Miss France Iris Mittenaere Crowned Miss Universe 2017

Get in here prospective beauty queens 👑...Miss France Iris Mittenaere, Miss Haiti Raquel Pelissier and Miss Colombia Andrea Tovar were the top three contestants at the Miss Universe 2017. Miss France, Iris Mittenaere won the crown, while Pelissier was the first runner-up and Tovar the second-runner-up.

Mittenaere, 24, is a Parisian native, currently pursuing a degree in dental surgery. She plans to use her Miss Universe platform to advocate for dental and oral hygiene. During the competition's Q&A session, Mittenaere praised France's open borders and refugee population. She said:

"In France, we want to have the most globalization that we can, we want to have the biggest exchange of people that we can".

This is the first time since 1990 that a European has won the crown.