Top 19 Joyce Giraud Quotes

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Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.
Joyce Giraud
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I’m the opposite; I’d rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.
Joyce Giraud
In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.
Joyce Giraud
I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you’re always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.
Joyce Giraud
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.
Joyce Giraud
I don’t really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.
Joyce Giraud
I’m working with UNESCO on a project called ‘Thirst,’ which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.
Joyce Giraud
I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.
Joyce Giraud
I honestly eat chocolate all day long. I do realize how blessed I am to be able to eat what I want and not have to live in the gym.
Joyce Giraud
In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that’s called ‘pasteles’ – it’s almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it’s a very big deal, a very big thing.
Joyce Giraud
Pageants were an amazing platform that gave a little girl like me from the mountains of my beautiful Puerto Rico a chance to travel, explore the world, meet amazing people, work for great charities and be a voice to empower women wherever I went. For all those things, I am grateful.
Joyce Giraud
Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.
Joyce Giraud
I’m petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.
Joyce Giraud
I must be very clear in one thing… Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.
Joyce Giraud
I’m a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand.
Joyce Giraud
I am the lead on NBC’s ‘Siberia,’ and I loved that experience.
Joyce Giraud
I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.
Joyce Giraud
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.
Joyce Giraud
I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really foreign to me. I think what I saw strange coming to L.A. was that a lot of people are a little bit two-faced. In Puerto Rico, you don’t get that.
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