New Delhi: Mariana Bridi Costa was a Brazilian model , who secured the fourth place in the Miss World Brazil 2006 beauty pageant and participated in the Miss Bikini International contest the following year.
This beauty queen was down with urinary tract infection in 2008 and it worsened to become septic.
She died on 24th of January 2009 because of multiple organ failure as the sepsis caused tissue necrosis in her feet and hands which were later amputated in an attempt to save her life. During her final surgery, a part of her stomach was also removed.
Watch the pics of her early days,when she was topping the chart of world's best beauty queens:
