Gladyz Zender is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who became the first Latin American woman to win the Miss Universe title. After being crowned, it was revealed that she was only 17 years old, a few months under the contest's minimum age requirement. But pageant officials decided that she could keep the crown, after they were told she was considered to be 18 in Peru. During the pageant, she was called as “Miss Socialite” for coming from an elite family.