frozen ‘Let it go’ in more than 20 different languages at the talent round of Miss World contest. That’s an incredible talent. On speaking about different languages such as French, German, Dutch, Mandarin, Swedish, Japanese, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Catalan, Italian, Korean to name a few she shared “I can’t speak fluent all of them but I did my homework in terms of pronunciation. Speaking Samoan and a bit of Spanish helped, but mostly was my knowledge in International Phonics from my experience in Choral singing which helped me the most in pronunciation, next came the different language recordings from Disney’s multilingual recordings which I listened to for clarity.”
When asked, what defines beauty in a woman, the lady says – “I believe beauty in a woman is sought in her action. Sure, aesthetically, there are people we can gaze upon and marvel at their features. There were so many exotic beauties at Miss World each with a different complexion I found it awesome to look at the diversity. We call them beautiful- but the beauty that I am attracted to advertise is the beauty in action and attitude. What creates beauty in a woman for me is what she does not how she appears. Qualities such as kindness, faithfulness, loving herself, being joyful in herself and to others, being at peace with herself and others, having patience, gentleness and self-control is a demonstration of true beauty.”
“All I can say is that Miss World 2015 was a lifetime experience that I will never forget.”