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Eva Ekvall
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Eva Mnica Anna Ekvall Johnson (March 15, 1983

December 17, 2011) was a Venezuelan television news
anchor, author, breast cancer advocate, fashion model,
and a former Miss Venezuela. After winning the
competition, she had a brief career in television before
being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. She was
married to John Fabio Bermudez; the couple had one
child before Ekvall's death from the disease in 2011.

Eva Ekvall
Beauty pageant titleholder

Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
3.1 Cancer
3.2 Death
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Born

Eva Mnica Anna Ekvall Johnson

March 15, 1983
Caracas, Venezuela

Early life

Died

December 17, 2011 (aged 28)

Ekvall was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She was raised in

both the United States and Venezuela and was fluent in
English and Spanish from childhood. Ekvall attended the
Academia Washington of Caracas. Her father, Eric
Ekvall, was an American of Swedish and Hungarian
descent,[1] who had lived in Venezuela since the early
1980s and worked as actor and political consultant. Her
mother, Dawn Johnson, was born in Jamaica, and once
ran a small modelling agency in Alaska, where she met
Eva's father.[1][2] Eva grew up with an older brother, Alec,
who is a musician.[2]

Weight

Career

Houston, Texas, U.S.

119 lb (54 kg)

Measurements Bust: 90 cm (35 in)

Waist: 60 cm (23.6 in)
Hips: 90 cm (35.4 in)
Hair color

Dark Brown

Eye color

Blue/Green

Title(s)

Miss Venezuela 2000

Major
Miss Venezuela 2000
competition(s) (Winner)
Miss Universe 2001
(3rd Runner-Up)
Spouse

John Fabio Bermudez (m. 2007)

Children
1
Aged 17, Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela 2000, and
the next year was third runner-up in the Miss Universe
Pageant. As a Buddhist,[3] she was the first non-Christian to have won the title of Miss Venezuela.

After a brief period as an actress on the Televen TV show Las Rottenmayer, Ekvall went on to earn a degree
in journalism from Universidad Santa Mara in Caracas. Shortly afterwards she joined El Noticiero as a
co-anchor for Televen. Ekvall expressed interest in doing radio and could fill in as a temporary host of a
radio program on Circuito Onda.[4] She also worked for Sexto Poder newspaper[5] as an online interviewer

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by means of BBM, the first of its kind on the Venezuelan printed media.
As a model, Ekvall was frequently featured in magazines including Sambil and Ocean Drive.[6]

Personal life
Ekvall married radio producer John Fabio Bermdez in September 2007.[7][8] The couple had one daughter,
Miranda, born in July 2009.[9]

Cancer
In February 2010, just months after giving birth to her only child, Ekvall was diagnosed with advanced
breast cancer, and underwent eight months of treatment that included chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a
double radical mastectomy.[10] She chronicled this experience in a book of photographs, Fuera de Foco (Out
of Focus), released on December 2010.[10] She went on to become an advocate for SenosAyuda, a cancer
awareness group.

Death
When told to have had a recurrence of her disease, Ekvall moved to the United States and checked into
University General Hospital in Houston, Texas. Despite the intense medical treatment, her health condition
began deteriorating and she died in the afternoon of December 17, 2011.[11] In a statement, Ekvall's family
said her remains were to be cremated in Houston.
Ekvall's death brought an outpouring of condolences from Venezuelans, including some prominent artists
and politicians. Ekvall's husband posted a photo on Twitter Sunday showing a close-up of his hand holding
hers, resting on a hospital bed, with the words "Always together... I love you wife".[12][13][14] On 1 March
2012, her husband established the Eva Ekvall Foundation.

See also
List of television presenters

References
1. Patrick J. O'Donoghue (10 September 2000). " 'I
was born in Venezuela, and feel truly Venezuelan ...
but I'm really a citizen of the world' ".
Vheadline.com. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
2. Mike Doogan (22 September 2000). "Former
Alaskans Produce, Among Other Things, Miss
Venezuela". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved
22 March 2011.
3. "Miss Universe 2001 Top 5 Celina Jaitley".
YouTube. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
4. Diego Soteldo (2011-03-10). "Segunda edicin de
esta "lectura para el bao" ". Circuito Onda.
Retrieved 2011-12-21.
5. Sexto Poder (2011-12-17). "La ltima entrevista de
Eva Ekvall: El cncer fue un compaero que me
ayud a vivir distinto". Sexto Poder. Retrieved
2011-12-21.

6. Sambil Mall (http://www.sambilmall.com/revista

/2005/03_num_56/eva.asp)
7. "Las confesiones de Eva Ekvall". Noticias24. 30
September 2007. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
8. "Despedida de solteros en pareja". El Universal. 16
September 2007. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
9. "Eva Ekvall se convirti en madre". El Universal.
30 July 2009. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
10. Rory Carroll (20 February 2011). "Venezuelan
beauty queen shows a new look: bald and
recovering from cancer". The Guardian. London.
Retrieved 22 March 2011.
11. "Beauty queen dead at 28". Sydney Morning
Herald. 19 December 2011. Retrieved 12 January
2014.
12. "Eva Ekvall, Miss Venezuela 2000, fallece vctima
de un cncer". Vanitatis. 18 December 2011.

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13. "A los 28 aos, muri la ex Miss Venezuela Eva

Ekvall". Perfil.com. 18 December 2011.

14. James, Ian (20 December 2011). "Former Miss

Venezuela dies of breast cancer at 28". Yahoo.
Retrieved 12 January 2014.

External links
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Kim Yee

Miss Universe 3rd Runner-Up

2001

Preceded by
Claudia Moreno

Venezuelan delegate to Miss Universe

2001

Preceded by
Martina Thorogood
Preceded by
Maria Flores

Miss Venezuela
2000
Miss Apure
2000

Succeeded by
Vanessa Carreira
Succeeded by
Cynthia Lander
Succeeded by
Cynthia Lander
Succeeded by
Mara Carballo

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Categories: 1983 births 2011 deaths Venezuelan television personalities
Miss Universe 2001 contestants Miss Venezuela winners Venezuelan Buddhists People from Caracas
Deaths from breast cancer Deaths from cancer in Texas Venezuelan people of Swedish descent
Venezuelan people of American descent Venezuelan people of Hungarian descent
Miss Universe contestants
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