Miss Venezuela
Jictzad Vina
Age: 23Height: 6'1
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
What are your interests and what do you enjoy doing the most?
My interests nowadays are in starting businesses and spending time with my family. What I enjoy the most is hearing my country's national anthem when I represent it in international sports and other contests.
Name one person other than your parents who has had the most influence on your life. Why?
My rowing coach used to share lessons of life with me through stories he used to tell me before every race. He especially taught me the value of using adversity as an advantage and how to spot it in life as when in the water and spotting the best passage for our boat.
What is your career ambition and what are you doing or plan to do to accomplish that goal?
I want to own a manufacturing enterprise in order to be able to provide productive jobs to members of my community. I have already registered the name and created a society of investors. Once I have fulfilled my reign as Miss Venezuela, and hopefully Miss Universe, I plan to make it grow and be productive.
Describe where you were raised and what your childhood was like.
I was raised by a single mother with three sisters and two brothers. We were moving constantly until I was 9 because my mother had to do different jobs in different places and twice we were evicted from the places we were living. We lived near the beach in a hut that belonged to my great grandmother. What I enjoyed about my childhood was the fact that we had to learn from very early in our lives the value of work and sharing.
What makes you unique and different from the other contestants?
I had to work to maintain myself and my family from the age of fifteen. I learned from a very early age to compete in all kinds of fields. I still remember what it was like and wouldn't be bothered to sleep on the floor.