Dania Prince

Dania Prince

Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Dania Patricia Prince Méndez Honduras
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Hair color	black
Eye color	brown

Dania Patricia Prince Méndez, who comes from Choluteca, the regional center of Southern Honduras, is an international beauty queen who has held the title of Miss Earth 2003.^[1][2][3]

Pageantry and biography

In 1998, Prince, who is 6'1" tall, won the Miss Honduras pageant and went to compete as her country's representative in the Miss Universe 1998 pageant, which was won by Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 12, 1998.^[4][5] In the 1998 Top Model of the World contest, she became a finalist and a recipient of the Best in National Costume award. She then went on to win Miss América Latina 2000 in November 1999 as well.^[6]

She obtained her Bachelor's degree, majored in international commerce. She is the third child of Andres, a British merchant, and Luisa, a housewife.^[6]

Miss Earth 2003

In 2003, she was chosen to represent Honduras in the third edition of the international Miss Earth pageant. At the conclusion of the competition, she was crowned as Miss Earth, the third winner in the history of the competition; her triumph in Miss Earth 2003 made her as the first-ever Honduran to win a major international beauty title.^[7]

After winning the Miss Earth pageant in 2003, she recounts, “In kindergarten, my classmates chose me to become the muse of our class. But it never crossed my mind that from a class muse, I’d become Miss Earth. Nothing really is impossible in this world. To actually live a dream, you have to do something about it. Have faith in yourself first. Everything else will follow!”^[5][6]

When asked by the press how she would differentiate Miss Universe from Miss Earth pageant, she says, “Beauty, body, and brains of the candidates are given a lot of emphasis in Miss Universe and it is more commercialized. On the other hand, Miss Earth is cause-oriented. If you can still recall, a lot of beautiful and popular candidates from countries that usually win in international pageants surprisingly didn’t make it in the semifinal round of Miss Earth last year. The judges, most likely, were looking for the ‘sincerity factor’ rather than the ‘X-factor’ in a candidate, which perhaps they saw in me.”^[5]

Dania Prince’s now a sought-after runway model in Central America. She had various stints in Miami, New York and Milan previously. Traveling around the world, according to her, is a very stupendous experience.^[6]

Married life

On October 4, 2008, at the age of 28, Prince got married to a fellow Hondurian, Frank Fuentes in a Christian ceremony at Christ Almighty church in North Miami Beach, Miami, Florida. The wedding was an intimate family ceremony and attended by their closest family members and friends. Dania, a professional model was launched to stardom in beauty contests by Eduardo Zablah, her manager.^[8]

On November 7, 2008, she shared her role as wife to Fuentes and also announced the details of her pregnancy.^[9]

On February 1, 2009, she gave birth to a baby girl, who weighed seven pounds, at Shore Hospital in Miami. She named her daughter, Mia Valentina.^[10]

In October 2010, she had her second child and named her Valeria Denisse.^[11]

Career

Prince graced and walked the runway in the Pasarela 2008-2009 fashion show by the Honduran national designer Miguel Chong held on April 17, 2008 at the Convention Center Plaza Juancarlos to benefit the San Felipe Hospital.^[12]

External links

• Official Miss Earth web site
• Miss Earth Foundation

References

1. ^ Perfect Miss - beauty pageant statistics: MISS EARTH 2001-20067
2. ^ Miss Afghanistan wins award at Miss Earth
3. ^ "CNN.com - Beauty prize for Miss Afghanistan - Nov. 10, 2003". http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/09/afghan.beauty/index.html. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
5. ^ ^{a b c} Manila Standard: The Future is Ours
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Philippines News - Manila Standard Today - Eye Candy - sept26_2007
7. ^ Honduras This Week National
8. ^ Gámez, Sabino (2008-10-03). "La reina se casa hoy:Dania Prince contrae nupcias esta tarde en Miami con Frank Fuentes". La Prensa, Honduras. http://www.laprensahn.com/Vivir/Ediciones/2008/10/04/Noticias/La-reina-se-casa-hoy. Retrieved 2008-12-09. 
9. ^ Gámez, Sabino (2008-11-07). "La heredera de la reina: Dania Prince, hoy señora de Fuentes, está embarazada y comparte esa buena nueva con Vivir en Rosa". La Prensa, Honduras. http://www.laprensahn.com/Vivir/Ediciones/2008/11/08/Noticias/La-heredera-de-la-reina. Retrieved 2008-12-09. 
10. ^ Gámez, Sabino (2009-02-06). "Dania Prince ya es mamá (La ex reina y modelo dio a luz el domingo. La bebé se llama Mía Valentina)". La Prensa, Honduras. http://www.laprensa.hn/Sintesis/Lo-ultimo/Ediciones/2009/02/07/Noticias/Dania-Prince-ya-es-mama. Retrieved 2009-02-19. 
11. ^ Gámez, Sabino (2010-10-26). "Dania Prince ya dio a luz(La reina mundial de Honduras es madre de otra bebé. La llama Valeria Denisse)". La Prensa, Honduras. http://www.laprensa.hn/Vivir/Ediciones/2010/10/27/Noticias/Dania-Prince-ya-dio-a-luz. Retrieved 2010-02-02. 
12. ^ "Todo un í©xito “Colección 2008-2009″ de Miguel Chong (Quite a success I © "Collection 2008-2009" Miguel Chong)". La Tribuna. 28 April 2008. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latribuna.hn%2F2008%2F04%2F18%2Fpost10032109%2F. Retrieved 19 July 2011. 

Preceded by Aline Resende

Miss América Latina 2000

Succeeded by Grace Martins

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