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Agbani Darego Turns 37 Today.

Agbani Darego, MFR (born Agbani Asenite Darego, 22 December 1982) is a Nigerian model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 2001. she is best known as the first native African to win Miss World.

Early life

Darego's family roots are in Abonnema, Rivers State. She was born in Lagos to a family of eight children and she was sixth out of them. At age two, her family relocated to Port Harcourt and was raised in D-line. Darego attended Bereton Montessori Nursery and Primary School. At ten, she was sent to a boarding school in a bid to shield her from her mother who had become very ill with breast cancer. Her mother was known as Inaewo and had a rice trading business and a clothing boutique. Darego's mother died two years later after her departure to boarding school. Darego has spoken of how the loss prepared her for the future. As a teenager, Darego longed to be a model, and despite her conservative father's wishes, she auditioned for the M-Net Face of Africa modelling competition, but was not chosen as a finalist. After finishing her secondary education, she attended University of Port Harcourt where she studied Computer Science and Mathematics.

Pageantry

In 2001, Darego was crowned Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria. Contrary to popular belief, Darego did not replace Valerie Peterside after the latter was dethroned as she had competed in rival pageant Miss Nigeria. A few months later she was a contestant at Miss Universe, and became the first Nigerian to place among the top 10 semi-finalists, finishing seventh overall. She was the only contestant to wear a modest maillot as opposed to a revealing bikini during the swimsuit competition.

In November that year, she became the first native African to claim the Miss World title (Although past winners such as Penelope Coelen and Anneline Kriel are South African, they are of European descent, and Antigone Costanda, who represented Egypt in 1954 is of Greek heritage). Darego's victory was widely welcomed in her home country, and her one-year tenure included goodwill trips and scheduled appearances on behalf of the pageant, and a national honour of MFR.

Personal life

Due to her busy work schedule, Darego left the University of Port Harcourt, but after moving to New York where she was signed to Next Model Management and Ford Models, she enrolled with New York University where she studied Psychology, graduating in May 2012. In April 2017, Darego married her longtime love Ishaya Danjuma, son of Billionaire General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma in a ceremony held in Marrakesh.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbani_Darego

Watch the historic moment Agbani Darego was announced & crowned Miss World 2001


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuaE8-p2S4M

Why did she keep her leg like that

Slim ladies don't age faster.

Wow its been 18yrs I that year she won, I was ecstatic and shocked. I grew up with 3 sisters and they loved watching the Miss World pageant. Year after year it was the Indians or Brazilians that dominated the contest. The day Agbani Darego won, it felt as though Nigeria had won the World Cup. The girl was so classy and carried herself with grace even till today. She's on a different echelon from the likes of Tasha and co. Happy birthday!

Still looking glow. May the Almighty God bless your new age

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From all of us @ : HAPPY BIRTHDAY Beautiful Agbani Darego.

We wish you many more beautiful years to celebrate.

Have fun and enjoy your day darling.

Beautiful slim shady, she maintained the slim figure all these years.

Let's make it a Barbecue Parry dearie

It's gonna be lit

Darego fine woman




See my siggy

HBD ex miss world.

Agbani no fine aswear. How she take win? Efcc needs to investigate the fraud that made her win the award.

HBD our African model....the Babe that changed history.....God bless you always

Looks like Tacha in one of those pictures.

Nkechi see your mate oh...
just three months into dating and you're looking like bag of beans

Add up some fats maa'm.

Ok..plz call me

Does she have HIV?

One quick question.

Only ugly skinny girls are allowed to participate in beauty pageant?

She look much better now.

I really ire how she kept her life far from nollywood. They'd have messed her up and make her look so ordinary.

Lala don turn blogger lol

She's cute. But I prefer thick ladies.
#drops mic

Lovely

She doesn’t look 37 at all.

Wow.

Real beauty queen with no scandal.

E b lyk say she dy raise weight

chigoziri2403:
Why is her leg like that

do me a favour this Xmas season. Why not ask her!

I don't know how people are attracted to this kind of look. More so give the award of miss World to her.

She looks so repulsive to me.

Shout out to all the women that look like women. You guys should really be the ones celebrated, not these bags of bones.

chigoziri2403:
Why is her leg like that

depressed people like you will always find one fault. Oluku

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Most people don't know the lady who ed on the crown to her is Priyanka Chopra, famous Indian actress and now wife of Nick Jonas.
Life sha. . .

ednut1:
Lala don turn blogger lol

Na today??

This woman is not beautiful facially but has a nice shape.