Angola’s Leila Lopes Crowned Miss Universe Beating Out 88 Other Competitors

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Sep 12, 2011

Leila Lopes is the new Miss Universe after she beat out 88 other competitors at the annual pageant held this year in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Lopes replaced last year's winner, Mexico's Ximena Navarrete, in what was the 60th anniversary of the most famous beauty pageant in the world.

Lopes' answer to a question about what she would change about herself physically may have sealed the win for her.

"Thank God I’m very satisfied with the way God created me and I wouldn’t change a thing,” Lopes said when asked her interview question, according to an Associated Press report. "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."

Lopes edged Olesia Stefanko (Ukraine) and Priscilla Machado (Brazil) for the honor.

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