Miss Universe Credits Filipino-Texas Family for Her Crown 

R'Bonney Gabriel is the first Filipina American to wear the Miss Universe crown in the pageant's seven-decade history and, at 28, the oldest entrant ever crowned. Gabriel, the first American to win the contest since 2012, believes her success was shaped by her biracial background, which she describes as a combination of her "big, loud and fun" paternal Filipino family and her "charming, small and reserved" maternal Texan family. "The two different sides of my family really, really shaped me...