Looking just fabulous in a gold-sequined gown,
Miss Iris Mittenaere, a 24-year-old dental surgery student beat 12 other finalists to
take the crown. As Miss Universe, she will be campaigning for dental and oral
care around the world.
In the Q&A portion, Mittenaera answered a tough and
timely question regarding immigration, about whether or not countries have an
obligation to accept refugees. “In France, we have the most globalization that
we can, we want to have the biggest exchange of people that we can,” she
answered. “Maybe someday that will change, but now we have open borders. Having
open borders allows us to travel more to the world and to find out more about
what’s out there in the world.
"This sash is not only a sash," said
Mittenaere, who is from Northern France, in a Miss Universe interview after the
pageant. "This is something to help people, to understand
people."
First and second runner-ups were
Miss Haiti (Raquel Pelissier) and Miss Colombia (Andrea Tovar). The top
finalists hailed from Kenya, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Panama, Colombia,
Phillippines, Canada, Brazil, France, Haiti, Thailand and the U.S.
The pageant changed its format this
year; it had 12 instead of 13 finalists, and counted online votes from the Miss
Universe app and Twitter.
The host of this year's show Steve Harvey proudly joked that he got the right winner this year after the last year's confusion of getting the wrong winner.
Sierra Leone
entered the competition for the first time and was represented by Hawa Kamara, 2013 Miss West
Africa.
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