Meet the oldest crowned beauty queen in the world - she's aged 65 (PHOTOS)

Meet the oldest crowned beauty queen in the world – she’s aged 65 (PHOTOS)

May 14, 2013 |

May 14, 2013

by Rachel Ogbu

65-year-old grandmother, Irenilda de Oliveira Meneses has been crowned winner of the first ever Miss Geriatric pageant in in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The pageant in Sao Paulo is open only to women aged 60 and over. The entrants were judged on criteria including their smile, congeniality and elegance at the contest in Brazil

According to reports, de Oliveira Meneses, who has two grandsons, said: “We came out here to dance, to have fun, to parade around, and we succeeded; it’s really emotional, very emotional. I am so swept away, I am speechless. I am still speechless,”the grandmother said in a report on ChannelsTV.com.

The oldest beauty queen in the competition, 87-year-old Maria Helena Fernandes, said the pageant had made her feel ‘like a 20-year-old girl’.

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