Valene Maharaj
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Valene Maharaj was the Miss Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

 World 2007 title holder, and Miss World of the Caribbean for 2007. She has been active in the fashion business since she was sixteen years old. Her modelling career started when she won the Caribbean Model Search, which took her to Jamaica in 2003 for Jamaica's Fashion Week. Since then she's done advertising campaigns for Mickles, modelled in shows for local designers like Peter Elias
Peter Elias
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 and Meiling
Meiling
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.

On March 28, 2006, Valene Maharaj took the first runner-up spot at the Miss Trinidad and Tobago pageant. However, Maharaj competed again the following year to win the Miss Trinidad & Tobago title when she succeeded over six other contestants.

Valene Maharaj was the third runner up in Miss World 2007 in China

Biography

Maharaj grew up in a small village in the southern part of Trinidad & Tobago called St. Margaret's in Claxton Bay. Originally from Gasparillo, Maharaj is the third of four children. After graduating from high school, she was accepted to pursue her Associates Degree in Business Administration. Earlier this year, she was accepted at the American Inter-Continental University in Florida
Florida
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 to study fashion, fine arts and marketing. Her plans were however deferred to facilitate her title reign.

Maharaj is a huge fan of Bollywood movies and has always admired Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian film actress. She worked as a model before starting her acting career, and ultimately won the Miss World pageant in 1994...

's work. She also stated that she admires Trinidad & Tobago's very first Miss World, Giselle La Ronde West, as well as former Miss Trinidad & Tobago 1995 Michelle Khan.

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