PAST WINNERS OF MISS AMERICA 2009 - 2011

Miss America 2009 Winner: Katie Stam, Miss Indiana

Miss Indiana 21-year-old, Katie R. Stam from Indianapolis, crowned Miss America during the 2009 Miss America Pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino January 24, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Miss America 2009 Results

# Miss America 2009: Katie R. Stam (Miss Indiana)
# First runner-up: Chasity Hardman (Miss Georgia)
# Second runner-up: Olivia Myers (Miss Iowa)

# Third runner-up: Leigh-Taylor Smith (Miss New York)
# Fourth runner-up: Sierra Minott (Miss Florida)

Miss America 2009 Winner: Katie Stam, Miss Indiana

Caressa Cameron 22 year-old from Virginia crowned Miss America 2010, the 89th Miss America pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 30, 2010. Miss America 2009, Katie Stam from Indiana, crowned her successor at the end of the event.

Miss America 2010 Results

Miss America 2010 * Virginia Virginia - Caressa Cameron
1st runner-up * California California - Kristy Cavinder
2nd runner-up * Tennessee Tennessee - Stefanie Wittler
3rd runner-up * Louisiana Louisiana - Katherine Putnam
4th runner-up * Kentucky Kentucky - Mallory Ervin *

Teresa Scanlan of Nebraska Crowned Miss America 2011

17 year old Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan was crowned as the new Miss America 2011 in a beauty pageant held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 15 and was broadcast live on ABC. Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron from Virginia, crowned her successor Teresa Scanlan from Nebraska at the end of this event.

Miss America 2011 Final Results:

Miss America 2011 was Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan
The 1st run-up was Miss Arkansas, Alyse Eady
The 2nd run-up was Miss Hawaii, Jalee Fuselier
The 3rd run-up was Miss Washington, Jacquie Brown
The 4th run-up was Miss Oklahoma, Emoly West


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Eva Ekvall, Miss Venezuela 2000 died of cancer

Eva Ekvall, Miss Venezuela 2000 and 3rd runner-up at Miss Universe 2001, died after a long battle against cancer. She discovered that she had breast cancer not long after giving birth to her first and only child. She wrote a book telling her experience entitled “Out of Focus”.

Rest in Peace, Eva Ekvall!!!

Eva Ekvall, Miss Venezuela.

Eva Ekvall and her daughter! Photo courtesy of HJ BLOG

Eva Ekvall biography:

Eva Mónica Anna Ekvall Johnson was born on March 15, 1983 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was a TV hostess known for her various TV shows with Televen, specially in the show Las Rottenmayer. She was a finalist in the Miss Universe 2001 contest. Eva had a degree in communications from Universidad Santa Maria in Caracas. Ekvall was fluent in both Spanish and English since she had lived in the United States in the past, and because she attended Academia Washington, a bilingual school in Caracas. She held the title of Miss Venezuela in 2000 and was the third runner-up in the 2001 Miss Universe pageant. She was also famous among Venezuelan fashion magazines including Ocean Drive and Sambil among others.

Ekvall married radio producer John Fabio Bermúdez in September 2007. The couple have one daughter, Miranda, born in July 2009.

In February 2010, Ekvall was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, and underwent eight months of treatment that included chemotherapy, radiation, and a mastectomy. She chronicled this experience in a book of photographs, Fuera de Foco (Out of Focus), released in 2011. As a Buddhist, she was the first non-Christian to have won the title of Miss Venezuela.

Eva Ekvall in Pageants:

Eva Ekvall final Q & A in Miss Universe 2001: If you have to change one thing about your past, what would that be?”
“One thing about my past . . . Well, definitely, I would not choose

Marc Anthony asked her the questions: “If you can invite one famous person, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would it be and why?”
- It would definitely by the Dalai Lama because first of all, my father is a Buddhist and I’ve learned a lot of Buddhism practices through him. And as a matter of fact, today, I am a Buddhist. And I would like to know a lot about how he keeps his eternal peace which is so incredible and to teach the whole world that obviously.

How would you let a man know that you are attracted to him?
I think that he would notice right away just by the way I look at him at his eyes and I would definitely smile. I think he would just got (DING!) . . . (I didn’t get the last few words after the bell).


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Cesar Curti from Brazil won Mr. International 2011 tittle

Cesar Curti from Brazil won Mr. International 2011 tittle at the event held in Bangkok, Thailand on December 17, 2011. Martin Gardavsky from Czech republic was the first runner-up. Steven Yoswara from Indonesia was the second runner-up. The third runner-up was Le Khoi Nguyen from Vietnam and the fourth runner-up was Marco Djelevic.

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