Meet Elljoy Karimi Munyua the reigning Miss Thika Town.
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| Elljoy Karimi Munyua is the reigning Miss Thika Town 2017-2018 |
Elljoy Karimi Munyua is the reigning Miss Thika Town
2017-2018, the career hotelier works at Coconut Grill Hotel as a receptionist,
and is an alumni of CEDAT Training Institute.
The soft spoken beauty queen has participated in various
beauty pageants without success; however through the Mr/Miss Thika Beauty
Pageant held in July 2017 she was crowned as Miss Thika Town. She would like to
encourage the youth of Thika to take it upon themselves to make sure that they
get out of their comfort zone and reach out to people who can mentor them
towards their personal growth, they should shun the common peer mentality of
“Hakuna Kazi” and work towards personal growth, if they want to change their
lives.
1.Were you born in
Thika? No I was born and raised in Meru Town I came to Thika in pursuit of
education and landed a job in one of the leading hotels.
2.Would you say Thika
Town people support Fashion and Modelling? Yes because there is some sense
of growth in Thika when it comes to fashion, as compared to Meru Town, this has
helped me advance in my fashion career.
3.Tell us about your
journey as a female model I have always had a nudge for fashion growing up
I had newspapers cut outs of International celebrities such as Beyonce Knowles,
in my exercise book which would be stacked somewhere in my room where during my
free time I would admire their style of dressing, and wish one day I will get
there. I have participated in close to
six beauty pageants without success, I never gave up and thanks to Ruth Opanga
CEO Vintage Models who mentored me I was crowned as Miss Thika Town in July
2017.
This title will help me to champion for various agendas that
our agency Vintage Modelling Company has identified; some of them shape various
core values that affect humanity, we will be working hand in hand with
different stakeholders to implement certain projects that we have already
mapped within Thika Town.
4.What are the major
challenges you face as a female model? The major challenge is right now
especially among young ladies is that there are so many event organizers and
modelling agencies out there who are using auditions and beauty pageants to
take advantage of the naivety and youthfulness of some of the models some are
bold enough to seek for sexual favours, this is hurting the industry even creating
a negative perception among many people to the extent that modelling and fashion are being looked down upon as
careers.
5.Given a chance to
change a few things in the industry especially in Thika what would you do? I
would first of all urge various stakeholders in this industry especially in
Thika to work together, towards the growth of fashion and modelling, it is an
industry that can and has created employment opportunities to many people, it
would be so wonderful if key players in Thika would be willing to go that extra
mile.
6.Whom to you look up
to in the fashion industry? Famous Desperate House Wives star Eva
Longoria is one of my role models, she has endured a lot of hard times in her
career, the fact that she has also set some time aside to run a charity project
shows that she had a big heart which inspires me to emulate.
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