Jessica Kahawaty
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12 September 1988
Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2008
Miss Lebanon International 2008
Miss World Australia 2012
Jessica Kahawaty . | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Jessica Kahawaty in 2014. | |
| Born | Jessica Michelle Kahawaty 12 September 1988 |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Title | Miss Lebanon Australia 2007 Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2008 Miss Lebanon International 2008 Miss World Australia 2012 |
| Hair colour | Dark brown |
| Eye colour | Dark brown |
| Major competition(s) | Miss Lebanon Australia 2007 (Winner) Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2008 (Winner) Miss Lebanon International 2008 (Winner) Miss International 2008 (Top 12) Miss Lebanon 2010 (3rd Runner-Up) Miss World Australia 2012 (Winner) Miss World 2012 (2nd Runner-Up) |
Jessica Michelle Kahawaty (Arabic: جيسيكا ميشيل قهواتي; born 12 September 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales) is a Lebanese Australian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss World Australia 2012[1] and represented Australia at Miss World 2012 in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China where she claimed second runner-up.
Kahawaty was born in Sydney, Australia to a Syrian-Armenian father and a Lebanese mother.[2] She studied law.[3] She competed in Miss Lebanon 2010 held at the LBC studios in Adma, Lebanon, where she was rewarded the position of third runner-up.[citation needed]
Kahawaty won her first beauty pageant at the age of 17 years in Sydney in May 2007. She was crowned Miss Lebanon Australia 2007 and was the first Lebanese Australian to subsequently win Miss Lebanon World 2008 in the following year. The pageant, held in Batroun Village Club, Lebanon, on 14 August 2008 featured 31 contestants of Lebanese origin from around the world. In November, she represented Lebanon in Miss International 2008, where she placed in the Top 12.
