Presenting: Miss Universe 2008- Miss Venezuela

Dayana Mendoza Venezuela

*What are your interests and what do you enjoy doing the most?

Interior design, photography, advertising, and I enjoy meeting people from every country and learning languages.

*What is your career ambition? Interior design and also advertising, but as Oscar Wilde used to say, "To define oneself is to limit oneself.”

*What is your proudest personal accomplishment?

Being independent from the age of fifteen on, living in different countries by myself without knowing the language at the beginning and without the presence of my parents. Having succeeded in working in different cultures and learning the most from them.

*What is something unique that has happened to you; some interesting thing about you?

I was once kidnapped, in what in my country is known as an express kidnapping. It was a very hard experience. I learned to remain calm in a very stressful situation and to try to reach to the human part of our abductors.

*What do you want the judges to know about you?

I am grateful to life for my family and for the opportunities to grow in different places and learn the most from them. Even in the hardest of times what my family and life has taught me has helped me push through and succeed.

Diana Mendoza Biography - Miss Venezuela Universe 2008 - Miss Amazonas 2007

Age: 22 yrs

Height: 5'10"

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Green

Measurements: 33.5-23-35
Occupation: Venezuelan Model & Beauty Queen

Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada (born June 1, 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a model and the reigning Miss Venezuela 2007. Her name is often misspelled as Dyana Mendoza or Dayna Mendoza. On 2001 Mendoza signed with Elite Model Management and modeled in Italy, France, United States, England, Greece, Spain, Germany, Mexico and Peru for Versace, Roberto Cavalli and others fashion designers. She speaks Spanish, English and Italian. Dayana beat out 27 other candidates to win Miss Venezuela 2007 on September 13, 2007, and became only the second woman from the Amazonas state to win (the first being Carolina Izsak in 1991). She will represent Venezuela in the Miss Universe 2008 pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 13, 2008. She is among our top 10 favorites to win the Miss Universe 2008 title.