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.

miss universe 2005

 

 

 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.