Viktoriia Zhavoronok — Official Participant of The Continental Pageants Europe® 2024

My greetings from the charming resort town of Truskavets in Ukraine, which I am representing in the TCR Europe 2024 competition.

My name is Victoria and the purpose of my life is to help people. When I was a child, when I was 12 years old, my grandfather, seeing the traits of my character, said: “Victoria must become a lawyer! Victoria must protect people!” 

Many years later, my grandfather’s advice came true: after graduating from the National Law Academy of Ukraine in 1996, I have been practicing civil law, including family, contractual, and inheritance law for over 25 years. I am a lawyer and I help people with many issues and problems they face in their lives. It is with great pleasure that I can say that this is my true vocation, my purpose. This is my life’s work, thanks to which I have realized myself in society, doing what I like. 

Sometimes my intellectual work takes a lot of energy and I need outdoor activities to recover. That’s why I have been mastering various sports with pleasure and inspiration throughout my adult life. At the age of 28, I took up horseback riding and started mastering downhill skiing. And these are my favorite activities. At 35, I went roller skating for the first time, and at 42, I started learning to play tennis. At 45, I delved into yoga, and at 48, I took up dancing, developing my femininity.

For many years I have been walrusing, and at the same time I adore spa treatments. Last year, I got behind the wheel of a motorcycle, learning the character of a metal horse. 

Today I am 50 years old and I am again mastering something new and completely unusual for me, taking part in a beauty contest on a European scale! 

And I know that there are no limits to perfection! This way of life helps me to find balance in everything, gives me the opportunity to enjoy every day, to be in harmony with myself and the whole world around me, to be here and now! 

Therefore, “Growth, progress and comprehensive development!” is the main thesis of my life, my credo. 

My path to success was not easy, but I always looked forward with optimism, building my own interesting present and planning for the future. 

I am a happy woman because I was able to raise two charming daughters, always being in friendly relations with them and helping them in their development. 

Every woman has the right to true happiness, which she builds with her own consciousness, her own choice, her thoughts and actions. And I am unquestionably convinced of this from my own experience.