Sara Vučelić ( sr-cyr, Сара Вучелић; born 16 November 1986), better known as Soraja ( sr-cyr, Сораја), is a

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n- Montenegrin

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, media personality and

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. She was a finalist on the fourth regular season of ''Big Brother Serbia'' in 2011, as well as on the fifth celebrity edition in 2013. Additionally, Soraja was featured on the covers of '' CKM'' and ''

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'' in Serbia,

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and

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Biography

Vučelić was born on 16 November 1986 in

Knin Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...

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and was put in an orphanage in

Bijela, Herceg Novi Bijela (Serbian Cyrillic: Бијела, ) is a coastal town in the municipality of Herceg Novi, Montenegro. It is also located north of Herceg Novi, by the Verige strait in the Bay of Kotor. The chronicler Andrija Zmajević claimed that the 16t ...

by her mother, because she was not able to raise Soraja on her own. After receiving family inheritance at the age of nineteen, Soraja moved to

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where she began modelling. In 2013, it was reported that Vučelić reconciled with her father, receiving inheritance of €400,000 and real estate in

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and Knin. Soraja is also known for her extravagant lifestyle, legal issues and appearance modified by

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. She received international media attention for her alleged relationship with

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in 2014. As a citizen of

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, Soraja was labelled as a threat to the national security in Serbia, thus was banned from entering the country in June 2018. She has also been connected with the

Škaljari Škaljari ( sr-cyrl, Шкаљари) is a small town in the municipality of Kotor, Montenegro. It is located just south of Kotor Kotor ( Montenegrin Cyrillic: Котор, ), historically known as Cattaro (from Italian: ), is a coastal town ...

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. On February 12, 2023, it was reported that Vučelić gave birth to son, named Kan, in

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Filmography

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