{"id":3480,"date":"2019-12-09T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2021-01-12T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:50:08","slug":"miss-south-america-is-miss-universe-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Miss South Africa is Miss Universe 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe <strong>Sunday, December 8, 2019<\/strong> which was held at Tyler Perry&#8217;s Studios in Atlanta, Ga. She <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3483 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-241x300.jpg?resize=265%2C330\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa.jpg?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa.jpg?resize=768%2C955&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa.jpg?resize=823%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 823w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa.jpg?resize=696%2C865&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa.jpg?resize=338%2C420&amp;ssl=1 338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa.jpg?w=965&amp;ssl=1 965w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/>is a passionate activist and engaged in the fight against gender based violence. She has devoted her social media campaign to changing the narrative around gender stereotypes. She is a proud advocate for natural beauty and encourages women to love themselves the way they are.<\/p>\n<p>Tunzi was asked a question on social issues and the last change to explain why she deserves to be Miss Universe. Her response was, &#8220;I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me \u2014 with my kind of skin and my kind of hair \u2014 was never considered to be beautiful,&#8221; she said in her last response. &#8220;I think it is time that that stops today. I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.&#8221; Watch her speech <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1203925969913950210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1203925969913950210\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miss South Africa \/ Miss Universe 2019 said, <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3485 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3-200x300.jpg?resize=198%2C297\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?resize=696%2C1044&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?resize=1068%2C1602&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?resize=280%2C420&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-3.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>\u201cI came into this competition with my natural hair as a symbol of my firm belief in fair representation. I hope I have inspired people and to <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3487 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5-300x208.jpg?resize=300%2C208\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?resize=768%2C533&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?resize=100%2C70&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?resize=218%2C150&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?resize=696%2C483&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Miss-South-Africa-5.jpg?resize=606%2C420&amp;ssl=1 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>insert themselves in spaces where they feel that people like them do not belong.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zozitunzi\">@zozitunzi<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pageant can be seen again at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1203922463274545152\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1203922463274545152<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe Sunday, December 8, 2019 which was held at Tyler Perry&#8217;s Studios in Atlanta, Ga. She is a passionate activist and engaged in the fight against gender based violence. She has devoted her social media campaign to changing the narrative around gender stereotypes. She is a proud advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion-and-trends"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cropped-Miss-South-Africa-2.jpg?fit=2238%2C1260&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}