Mariángel Ruiz
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Mariángel Ruiz Torrealba (born in San Juan de los Morros, Guárico) is a Venezuelan actor, TV Host, fashion model, and beauty pageant champion.
She was first introduced as Miss Aragon in the Miss Venezuela 2002 competition, winning the competition and giving her the opportunity to compete in Miss Universe 2003, where she took home first runner up awards. Ruiz has been compared to Alicia Machado in the former Miss Venezuelans, having been compared to Alicia Machado (Miss Universe 1996).
She gained her national title against no forecast (in a competition where the outcomes are almost never surprise) and she was deemed a "rebel" Miss Venezuela, as Alicia did.
In addition, she put on a spectacular show at Miss Universe in comparison to more "conventional" titleholders, beating a number of major challenges both within and outside her control.
Personal life
She was born in San Juan de los Morros, Guárico. In December 2005, she revealed her marriage and pregnancy to Major League center fielder Tony lvarez. Their civil wedding took place the same month, and their religious wedding took place on the 28th of January 2006. In August of the same year, Ruiz gave birth to a child named Mariángel Victoria. In 2008, the two were divorced.
Pageant career
Ruiz actually applied for the Miss Venezuela title twice, the first time in 1998, when she did not even rank in the top 120 candidates. Miss Araca 2002, she took the preliminary casting in Maracay, winning the title of Miss Aracay. She was not a favorite for the national pageant, and she had hoped to finish as the best in the nation. Vanessa Fanesi (Yaracuy), Amara Barroeta (Distrito Capital), Solsiret Herrera (Monagas), Driva Cede (Nueva Esparta), and Maria Fernanda Leon (Portuguesa), the only candidates to ever compete twice in Miss Venezuela (not including Miss Republica Bolivariana Venezuela 2000). Ruiz won the pageant by a surprising result, which was completely judged by former Miss Venezuela titleholders for the first time.
Ruiz had to overcome several challenges before being able to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant after being crowned Miss Venezuela. First and foremost, Osmel Sousa was getting Osmel Sousa's approval, who said Ruiz was "rebellious" and threatened to send Amara Barroeta, her first runner-up, to Miss Universe if she did not stop her weight gain and concentrate on her fitness. The Miss Venezuela Organization did not have enough hard currency, according to President Hugo Chavez's government imposition of foreign exchange controls the same year, to pay the franchise fee and send its delegate shortly thereafter. Sousa also agreed to train Amelia Vega, Miss Dominican Republic, for a week in Caracas, while Ruiz was placed on "standby."
As Miss Universe 2003 began, headlines changed every night as to whether Venezuela would participate. After weeks of back-and-forth wrangling, including an intervention by Panama's President, Mariángel's, the Cisneros Organisation was able to cover her travel and she arrived late in Miss Universe 2003, just shy of the deadline. Her semifinal appearance received mixed feedback, with some commentators predicting that she will be the first Miss Venezuela in two decades to miss the semifinals (which will happen the following year) and others predicting that her scandals will crown her.
On the final night of Miss Universe 2003, the announcers called out the wrong name when she appeared onstage: the contestants' order was messed up backstage, and Ruiz appeared when Cindy Nell of South Africa should have arrived onstage. Daisy Fuentes called South Africa twice before taking the stage, prompting Ruiz's famous remark of inconsistence. The results were not influenced by the shooting, and Daisy corrected herself after Ruiz left the stage.
Ruiz broke two traditions later in the night gown competition. First, she wore her hair down and little makeup, and second, she wore a skin-tight Angel Sanchez crimson gown, becoming the first Miss Venezuela to not compete in a white, metallic, or light-toned outfit in a decade. Ruiz ended up as one of the youngest Miss Universe contestants in history, fighting Sousa's orders to perform plastic surgery since her stint on the national pageant, setting the example for future Miss Venezuela titleholders to oppose plastic surgery procedures during preparations for competing at Miss Universe.
Co-host Billy Bush interviewed Ruiz about her ostensible pastime, rappelling, and extreme sports during the interview. The confusion among the producers soared, as Ruiz does not practice either, saying instead, "I love my life and protect it 100%." At Miss Universe 2003, Ruiz came as runner-up to Amelia Vega of Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic's eventual win over Venezuela in Miss Universe 2003 ignited controversy after infuriating Venevision's executives that not only the Miss Universe champion had been groomed by their company, but their own rep was on "standby" and came in second place, but she was second in second. As a result, the Miss Venezuela Organisation introduced a long-standing ban on training other nations' contestants, snapping the country's decades-long tradition of encouraging foreign pageant candidates to train in the country.