Eva Mónica Anna Ekvall Johnson (15 March 1983 – 17 December 2011)[1] was a Venezuelan TV news anchor, author, and a former Miss Venezuela. She was a finalist in the Miss Universe 2001 contest.[2]
Ekvall had a degree in communications from Universidad Santa Maria in Caracas. She was fluent in both Spanish and English since she had lived in the United States and attended Academia Washington, a bilingual school in Caracas. She held the title of Miss Venezuela in 2000 and was the third runner-up in the 2001 Miss Universe pageant. She first appeared on TV in the Televen show Las Rottenmayer. She was also famous among Venezuelan fashion magazines including Ocean Drive and Sambil among others.[3]
Ekvall's father, Eric Ekvall, is an American of Swedish-Hungarian descent,[4] who has lived in Venezuela since the early 1980s and worked as a political analyst.[5] Her mother, Dawn Johnson, was born in Jamaica, and once ran a small modelling agency in Alaska, where she met Ekvall's father.[4][6] Ekvall has one brother, Alec.[6]
Ekvall married radio producer John Fabio Bermúdez in September 2007.[7][8] The couple have one daughter, Miranda, born in July 2009.[9]
In February 2010, Ekvall was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, and underwent eight months of treatment that included chemotherapy, radiation and a mastectomy.[10] She chronicled this experience in a book of photographs, Fuera de Foco (Out of Focus), released in 2011.[10] On the consequences of the disease, she died on 17 December 2011 at 28 years of age.[11][12]
As a Buddhist,[13] she was the first non-Christian to have won the title of Miss Venezuela
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