MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Does Angelique De Leon looks familiar to you? It’s because this 27-year-old beauty regularly competed in Binibining Pilipinas. Before joining the pageant world, however, Angelique wasn’t as conscious about her unhealthy lifestyle. But she worked hard to overcome those poor habits to train to be a beauty queen.
She made her debut in the world of pageantry as she participated in the Bb. Pilipinas 2014 as contestant No.31.
Who would have thought that Angelique used to be 180lbs? Look at her evolution from tomboyish weighing 180 lbs to your Binibining Pilipinas No. 12.
Heartbreaks can indeed make you a QUEEN.
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TURNING PAIN INTO POWER
This is the real story behind my weight loss. When people ask me why and how I lost all the weight, I told them it's because I wanted to pursue Binibining Pilipinas.
That's not the whole story.
I was in a 7-year relationship with an ex. I must admit, I started off as a confident woman who was very secure with her relationship with her boyfriend. I was too confident I guess. I let myself go and started eating 9 cups of rice in just one sitting. I was too young and naive and a bit of a hopeless romantic that I believed in the fact that the change in my weight would not affect my relationship with him.
I didn't know it was an issue. It wasn't an issue. He still made me feel loved and appreciated despite the weight gain.
But then things happened, naive couples making petty problems get big to a point that certain situations were blown out of proportion, hurtful words were said and decisions were made.
It was my first real heartbreak. 7 years? It must be.
Then we had an agreement to not date anyone within our circle of friends or people he met because of me and vice versa. He suddenly gasped and I felt a bit of hesitation in his eyes. I asked him, "Why?" and he said, "Remember during Myra's birthday? You were dancing at the table with her bestfriend?" and I said "Yes. Why?" He replied "I kinda want to date her. Does she have a boyfriend?"
And that was the moment the fat girl's soul died. I was shocked. I wasn't even mad. I was... lost.
I was depressed for 3 weeks and lost 30 lbs in that amount of time. I couldn't get out of my room. My eyes were swelling. I was starving myself because the girl he liked was really thin and I started to feel insufficient. It was a very dark place for me. It came to a point that I wanted to kill myself. Yes, I thought of committing suicide because of a heartbreak.
I lost myself. I lost the happy confident girl. I lost the sweet girl who would do anything for love. I lost Angelique.
I was trying to save whatever we had. I begged him and went to his house. I cried and begged as if my life depended on it. I even had a script with me that I wrote on the way to his place so I can make sure that I'll be able to say everything I wanted to say.
He looked into my eyes and finally said "We can't save this."
I went home. I was sobbing. I still couldn't let it go.
A few weeks later, I called him. I was in my room sobbing and talking to him over the phone. I was still begging and begging and begging while he was watching Binibining Pilipinas 2010. He keeps on blurting out how beautiful and sexy the girls were while I was trying to save the relationship. He kept on repeating it. I felt disrespected.
...and then I snapped and stopped crying.
Then I told him...
"You know what? Go f*ck yourself. You will see me in Binibining Pilipinas and I won't even remember your number if you try to call me."
And the rest is history.
I lost 50lbs in total and slowly tried to get the happy-go-lucky Angelique back though I completely lost the part of me that believed in true love towards others --- PURE UNFILTERED LOVE. I now only believed that there's only one person who can give that to you.
YOU.
Eventually, I realized I wanted to do it for myself and not because of him. I wanted to prove to myself that I am capable regardless of what he says. I did things the right way and ate healthy and stayed as fit as possible up to this day.
P.S. He did text me after my 2014 stint and I replied "Who's this?"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SO MUCH WIN.
She recently competed at Miss International 2017. De Leon said her stint at the international pageant made her a “stronger, wiser and smarter woman,” and that it taught her how to fight harder for her goals and dreams.
“I really learned a lot from this experience. I made a lot of relationships with the other girls here and I am really proud of how far we’ve all come. I’m going to put this in my good memories,” she told ABS-CBN News.
The daughter of screen veterans Christopher de Leon and Sandy Andolong failed to make it to the Top 15 of the pageant held in Japan. Still, her parents are very proud of her.
De Leon was hoping for a back-to-back win for the Philippines. Her predecessor, Kylie Verzosa, was the Miss International 2016 titleholder.
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