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Trio competes at Miss Little Model Earth International

Miss Little Model Earth contestants PIC: HARP PHOTOGRAPHY
Miss Little Model Earth contestants PIC: HARP PHOTOGRAPHY

Three junior beauty queens have jetted out to Johannesburg, South Africa to compete at the 2023 Miss Little Model Earth International beauty pageant.

The pageant being held at the Gold Reef started yesterday (Sunday, February 12) and concludes next Sunday (February 19) and alongside Botswana five other countries including Brazil, Estonia, Kenya, Russia and South Africa will be participating at the competition. The trio of Lame Lesotho (11), Loapi Kwape (12) and Fatimah Lottering (18) are representing Botswana in Johannesburg.

The three girls qualified for the 2023 Miss Little Model Earth International after being crowned in their various categories at the 2022 Little Miss Petite Botswana. The trio is trained under the Beauty Hub Academy and have been going under intensive training to ready them for this week’s spectable. Speaking to Showbiz, Beauty Hub Academy director, One Mariri-Segobye expressed confidence in the junior beauty queens and said the almost year-long training will give the local girls a competitive advantage. Mariri-Segobye said the academy believes the trio will bring the crowns back home.

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