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The new Miss Universe 2024, Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, Miss Denmark, celebrates after winning the 73rd edition of the Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City, November 16, 2024.
MISS – Voted most beautiful woman in the world for one year. Victoria Kjaer Theilvig, a 21-year-old Dane, was crowned Miss Universe 2024 this Saturday, November 16 in the evening during this beauty contest organized in Mexico. The professional dancer beat 130 competitors, a record for the competition formerly owned by Donald Trump. She succeeds the Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios.
For this 73rd edition, not one, but three French candidates were in the running: Indira Ampiot, elected Miss France in 2023, but also Coraly Desplan for Guadeloupe and Catherine Edouard for Martinique. These French overseas departments indeed marked their big return to the international beauty contest after 40 years of absence and their last appearance in 1984.
Indira Ampiot in the Top 30
During the beauty contest in Mexico, Indira Ampiot finished in the Top 30, managing to climb to 20th place.
« A little disappointed it's true not to have been further than the top 30, but I tell myself that I was still classified”, she reacted on Instagram.
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Coraly Desplan and Catherine Edouard did not have the chance to be selected among the finalists. France's last coronation dates back to 2016, when Iris Mittenaere, wearing the tricolor scarf, won Miss Universe.
Women who are mothers for the first time
This 73rd edition was marked by the presence for the first time of candidates with children. There were ten of them, including Beatrice Njoya from Malta, aged 40 and mother of three children.
Among the public favorites of this 73rd edition, a 28-year-old Venezuelan Ileana Márquez, is the mother of a daughter. This educator, model and television presenter came 5th.
Among the 12 semi-finalists, Jennifer Colón, from Puerto Rico, is 36 years old and has three children. Also among them was Logina Salah, a 34-year-old single mother Egyptian model who suffers from vitiligo, an autoimmune disease.
Criticized for its promotion of outdated ideas about femininity, the competition has sought, after its takeover in 2022 by the Thai company JKN Global Group, to renew itself by opening its doors to women who were previously not allowed to participate . In 2023, the competition included married women, plus-size women and two transgender women.
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