I’m the oldest Miss Universe contestant at the age of 60 – I still turn heads and it’s all thanks to my simple diet rule

A WOMAN has become the oldest Miss Universe contestant at the age of 60.

The Argentinian lawyer continues to turn heads at the age of 60 and hopes to make history as the oldest Miss Universe contestant.

Alejandra Rodriquez was crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires on Wednesday for the right to represent the province in the nationwide competition in May, 

It’s the first year that the beauty competition has been opened up to women past the age of 28.

Previously, Miss Universe contestants’ ages were required to fall in the strict range of 18 to 28 years old and be single with no children, but the rules were changed last year.

I am the first of this generation to start with this

Alejandra Rodriquez

Alejandra believed she had long aged out of the beauty pageant, but changed her mind when she heard about the new rules.

But the 60-year-old is still turning heads and credits her lifestyle for her incredible appearance, saying she keeps to her diet and remains active.

She revealed the simple diet change she does to keep her killer body.

“The basic thing is to have a healthy life, eat well, do physical activity,” she told Argentinian . “Normal care, nothing too extraordinary and a little genetics.”

The 60-year-old says she sticks to her diet, which consists of healthy eating and intermittent fasting.

“What I try to do is intermittent fasting, I think that helps a lot. Then I try to eat organic foods, a lot of fruit, a lot of vegetables, and use good creams.”

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern where you cycle between periods of eating and fasting says .

It does not say anything about which foods to eat, but rather when you should eat them.

 She also works out three times a week, mainly walking and some jogging, “I’m not extreme.

The newly crowned Miss Buenos Aires became a journalist out of high school before studying law and becoming a legal adviser for a hospital, she says.

Alejandra was picked to represent the country in the world-wide pageant from a pool of 35 contestants.

“We were 35 participants of all ages, from 18 to 73 years old was the oldest. There was no age category,” Rodriguez said.

Her eyes are now set on the Miss Argentina pageant, which begins on May 25 in Buenos Aires.

“I am thrilled to be representing this new paradigm in beauty pageants because we are inaugurating a new stage in which women are not only physical beauty but another set of values.

“I am the first of this generation to start with this,” Rodriguez said,