Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu: We waited for this present day for 21 years and I couldn’t imagine that it was all really occurring – Occasions of India

Innumerable calls, congratulatory messages and a large outpouring of affection and needs from everywhere in the nation, it has been an “overwhelming expertise” for the newly-crowned Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu. Harnaaz gained the coveted crown for the nation after 21 years and he or she says that “all that is nonetheless unbelievable to me.” She says, “The one phrase that involves my thoughts to explain how I’m feeling is unbelievable. To listen to the title of my nation ‘India’ on that platform (when the winner was being introduced) was the sensation I might by no means be capable to put in phrases. I cried and everybody round me cried. We waited for this present day for 21 years and I couldn’t imagine that it was all really occurring. It’s nonetheless unbelievable to me,” says Harnaaz.

The mannequin and actor from Chandigarh, who began her journey in magnificence pageants because the winner of Chandigarh Occasions Contemporary Face 2017, says that what saved her motivated all through her journey to be the Miss Universe 2021 was her willpower to provide her finest and signify her nation. “I’ve all the time believed that if you wish to conquer one thing, keep calm and humble. So that’s one thing that I’ve all the time adopted all through and even throughout the pageant, there have been moments once I felt overwhelmed, however I saved calm. I made a decision to provide one of the best shot to the whole lot that got here my approach, with out considering of the top consequence. Being part of this pageant, this expertise has additionally been a terrific studying expertise for me and I can see an enormous transformation. I’m extra assured now and I by no means stopped believing in myself,” says Harnaaz, and provides that she wish to thank everybody for a lot love and needs that she acquired ever because the time she gained the Miss Universe title.

In the course of the remaining rounds of the Miss Universe pageant, Harnaaz was requested “what recommendation would you give to younger girls watching on the way to cope with the pressures they face immediately?” And her reply left everybody impressed. “The most important stress the youth face immediately is to imagine in themselves. Know that you’re distinctive and that’s what makes you lovely. Cease evaluating yourselves with others and let’s speak about extra vital issues which might be occurring worldwide. I believe that is what you have to perceive. Come out, converse for your self as a result of you’re the chief of your life. You’re the voice of your personal. I believed in myself and that’s why I’m standing right here immediately.” Harnaaz says that that is one thing she all the time believed in and he or she spoke from her coronary heart. “I’m glad that now I’ve a platform to achieve out to extra girls on the market, who’re prepared for a change. I believe I now have a chance to talk to extra girls on the way to empower themselves to convey change,” says Harnaaz.