Isabel Lestapier Winqvist (born 8 May 1987) is a former

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titleholder who resigned.

Biography

Winqvist was born in Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden and studied business and social science at upper secondary school. She studied at ProCivitas Private Gymnasium. She won the Miss Sweden pageant in her home town,

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

, after several months of a recruitment process. She is the second delegate to be elected by the Panos Emporio Corporation. The competition was televised in eight countries, and therefore all the contestants spoke English. She was crowned on 21 April 2007 by her precursor,

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, who was semi-finalist at the

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pageant, held in

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. The day after the coronation it became known that she had been featured in the Swedish edition of

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. Having featured in erotic photographs was against the rules for Miss Sweden contestants, but since she had only featured on bikini pictures rather than topless or in the nude, the owner of the Miss Sweden brand, Panos Emporio, took the decision not to disqualify Winqvist. Despite this, she decided to resign from the title 25 June 2007, citing communication problems with the Swedish sponsors. She had the shortest Swedish reign of all times. Her first runner-up,

Lina Hahne Lina Maria Hahne (born 15 January 1984) is a Swedish beauty queen and Nya Fröken Sverige, Miss Sweden 2007 titleholder, who was crowned on June 26 after the original winner Isabel Lestapier Winqvist was dethroned from the title.Peter London Peter London (born Peter Lunden; 28 September 1982 in Sweden) is a Swedish bassist. He is best known as the bassist fo ...

, bassist from the Swedish glam metal band

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, on 25 June 2010 at the

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in Stockholm. The couple got divorced in March 2012. In July 2014, Isabel Lestapier Winqvist married businessman Hans Isoz in Stockholm. In May 2015, their daughter Henrietta was born.

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