Rolene Strauss Wins 2014 Miss World Pageant: 5 Things to Know About Miss South Africa, a "Test Tube Baby"!

Congrats to the winner of the 2014 Miss World pageant, Miss South Africa, Rolene Strauss! 

The 22-year-old beauty queen and med student was crowned onstage at the competition's grand final in London on Sunday. Miss Hungary, Edina Kulcsár, came in second, while Miss United States, Elizabeth Safrit, placed third. 
Check out five things to know about Strauss below. 

1. She's a "test tube baby" 

This is what she jokingly calls herself. Strauss says on her website that her parents had struggled to conceive for five years. 
"After five long years (and most of their savings), I popped out of a test tube," she wrote. "A year after my birth my brother was, like my mom says, "sent from heaven." 

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