Shortly thereafter , her best friend Miranda introduced her to Miss Ondine , a minor Cairo beauty pageant which she joined under two conditions : to be the minor one and that her mom Giuseppina must not find out . When Iolanda won the second prize and Miranda second runner-up , they were unexpectedly photographed and came out in newspapers Le journal d'Égypte and Le progrès Égyptien . The next day when Giuseppina found out , she forcibly cut Iolanda 's hair short . Eventually , her mother gave up on her principles and Iolanda left her job to start modelling for Donna , a then famous Cairo-based fashion house . On her 21st birthday , Giuseppina gave her blessing for to join the Miss Egypt 1954 competition . Held during spring in the salons of the L'Auberge des Pyramides , she made a sensation of appearing in a two-piece panther-print bikini . The judges were overwhelmed and Iolanda won the title , automatically becoming the representative of Egypt on Miss World 1955 in London
Miss World 1955
Miss World 1955
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