During her interview with ‘Aquino and Abunda’ tonight, our very own Miss Universe Philippines MJ Lastimosa showed her wit as she answers all the questions given to the Top 5 finalists of the Miss Universe 2014 pageant.
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For the question given by Manny Pacquiao, “If you were given 30 seconds to deliver a message to a global terrorist, what would you say?”
MJ answered “That’s perfect for me. I grew up in a war-torn area seeing some of these things happen [before my] own eyes. I would ask them, would you like these things happening to your own family? Come to think of it: These things happening to your wife, to your children. You should spend a second to think about it.
While “What’s the biggest change you’d like to see for young women in the next generation?” was given to Miss Netherlands and MJ would have said “I wouldn’t want to see a biggest change, but I want them to continue what the past [generations] have been fighting for…the past women. And I want them to use whatever talent and skills that they have to contribute something in the future generation”.
MJ gave three reasons for the question “If you could remove the swimsuit competition from the Miss Universe pageant, would you? Why or why not?” given by Lisa Vanderpump to Miss Ukrain, MJ said “I have three reasons for that. I will keep it. First, the Miss Universe started from a swimsuit competition, so that would mean taking the very essence of Miss Universe. Second would be, the body that we’re showing off wearing swimsuit shows the confidence of a woman can go in a different, you know, whatever you wear, you can still be confident? And that leads to the third reason; you know the word “fitspiration?” People get their inspiration from you. So I think, in a beauty pageant, whenever we wear [a] swimsuit, we help the society to create a healthy lifestyle.”
And for Emilio Estefan’s question to Miss Jamaica which goes “One of every three women will experience violence in her lifetime. What can be done to get that number down?”
Our representative uttered “Still awareness and information dissemination. Always remember the 3 Ws: Teach the women the knowledge to know when they are being violated, what to do when you are a victim, and where and who to go to if you are being violated”.
The question “Probably all the time, people have asked what men can learn from women. But I’d like to know what can women learn from men?” which was given to the crowned Miss Universe 2014, Miss Colombia, MJ proudly answered “To be tough, because I think being a woman, we get affected by our emotions. Sometimes, they get affected with our emotions. And even in our decision-making, I think we can get a good advice from men [on] that.”
Finally the Facebook question that was asked to all five finalists, “What is the greatest contribution of your country to the world?” the Beauty Queen answered “I would say the heartbeat of our country, the Filipinos. We have so much talent and skills, and we share to the world. We go to different countries and work and show to them whatever we got. So the Filipinos [are our] biggest contribution to the world”.
Now that is beauty and brains in full swing. Had she been in the top 5 – she would have been Miss Universe 2014.
(Photo Source: MJ Lastimosa’s Instagram)
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