Miss Venezuela won the 2009 Miss Universe crown giving a back-to-back title to their country. It is also Venezuela’s sixth time bagging the coveted beauty crown since the pageant’s creation. Very young at 18, Stefania Fernandez, dressed in a flowing tiered red evening gown, jumped in joy (rather not so gracefully) with fellow Miss Venezuela 2008 winner. As the crown was passed from one Venezuelan beauty to the next, the two cheered and teetered in elation that made the crown briefly fell to the floor.
Personal bet Dominican Republic Ada Aimee de la Cruz was the first runner up. Dominican Republic had the toughest question being asked whether or not HIV test should be mandatory. Another personal bet in the top 15 didn’t make it to the next cut, Miss South Africa. Our Filipina bet didn’t also make it to the Top 15 cut.
The other finalists were Miss Kosovo, Droga Ganusha; Miss Australia, Rachael Finch; and Miss Puerto Rico, Mayra Matos Perez. Miss China, Wang Jingyao, was named Miss Congeniality and Miss Thailand, Chutima Durongdej, won Miss Photogenic.
The new Miss Universe is from the city of Merida in the west of a beauty-obsessed South American country where hard-fought pageants are something of a national sport, with contestants widely dissected by the public and the media.
If there was one gripe about the whole worldwide-televised event, it’s the production. The prestigious pageant included musical performances by Flo Rida (whose music I listen to and like but it felt inappropriate to have him sing in the pageant with a background of “glamorous/model” women clad in bikinis jump in Hip Hop music), Heidi Montag, David Guetta and Kelly Rowland.
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