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Top 5 Things You Might Not Know About Thabiso Phiri

Thabiso Phiri is a model who resigned barely a month after being crowned as Miss Zimbabwe during the 2014 edition of the Miss Zimbabwe Pageant which is chaired and organised by Marry Chiwenga. She became the second person in the history of the Miss Zimbabwe Pageant to resign before the end of her reign. She was forced to resign because her nude pictures went viral on social media platform. Here are 5 things you might not know about her below…..

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1. She was born Thabiso Rumbidzai Phiri in 1992. She studied law at the University of Zimbabwe.

2. Phiri rose to fame when she became the first princess during the inauguration of the Miss Carnival edition in Zimbabwe. In 2013, she was crowned Miss Heritage.

3. Barely a month after being crowned as Miss Zimbabwe 2014, Phiri resigned, becoming the second person in the history of the pageant to resign. In 2003, Linda van Beek resigned before the end of her reign because she fell pregnant.

4. Phiri’s ex-boyfriend, Prosper Tafadzwa Bvunzawabaya was accused of leaking Phiri’s photos on the basis that the model had dumped him for a man who was only identified as a politician-cum-businessman who had impregnated her and was refusing to take care of her and their newly unborn baby.

5.  Thabiso contested during the 2012 edition of the Miss Zimbabwe pageant but she failed to make an impact

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