Demi Leigh Nel Peters from South Africa crowned Miss Universe 2017

27 Nov 2017 | Angelopedia

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The splendid conclusion of Miss Universe 2017 saw the crowning of South Africa’s Demi Leigh Nel Peters as Miss Universe 2017. Iris Mittenaere of France crowned her successor Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Africa at the end of the event. She becomes the second winner from South Africa after Margaret Gardiner in 1978. She was part of our Top 12 favourites to win the title.

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters from South Africa is 22 years and stands tall at 170 cm. She recently earned her degree in Business Management at North-West University after making history at her high school for holding two leadership positions. Demi-Leigh’s biggest motivation comes from her half-sister who has a disability that lives in Potchefstroom with her stepmother and father. In her spare time, Demi-Leigh is passionate about a program she helped develop to train women in self-defence in various situations. She plans to share these workshops and help as many women as she can.

Our favourite from the very start, she was the talk of the town even before the competition started. Rachel Peters from Philippines, who managed to enter the Top 10 finalists of the night was all praises for this beautiful winner from the start itself, in fact calling her one of the toughest contestants. And why not, with her eccentric beauty, she possessed the right attitude always and her looks shout Miss Miss Universe from the word go.