The publication also reports that many on social media said that they needed a wholesome Miss SA like Tunzi and said she had no skeletons in her closet. The beauty queen responded to the suggestion on Instagram this week and said she was not perfect.
“When it hit me, I was taken aback. When I read those things, I thought surely: ‘I’m human and there must have been mistakes, you know, that I’ve made. I can’t really be as perfect as I’m made out to be.’,” as quoted by the publication.
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Zozi Tunzi said the incident led her to look through her own old Facebook posts which date as far back as 2012.
She said she saw many posts that she was proud of and others that were insensitive and should never have been shared.
“I was just so disappointed with myself. I was just filled with shame that I thought it was okay to share that at that time.
“I want to take the time to apologize for those posts that I’ve shared, to apologize to anyone that is or was affected by those posts, and just to say that those posts are in direct contrast to who I am and everything that I stand for,” she said.
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Tunzi said the standard that people hold her to is scary but also understandable, given her title.
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