Vanja Rupena

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Vanja Rupena
Born (1978-04-18) 18 April 1978 (age 45)
OccupationModel
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Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair colorBrown
Eye colorGreen

Vanja Rupena (born 18 April 1978) is a Croatian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the 1996 Miss Croatia and represented Croatia in the Miss World 1996 pageant in Bangalore, India. [1]

She appeared on the cover of the Croatian edition of Elle magazine in July 2006, July 2009 and November 2010. [2]

In May 2010 she became host of RTL's reality documentary series Hrvatski Top Model , the Croatian edition of America's Next Top Model . [3]

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References

  1. "Lists A to F". Pageantopolis.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. "Vanja Rupena Profile on FMD". Fashion Model Directory . Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  3. Lulić, Ana (17 May 2010). "Vanja Rupena voditeljica je showa Hrvatski top-model". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 5 November 2010.