Gallery Photos - Ada de la Cruz

Ada Aimée de la Cruz Ramirez (born on June 15, 1986 in Villa Mella, Santo Domingo Province, Dominican Republic) is Miss Dominican Republic 2009 and Miss Universe 2009 first runner-up.

She first came to fame as Miss Dominican Republic World 2007, where she placed in the top 15 at Miss World 2007 and was Miss World Beach Beauty 2007. She later was crowned Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2009. She represented the original home of her grandparents, the Province of San José de Ocoa and represented the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe 2009 gaining high praise and finishing as First Runner Up.

She is the second woman of mixed African and Spanish heritage to win the Miss Dominican Republic pageant (the first was Ruth Ocumárez in 2001).

Ada was born in Villa Mella and raised in Villa Altagracia and returned to Santo Domingo at the age of 14, lives with her mother Ana Martínez Ramírez, grandparents Celeste Ramírez and Ventura Garabito, her younger brother Adrián and her little cousin. In the Dominican press, she is known as a Dominican Cinderella, in which her grandmother was a maid and her whole family grew up poor.

Gallery Photos - Iveta Lutovská

Iveta Vítová (born Iveta Lutovská, 14 May 1983 in Třeboň, Czechoslovakia) is a pageant titleholder from Czech Republic.

Iveta previously held the title of Miss Model of the World 2007 and most recently was crowned Czech Miss 2009. Iveta represented the Czech Republic at the Miss Universe 2009 pageant on August 23, 2009 in Nassau, Bahamas, where she continued Czech Republic's stake in the Miss Universe pageant by placing in the semifinals for a consecutive third time finishing as a Top 10 finalist.

Gallery Photos - Valerie Domínguez

Valerie Domínguez Tarud (born January 12, 1981) was Miss Colombia 2005-2006 and competed at Los Angeles, United States to participate in Miss Universe 2006. Domínguez made the first cut top 20 of the competition where she competed in swimsuit,and made it to the second cut top 10 where she competed in evening gown. She also studied fashion design in Milan, Italy, and is a successful jewelry designer, a family tradition.

Valerie is also widely recognized thanks to her television appearances, and made her debut as Marianne Sajir in "Hasta que la plata nos separe". She also started to enter the Colombian film industry, in the role of Manuela for the film called, "Esto huele mal" by Jorge Ali Triana. It was fairly light in Colombia for the participation of the beautiful actress. She's now in the television drama El Último Matrimonio Feliz. Valerie has a jewelry store in Barranquilla, which exhibits her designs. She will soon open another store in Bogotá.
Valerie Domínguez outside the US embassy

Valerie is a cousin to singer Shakira and is of Syrian-Lebanese descent. She also is a cousin of Adriana Tarud, who was Miss Colombia in 2004. The two pageant winners are also of Palestinian ancestry via the Tarud side of their family.[citation needed] She is known to have dated NASCAR Business Manager and beverage owner, John Paysor.

Gallery Photos - Marcela Vacarezza

Marcela Paz Vacarezza Etcheverry (born 1970 in Santiago) is a Chilean television presenter and psychologist. She is the wife of TV presenter Rafael Araneda with whom she has three children, Martina, Florencia and Vicente.

Marcela is daughter of hematologist Ricardo Vacarezza Yávar, and the younger sister of actress Adriana Vacarezza. In 1992, Marcela won Miss Chile pageant contest and in the same year she started her television career. After taking a maternity leave, she returned on TV as hostess for En Portada until 2005. Currently, Marcela is part of the television show SQP.