{"id":224982,"date":"2019-07-29T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224982"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T01:27:54","slug":"catriona-gray-opens-up-about-feeling-down-and-overwhelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/29\/catriona-gray-opens-up-about-feeling-down-and-overwhelmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Catriona Gray opens up about feeling &#8216;down and overwhelmed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224983\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-8.55.27-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-224983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-8.55.27-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-8.55.27-AM.png 760w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-8.55.27-AM-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#KeepCalmAndLavaWalk (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B0ejqwngw3R\/\">Photo<\/a>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/catriona_gray\/\"> @catriona_gray<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\">Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray tells her 6.3 million followers that her life is far from perfect, elaborating the difficulties during her \u201creally challenging last couple of weeks\u201d where she \u201cfelt really low in spirit\u201d through an Instagram post last Monday, July 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the image of the Filipino-Australian, she reveals that her motivation for sharing her story is \u201cto share that low moments happen to all of us.\u201d In her words, \u201cWhen I find myself feeling down and overwhelmed; where things are out of my control, it helps to remind myself that the only person I can control is myself, to count all the things I have to be grateful for and to plan and look forward to the dawn of a new day.\u201d She concludes, \u201cSo if you&#8217;re feeling down in the dumps, you&#8217;re never alone. Situations and life are tough&#8230;but so are you.\u201d The 25-year-old also uses the hashtag #KeepCalmandLavaWalk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few hours later, Catriona posts another image of herself in New York on her personal social media account, captioned, \u201cLeaving all the negativity and running into the week like\u2026 Wishing you all an amazing start to the week! I\u2019m right there with you warriors!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the beauty queen\u2019s most recent public appearance was last Saturday, July 20, where she was the Philippine flag bearer at the MGM Grand Hotel for the Manny Pacquiao match against Keith Thurman. Sharing an image with Filipino boxer Pacquiao, who eventually succeeded in victory, Catriona states, \u201cThe legend inspiring the dreams of a generation. Laban Manny Pacquiao! Laban Pilipinas!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being amidst the controversy as well of Miss Grand Thailand 2019 Clara Sosa calling her \u201cfat,\u201d the Bicol representative has also recently spoken out about the importance of self-love and gravitating away from body-shaming to her 590,100 Twitter followers, saying, \u201cYou are so much more than your body! You are your mind and your unique talents and your character and your life experiences and your personality! You are so, so much more than the exterior! And people will always remember how you made them feel and not how you looked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray tells her 6.3 million followers that her life is far from perfect, elaborating the difficulties &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":224983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224982","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\/224982","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=224982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225005,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224982\/revisions\/225005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}