{"id":193383,"date":"2025-03-12T07:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-beauty-queens-beyond-the-crown-where-are-some-of-namibias-former-miss-namibia-now\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T05:04:19","slug":"namibia-beauty-queens-beyond-the-crown-where-are-some-of-namibias-former-miss-namibia-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-beauty-queens-beyond-the-crown-where-are-some-of-namibias-former-miss-namibia-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Beauty Queens Beyond the Crown &#8230;Where Are Some of Namibia&#8217;s Former Miss Namibia Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The glittering crown, the global stage, the whirlwind of media attention, the Miss Universe journey is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But what happens after the spotlight fades and the cameras stop rolling? Where do Namibia&#8217;s former Miss Universes go?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">Many continue to use their platform to make a difference where as others try to get on they own two feet. Miss Universe Namibia Michelle McLean 1992 said she feels grateful and blessed since she won Miss Universe for Namibia in 1992 and even years&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503040023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glittering crown, the global stage, the whirlwind of media attention, the Miss Universe journey is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But what happens after the spotlight fades and the cameras stop rolling? Where do Namibia&#8217;s former Miss Universes go? Many continue to use their platform to make a difference where as others try to get on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[50838,258,256,9290,15766,4706,724,9052,257,8370,254],"class_list":["post-193383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-where","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crown","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-queens","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}