Miss Universe Iris Mittenaere reveals which ‘modern woman’ is her role model

French beauty queen and reigning Miss Universe Iris Mittenaere for Women's History Month pays tribute to a scientist, whom she describes as a "modern woman."

"The woman I look up (to) is Marie Curie. She is the only woman who had two Nobel Prize. She was (a) brilliant scientist," Mittenaere revealed in an official Miss Universe video.

"She was a mother," Mittenaere continued, "She can do what she wants and she succeed(ed) and all these things. That's why she inspires me. She was a modern woman. She can do everything."

Mittenaere confessed that she loves science, which is why she pursued a career in dentistry.

As #Womenshistorymonth nears the end in just a few days, #MissUniverse shares which woman has been an inspiration to her. pic.twitter.com/SD61Y5G743

— Miss Universe (@MissUniverse) March 27, 2017

Marie Curie and her husband Pierre received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for "the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

She independently received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her continued research in radioactive elements. The Nobel Prize organization writes: "In 1910 she successfully produced radium as a pure metal, which proved the new element's existence beyond a doubt."

Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska in 1867. She was married to fellow scientist Pierre Curie in 1895. She succeeded her husband as the Head of the Physics Laboratory at the Sorbonne and was the first woman to become Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences. — AT, GMA News