{"id":70798,"date":"2025-08-15T04:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70798\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:57:17","slug":"jamie-vandenberg-of-lethbridge-wins-miss-universe-canada-2025-lethbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70798\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie VandenBerg of Lethbridge wins Miss Universe Canada 2025 &#8211; Lethbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>It was a surreal night in Windsor, Ont., as Lethbridge\u2019s Jamie VandenBerg was crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/miss-universe-canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Universe Canada<\/a> 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old international model and actress will represent Canada at the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/miss-universe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Universe<\/a> competition in Thailand this November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you experience things that are so surreal, it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s good or bad, your body goes back into that fight, flight or freeze sometimes. For me, it just puts me back into this box of, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s so incredible that it can\u2019t be real,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755073389_716_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>VandenBerg\u2019s crown was placed by Ashley Callingbull, the first Indigenous Miss Canada and a longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/pageant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pageant<\/a> icon. Having admired Callingbull for years, VandenBerg says the moment felt like a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Her journey to the crown began more than a decade ago and included years of training, competing, and fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Behind the glamour is a survivor\u2019s story. While modelling abroad, VandenBerg narrowly escaped a violent abduction and point-blank shooting a moment that changed her perspective forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I have one last decision in my life to make, I\u2019m going to make it protecting my own autonomy\u2026 I will never have the right amount of words to tell somebody, \u2018Thank you for saving my life,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she\u2019s using her platform to advocate for gender-based violence prevention and to inspire others to overcome life\u2019s obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size It was a surreal night in Windsor, Ont., as Lethbridge\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,5105,890,44274,44275,44,44276],"class_list":{"0":"post-70798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-features","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-miss-universe","13":"tag-miss-universe-canada","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pageant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}