Rikkie Valerie Kollé (born 6 April 2001) is a
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
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transgender model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned
Miss Nederland
The Miss Nederland is a national beauty pageant in the Netherlands. The pageant was founded in 1929 in Amsterdam.
History Former pageant
From 1929 to 1931, the Netherlands held a national pageant in Amsterdam for the first time called "Miss ...
2023 and represented her country at
Miss Universe 2023
Miss Universe 2023 was the 72nd Miss Universe pageant, held at the Gimnasio Nacional José Adolfo Pineda in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 18 November 2023.
At the conclusion of the event, Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua was crowned as Miss U ...
.
As Kollé was the first transgender woman to win the Miss Nederland title,
this made her only the second ever transgender woman to enter the Miss Universe contest.
Career
Kollé began modelling on ''
Holland's Next Top Model (season 11)''. In 2019, Kollé reached the final of the
Elite Model Look
Elite Model Look (formerly known as Look of the Year from 1983 to 1995) is a yearly fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Management, an international model management group. It is used to discover and launch female fashion models in the in ...
contest in the Netherlands.
Personal life
Kollé was born 6 April 2001, in
Hoorn
Hoorn () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland. It is the largest town an ...
, Netherlands.
[ She is of Indo-Dutch descent,][
]
References
External links
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2001 births
Living people
People from Hoorn
Dutch beauty pageant winners
Dutch LGBTQ models
21st-century Dutch LGBTQ people
Dutch transgender women
Transgender female models
Miss Universe 2023 contestants
LGBTQ beauty pageant winners
Dutch people of Moluccan descent
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