The Electric New Paper
JAPANESE DANCER WINS MISS UNIVERSE
31 May 2007
WITH her beauty, Miss Japan/Universe Riyo Mori looks like anyone's dream girl.
And on Monday, when she won the beauty contest, she proved in her first moments as MissUniverse that she had the poise to go with her good looks.
When MissUniverse 2006 Zuleyka Rivera crowned her during the finale in Mexico, the diamond-and-pearl-studded crown slipped off her head.
Miss Mori caught the crown and immediately placed the headpiece - valued at US$250,000 ($382,000) - back on her head.
In an interview hours after she was crowned, the 20-year-old dancer said she would not change in her new role.
She said yesterday she will be true to herself in her year-long reign fighting the spread of HIV/Aids as Miss Universe.
Under pageant rules, women crowned Miss Universe become advocates for HIV/Aids research and education.
'I don't want to be acting,' said MissMori, wearing a shimmering silver dress. 'I just want to be myself, always be natural.'
The new Miss Universe also criticised crash dieting.
'I had a friend with an eating disorder. She always looked unhappy. She was never confident about her body, even though she was so thin,' she said. 'For me, it's so easy... Eat right.'
The only other time Japan has won the pageant was in 1959, when MissAkiko Kojima became the first MissUniverse from Asia. Since then, several women from the region have worn the crown.
Said Mr Donald Trump, who co-owns the pageant with NBC: 'She is an amazing champion, an amazing woman, and I hear that they go totally insane in Japan, so that's good.'
Miss Mori, from the small town of Shizuoka at the base of Mount Fuji, won the cheers of the Mexico City audience when she opened her interview with 'Hola, Mexico!'
'I learnt how to always be happy, be patient and to be positive, and this is what I want to teach to the next generation,' she said during the interview competition.
The daughter of a dance school operator, Miss Mori said her grandmother told her as a child that she wanted her to be Miss Japan before she turned 20.
She wants to someday open an international dance school in Tokyo.
She is not really pretty. Takako Kitahara looks better anytime. Anyway I posted a thread on her with nice pictures but the di ck he ad of a mod have to close my thread...worthless piece of shit
is that a sign that ms china will be next?
I'm SO happy Miss Japan won.. last year should've been Miss Japan as well.
GO ASIAN BEAUTIES!
