Gal Gadot Lost the Miss Universe Pageant on Purpose?

In a recent interview, Gal Gadot admitted that she didn't want to be Miss Universe, so she intentionally threw the contest. That was probably a smart move for her future career. Miss Universe and Wonder Woman? Whoa... Wait, aren't they kind of the same thing?

Via Page Six–

All that glitters isn’t gold … at least for Gal Gadot.

Prior to becoming a household name as an actress, the “Wonder Woman” star, 32, was a beauty pageant queen in her native Israel. Unbeknownst to Gadot, her family entered her in her first pageant when she was still a teenager.

“I told myself, ‘I’m just gonna do this. They’re gonna fly us to Europe, and I’m gonna get to tell my grandchildren that Grandmom did the Miss Israel thing,'” she recalled in the Aug. 25 issue of Rolling Stone. “Little did I know that I would win.”

The actress didn’t realize that winning Miss Israel would automatically make her a contestant in the iconic Miss Universe competition.

“I knew that I did not want to win Miss Universe. It wasn’t my thing,” she explained. “For an 18-year-old, it looked like too much responsibility.”

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Gal Gadot established herself as a challenger of sexism, a defender of the contemporary female, and– perhaps a bit ironically– a sex symbol with her breakout performance in 2017's Wonder Woman.  Is Miss Gadot a formidable role model for the 21st-century woman?  Sound off in the comments below!