Carol Bruyning

Bruyning finished top 5 in the 2008 Miss Aruba Pageant.^[1] Prior to that, she had completed her bachelor's degree in Business Economics at the University of Aruba and started work as an Accounting Coordinator. Bruyning later became a High School Economics teacher.

After the Miss Aruba 2008 Competition, Bruyning worked for Aruba's modeling agency Koma Models. She appeared in TV and magazine commercials.

Bruyning was president of Kiwanis Circle K international of the University of Aruba and the Miss Aruba 2008 charity project Famia Planea (Family Planning). She founded the Fundashon Karanan Kontentu (Happy Faces Foundation).

Bruyning later represented Aruba in the Miss Ambar World 2009 (Miss Ambar Mundial) in the Dominican Republic.^[2] Of the 34 participants Bruyning made it into the top 15 finalists.

In October 2009 Bruyning represented Aruba in the Miss Divi-Divi International 2009 pageant (Reinado Internacional del Divi-Divi) in Ríohacha, Colombia where Carol became the first Miss Divi-Divi International.^[3]

• Miss Ambar World
• Miss Divi-Divi International
• Koma Models Archived 2019-12-23 at the Wayback Machine