This is Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls.

Hi, Rebels! This is Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, the interview.

I'm your host, Taya Diggs, and today we're talking to Zosie Beanie Toonzie.

She's a South African model and a beauty patent winner who was crowned Miss Universe 2019.

How cool is that?

She also read us the story of the South African singer-songwriter, Miriam McCabe.

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Okay, Zozzi, can you introduce yourself to our listeners?

Hi, I'm Zosimini Toonzie, better known as Zosie, Miss Universe 2019.

When you were younger, did you ever dream that you would become Miss Universe?

Honestly, I wanted it in my heart, but I didn't know it was possible,

simply because not a lot of women who looked like me had won the competition before,

and so I didn't really think that it was something possible.

But as a rebel girl myself, I was like, it can be done,

and if I am the first person to do it, then so be it.

So it was definitely a dream that I didn't know would come true,

and I fought for it, and it did.

Like a true rebel girl,

what do you think it means for girls to be able to see a black Miss universe, especially one who sports natural hair?

I know that when I won, my final answer was I wanted to win so that a lot of young women and girls would look at my face and see their faces reflected in mine.

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