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Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Malaika Mushandu

Malaika Mushandu was one of the youngest winners of the Miss Zimbabwe pageant in 2011, that’s when she rose to fame.  She also proved that she was a force to reckon with when she finished 9th at the Miss World Pageant, becoming the second person to raise the Zimbabwean flag high at the Miss World pageant in 2011.

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1. Malaika Maidei Mushandu was born on 7 June in 1993.

2. She has two siblings (presumably a brother and a sister), her parents divorced while she was younger, after which she remained with her father in Zimbabwe, while her mother relocated to the UK.

3. Maidei attended St Dominic’s High School

4. At the time of attending Miss World 2011, she was reported to be studying Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, in Namibia.

5. As part of her prize for the Miss Zimbabwe 2011 contest she elected to do a programme on water and sanitation with UNESCO.

6. Mushandu stated that she grew up admiring and imitating local and international models.

7. She however never thought of pursuing model as a career as she always viewed it as one of her various hobbies. Her teachers and parents as well as her relatives always discouraged her from entangling herself too much into modelling but rather to focus on her studies.

8. After being first discovered by Mercy Mushaninga through Zim Gossip Malaika began her modelling journey when she first participated at Miss Models Extravaganza in 2009 where she won the contest. 

9. On 13 February 2011, Mushandu became the youngest ever Miss Zimbabwe winner when she was crowned at the age of 17 years 252 days.

10. On 20 January 2015, it was reported that Mushandu’s nude pictures had leaked and that they were circulating on social networks.

 

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