miss universe 2007

Miss Japan -Riyo Mori
Riyo Mori was born on 24 December 1986 in Aoi-ku Shizuoka,Japan.She is a Japanese dance instructor and model who won the Miss Universe 2007 title in May 2007.Only child,Riyo Mori began dancing at the age of 4.She has studied at Quinte Ballet School of Canada and also is a graduate from Centennial Secondary School in Belleville,Ontario,Canada. Mori also completed her Grade 11 year at Mount Douglas Secondary School in Victoria, British Columba,Canada.She till possesses her first pair of ballet shoes.
***Question and Answer session***
Q:What is the one lesson you learned as a child that still affects your life today?
E:"I have been dancing since i was child.I grew up among many students and teachers.I learned to always be happy,patient and positive.That is also what I want to teach to the next generation.
***Evening Gown and Swimsuit competition***

 Mori's kimono-inspired black/floral evening gown of choice came from the Spring/Summer 2007 collection of Gucci.

 She achieved the highest scored in the swimsuit competition and her swimsuit score is still the highest scores since Oxana Federova in 2002.

 Mori's National Costume.

This was the most unforgettable crowning moment in Miss Universe history.Riyo Mori of Japan was crowned the winner of the title by Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico.

miss universe 2006

Miss Puerto Rico-Zuleyka Rivera

Zuleyka Jerris Mendoza was born on 3 October 1987.She is a Puerto Rican beauty queen who held the titles Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006 and Miss Universe 2006.She her debut as a telenovela actress in Telemundo's soap opera Dame Chocolate.Rivera was the fifth Puerto Rican to win the title,which makes the island third most successful entity in the pageant(behind USA and Venezuela).Prior to Rivera's win,Puerto Rico had been tied with Venezuela which each having won the pageant 5 times.

***Question and Answer session***

Q:What is your definition about success?
A:**************(i don't know what is her answer^_^)
***Evening Gown and Swimsuit competition***

she wearing the heavy,chained dress.She got the highest score in evening gown competition.

Zuly in swimsuit competition.

National costume.
 

Natalie Glebova of Canada crowned her successor,Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico,at the conclusion of two-hours show.Glebova's reign would be the longest ever in Miss Universe history:one year and two months.Rivera's would be one of the shortest reigns of all,just 10 months.

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 Miss Canada-Natalie Glebova

Natalie Glebova was born on 11 November 1981 in Tuapse,Russia.She is Russian Canadian beauty queen who has held the title Miss Universe 2005.She is a classical pianist and also has won various regional gymnastic championships.Prior to competing at Miss Universe,Glebova worked as a model and received her Bachelor of Commerce in Information Technology Management and Marketing at Ryerson University in Toronto.She has also worked as a motivational speaker for grade school and high school students.Glebova was married to Thai tennis player Paradorn Srichaphan.The couple who met during the 2006 Thailand Open,became engaged in April 2007 and were married on November 29,2007 in Bangkok,Thailand.They separated in early 2011.In 2008,Glebova joined The Amazing Race Asia 3 and she partnered with Pailin Rungratanasunthorn.They represented Thailand and came in 8th place.
***Question and Answer session***
Q:What is the biggest challenge in your life?
A:The biggest challenge in my life is always trying to stay positive,I consider myself the kind of person who always looks at the glass half full instead of half empty.And even though sometimes in difficult times it is hard to look at life this way.I always try to maintain a positive outlook in life.Kap kun krap.
***Evening Gown and Swimsuit competition***

 Glebova's Evening Gown

 Swimsuit competition.

National costume.

Natalie was crowned Miss Universe 2005 by outgoing titleholder Jennifer Hawkins of Australia.She was the second Canadian to win the title,following Karen Dianne Baldwin who was Miss Universe 1982.

miss universe 2004

Miss Universe 2004-Jennifer Hawkins
Jennifer Hawkins was born on 22 December 1983 in Holmesville,New South Wales,Australia and currently resides in Sydney.She is an Australian beauty queen, model and television presenter best known as Miss Universe 2004 and the face of Australian Department store Myer.She attended West Wallsend High School.She is one of four children,and her parents are of Australian heritage.Hawkins was a former cheerleader for the Newcastle Knights rugby league team, and the Hunter Pirates basketball team and also worked as a model.It was as a model that she was cast as Miss Australia  for the Miss Universe competition.Hawkins also worked as a choreographer for a dance team that toured Australia specialising in Hip-Hop and Ballet.Hawkins received an elaborate Mikimoto pearl encrusted crown,worth $250,000 as well as an extensive prize package.Hawkins was the first blonde haired woman to win the title since Angela Visser of Netherlands in 1989.
***Question and Answer session***

