Pontevedresa Isabel Iglesias Lains, 52 years oldselected as Miss Spain Senior At the Royal Spanish Senior competition, held in Asturias last weekend. The opportunity came to this Zara employee in Boa Vila, more than three decades by chance, after modeling agency Rassim offered her to join the cast of Miss Galicia Senior last spring. After some reluctance on his part, he finally got encouraged, and the result could not have been more surprising and satisfying.

“I made the decision because I’m pretty determined and I saw it as an experience. The truth is that I won, it was in May. Actually, I didn’t even convey that, the thing just stayed there. But then the competition started at the Spanish level and I won”, she admits laughingly to FARO DE VIGO of the group Prensa Ibérica.

She considers it’s a competition whose aim is to bring visibility to women who are not very young, “Because big fashion companies are actually betting on our category anyway because they have the purchasing power.”

In this sense, she emphasizes that women over the age of forty today, which is the age at which they can participate in the Miss Spain Seniors pageant, “have nothing to do with those decades ago”.

In this case, she admits that she has always taken care of herself a lot since childhood. “I’ve always really loved sports and taking care of myself, not from the outside but from the inside: eating, not smoking…”.

As a result of this competition; Asturian designer Celia B has already taken an interest in him.., creator of the viral dress from the Netflix series “Sex Education” to take a series of photos with the woman from Pontevedra.

Also, everything indicates that she will be attending the next Fashion Week in Madrid in February.

“Everything is very new for me but I am very excited. I felt very good on the podium,” he concludes.