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 Newly Crowned Miss Universe Faints From
Lack Of Brain Oxygen
By Alan Lord
LOS ANGELES, California - Forty minutes into her reign as Miss Universe, Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza collapsed during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed offstage Sunday night.
Pageant officials immediately said the lithe 5-foot-9 18-year-old was all right and had fainted from the sudden depressurization of oxygen that often takes place in the brain when a title is won.
"She's OK. She's fine," pageant representative Lark Anton told Reuters. "She got dizzy. She’s not used to the airheadedness. Her dress is tight, she’s hot - she passed out."
Anton said Mendoza "had plenty to eat today," when pressed for the beauty queen's eating habits, adding, “she had a slice of cucumber and a whole cherry tomato for lunch. Plus I saw her wolf down a cheese-topped Dorito crumb backstage before going on. I would not call that anorexic in the least.”
Mendoza attended the pageant's Coronation Ball after recovering from her collapse, according to guests including Donald Trump, co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization. "Yes, she's fine," Trump said after inspecting the inside of her throat with his tongue
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