 So much that comes into it you need to sort for outfits and gowns, things that are supposed to be provided for and it should be very easy. But unfortunately in Africa we're still growing into this industry. So I had a very hard time trying to put everything together. And then eventually you have to go for the trip. Like everything was so fixed in one little time frame. But I think it's the God I serve number one, it's the strong family background I have. Hallelujah. I had the will I had and the drive I had to do this and do it to my level best okay so the experience getting there was quite overwhelming you feel like you feeling secure to be honest I get invited. It's a beauty pageant. There are 86 beautiful women from different parts of the world you get acquainted to them you every day is a trial because the moments you literally my roommate was made South Africa and their moments we literally had to talk to ourselves in the mirror and you had to wake up and reassure yourself every single day because that's where the competition is I thought the Kenyan competition was tough but that's that's that's on another level yeah 86 I can imagine 86 I mean what are the odds you learned that's top six goodness greatest me it's it's it's quite even right now I'm still in awe like I look at the videos and I get emotional I'm like how how in the world did I make it to that level but then I'm still confident in my fighting spirit and I think God rewards that even so that I like that I'm very encouraged I just might pursue it no you should why not at least I have you guys so at least it'll be a bit easier no you should definitely anyway anyway I'd like to understand from you um when it comes to support from the country and from the government did you receive enough support representing our country I'd like to be honest so that I wouldn't be painting a beautiful picture to an a girl who's aspiring to be at my level yes it's quite tough the Kenya and Africa is not yet accepting fully accepting of beauty queens and beauty pageants and the importance it has even in a country like Asian countries take so much pride in their beauty queens and even pursuing things like brand ambassadorships or endorsements is automatic when you become a beauty queen so my experience was quite the opposite and I felt it so much when even the first day I landed in the Philippines it was a presidential escort those people adore and appreciate beauty queens even before you win they don't even know you they don't know they know your country they've read your story but they know you by name they call you from the crowd by name like it's an experience on another level and the value they put on beauty queens and beauty pageants shows and that's why I think they even do well all the time in this beauty pageants but they instill so much value in it so I didn't get so much support from home until I placed in the top six and then people at least got to know about Miss Universe because I was the only the fourth representative from Africa from Kenya I mean and not people know about Miss Wild Kenya but they didn't quite know about Miss Universe Kenya until until my placement at the finals I thought Miss Universe is even bigger than the world it shocked me as well because when I went there I found out that Miss Universe is actually the biggest beauty pageant so actually any aspiring beauty queen should aspire to be a Miss Universe because you never know you could be the first Kenyan to actually win it wow because it's very possible my story should be a reflection of it speaking of your story they tend to have these things where you have to have initiative and initiative you're pursuing that also helps give you give you give you points but it comes to winning the awards tell us about your initiative what was your initiative about mine was quite personal because I used to learn about uh drug addiction and drug abuse but I never quite experienced it on a personal level one of my siblings unfortunately found himself in that uh sphere and he became so hooked to it and it really affected him I saw how it it changed him as a person changed his personality like I've seen the damage it does and it touched me so much I wanted to really do something about it and even when I was joining Miss Universe Kenya it was for that cause because I realized it's quite expensive to rehabilitate and medicate so once I got that because we took him to a rehabilitation center the first time but it got too expensive so me joining Miss Universe Kenya was an avenue for me to get the prize money so that our family can finally afford to take my my sibling to a rehabilitation center so even though the Miss Universe Kenya crown didn't have monetary value I have this opportunity to still push my my cause on a different level and that exposure obviously gave me room to push it more and I'm still on it I'm still working on it and trying to make a change for my brother and there's so many families I've seen in my estate where I live there's so many families so many people female male children people who have families like it's it's a problem that needs to be addressed and that's what I've been doing okay yes I'm I'm glad that you've pursued something so noble and especially it comes in drag addiction yeah I actually I also have a lipstick line it's called the skeletary lipstick collection and it's uh when you purchase my lipstick a percentage of of that actually goes to the shades of life foundation so the shades of life foundation is what I basically explained it's about loving the addict and reaching out to addicts and extending love and that helping how is your sibling doing now I'm curious are they doing much better I trust God but he's he's he's he's just there but we trust God okay it's a hard journey it's a hard journey and I think you need to live it to know how hard it is I guess so yeah we are hoping that things will end up well well I do