Valeria Bystritskaia (born 20 June 1986 in
Moscow) is a Russian-German actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was born to a
Ukrainian Jewish mother and
Russian father, and moved to Germany with her mother at age 7 to escape
antisemitism
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in Russia.
She was elected on 7 July 2011 in
Berlin during the Berlin fashion Week as
Miss Universe Germany 2011.
She represented
Germany at
Miss Universe 2011
Miss Universe 2011 was the 60th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011.
At the end of the event, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned Leila Lopes of Angola as Miss Universe 2011. It is the ...
on 12 September 2011 in
São Paulo in
Brazil. Valeria Bystritskaia is 176 cm tall and her measurements are 86-60-90 cm. Following her victory she faced
anti-Semitic
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Antis ...
harassment, despite having not publicized her Jewish background during the Miss Universe pageant. She decided to leave Germany and settled in the United States.
In 2017, she married
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, the founder of Fourth Factor Consulting, who is also Jewish.
References
External links
Official website Valeria BystritskaiaOfficial website Miss Universe GermanyProfile
(de)
Miss Universe Deutschland 2011
retrieved 15 July 2011 (de)
Miss Universe 2011 contestants
1986 births
Living people
Russian emigrants to Germany
Actresses from Karlsruhe
German beauty pageant winners
German people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Jewish female models
Actresses from Moscow
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