Miss Universe Nepal proves beauty has no size

Brut India

Celebrating her curves, she twirled through age-old beauty stereotypes with a smile. Meet Jane Dipika Garrett.

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00:00I felt really disgusting about my body.

00:02Me going on the stage, it was kind of like a breakthrough moment.

00:04I can be healthy, but I will be big-boned or curvy.

00:14In Nepal, the girls are naturally very petite.

00:16They're very small.

00:17They're shorter.

00:18I was the tallest girl.

00:19And I would always feel like I have to starve myself or be thin like them.

00:30People would always make comments about it or call me ugly or fat.

00:46And I've always had...

00:47That's just my genes.

00:48Having a bigger butt, a bigger breasts.

00:52And there's nothing wrong with that.

00:53That's just who I am.

00:54I used to do a lot of self-harm since the age of 16.

01:01I would cut myself.

01:02I would be very suicidal.

01:13So I started my journey with self-love.

01:17I did a lot of therapy.

01:18I did a lot of affirmations and meditation.

01:22Medication.

01:24Journaling.

01:24Just processing my trauma and whatever I went through.

01:28And I also started going to the gym.

01:30I worked out a lot.

01:31I felt more alive.

01:33I felt more healthy.

01:35So

01:51beauty standards are very...

01:53It's outdated now.

01:55Because it's about time that the world shows that everyone is beautiful.

01:58That we are all diverse.

01:59That we are all unique.

02:01You don't have to be a size zero.

02:02You don't have to be super thin.

02:03You don't have to be a certain look to be considered beautiful.

02:15Sometimes I would compare myself.

02:16And I'd be like, oh, like, they're favorites.

02:17They have everybody cheering their name.

02:19Like, nobody's cheering my name, you know?

02:21And then I walked on that stage and I got the loudest cheers.

02:24And I was like, wow.

02:24Like, I felt so empowered.

02:25I was like, I did my purpose.

02:33A lot of people online, you know, made a lot of mean comments about me.

02:42But I didn't let it affect me.

02:44It did affect me sometimes.

02:45If I would see the comments, you know, like, continuous comments.

02:48Of course, it affects you.

02:49Like, we're human.

02:50But after a while, I just, like, kept telling myself, like, I'm focused on my goal.

02:54My goal is to inspire millions of women.

02:59We all have different body types.

03:01So some people are naturally big boned.

03:03Some other people are petite.

03:05They're very small.

03:07And so judging somebody based on their, you know, their body type isn't realistic.

03:14Because I can be healthy, but I will be big boned or curvy.

03:17And that's just the way my body is.

03:32So, yeah.

03:33So, yeah.

03:34So, yeah.

03:35So, yeah.

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