A Puerto Rican beauty queen's* makeup is spiked with a spicy substance that makes her face swell, her evening gowns get doused with pepper spray, her bag is stolen, and a bomb threat gets called into the pageant, but despite it all, the embattled woman wins the big crown — Miss Puerto Rico Universe — and laughs in the face of her highly-motivated enemies.

No, this is not the synopsis of a Spanish-language remake of Mean Girls called
Estas Chicas Son Hermosas Y Media! This is real life, folks. Lesser women might have bowed out after the habenero-in-the-makeup trick, but not Ingrid Marie Rivera. [CNN]

_{*Off-topic, but funny.}