Kristelle Zibara was ready to put acting aside – then she found a perfect fit, playing plus-sized beauty Queen Fatima

The first time audiences see Kristelle Zibara, she’s wearing leggings with pink underwear on top and dancing up a bedroom storm to Britney Spears.

She has the charisma to pull it off.

Zibara is playing a Britney-loving bakery worker and first-time pageant contender, in the anti-romantic comedy Queen Fatima, making its world premiere at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres as part of Sydney Festival.

Fatima is about to turn 31, still works in her family’s manouche bakery, and her only friend is a 74-year-old outcast called Gada; her boyfriend of three years, Karim, is too ashamed of her size to introduce her to his parents.

But Fatima reckons she’s just as “blessed” as any woman, and decides to enter the Queen Lebanon Australia pageant — to prove…