  Q:If you could choose what time period to be born and what sex to be, what would you choose and why?
A:I'd have to say this time period because we have as much freedom as we want. And I choose the sex of female because females have a lot of say in today's society.I'd say this society.Today!
***Evening Gown and Swimsuit competition*** 

  She wore an unusual vintage copper gown that was designed by Bora and cost $ 25,000

 She looked so good in that swimsuit with all her curves in the right places.

 Hawkin's National Costume.

 Jennifer Hawkins was crowned Miss Universe 2004, by outgoing titleholder Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic.Hawkins was the first Australian titleholder since Kerry Anne Wells won in 1972.

 

miss universe 2003

Miss Dominican Republic-Amelia Vega
Amelia Vega Polanco was born on 7 November 1984 in Santiago de los Caballeros,Dominican Republic.She became the first Dominican woman to be named Miss Universe,in 2003.At the age of 18,she was the youngest winner since 1994.Vega's father Otto Vega is a general medical practitioner with offices in New York City and Miami.Her mother,Patricia Polanco Alvarez,also born in Santiago de los Caballeros,was a previous national titleholder who represented the Dominican Republic at the 1980 Miss World pageant.Vega is the niece of the Grammy Award-winning singer Juan Luis Guerra.Vega is the third among  Miss Universe winners who also won The National Costume competition.Thailand's Porntip Nakhirunkanok won the award in 1988 and eventually won the crown then,Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad & Tobago also won the Best National Costume and went on to win the 1988 Miss Universe crown.

***Question and answer session***

Q:What is the most precious gift you've ever given someone?
A:According to my grandma,it's a letter she wrote to me when I was young.And it makes me always feel very emotional because it is not what you write but it is feeling you put behind it.
***Evening Gown and Swimsuit competition***

 she wore a white evening gown during the competition,which featured strings of beads on the sleeves.

  All 71 delegates participated in a dance routine featuring red-hot swimsuits.

It was a memorable national costume.It resemble the Caribbean Sea surrounding the island of her beautiful homeland, the Dominican Republic.She also won the Best National Costume award .
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There is a fairy tale that millions of little girls enjoy when they are very young:To ascend a throne as the most admired queen in the entire universe.

 At the conclusion of the final night, Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic was crowned as the new Miss Universe 2003 by Miss Universe 2002,Justine Pasek of Panama.  

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Miss Panama-Justine Pasek
Yostin"Justine" Lissette Pasek Patino was born on 29 August 1979.She is a Panamian Model,FAO Goodwill Ambassador and Miss Universe 2002.Pasek was born in Kharkiv,Ukraine ,the daughter of a Panamian homemaker and Polish engineer.Affectionately, called by her Polish name"Justyna",she lived in Ukraine for a year, but spent  most of her childhood in the village of Wozucyn near Zamosc, Poland.After her mother finished her studies in chemistry,the family moved to Panama.Before entering the Miss Panama contest in 2001,Psek worked is a model in a television productions and fashion shows.She also planned to complete her degree in environmental engineering in New Zealand with her two younger brothers(Edward and Alvaro),and later worked for the Smithsonian Research Centre.Her start in the modelling world took place when she joined"Chica Modelo"(a model search contest in 1996 when she won the award for the Best Editorial Model.
***QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION***
Q:"What makes you blush?"
A:"Well, I really can't help when people compliment me or they give me their sincere love,it's very,I love it,but it's so, I feel so blessed that I can't help blushing and that honestly what it is."

***EVENING GOWN AND SWIMSUIT COMPETITION***

evening gown:8.92(3rd place)

  swimsuit:8.79(7th place)  

Justine's National Costume.

