The loss of Cheslie Kryst, Miss USA 2019, has shocked the public. The 30-year-old lawyer, with an MBA and a successful career as a presenterstruggled with mental health issues for a long time before he lost his life.
This is demonstrated by an essay he wrote in 2021 for Allure magazine, in which he made his feelings very clear. The text has resurfaced as a result of comments on networks from those who believe that this was a desperate call for help that perhaps went unheeded.
“Why work so hard to capture the dreams that society has taught me to want when I only find empty?” wrote in the post, which tackles the three issues believed to have precipitated the end of a successful and accomplished life. Society’s obsession with youth, criticism on social networks and the duty to be successful.
The oldest Miss USA in history
At 28, she became the oldest Miss USA to win the competition in the pageant’s 68-year history. A title that came with the merciless criticism of online ‘trolls’ who opened a petition asking for the age limit of the contest participants to be lowered.
“Every time I say, ‘I’m going to be 30,’ I cringe a little bit. Sometimes I can mask this awkward response with enthusiasm; other times, my enthusiasm feels hollow, like a bad performance. Society has never been kind to those who age, especially women,” Kryst said.
Cheslie Kryst felt the pressure to be successful
He said that young people are pressured “to accumulate achievements as quickly as possible to keep up with our peers.” Coming from a girl who not only had beauty, but the love of her family, friends, was a track athlete and had been an Emmy nominee, reading these words and then knowing the ending has brought many to the attention of the epidemic of depression and the enormous weight of expectations imposed on young people.
For her, her life of achievement boiled down to a “lonely longing for the next prize. Some would see this hunger and label it “competitiveness”; others would call it the insatiable thirst of insecurity.”
Next, Cheslie Kryst talked about how her reign as Miss USA injected passion into her life. And he remembered how he spent his birthday in his pajamas, at home, just taking calls.
He concluded the essay by saying, “Now, I enter the 30th year looking for joy and purpose on my own terms – and that feels like my own sweet victory.”
But the tragic end of her life, when she jumped from the skyscraper where she lived in New York on January 30, has shown that those personal struggles continued for the model. Her latest post on her Instagram is eloquent about her dying wish: “May this day bring you rest and peace”.
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