{"id":7201,"date":"2011-09-14T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2011-09-14T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T14:55:44","slug":"miss-universe-grateful-to-the-almighty-satisfied-with-the-way-god-created-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/miss-universe-grateful-to-the-almighty-satisfied-with-the-way-god-created-me","title":{"rendered":"Miss Universe grateful to the Almighty, &#8220;satisfied with the way God created me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly crowned Miss Universe, Leila Lopes from Angola, thanked God after she was crowned at the 60th anniversary of the beauty pageant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7202\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/09\/leila-lopes-300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7202\" title=\"leila-lopes-300\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/09\/leila-lopes-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leila Lopes, Miss Universe 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked what physical trait she would change about herself, Lopes said: \u201cThank God I\u2019m very satisfied with the way God created me and I wouldn\u2019t change a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty. I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>She won during\u00a0an extravaganza at the Credicard Hall in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Miss Ukraine, Olesia Stefanko, was named first runner-up while Miss Brazil, Priscila Machado,\u00a0 was second runner up.<\/p>\n<p>None of the top three\u00a0had made the pageant&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;top 10 voted contestants&#8221; in an on-line poll sponsored by the Telemundo Spanish-language cable network.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Sweden, Ronnia Fornstedt,\u00a0was named\u00a0Miss Photogenic and Miss Montenegro, Nikolina Loncar,\u00a0was awarded the\u00a0Miss Congeniality award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/miss.universe.thanks.god.for.the.way.he.made.her\/28618.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly crowned Miss Universe, Leila Lopes from Angola, thanked God after she was crowned at the 60th anniversary of the beauty pageant. 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