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ON TRACK Former athlete Dee-Ann in winner’s sash SUPER fit Dee-Ann KentishRogers is the first black woman ever to be crowned Miss Universe Great Britain.

The former heptathlete, 25, beat 32 women from across the nation in the final of the pageant.

Dee-Ann, from British Overseas Territory Anguilla, has twice competed in the Commonwealth Games but was HAPPY DAYS Showing off her style in Instagram pic WHATEVER your views on beauty pageants, it is great to see conventional standards smashed and competitions like this embracing different types of women – rather than one narrow definition that excludes more than half the planet.

What has made Dee-Ann’s win even more special for many black women is the fact she is forced to abandon her dream of representing Great Britain in the Olympics after a knee injury.

She explained: “My dream kind of reinvented itself and it shifted into pageantry.”

The University of Birmingham law student will now compete at Miss Universe 2018 in December.

She said: “It’s given me the opportunity to empower myself.” not light-skinned, mixed-race, or racially ambiguous. She is a dark skinned woman with dreadlocks – a type rarely celebrated.

I applaud the fact she refuses to straighten her hair because she wanted to represent her cultural identity.