Originally, the first runner-up in Miss Universe 2002 competition,Pasek become the first women to assume the title of Miss Universe when the Miss Universe Organisation revoke the crown from the reigning titleholder Oxana Federova for not fullfilling the duties stipulated in her contract.She was formally crowned Miss Universe by pageant co-owner Donald Trump in New York City,and a busy of press engagement followed.

miss universe 2002(dethroned on 23 september 2002)

Miss Russia-Oxana Federova
Oxana Gennadyevna Federova was born on 17 December 1977.She is a Russian Miss Universe winner,police officer(retired),former university lecturer,television host,actress,singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.She became the first Miss Russia to win the Miss Universe title.She began in the entertainment business as a model and became Miss St Petersburg 1999 and Miss Russia 2001.The organization invited Oxana Federova to attend the pageant in 2001.But Federova said she couldn't compete because of her studies,and that she would compete in 2002.Her 2nd runner-up,Oxana Kalandyrets,compete instead and become a Top-10 finalist.In 2002 Federova won the contest.Oxana was born in Pskov,Russia,where she lived until she was 18.She is an only child, and she was brought by her and maternal grandparents.According to Federova,her grandparents were very demanding of her.Federova's parents were divorced when she was 3 years old.She did not hear from her father since then.In 2005,she tried to find her father,but discovered he has died.Her father was a nuclear physicist,and her mother worked as an nurse at a psychiatric hospital(retired).At the police academy,Federova played saxophone as a member of the brass band.

QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
Q:"What makes you blush?" 
A:"When I say the wrong things."
EVENING GOWN AND SWIMSUIT
She coming in first place in EG and SS competition.

Evening gown:9.64

 swimsuit:9.88

Oxana's national costume.

Oxana was crowned Miss Universe 2002 by Miss Universe 2001,Denise Quinones of Puerto Rico.Federova was dethroned 4 months later and first runner-up Justine Pasek of Panama took over the Miss Universe title. 
 

miss universe 2001

Miss Puerto Rico-Denise Quinones
she was born on 9 september in Ponce, Puerto Rico.She is Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageants title holder who was the fourth woman from her country to win the Miss Universe contest.Prior of wining the Miss Universe pageant,she represented her hometown of Lares in the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2001 pageant.Since relinquishing the title,Quinones attended the School for Film and Television's two-years consevatory acting programme.Quinones has starred in the Spanish version of Nilo Cruz's play Ana en el tropico(Anna in the tropics) and continues to hone her talents in the United States.For her role in the Anna in the tropics she was nominated and awarded an ACE and Hola Awards.In October 2005,she was selected for the role of Dona Rosita,in a production of Federico Garcia Lorca's play Dona Rosita la soltera.
QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
Q:"If you have to change one thing about your past,what would that be?"
A:"I'm trying really to find something that I would want in the past,but I really enjoyed all my life,all the good opportunities that I've had and all those not good that moments,but they helped me to grow.And I have enjoyed all my life.And I thank God for each step that He has given me.I have no regrets."

EVENING GOWN AND SWIMSUIT

she scored high in both evening gown and swimsuit,coming in first place with the score of 9.742 and 9.617 respectively.

 Denise in her national costume.Nothing compares to the wings on the national costume of Denise.It was amazing!!!

Denise was crowned Miss Universe 2001 by Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta of India.








 
 

miss universe 2000

Miss India-Lara Dutta
 she was born on 16 april 1978.she is an Indian actress UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and former miss universe.Lara was born in Ghaziabad,Uttar Pradesh to a punjabi father and an Anglo-Indian mother.Her father is a Wing Commander L.K Dutta (retired) and her mother is Jennifer Dutta.She also has two older sisters,one of whom serves in the Indian Air Force and a well known younger sister.The Dutta family moved to Bangalore in 1981 where she completed high school from St Francis Xavier Girls High School and the Frank Anthony Public School.Lara graduated in economics with a minor in communications from the University of Mumbai. She was crowned Miss Universe 2000 which led to her appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.

QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
Q: What would you say to those who condemn the contest as an affront to woman?
A:It gives us a platform to voice our choices and opinions and it makes us strong and independent that we are today.
source;http://www.desiclub.com/community/culture/culture_article.cfm?id=17

EVENING GOWN & SWIMSUIT

fourth in the evening gown competition with a 9.4 

 She consistently scored high,coming in first in swimsuit contest with a score of 9.44 out of 10

2nd place for national costume awards 

Lara Dutta of India was crowned as the new Miss Universe 2000 by Miss Universe 1999 Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana.