Rockingham beauty vies for modelling title

A 19-year-old Rockingham woman is one of 60 hopefuls competing for the title of Miss Universe WA.

Latasha Crosbie is set for two months of learning how to avoid falling down in heels, as well as plenty of sits-ups and leg lunges in the lead-up to the State final in March.

This is Ms Crosbie’s second year in the competition after someone suggested to her mother that she enter last year.

The former Maranatha Christian College student, who is saving up to study graphic design at Central TAFE, said she hoped to make the top 24 after finishing in the top 60 last year.

‘‘Top 24 would be amazing, purely for the fact that I’m advancing further, and top six would just be the cherry on top of the cake,’’ Ms Crosbie said.

She is one of two women in the area competing for the title, a l o n g with S i n g l e t o n ’ s Courtney Rogers.

Ms Crosbie said the other contestants were all ‘‘amazing, genuine people.’’

‘‘You look at some of the girls and you think ‘I wish I had her body, I wish I had her hair’ or something like that,’’ she said.

‘‘But then when you get to talk to them they’re all thinking the exact same thing.

‘‘All the girls in my heat I’ve spoken to and I just want to be friends with them, they’re just so cool.’’

Ms Crosbie, who is originally from New Zealand, said she loved the Rockingham foreshore.

‘‘It’s a nice peaceful area,’’ she said.

She said people sometimes overlooked the beauty of Rockingham.

‘‘They go straight for the negative things, but you only need to look deep to realise how amazing this place is,’’ she said.