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MISS ANGOLA IS THE NEW MISS UNIVERSE!!!

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The annual Miss Universe pageant was held in Sao Paulo on Sunday September 11 night, and Miss Angola, 25-year-old Leila Lopes, took the crown after impressing judges with her striking cream-colored gown and insightful answer to the final question. Lopes is the first winner the pageant has ever selected from her country. After she beat 88 other competitors from around the world, she was crowned by last year’s winner, Ximena Navarrete, from Mexico.
Lopes deftly handled the interview question that is asked of the remaining top five contestants. She was questioned about what physical trait she would change if she could.
1 “Thank God I’m very satisfied with the way God created me, and I wouldn’t change a thing,” Lopes said. “I consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty. I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.”
The first runner-up was 23-year-old Olesia Stefanko of Ukraine and the second runner-up was Priscila Machado of Brazil. The third was Miss Philippines and the fourth Miss China.
Contestants spent the past three weeks in Sao Paulo, trying to learn samba dance steps, visiting impoverished children and kicking a football around for cameras as the Miss Universe pageant came to Brazil for the first time.
Despite battling against a home-country favorite, Lopes won over the audience, speaking in the shared language of Portuguese. Angola, like Brazil, is a former Portuguese colony.
Lopes’s poise in the evening gown portion of the competition and her flattering dress choice helped win over the crowd. She won the fan favorite for the look, and further enchanted the crowd after speaking in Portuguese.

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