Fortunately her worries were unfounded and Joubert slayed on stage. She credits her Miss Universe roommate, Puerto Rico's Estefanía Soto Torres, for the enthusiastic way she swayed her hips as she modelled her yellow bikini: “Estefanía was like, 'listen you have to overexaggerate for it to look like something'". Natasha Joubert in Jolache Couture during the Miss Universe Preliminary Competition on May 14 2021. Image: Supplied/Miss SA 3. THERE'S SYMBOLISM IN THAT SPARKLE Joubert modelled a figure-hugging velvet gown in her favourite colour, dark teal, for the evening wear portion of the Preliminary Competition. She revealed that the matching elbow-length gloves were a subtle sartorial tribute to the front line workers who too wear gloves in the fight against Covid-19.