A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s.
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2015 Italian Finalist: Osaremen (Sarime) Mangano
Nationality: Italian Ethnicity: Father Italian (Sicillian), Caucasian & Mother Nigerian, African. http://Miss Italia 2015, Osaremen Mangano: ‘So cos’è il razzismo, all’asilo mi … Quote: “unfortunately racism still exists, I have lived since childhood even though I am 100% Italian. I’m used to being called “negra” and hearing who says I’m not Italian, when in Nigeria I’ve […]
Read MoreBeauty Queen: Miss USA Kara Mccullough
Kára Deidra McCullough is an American beauty pageant titleholder and a physical scientist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. McCullough was born in Naples, Italy to Betty Ann Parker and Artensel E. McCullough Sr. Her father was a member of the United States Navy for 23 years, and McCullough thus lived in various places such as Sicily, […]
Read MoreModel & Beauty Queen: Miss France Alicia Aylies
Nationality: Cayenne, French Guiana/Guyana, South America. Ethnicity: Mix Heritage This beauty won Miss France 2017 & Miss Guyane 2016. She is the first Miss French Guiana to be crowned Miss France. Ms. Aylies is also polyglot who speaks 5 languages. She stands at 5’9 1/2 Ft tall. She was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique. This beauty has brown hair […]
Read MoreBeauty Queen: Miss Tessy Ramos
Nationality: Native of Luxembourg, Europe. Ethnicity: Cape Verdean, African. Miss Ramos is a Polyglot who Speaks 5 Languages fluently: English, French & Portuguese to name a few. She is currently competing in Miss Europe World. Don’t forget to cast your vote! In 2011 she participated in a competition in Luxembourg called “Miss Young” and became the second lady. […]
Read MoreMiss Haiti: Raquel Pelissier
Nationality: Haitian Ethnicity: Filipino & African descent. She speaks 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Haitian Creole, and German. She stands at 5’11 Ft tall. She is pursuing Master’s Degree in Scientific Research in Optometry and Vision. One of her goals is to help find a cure for blindness. It’s an issue close to her heart as glaucoma […]
Read MoreModel: Elsa Baldaia
Nationality: Portuguese Ethnicity: Portuguese & Namibe, Angolan, African. Ms. Baldaia Speaks Portuguese & English. Elsa is 5’10 ft tall and won Elite Model Look Angola 2011. Elsa Baldaia participated in Shanghai, China, in the Elite Model Look International contest, having been in the top 15. She traveled to foreign places like Paris, South Africa, United States, Spain and Germany to name a few. […]
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Beauty Queen: Miss Colombia Vanessa Mendoza
Vanessa Alexandra Mendoza Bustos, better known simply as Vanessa Mendoza, is a Colombian fashion model who held the Miss Colombia title in 2001, being the first Afro-Colombian to win that contest. Mendoza became Miss Chocó in 2001, a year in which Miss Colombia was facing a racial scandal. She became the first Black Miss Colombia, […]
Read MoreBeauty Queen: Miss Venezuela Carolina Indriago
Lucbel Carolina Indriago Pinto is The first Miss Venezuelan of color. She was born in Valencia, Venezuela on August 22, 1980. Indriago was the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1998, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1999 pageant held in Chaguaramas, Trinidad & Tobago on May 26, 1999, when she classified […]
Read MoreModel, Actress & Ex-Beauty Queen :Renee Bhagwandeen
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean/West Indies) Mixed Afro and Indo-Trinidadian. Ms. Bhagwandeen is an actress, known for America’s Next Top Model (cycle 20) & Ballers, before joining “America’s Next Top Model”, Renee Bhagwandeen has worked as a model previously. She moved to the United States when she was six years old. She is no stranger […]
Read MoreModel & Ex-Beauty Queen: Rachael J. Williams
Nationality: British Ethnicity: (Jamaican, Caribbean) African descent. She was crowned Miss Black Britain in 2006 and went on to compete in the Miss England pageant. She is 5’10 ft tall. Quote: What hurt most was that no one expected me to win. School wasn’t much fun for me, I was bullied for most of my senior […]
Read MoreModel & Beauty Queen: Awa Sanoko
Nationality: Ivorian Ethnicity: African She speaks French and English. She won the 27th Miss Model of the World Contest held in South China on October 31, 2015. She is the first African to win the competition in 27 years. Awa Sanoko also won The Elite Model Look Cote d’Ivoire, the 20 year old Ivorian model is […]
Read MoreModel, Socialite & Ex-Beauty Queen: Miriam Odemba
Nationality: French Ethnicity: (Arusha, Tanzania) African. She speaks 3 languages: French, Swahili & English. She was Miss Tanzania Earth 2008 and Miss Earth Air 2008 (first runner up). She is one of the best models from her country where she started her modeling career at an early age and emerged into the limelight in 1997 when she […]
Read MoreModel, Law Student & Ex-Beauty Queen : Leila Ndabirabe
Nationality: Belgian Ethnicity: Burundi, African. She speaks 7 languages: French, English, Dutch, German, a little Chinese, Swahili & Kirundi. Ms. Ndabirabe was former Miss Union Africaine 6ème région. She is 5’11 tall. With Leila Ndabirabe penetrating puppy dog brown eyes, and immaculate skin tone, it’s unsurprising that Ndabirabe eclipsed the field during her rookie show season, displaying […]
Read MoreModel: Cat Decome
Nationality: French Ethnicity: African (Ghana) mother and French father. She speaks French and English. Catherine Decome, alias CAT Decome is a french model. She entered The Elite Model Look France contest in 2006. Among all the women who participated in this Elite look international contest, Ms. Decome was voted in the top 15 international models, […]
Read MoreModel & Ex-Beauty Queen: Kiki Barth
