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Trend & Magnificence

By Tracy Swartz

Sherika De Armas, who represented Uruguay within the Miss World competitors in 2015, has died. She was 26.

Local media reported she died final week after a two-year cervical most cancers battle. Family and friends paid emotional tribute to the brunette magnificence queen.

“Fly excessive, little sister. At all times and without end,” her brother, Mayk’ De Armas, mentioned on social media.

The reigning Miss Uruguay, Carla Romero, mourned that De Armas was “too advanced for this world. One of the crucial lovely ladies I’ve ever met in my life.”

Anto Ciavaglia, an in depth pal, wrote: “I bear in mind you with that lovely glow.”

De Armas didn’t make the highest 30 on the 2015 Miss World contest in Sanya, China, however she was one among solely six 18-year-olds to compete.

On the time, one outlet complimented her “lovely face, towering top and charismatic persona” whereas calling her “one of many younger promising skills of Uruguay.”

“I at all times wished to be a mannequin, whether or not a magnificence mannequin, an promoting mannequin or a catwalk mannequin,” she mentioned in a translated interview with NetUruguay, per Univision.

“I like every part associated to vogue and I feel that inside a magnificence pageant, any lady’s dream is to have the chance to take part in Miss Universe. I’m very blissful to have the ability to dwell this expertise filled with challenges.”

Off the runway, De Armas offered private care, make-up, and hair merchandise by means of the Shey De Armas Magnificence Studio.

She was additionally mentioned to commit her time to the childhood most cancers group Pérez Scremini Basis.

Cervical most cancers happens most frequently in folks older than 30, in line with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

The illness might be prevented with common screening and the HPV vaccine, the company says.