Meet Benoni’s fairest
Crowned Miss Benoni 2013, the beautiful and bubbly Giselle Dos Santos is geared up for the duties which lie ahead.
The 21-year-old Portuguese beauty from Rynfield entered the pageant for her fourth and final time, purely for the enjoyment factor.
“I decided that this was going to be the last year I entered and I definitely did it for the fun of it with my friend (Cassey Olivier), this year,” she said.
Giselle is a branch-coordinator at Keybase training solutions and teaches at Rampage Modelling Agency.
She has been modelling since she was 14 years old and listed teaching it as one of her main interests.
Her favourite part of this year’s Mr and Miss Benoni pageant was the “007” James Bond theme.
“It is the most fun pageant I have done so far — it was very different,” she said.
Giselle is hoping to get more involved with the community and to use her title as a platform to do plenty of charity work.
“I’m definitely doing a lot of charity work, with Keybase involved, too,” she said.
“I just want to do Benoni proud.”
Her dreams for the future include travelling and opening her own modelling agency.
Giselle’s beauty tip for young women is to “have a positive outlook on life.”
“Negativity is not a very attractive trait; I think positivity is the most beautiful quality a girl can possess,” she explained.
“Be who you are and enjoy what you do,” she added.
Giselle attended Tom Newby Primary School and matriculated from Benoni High.
For fun she loves shopping and her favourite clothing stores are YDE and Legit and her favourite shoe brand Solo.
The things Giselle values the most are her friends and family.
“They always support me in anything I do, as crazy as it may be,” she said.
Her inspirational personalities are her mother Cristine Knight and also her boss, Cheryl Oelofse.
“Cheryl is amazing; she just has everything together,” she said.
When asked if Benonians might see Giselle in more pageants in the future, the answer was: “Maybe when I’m older, I would like to do Miss South Africa, when I am used to how the charities and such work,” she said.
Giselle has a passion for creating awareness in schools about women and child abuse this year.
