Ultra heart-warming surf candy.
In a heart-warming story taking the globe by
surprise, surfers everywhere including Huntington Beach,
California, Australia’s Gold Coast and Sao Paulo, Brazil have
rallied around Miss England as she gets ready to compete in the
Miss World beauty pageant. Milla Magee, 24, is currently in
Hyderabad, India training for the May 31st competition but her
spirit, likely, bobbing in the tasty waves of her hometown of
Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Magee, you see, is, herself a surfer, having taken up the Sport
of Queens after moving to the coast from south London at 16 and
parlaying it into a sponsorship. She never thought about the beauty
pageant life, telling The Sunday
Times, “I was into wetsuits, I didn’t wear lots of
makeup or do my hair so I had never thought of Miss England.” That
changed, though, when she submitted a video application to last
year’s England-wide search for their champion. Her goal to prove
“that beauty queens can be lifeguards, surfers and activists.”
Well, she won and is now in India ready to take on all-comers.
As you certainly know, contestants each have a social issue that
they make their own. Magee’s is Surfers Agains Sewage. “When you’re
surfing and come up from a wave and the garbage and sewage is
floating in front of you, you just can’t help but feel so
passionate,” she shared, continuing, that “the ocean is crying out
for our help.”
The goofy foot understands that beauty pageants have a somewhat
problematic image, seeming to reduce beauty to skin depth, but
focuses on the positive, declaring, “In a world where everything
feels so divided, here you have 112 women united to talk about
helping the world. I feel like that is the sort of legacy we should
be leaving for our younger generations.”
Surfers everywhere, including Raglan, New Zealand, New Smyrna
Beach, Florida and Cape Town, South Africa also united.
Ultra heart-warming surf candy.
