Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray has shared her two cents about married women with children joining the prestigious beauty pageant.
Recall that last month, organizers of the Miss Universe Colombia announced that they will now allow married women and moms with children in their annual competition.
Catriona deemed it as "a step towards inclusivity."
"I think it's really timely to allow women in whatever capacity to go after the dream of being a Miss Universe," she said.
"However, I do see that it would be difficult for a young mother with young children to balance the responsibility, the schedule that comes with being a Miss Universe. I've done it for a year, and it's a grueling schedule," she added, relating: "It pulls you to different corners of the world, and you don't really have a say where your schedule takes you."
"But hopefully, with that opening up of those inclusive measures at Miss Universe, they'd hopefully give either guidelines or things to protect the interests of women and allow her to be there for her family and also to her responsibilities as a Miss Universe," she said.
Catriona believes that Miss Universe is a platform to represent something.
"Like, we go out there not as a desirable image, but to have a voice and to be able to amplify that. And why should being married or being a mother limit women from being able to do that, to be a spokesperson."