She calls her role a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week job and it's a matter of keeping her priorities straight. People have often approached her, asking how she handles being an entertainer. I learned that you have to just believe in what you're doing." There's a lot of competition and jealousy. "When I started in this business, I was 15 years old, and no matter the places I went, there were always really negative people around. Growing up around beauty, Maryse found herself among a surprising amount of pessimism. She has also been featured in a special edition of Playboy and on the cover of its Girls of Canada 2007 calendar. In 2003, Maryse won Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada and she finished as the runner-up in the International Finals of Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2004. "I really love taking a girl who has no idea how to wear makeup and teach her everything, and show her the difference at the end. "People are really hard on women today," she said. She ran her school's fashion show, and even began putting together a makeup line - which she hopes to have running in full force within a year. In a class with 30 boys and no other girls, Maryse stuck to her guns, never straying from her passion for beauty. The Montreal native has been entertaining people since the age of 15. "I felt like saying, ‘Yeah, try to be yourself and speak French!'" Maryse said with a smile.īut the future SmackDown Diva set her mind to what she wanted, and two years later, she speaks English as fluently as if she grew up in the United States. Imagine being told to be yourself during interviews and competitions knowing only a few words of English. Of all the women to participate in WWE's Diva Search contests, Maryse may have had the longest road to travel.
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