The reigning Miss Universe, Paulina Vega, is on cloud nine these days. The beauty is beaming with confidence and is thrilled by the kind of honour that she witnessed recently. Paulina received a stamp that the Government issued in her honour, in a ceremony held under the National Beauty Pageant in Cartagena. Paulina looked extremely happy and thrilled as she held the stamp, featuring her image when she won the title of Miss Universe 2014.
“It is an honour and I am very proud because few people have had this joy,” she beamed. The stamp is valued at 20, 000 Colombian pesos which is roughly US$6.50. Only 9, 500 pieces of the stamps will be issued. Deputy Minister of Information Technologies and Communications, María Carolina Hoyos said that the Government of Colombia wanted to highlight the "inner and outer beauty" of Vega. It was their idea to capture and immortalize this moment forever.
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The first time the country issued a postage stamp in honor of a beauty queen was in 1959 when Luz Marina Zuluaga became the first Miss Colombia Universe. In 2002 the next stamp was issued in honour of Vanessa Mendoza, who was the first Afro-Colombian to win the crown of the national beauty pageant.
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