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Haitian, African descent. Ms. Barth speaks 3 languages: French, Creole and English. She stands at 5’11 ft tall. Quote: I started modeling when I was 16 years old. Modeling has always been a passion of mine because it is a different outlet I could focus my energy on and it gave me the […]
Read MoreEx-Beauty Queen & Model: Tahounia Rubel
Nationality: Israeli Ethnicity: African Born in Gondar, Ethiopia. Tahounia Rubel is an Israeli fashion model and television personality. She became widely known as the first Ethiopian-born Jew person to win the fifth series of HaAh HaGadol and win a beauty pageant in Israel. In 2012, Rubel went to London, where she lived for eight months in […]
Read MoreMiss Japan: Ariana Miyamoto
Nationality: Japanese Ethnicity: Miyamoto was born to a Japanese mother and an African American father. Ariana Miyamoto (宮本 エリアナ 磨美子) Miyamoto Eriana Mamiko, born in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese beauty pageant titleholder crowned Miss Universe Japan. https://youtu.be/iPhwUsa8P0A?t=4m57s She will represent Japan at the Miss Universe 2015 pageant, but her victory faced criticism from critics who verbally abused […]
Read MoreBeauty Queen, Model and Actress: Micaela Reis
Nationality: Angolan Ethnicity: Her mother is Angolan, African and her father is Portuguese. Micaela Patrícia Reis born in Angola is an Angolan actress, TV presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was a Top 10 finalist at Miss Universe 2007 and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2007, becoming Miss World Africa. She was the […]
Read MoreMiss USA: Carole Anne-Marie Gist
Carole Anne-Marie Gist standing at 5’11 ft tall was the first African American woman to win the Miss USA title. Gist first won the title of Miss Michigan USA and went on to win the Miss USA crown on March 2, 1990 in Wichita, Kansas and first runner-up to Miss Universe. Gist, Carole Ann-Marie (1969- ) […]
Read MoreModel & Ex-Beauty Queen: Miriam Correia
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: African Miss Correia is a Porto Novo native of Cabo-Verdiana, Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, which is off the northwest coast of Africa. She speaks Portuguese and English. Quote: ” I was born in Cape Verde, an archepelego off the coast of Africa, when I was 8 years old my family and I […]
Read MoreMiss Bermuda & Model: Lily Lightbourn
Nationality: Bermudian Ethnicity: African descent. She won Miss Bermuda World 2014. Bermudan babe Lily was scouted on the streets of NYC by agents from APM while she was in town to see agencies. Currently working on building her book, when this Caribbean queen isn’t modeling she spends her time writing poetry, painting and reading. Hazel eyes, […]
Read MoreMiss Minas Gerais, Brazil: Karen Porfiro
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Afro-Brazilian She won Miss Minas Gerais, Brazil. What a drastic look with her hair straight and working with a new photographer, makes a big difference. Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product, and […]
Read MoreModel & Ex- Beauty Queen: Melody Le
Nationality: Australian Ethnicity: Australian and Vietnamese. https://youtu.be/TeSB4Mt0KzU Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world’s 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. Viet Nam – Vietnam – Country Profile – Viêt […]
Read MoreMiss California United States: Marianna Hewitt
Nationality: American Ethnicity: East Asian, West Europe, English, Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, and Polynesian. Born in Germany. She was Miss California United States. https://youtu.be/Tjh_2yjnlYc Marianna Hewitt | #TBT Has Been Beauty Queen – La La Mer Miss California United States | MH-TV.COM
Read MoreBeauty Queen, Actress & Model: Nidhi Sunil
Nationality: Indian She’s from Bangalore. Nidhi Sunil used to work as an environment lawyer. Nidhi Sunil as the Pantaloons Femina Miss India South 2011 second runner up. Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of about 8.42 million and a […]
Read MoreModel & Ex-Beauty Queen: Natacha Jaraba
Nationality: Colombian Ethnicity: Latina Natacha Jaraba was Miss Columbia Supermodel International 2012. She speaks both English and Spanish. She is 5’9 ft tall. https://youtu.be/u35WCQb6gF0 Natacha Jaraba | APM Models Natacha Jaraba’s cute baby picture below.
Read MoreMiss Haiti: Claudinette Fouchard
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shes fluent in 6 languages: French, English, Spanish, German ,Italian and Creole of course. She’s also the daughter of Jean Fouchard an anthropologist, writer and former ambassador to Cuba. Ms. Fouchard is the first Haitian to compete in Miss World 1960. Ms. Fouchard left Haiti to study in France and eventually […]
Read MoreMiss Universe: Chelsi Smith
In 1995 Smith, who is Biracial, made history twice in one year, becoming the first woman of black ancestry to win the Miss Texas -USA title and the first black American woman to win the Miss Universe title. Smith was born in Redwood City, California, to 19-year-old parents Craig Smith, an African-American maintenance man, and […]
Read MoreMiss World Africa: Stiviandra Oliveira
Nationality: Angolan Stiviandra Oliveira (born 1989 in Huíla) is an Angolan model and winner of Miss Angola 2006. Oliveira was also crowned Miss World Africa at the 2006 Miss World competition. http://youtu.be/cJgVRqBH7pQ?t=35m22s Miss Oliveira (above) is standing next to Patricio Moreno Toro. In France, Toro lived in cheap hotels or crashed in the homes of […]
Read MoreMiss England: Rachel Christie
Nationality: British She’s of Jamaican descent. Rachel Sophia Adina Christie (born c. 1988) is the first black Miss England 2009 and the first mixed race woman to hold the title. She’s 5’10ft. Rachel Christie is biracial. Her mother Diana Christie is a white Irish Catholic. Her father, Afro-Briton Russel Christie, the brother of former British […]
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