By YASEMIN TALAT
A YOUNG aspiring Caroline Springs model might soon be the Face Of The Globe.
Cindy Carino started modelling when she was 18, and now the 25-year-old hopes to step away from being just another model, she wants to make a difference.
Cindy is a finalist in the international beauty pageant Face Of The Globe, which is a pageant for all females aged five and up, notwithstanding marital status, size or height.
“I don’t wish to be looked at as your typical model nor do I believe I am already,” Cindy said.
“I’d like to be respected more for who I am than what I appear to be in photos,” she said.
“I am very particular about what roles I consider, and don’t pursue many.”
Face of the Globe caught Cindy’s attention because it supported the charity Rainbow Child Foundation.
“I really do find that the charity is the most important aspect about this new pageant,” Cindy said.
“I have always had a huge heart and there are so many charities that need our support,” she said.
Cindy, who is one of six children, said she loved children and had a natural rapport with them.
And having visited the Philippines several times with her Filipino mother, Cindy knew first-hand how children in underprivileged countries lived.
“I knew Rainbow Child Foundation was a charity I wanted to support,” she said.
Cindy admitted she never dreamed she would enter a pageant, but took it on as a challenge.
“Photo and video shoots are common roles to undertake, but I felt like a challenge and to do something that I had to dare myself to do,” she said.
Cindy hoped to be crowned Miss Charity or Miss Publicity as well as hoping to win the pageant.
Either way, she wanted to be recognised as a well-known and loved role model in society.
“Apart from looking your best for the pageant, the real reward is knowing that you have made a difference in a child’s life,” Cindy said.
“It shows me that we can all improve as people, and to always give what I can and to appreciate what I have.”
