Miss Canada has no time for body-shamers: I’m bringing self-love to Miss U

Miss Canada Siera Bearchell walked the stage with the rest of the 65th Miss Universe candidates in her swimsuit last Tuesday and apparently, a few eyebrows were raised.

"I was recently asked, 'What happened to you? Why have you gained weight? You are losing points.' This was a reference to my body of course," Bearchell wrote on the official Miss Universe Canada Facebook page Wednesday.

The beauty queen then made it clear that she has zero time for being shamed about her body.

"While I am first to say I am not as lean as I was when I was 16, 20, or even last year, but I am more confident, capable, wise, humble and passionate than ever before," she declared.

Bearchell asserted that she is embracing a new side of herself that she discovered when she stopped trying to fit a mold.

"This is the side I am trying to bring to the [Miss Universe] competition. The side of life that is so rare to find: self-worth and self-love," the beauty queen said, in confidently beautiful terms. "We always focus on the things we wish we could change rather than loving everything we are."

If this was the Question and Answer segment, the audience should be erupting in applause right about now.

Catch Miss Canada and the rest of the candidates at the 65th Miss Universe coronation event live on GMA on January 30, beginning at 8 a.m. — Aya Tantiangco/BM, GMA News