All 88 beauty queens from around the world sashayed across the Miss Universe stage on Sunday night, and in the end the jeweled headpiece stayed in South America with Venezuela’s Gabriela Isler passing off the crown to Colombia’s Paulina Vega.
And though over-the-top traditional costumes, dazzling evening gowns and a bikini segment are always expected in the annual beauty pageant, so are the questions concerning contestants’ plastic surgery.
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The country’s president Juan Manuel Santos said of the win: ‘It shows that in Colombia we have very intelligent women, very hardworking women, women who persevere when faced with obstacles, and in addition to that they’re very beautiful.”
