“A Boston University student is the new Miss Universe, bringing the crown back to the U.S. after a drought of more than a decade,” write Hannah Dreier and Michelle Rindels in an Associated Press story on Thursday (12/20). “Twenty-year-old Olivia Culpo won the title Wednesday night in Las Vegas…. The daughter of two professional musicians, Culpo has played the cello alongside world-renowned classical musician Yo-Yo Ma and followed in her parents’ footsteps with performances at Carnegie Hall and New York City. Her father called her the ‘nerdiest’ of her siblings, and her brother recalled that she was ‘really chubby and sort of weird when she was younger.’ They speculated that the same single-mindedness that helped her master the cello as a child propelled her rapid rise through the beauty pageant ranks.” Earlier this year, Culpo had won the Miss USA title.
Posted December 20, 2012
