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Jaslene Gonzalez's heart and soul can rest easy. A year after failing to make the cut, the 20-year-old Chicago native was named "America's Next Top Model" Wednesday, becoming the first Latina to win the competition and easing Tyra Banks' worries about what the leggy raven-haired beauty would do if she didn't win. "Every little girl has a dream to be something," Gonzalez said, eyes brimming with happy tears, "and to be here, I overcame so much. I didn't make it the first time but, now, look at me??????That shows to all young women, if you have that drive, keep going. Second time around, and I'm America's next top model!" Gonzalez, who said earlier in the season–"Top Model's" eighth–that modeling is what she was meant to do and that every fiber of her being was wholly devoted to taking the top prize, beat out fellow finalists Renee Alway, 20, and Natasha Galkina, 21.

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