Miss Universe GB to champion preventative healthcare
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Lee Dare
The Miss Universe Great Britain winner hopes to use her year‑long reign to promote women’s empowerment and preventative healthcare, drawing on the community support she grew up with on the Isle of Man
Angela Aumonier, who is now based in London, was recently crowned and described it as a something she had been “dreaming of since I was a child”
The 25-year-old will travel to India, Uganda and the Philippines to deliver charity funds raised by contestants and give educational talks highlighting her Filipino heritage and experiences of personal loss
She said she hoped “to amplify what I stand for in health and preventative healthcare to an even wider audience”
Her advocacy work for the charity called A-Sisterhood was rooted in personal experience, she explained, after losing her aunt to ovarian cancer in 2015 and after struggling with “my own health challenges”
“I have seen how easily those early symptoms can be missed, especially historically for women,” she said
Angela Aumonier
Aumonier’s day job is working in a preventative health clinic
In her aunt’s honour she founded Marsha’s Hope, a healthcare charity for underserved communities, particularly those from the Philippines where her aunt, and mother, were born
She said: “We offered free operations, free cyst removals, checkups, medications.”
Aumonier said the humanitarian side of the role was central to her passion for pageantry
Anglea Aumonier
“That is the big part of Miss Universe. It’s about standing up and making a difference for women because of the imbalance that we see,” she continued
She will also travel to Puerto Rico in November to compete in the international Miss Universe competition, representing Great Britain
Angela Aumonier
In preparation she said the following months would be “even more physically and mentally intense”
She described taking part in pageants akin to sport
She said: “I grew up in the Isle of Man being very, very sporty. I was in the island netball team, I was in the island athletics team and whether people like to think it or not, I look at pageantry as a sport
It required discipline “mentally, physically, emotionally… you have to be trained in every part of those aspects”, she added
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