Laksmi Rodríguez de la Sierra Solórzano (born November 19, 1985, in San Cristóbal) is a

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and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela International 2008. She competed in the

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beauty pageant. Rodríguez, who is tall, competed in the national beauty pageant

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, on September 10, 2008, and obtained the title of ''Miss Venezuela International''. She represented

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state. She stands and her measurements are 90–61–90. Laksmi also participated in the Miss Supranational 2010 competition, where she managed to advance to the final ten, finally occupying the sixth position.

Life and career

Early life

Rodríguez studied

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at the Santa María University, in

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Pageantry

Miss Venezuela 2008

Rodríguez was selected to represent the

state in

. Competing with 27 other candidates. At the end of the event, on September 10, 2008, at the

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, she was crowned by her predecessor,

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, as Miss Venezuela International 2008. In addition, the designer Gionni Straccia, won the award for Best Design in Evening Dress, which was awarded for the first time in the history of the contest; this thanks to the creation carried by Laksmi in the final night.

Miss International 2009

Rodríguez represented Venezuela at

Miss Supranational 2010

After this, the Miss Venezuela Organization in conjunction with

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, decided to select her to represent the country at Miss Supranational 2010. Rodríguez finally represented Venezuela in the Miss Supranational 2010 pageant.

Personal life

She has been in a long-term relationship with the Chilean singer,

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, former vocalist of La Ley; It was even stated that they were together even when he was a partner of the actress

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and the latter in turn of Elías Wehbe, who died. On Thursday, April 11, 2013, while she and a companion were going to their residence in Bello Monte,

, they were intercepted by a group of antisocials who shot the vehicle in which they were in the event, Rodríguez is shot in the chest from which she would recover satisfactorily. However, her friend died hours later in the hospital.

References

External links

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Laksmi's Video at Youtube
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