wish you the best and that's a good because I didn't know that you can actually pursue something very passionate above even if it's personal and they still acknowledge that I think that's amazing it doesn't have to be something woosh you know thank you no I feel the more personal the more the more genuine it is because most beauty queens know that there's that part about being a beauty a beauty queen yes so some of it is just for the books you know but when it's more personal then it means even if you don't succeed at it you'll never give up because you're only a beauty queen in that year but you see when it's not personal when that year ends you drop it and move on to the next thing that's true you're right you won't you want to be so motivated to keep pursuing it especially if it starts to flow we'll just be like ah let me just leave it alone but when it's personal it means something to you okay let's talk about something that might put a smile on your face can you tell me about I can imagine you want so many different dresses all sorts of dresses in fact as it as it was as your instagram page was running over here so even wedding dresses I saw so many dresses yes do you have a favorite was there a dress that you wore and until today you still remember it or there was just something special and was and who was it made by local or whichever they were so long as it was your favorite your most memorable outfit out of all those outfits you've worn and and gone through the stage perhaps the most on stage yeah because I wanted to say something oh no no it's okay just mention your favorite let me not close it I wouldn't I would say this because he's my favorite one of my favorite Kenyan designers and I like promoting African designers because there's need to do that as a beauty queen you need to always represent your roots and where you come from and that's why even today I'm wearing this amazing look from a friend of mine who's an amazing designer and yeah he does amazing things like this yes you look quite lovely I'm very african I was very excited so to get to your question yes my favorite look was probably the one I wore when I went back to Miss Universe in December I just went to watch and support because Kenya went back to the competition so I just went to show my support yes for the current Miss Universe Kenya so I wore this Mermaid gown Mermaid it's very regal and it has it even has this hat but I couldn't wear the hat but it's quite regal I like showing the african authenticity and just taking pride in in Kenyan beauty and Kenyan representing Kenya in the best way I possibly can Mermaid outfit yes I'm still stuck on the Mermaid part like wow that's amazing it stood out completely everyone was in awe so yeah at least I got what I went for yeah and I promoted the design as well so it's good the designer is Jamil Walji and he does a lot of high fashion runway modeling looks so that's why I picked him okay yes well I would like to see this ma maid outfit I don't know but I don't know what my favorite dress was back in the day I'm not exactly sure but I think I'll remember in a few minutes but well I'm trying to recuperate and try to remember those days we want to play a game because it's freestyle Friday of course yes freestyle Friday we like to have fun as much as we've gotten to know you now we'd like to get to know you in a in a more fun kind of scenario so let me I'm going to ask you like seven seven questions but answer them very honestly and feel free I'll try and feel free so the first one hmm oh what was your favorite food when you were a child favorite food when I was a child I would say potatoes potatoes yes when you went to our room and today I love fries so much it's it's fortunate that it doesn't quite show and it doesn't I have a high metabolism so it doesn't quite reflect on my physique but yeah I love warus you like warus okay waru nation at least to see me as represented yeah of course you should be marched really nicely with margarine and it tasted quite nice with margarine potatoes and margarine oh god that's our conversation for another day because we are just about to run away anyway let's move on to the next question what's the number one most played song on your phone on your playlist currently I'd say fire on fire fire on fire yes okay now you sing it for us because I heard it like a week ago and I've been even my sister is complaining now because I'm that type well fire on fire uh did you have it anywhere okay okay so I say I think he's going to play for you that song as we finish yes okay fire on fire all fans please if you like that song no you and miss universe niki tumoja all right so there's one more um if you could throw any kind of party what would it be like and what would it be for I would throw a party for my mom and just celebrate her because she sacrificed so much she was left a widow at only 30 something six children you know step like she's my step mom so you understand so she's such an amazing woman my mentor so I would just throw a party to appreciate her and the and the role she's played in my life and my sibling's lives yeah hey party to appreciate mami in honor of mum I like that okay so which celebrity do you get mistaken for do you have any the one I really got after the miss universe finals was Evelyn Jambi and I think it's because she also she made it to the top five in miss world wow and it was quite close to miss universe so even when I went there let me tell you a story yeah let's go so I was so mistaken for her especially there because of the hairstyle the updo and then she wore red gown at the finals I wore red gown at the finals so yeah these are miss universe video they actually wrote her name instead of mine oh my god understandably because for some countries they have one person to represent both miss world and miss universe oh so maybe that's where the confusion came yeah so they thought hi you're so