Marelisa Gibson Villegas (born 26 August 1988) is a Venezuelan designer and beauty pageant titleholder who won

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Early life

Gibson was born in

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, where she use to study

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

at the

Central University of Venezuela The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in L ...

. She speaks

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and

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. Gibson attended the Art Institute of Philadelphia for Interior Design.

Career

Miss Venezuela

Gibson, who stands 1.78 m (5'10"), became the sixth Miss Miranda to win that title since the Miss Venezuela pageant began in 1952. She also won the ''Best Face'' award.

Miss Universe

She represented

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in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant, in

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, on August 23, and did not make it to the Top 15. Nevertheless, she was crowned El Tocuyo by public voters. This was only the third time in twenty-eight years that Venezuela was not among the semifinalists after Ana Karina Áñez in

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and Jictzad Viña in

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References

External links

Miss Venezuela Official WebsiteMiss Universe Official Website
1988 births Living people People from Caracas Miss Venezuela winners Miss Universe 2010 contestants Venezuelan people of Mexican descent Venezuelan people of Swedish descent Central University of Venezuela alumni {{venezuela-pageant-bio-stub