Jennifer Palm Lundberg
Encyclopedia
Jennifer Palm Lundberg is Miss World Sweden
2008 and represented Sweden
in Miss World 2008
, in Johannesburg
, South Africa
.
Lundberg decided during her reign as Miss World Sweden to work with charities concerning anorexia nervosa
and bulimia with plans to help the Swedish Animal Protection Service.
She speaks Swedish
, English
, Norwegian
and Spanish
.
Miss World Sweden
* Not to be confused with Miss SwedenMiss World Sweden Inc. is a private-owned competition, tasked with verifying a Swedish delegate, to the global contest, Miss World. The contest was sponsored from 1949–1999 partly by the magazine VeckoRevyn and the title was handed out to the first runner-up in...
2008 and represented Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
in Miss World 2008
Miss World 2008
Miss World 2008, the 58th Miss World pageant was held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13, 2008. Originally, the pageant was going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine, but because of the ongoing crisis between Georgia and Russia in neighboring South Ossetia, the...
, in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
Biography
Lundberg placed 3rd runner-up in the Miss World Sweden pageant, but claimed the title when the original winner, Amanda Ulfdotter, was fired and the first and second runners-up declined the crown after arguments over the winning contract.Lundberg decided during her reign as Miss World Sweden to work with charities concerning anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Although commonly called "anorexia", that term on its own denotes any symptomatic loss of appetite and is not strictly accurate...
and bulimia with plans to help the Swedish Animal Protection Service.
She speaks Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
and Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
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