{"id":223300,"date":"2019-07-18T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=223300"},"modified":"2019-07-18T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:07:09","slug":"miss-grand-thailand-2019-will-apologize-to-catriona-gray-for-fat-shaming-under-one-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/18\/miss-grand-thailand-2019-will-apologize-to-catriona-gray-for-fat-shaming-under-one-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Grand Thailand 2019 will apologize to Catriona Gray for fat-shaming under one condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coco Arayha tells PowerhousePH that she will apologize to the Filipina-Australian beauty queen only \u201cif Cat will message [her] directly.\u201d (File Photo<\/a>: @coco.arayha<\/a>\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>After being under fire for calling Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray \u201cfat\u201d on her social media, newly-crowned Miss Grand Thailand 2019 Coco Arayha tells PowerhousePH that she will apologize to the Filipina-Australian beauty queen only \u201cif Cat will message [her] directly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During the interview with the pageantry website, Coco refers to the post she had shared to her 117,000 followers with Miss Grand International 2018 Clara Sosa of Paraguay in a swimsuit being labelled \u201cfit\u201d and Catriona labelled as \u201cfat.\u201d The Thai beauty queen defends herself from criticism, explaining, \u201cI shared the photo of Clara because I\u2019m jealous of her body and want it. I shared the truth and everyone hates me for it. Even when I upload a pretty picture of myself, there\u2019s a thousand angry comments,\u201d adding, \u201cI shared the truth. I know she\u2019s Miss Universe, but the picture just says it all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Being crowned Miss Grand Thailand 2019 in Bangkok last Saturday, July 13, Coco also asks reporters, \u201cI just won the crown. Can you not celebrate with me and be happy for me? I got the crown. Is not anyone happy for me at all?\u201d She responds to criticism, stating, \u201cIf you had followed my journey since the beginning, you would see that the drama is another matter. My skills can\u2019t be overlooked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A day after Coco was crowned, Catriona indirectly addressed the issue on Twitter, telling her followers, \u201cBody shaming is hurtful and [should] never be tolerated. If anyone reading this too has been [body shamed], I know how it feels. I’m sorry you’ve had to experience that. But [know] that you are more than your appearance. You are a capable, unique, and worthy person. And you are never alone.”<\/span><\/p>\n

She also received support from her fellow beauty queens, with Miss Universe Canada 2016 Siera Bearchell responding through a vlog on her YouTube channel, \u201cIf there are young women or just women in general who see these pictures of her (Catriona) and then they see that people are calling her fat, I cannot help but question and I know that some of these people question themselves,\u201d concluding, \u201cWhat would a young woman who may be struggling with her body image think if she saw a picture of Catriona and she saw that people are calling her fat?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, Binibining Pilipinas Grand International Philippines 2019 Samantha Lo was asked by a fan what she thought about Coco\u2019s comments on Catriona, with Samantha responding, \u201cShe\u2019s not invited to pizza night with Cat and I.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Samantha will be facing Coco during the international competition in Venezuela this October.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After being under fire for calling Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray \u201cfat\u201d on her social media, newly-crowned Miss Grand Thailand …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":223302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223408,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223300\/revisions\/223408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}