Beauty queen’s big dreams ‘I HAD TO LEARN TO WALK AGAIN’
With all shapes, sizes, ethnicities and ages represented, it breaks all the stereotypes we’ve come to expect in beauty pageants. Haere mai to Gowns & Geysers – a reality show following the selection process for Miss Rotorua.
Among the stars of the series is Te Aroha Hapi, who entered the pageant to prove that a disability need not be a hurdle to becoming a role model or a beauty queen.
Suffering from a mild form of
