Miss Denmark Victoria Kjaer Theilvig was crowned as the new Miss Universe 2024 with her winning answer during the final Question-and-Answer Portion.
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She bested Miss Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina, Miss Mexico Mariana Fernanda Beltran, Miss Thailand Suchata Chuangsri, and Miss Venezuela Ileana Marquez.
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For the final round, the Top 5 candidates were given the same question.
The question was: "This universe has inspired generations of women. What is your message to the ones watching you right now?"
This was how the candidates answered the question:
MISS NIGERIA CHIDIMMA ADETSHINA
As a woman who has faced adversity, I feel like I have a powerful story. I don't stand here as Chidimma Adetshina, I stand here as a symbol of hope, a beacon of faith, as someone who has persevered with grace. I believe I have fought for not only myself but for Africa.
MISS MEXICO MARÍA FERNANDA BELTRÁN
As my social project says say no cyberbullying, cyber harassment. Right now we're in a huge problem that is social medias. And the message that I want to give to the world is to fight control and adapt to this new situation, with the intelligent emotional intelligence that we need, to have we need, to have we need to have this emotional intelligence, so we can control that emotions. And with that emotions, we can give that message with no fears.
MISS DENMARK VICTORIA KJÆR THEILVIG
My message to all the world that are watching out there is no matter where you come from, no matter your past, you can always choose to turn it into your strengths. It will never define who you are. You just gotta keep fighting. I stand here today because I want to change, I want to make history, and that's what I'm doing tonight. So, never give up always, believe in yourself, in your dreams, and that is exactly what you're going to do. Thank you.
MISS THAILAND SUCHATA CHUANGSRI
One message I would like to give them is to always believe and to always have hope working on my project opal. I work along breast cancer patients and doctor. We all know that it is a hard thing to overcome this disease, but what I can feel is everyone has hope and everyone believes that tomorrow will be a better day as long as you believe your power is infinite. And as long as you have hope, your spirits and your power will shine. Thank you.
MISS VENEZUELA ILEANA MÁRQUEZ
My message tonight is addressed to the most important persons in the world, not only the women here tonight, but across the world. The crown tonight does not only go to the representative of Miss Universe tonight, but the crown goes to every single woman that has earned their respect love and disabilities for us to be here tonight.
MISS UNIVERSE 2024 FIRST ROUND OF QUESTION AND ANSWER
Miss Nigeria, Miss Mexico, Miss Thailand, Miss Denmark and Miss Venezuela were really able to showcase what they're made of as they also went through a first round of question and answer segment right after they were announced as the Top 5 finalists.
miss NIGERIA Chidimma Adetshina
QUESTION: What is more important, being liked or being respected, and why?
ANSWER: Can you repeat the question? I feel like it's being respected.
We live in a society where we often don't feel respected because of who we are.
And I feel like when you respect yourself, you respect others around you.
And respect is really important. Thank you.
miss MEXICO María Fernanda Beltrán
QUESTION: When something bad is happening in your life, what gives you power to keep going?
ANSWER: To keep going in my life is my mom. Through his fight of cancer, right now I'm feeling very happy to be here, to represent his resilience, his perseverance, and his discipline about all this illness. I want to invite you to always feel your dreams.
And as a powerful woman say, Diana de Gales, I want to be the queen of the people's heart. Thank you, Mexico.
miss DENMARK Victoria Kjær Theilvig
QUESTION: How would you live your life differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
ANSWER: Hola, Mexico. I would never change how I live my life. We learn from our mistakes. We learn every day. We learn something new and we got to take that. We got to take that and bring it to the future. And that's why I live each day by each day. And I just got to stay positive. And yeah, so no, I will not change nothing.
miss THAILAND Suchata Chuangsri
QUESTION: What qualities must someone have to be a truly successful leader for you?
ANSWER: A quality that a leader should have for me is empathy. Because no matter how good you are, no matter what kind of education you are, in the end, you need empathy to care about your people, to care about their well-being. And not only a leader. I believe that everyone in this world needs to have empathy among each other. That's how we can unite.
miss VENEZUELA Ileana Márquez
QUESTION: Describe the ideal woman of today and what you have in common with her?
ANSWER: It was sharing and celebrating all the 127 women who were here on stage.
Leaving behind the barriers, leaving behind the differences, and uniting, giving a message to the world of respect, love and unity. Because that's how the world is built.
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