1. Valeska Alexandra Saab Gomez was born on 7 May 1984 and is an Ecuadorian charity worker, model, and beauty pageant titleholder.
13 Facts About Valeska Saab
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Valeska Saab has two older brothers, Cristian and Patrick, and a younger one, Javier.
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In Guayaquil, Valeska Saab attended the Unidad Educativa Bilingue Nuevo Mundo High School, Brookdale Community College and Blue Hill College where she studied International Business.
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In 2004, in the Reina de Guayaquil pageant, Valeska Saab placed as first runner-up and so won the title of Virreina de Guayaquil.
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However, a few months after, in Sincelejo, Colombia, Valeska Saab won the Miss Maja Mundial 2005, her major international title.
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Valeska Saab placed again as first runner-up in the Miss Ecuador 2007 pageant and so won the Miss World Ecuador 2007 title.
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Valeska Saab then competed in the Miss World 2007 held in Sanya, People's Republic of China where she made history by becoming the first Miss Ecuador to win the Beauty With A Purpose award, based on her charity work helping children with a terrible genetic skin condition called ichthyosis.
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Valeska Saab tied with Miss Hong Kong, Kayi Cheung, for the award so both advanced to the semifinals automatically.
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Valeska Saab is the first Miss Ecuador to make the Miss World semifinals since Alicia Gisela Cucalon Macas did in 1986.
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Valeska Saab retired from beauty contests in 2007 and began a career as a model.
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Valeska Saab is niece of the 1971 Miss World Ecuador Maria Cecila Gomez Buenaventura and her husband, the economist, politician and former Ecuadorian basketball player Nicolas Lapentti Carrion, who was a close collaborator of the ex-President Febres Cordero, National Assembly Member from 2009 to 2013 and, for almost 17 years in a row, Prefect of the Province of Guayas.
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Valeska Saab is cousin of the former professional tennis players Nicolas and Giovanni Lapentti, and 1990 French Open winner Andres Gomez's niece.
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Valeska Saab gave birth to her first daughter Alana on October 11,2012 and to her second one, Alissa, in 2014.