Can be smiling on the outside but feeling completely different on the inside

Late reply and I have almost 0 knowledge on this woman, but I can imagine being a black miss USA, even if there where always beauty pageant winners that year or in the past, it doesn’t take away from how incredibly isolated that can feel. I’m sure she grew up and lives a relentless normal existence and yea she was most likely a very exceptional woman, but she was human. I can’t anyone going from a normal life to being crowned a title that practically says to people “I am America” that’s gonna make people especially young black girls adore her and idolize her for good reason, I’m sure she took knowing that with pride and gratitude, but she’s still was a normal human forced to be seen by the public as either the best of the best almost god level worship, to the opposite where people see a successful young black woman representing their country, someone these people saw as less than depressing the country they feel so much pride in. Ofc the people idolizing her where valid (depending Ofc) but having two extreme sides of yourself put right in front of you, all while trying to be perfect and represent USA and black woman everywhere, at what point do you lose the humanity you have for yourself? I wouldn’t wanna imagine what caused this woman, delisted knowing how much she meant to a lot of people, to end her life. Only cheslie knows, and I hope she has at some point given herself permission to be as human and imperfect as she deserved to be.

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