Brazil ? One month ago, stunning 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Bridi was living the dream of many young Brazilian women, trading her striking good looks for a promising career in modeling.

Then she contracted a seemingly ordinary urinary tract infection. But the bacteria spread quickly throughout her body and proved to be extremely drug resistant. Doctors were forced to amputate her hands and feet in a desperate attempt to save her life, but by Saturday, she was dead.

“God is comforting our hearts because he wanted her to be with him now,” her father, Agnaldo Costa, told reporters Saturday outside the hospital where his daughter died.