In this video I pay homage to seven beauty queens who departed from this world in 2019. I
believe they deserve recognition even after their lives were suddenly cut short at a young age. Even
Though I have never met or communicated with any of them their sudden death nevertheless shocked and touched me in a way.
May they rest in peace.
Lotte van der Zee ,a former Miss Teen Universe 2017, died in March after being in a coma for two weeks
following a heart attack.
Lotte, who is from the Netherlands, had collapsed while on a skiing holiday in Austria with her family
She fell ill just a day before a 20th birthday
Her parents said they had decided to let her go after
Doctors told him that Lotte's organs had stopped working in a tribute posted to their daughters
170,000 Instagram followers they wrote quote "Our
pearl, our everything passed away on Wednesday evening, March 6 at 10:47
It is incredibly surreal that our dearly beloved Lotte is not around us anymore. Our our hearts are truly broken
We would like to thank you all again for all the support and heartwarming messages."
Gabriela Mendes Viegas, a Brazilian model who was crowned Miss Ilheus 2018 was found dead by her boyfriend
Lucas Ferrara on May 4th in Bahia.
Ferrara called the neighbors for help and tried saving Gabriella but to no avail.
According to family members she was struggling with depression
Several online Brazilian sites reported that Viegas had committed suicide by jumping out the window with a belt tied around her neck.
The death was announced by her university's athletic
association which released a note on social networks.
Two years ago, Gabriella represented the city of Ilheus at the Miss Bahia pageant
which is a state preliminary to miss Brazil, but she did not win.
She thanked her supporters on Facebook a day after the pageant
She was 27.
On
May 2nd the body of former Miss Universe Uruguay
2006 Fatimih Davila Sosa was found hanging in a Mexico City hotel which might have had ties to a high-end escort
ring,
according to Spanish language news outlets.
The Spanish media reported that Davila Sosa's name came up in a 2012 book about an investigation into sex trafficking
Her Instagram account said that she had been based in Mexico as a model. On a profile Fatimih shared snaps
traveling with friends and
inspirational phrases such as "What we do today matters most."
"Let's start the year 2019 smiling and with good vibes,"
reads one cheerful post in January 2019
Fatima was only 31.
Filipina beauty queen April love Jordan passed away on June 21st after she succumbed to liver cancer.
Jordan competed in several national pageants like Miss World Philippines 2012 where she placed third princess. In
2009 she won the International Beauty and Model Festival queen title.
Miss World Philippines 2012 Queenierich Rehman took to Instagram on june 24th to remember and celebrate
April's life. Quote "I'm lost for words April. I just can't accept that you're gone
We won't be able to have these wonderful moments together
I know that you're in good place right now, and we will truly miss you
You've fought hard in life till your very last breath
We're actually grateful to have met you and of course being one of your close friends during this world Philippines and the years after that
We love you and we miss you so much."
April love was only 31.
At
Age 27. Dijana Milojkovic, Miss Earth
Serbia 2009, was diagnosed with womb cancer and spent the next six years
Suffering from the illness while telling her story in a bid to give hope to others.
Following her diagnosis, she started blogging about her journey and rapidly gained thousands of loyal supporters.
Inspired by her positivity and perseverance on her blog she wrote,
"I am Dijana. Last year, I was diagnosed with invasive womb cancer and only a few months after that
metastasis in lymph nodes, in abdomen and neck.
Even though the prognosis was terrifying. I did not pity myself in any moment. Neither suffered over my destiny."
She also wrote "I don't give up because the cure is everywhere around us. It only needs to be found."
Last June an urgent appeal was made for a blood donor as her health began to decline.
Despite managing to retrieve the blood doctors were unable to save her and she died on July 22nd.
She was 33.
Zanib Naveed was a Pakistani-American beauty pageant titleholder from Lahore, Pakistan who lived in Pomona, New York.
She was crowned Miss Pakistan World on August 2nd 2012 in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada at the age of 25. On December 1st, 2019
Zanib died after she was involved in a car crash in Maryland,
according to a press release by the Maryland State Police.
Naveed was driving her car eastward on the Inter-County Connector when she attempted to take the southbound curve to Route 1 and
struck the curb. The vehicle overturned and Naveed was ejected from her seat
Navid competed in Miss Earth 2012 pageant where she placed second in the trivia challenge.
She was also the president of the Miss and Mrs. Pakistan USA organizations.
She is survived by her parents, two brothers, and husband. She was 32
Carly McCord a TV sports reporter perished in a plane crash near Lafayette Regional Airport in Lafayette,
Louisiana on December 28th along with four other people.
The plane went down a minute after takeoff,
McCord and her fellow passengers were traveling to the Peach Bowl,
McCord was also the first runner-up in the Miss Louisiana scholarship program in both 2011 and 2012 an
audition for The Bachelor in 2013, the New York Times reported.
McCords husband, Steven Ensminger Jr.,
opened up about the anguish he is currently experiencing after missing his wife's final messages.
He told Sports Illustrated that McCord had called him that morning before the fatal flight
but explained that he could not answer either message because he was at work.
Those messages would end up being Carlie's last.
She was only 30.
An anonymous quote says,
"Some are bound to die young.
By dying young, a person stays young in people's memory.
If she burns brightly before she die, her brightness shines for all time.
Lotte
Gabriela Fatimih
April Love
Dijana
Zanib, Carly. Seven young women whose lives abruptly ended.
Seven young woman who brought light and happiness to everyone they met.
Heaven just became much brighter with the addition of seven beautiful angels.