The 23-year-old reflects on the experience as exhilarating and unexpected as she was obliged to uphold those roles and crowns for three years straight when the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020.<\/p>\n
For that she will forever be the \u201cLongest serving Miss Samoa, Miss Samoa New Zealand, and Miss Pacific Islands\u201d.<\/p>\n
Fono shared that she stumbled on various obstacles having to readjust her own goals, studies and dreams to her responsibilities as Miss Samoa and had poured so much growth in her life as a young Samoan lady in so many aspects.<\/p>\n
\u201cLearning is one highlight. Like Tourism, it\u2019s something I knew nothing about until I became Miss Samoa and because of that, I\u2019m now advocating twice as hard for people to come to Samoa,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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When Covid struck, she used her status as a nurse and role as Miss Samoa to push for vaccination against the antivax campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very humbled, since the lead up to this pageant, it\u2019s a comment thrown to me all the time like \u201cyou\u2019re the longest serving, you\u2019re this and that\u201d and it takes me back a bit and reminds me just how far I\u2019ve come on this journey and honestly when I look back at it from when I first started, I\u2019ve grown so much in this journey and it\u2019s extremely humbling to be able to have held that title.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, she is ready and excited to move on to the next chapter of her life.<\/p>\n
Moving forward means plans to further her studies and advancing her career path as well as spending more time with families and friends which she missed out in three years.<\/p>\n
Fono is excited and looking forward to the Miss Samoa Pageant 2022 and to see what the 2022 contestants will showcase and mainly to finally pass on the crown to the next Miss Samoa.<\/p>\n
One of the messages she relayed for the Vodafone Miss Samoa contestants this year is to have that maturity and determination to make a difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiss Samoa isn\u2019t just a beauty pageant, it\u2019s a pageant with a platform and it was up to me whether I was going to utilize that platform to make a difference in areas that I was passionate about like Health or whether I would just take what the normal expectation was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
At age 23 when she first crowned Miss Samoa in 2019, Seumanu\u00a0was\u00a0already a foster mum to\u00a0five children, a nurse and a musician at church.<\/p>\n
She will be handing over her crown to the next Miss Samoa tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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