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Current Miss Universe titleholder R’Bonney Gabriel INSTAGRAM PHOTO/MISSUNIVERSE
By Christina Alpad
September 13, 2023 190
THE Miss Universe pageant — considered the largest and most prestigious beauty pageant — is removing the age limit of 28 years old to all candidates beginning 2024.
"Starting then, every adult woman in the world will be eligible to compete to be Miss Universe," the pageant posted on its Instagram account @missuniverse Wednesday morning.
A link to the post showed that current titleholder, R'Bonney Gabriel, made the announcement at Tanner Fletcher's spring 2024 New York Fashion Week show on Tuesday.
In 2022, MUO also started allowing mothers and wives to compete for the pageant.
"It's a bold group of women in charge over here, and you know what, a lot of people tend to follow what we do — it's nice to be a standard-bearer, and I'm proud that we get to do this," Gabriel told WWD.
The 72nd Miss Universe competition is set on November 18 at host country El Salvador. Michelle Dee will represent the country in the upcoming pageant.