amazing you you make it a top five in miss world and then miss universe and then you're like that's why I have to be yeah it's not me it's not me yeah it sounds a bit funny but okay Evelyn Jambi okay one more what do you want to be when you grow up oh not that you've not already grown up but what do you want what do you like I'm already grown up but I just want to achieve more in terms of I want to be a career woman a very strong career woman and just be a force in the corporate world and yeah establish my company and change lives with it career woman so if you had found a company what would you call it what would it be about I already have two companies actually one is my lipstick line so I want to start a beauty business oh beauty business but I'm also yes I'm also into fashion and and and mentorship of upcoming models so I want to do this fashion house and just have regular fashion shows such things okay yes we wish you the best of luck in that thank you what you want some opportunities over there to pursue my hobby which I left behind when you have 30 minutes of free time how do you pass that time 30 minutes of free time depends on where I am if you were in the car and you just have a random 30 minutes what would you do just listen to music yeah be on instagram I was expecting on social media yeah of course okay all right now we know how it spent 30 minutes I know some people will start hating but it's okay it's cool yes let me see the next one we have is what would you name the autobiography of your life interesting yeah that one I think you need a moment to think but uh I think I would go with uh I'll probably just title it my name wear it scarlet wear it yeah Mary Esther wear it the biography yeah because it's quite straight and to the point now we need some creativity yeah I think I live in in in her shoes you know something crazy like that no but okay Mary wear it of course given more time I would be more creative like I would obviously come up with something all right thank you so much for the sake of airtime let me just leave it at that you leave it like that it's okay it's fine I'm throwing in some ideas somewhere in case you ever decide to do one anyway it's about time we conclude the segment thank you so much for coming scarlet of course do you have anything you would like to say to the young people at home any even the ladies bait ladies or a guy who's interested in doing modeling what words of advice do you have and there are so many they write to me every day and some of them think I own an agency it's coming hopefully uh but for now I would leave them with keep pursuing your passion if you're very you know you're passionate about modeling don't give up on it because so many doors can be closed on you but you'll never know until you get your final yes you never know your potential like for me I never knew my potential until I got to be Miss Universe and became the first Kenyan to be placed at the at the top six wow so just consistency persistence and never giving up okay go to auditions go to as many as you can because you increase your chances and you learn from each no you learn that this time maybe my work was not good and talk to people because for me I once I got into modeling I got so passionate about it that I wanted to succeed so much so even my cut work improved over time and it improved with those nose I used to go train I'm told no because me I had weight issues as I told you earlier after high school I was a bit and I'm thick from the waist down because I'm low and proudly so and proudly so so people are created differently our physics are different and there is no perfect model and for so long people told me that I'm quite awkward because my upper body could pass for a high fashion model because I'm quite skinny on top with a small bust but then downwards I have a frame so I didn't quite fit yes and but I had good height I have a good height for modeling so I didn't quite fit in either side but it took a lot of practice and just learning how to walk because you if you have a certain type of body you need to know how to turn it down true like for me when I'm walking I have to turn down my my movement from the waist down yeah so that it's not so pronounced like there I see beyond say it yeah so end of story is just learn learn take it positively every note take it positively go at home practice in the mirror learn if you really want this one day you'll get it I promise you okay so that's my advice to them well you've heard it from Miss Universe herself don't give up be consistent and before we go I'd like to ask you one final but kind of interesting question is there anything you can tell us here on why in the morning on why 254 that you have never told anybody something interesting about you that is not in the media that we don't know that she can tell us that's a tricky question you know I just I just ask you know something that yes something that no one knows yes that if you want to say it's the first time that it's being heard wow that I probably had a crash on this guy no one knows him which guys this yeah but I probably had a crash on this guy for so long yeah okay so you had you have a crash that has just stuck with you yes okay who is the lucky man oh well sorry all of you who are hoping so that's probably something no one knows somebody nobody knows out okay okay so Abasi thank you so much Khaled for coming studio thank you for having me I've had so much fun oh sorry no they were in the morning family you know Khaled is taken she saw me are crashing okay yes to ananeni lakini you've been watching social Friday with model edition we had Ikra Nomar Teressa Junge and we finished with Khaled wear it so make sure you don't go anywhere we'll do this every Monday to Friday make sure you do catch up with me next week on Monday for youth and politics and mine crash Monday as well so don't go anywhere have a very very good weekend bye