Los Angeles: The newly crowned Miss Universe, Puerto Rico's Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza, collapsed during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed off stage.
Pageant officials said shortly afterward she had passed out.
“She's OK. She's fine,” pageant representative Lark Anton said after she had passed out.
“She got dizzy. It’s very hot up here. Her dress is tight as you could see it was beaded and heavy. So, she passed out,” Anton added.
Earlier pageant officials had called, “Is there a nurse in the house?” after Mendoza slumped during the media appearance.
The 55th Miss Universe contest was held at the fabled Shrine Auditorium near downtown Los Angeles. It was a homecoming of sorts.
The first Miss Universe pageant was held about 40 km away in Long Beach, California, in 1952.
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