Ageless lawyer hoping to become oldest Miss Universe contestant at 60
She’s an ageless beauty.
A 60-year-old Argentinian lawyer is turning heads and is one step closer to making history with hopes of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant.
Alejandra Rodriquez was crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires on Wednesday for the right to represent the province in the nationwide competition in May, according to HOLA!
Rodriquez believed she had long aged out of the worldwide beauty pageant, but her thoughts changed when the rules changed.
In its inception in 1952, Miss Universe contestants’ ages were required to fall in the strict range of 18 to 28 years old and be single with no children.
But the pageant ruled last year that women between the ages of 18 and 73 were allowed to compete regardless of any other factor.
The increase in the upper age requirement was announced last September and will be first implemented for the 2024 competition.
Gabriel is currently the oldest contestant to claim the Miss Universe title, winning the competition at 28 years old in 2022.
The newly crowned Miss Buenos Aires became a journalist out of high school before studying law and becoming a legal advisor for a hospital, she told Argentinian television network El Trece.
Rodriquez, whose looks are still turning heads credits her lifestyle for her appearance, saying she keeps to her diet and remains active.
“The basic thing is to have a healthy life, eat well, do physical activity,” she told the outlet.
“Normal care, nothing too extraordinary and a little genetics.”
The 60-year-old says she sticks to her diet, which consists of healthy eating.
“What I try to do is intermittent fasting, I think that helps a lot. Then I try to eat organic foods, a lot of fruit, a lot of vegetables, and use good creams.”
Rodriquez says she works out three times a week, mainly walking and some jogging, “I’m not extreme.
Rodriquez’s win at the Miss Buenos Aires competition came from a pool of 35 contestants of various ages.
“We were 35 participants of all ages, from 18 to 73 years old was the oldest. There was no age category,” Rodriguez said.
The newly crowned Miss Buenos Aires is happy to be competing and is proud to be one of the faces of the modern beauty pageants.
Her eyes are now set on the Miss Argentina pageant, which begins on May 25 in Buenos Aires.
“I am thrilled to be representing this new paradigm in beauty pageants because we are inaugurating a new stage in which women are not only physical beauty but another set of values. I am the first of this generation to start with this,” Rodriguez said, according to HOLA!
The Miss Universe pageant is scheduled for Sept. 28, 2024.
