Rima Fakih (b. October 2, 1986) is the current Miss USA. A Lebanese American, she won the Miss Michigan USA pageant on September 19, 2009, and the Miss USA pageant on May 16, 2010. She is the first Miss Michigan to win the Miss USA title since Kenya Moore in 1993. She is also the second Miss USA of Lebanese-American descent after Julie Hayek in 1983 who was also a Lebanese-American. Fakih currently resides in Dearborn, Michigan. She is the thought to be the first muslim to be crowned Miss USA.
Name: Rima Fakih
Title: Miss USA 2010
Age: 24
When asked about her feelings after getting the crown, Rima answered: “Ask me after I’ve had a pizza.”
See this beauty queen from head to toe after the jump!
Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010 - PHOTOS
Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA 2010 last night as Donald Trump proudly looked on. (He owns the pageant, after all.)
Rima Fakih is Miss Michigan of 2009. She was "born in Lebanon and raised in New York City and Dearborn, Michigan in both the Muslim and Christian faiths," according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which quoted pageant officials. Rima Fakih is a graduate of the University of Michigan (Dearborn campus) and says she'd like to go to law school once her reign is done.
Detroit's Arab-American community is delighted by the win, according to the Detroit News. Rima Fakih is not the very first Arab-American to be Miss USA; that honor apparently goes to Miss USA 1983, Julie Hayek, whose father was Lebanese.
Courtesy of WENN and photographer Judy Eddy, on to the photos of Rima Fakih's big win last night in Las Vegas.
Rima Fakih wore this bikini and high heels for the bathing suit competition. The Miss USA pageant has bathing suit and evening gown competitions, but eschews the traditional Miss America-type talent competition.
"You're hired!" Rima Fakih with the ubiquitous Donald Trump after winning the Miss USA 2010 pageant.
Rika Fakih, before being crowned Miss USA 2010, in the pageant's evening gown competition. She stumbled slightly but was not penalized by the judges.
Now Miss USA 2010, Ms. Fakih gets a lip gloss touch-up.
That's Rima Fakih at the start of the Miss USA pageant week, at a kickoff event at Caesar's Palace. Congratulations to Miss USA 2010.
There’s a new Miss USA this morning – and she’s like no other before her. Rima Fakih came into the pageant as Miss Michigan, and left as the first Arab-American Miss USA.
The 24-year-old Rima Fakih, a Lebanese immigrant, said she could tell by the way Donald Trump was looking at her that she was the Miss USA 2010 winner.
“That’s the same look that he gives them when he says, ‘You’re hired,’”
Born into a powerful Shiite family in a southern Lebanon village, Rima Fakih came to the United States with her family as a baby and was raised in New York. After attending Catholic school, Rima moved to Michigan in 2003.
Of her win, Rima’s sister Rana Faqih says:
“We’re very proud as Lebanese Americans and as Lebanese that Rima reached this point despite all the pressures and stereotyping about Arabs and Lebanese. She made it. She fought and reached her goal.”
I wonder how Rima Fakih’s family feels about her 2007 win of ‘Stripper 101,’ a pole dancing contest put on by Detroit radio morning show “Mojo in the Morning.”
The website for the Detroit radio station said:
“Congratulations to Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih who was crowned Miss USA on Sunday night! Rima is a Dearborn resident and the first Arab American to wear the crown,” the site states. “Rima is a Mojo In The Morning listener who has joined us in studio and at events. Check out Miss USA Rima Fakih when she won Mojo In The Morning’s ‘Stripper 101′ contest in 2007.”
Rima must have been really good because she never removed her clothing and the panel of stripper judges still thought she was the best. She won adult toys, gift cards, jewelry, and even a stripper pole of her very own.
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