THEN AND NOW
Monday, September 13, 2021 - 09:30
Before signing up to Miss Gibraltar, Ornella described herself as kind of a tomboy and she was quite sporty. She had never worn makeup and never even walked in heels. Explaining why she chose to enter the pageant, she said: “I would never had thought in a million years I would have entered any pageant. I had never gone into anything in my life. So I was approached and in the beginning I said no way, but then I thought, well, I need to experience things. As I was thinking of going over to study so I thought this would be my last year to give it a go.
“So I said I’m going to go and see who the other contestants are. They [organisers] actually tricked me a bit and said ‘go, see who the contestants are and then you come and join’, but when I went, I was the first one to sign.
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